Thousand Oaks’ Copper Curtain

I’m looking at “Copper Curtain--Your Opinion Counts,” published by our city of Thousand Oaks to get feedback from its citizens for a design to salvage the copper curtain.

This opportunity for feedback is a joke. Given what we are being offered, my choice is none of the above.

We need only to look at the city’s Web site for a true option--the complete oak tree, which everyone recognizes as the emblem of our city. Perhaps our decision makers haven’t been able to see the tree for the branches?

Some of us have supported the Civic Arts Plaza for a long time and have been distressed by the copper curtain controversy. The sign proposals are both artistic and descriptive for freeway passersby traveling in both directions. But we must do something meaningful with the copper curtain so as not to give them any more reasons to ask, “What is it?”

Give us more to choose from. Most importantly, please don’t create a new reason to malign our Civic Arts Plaza.

DICK YOUNG, Westlake Village

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Re “New Look for Copper Curtain Approved,” March 26.

Let’s use the symbol instantly identifiable with Thousand Oaks--unambivalent, unconfusing, eternally beautiful--the figure of an entire oak tree.

It might even soften the overall harsh state-prison-like appearance of the Civic Arts Plaza.

BOB BOND, Thousand Oaks