Canoga Park Better Off

Without consulting either community, 800 people surreptitiously change their address from Canoga Park to Woodland Hills. So be it. The deal is done.

I wonder, however, if both Canoga Park and Woodland Hills would have been better served if the people who spent their time orchestrating the change had instead channeled their energy into constructive community involvement through Canoga Park’s more than a dozen community service organizations?

If those who favored the change justified it because, “You have to go with the flow” or because it’s easier to walk away from perceived problems, as two of the departing residents suggested, then the move may well be Woodland Hills’ loss and Canoga Park’s gain.

JAAK TREIMAN. Treiman wrote as president of the Canoga Park Chamber of Commerce