Letter: re: Aesthetics letter

To ignore the importance of Aesthetics in our community is to ignore the vital role beauty in our surroundings has on our mental health. Over the past 5 years, TEP has quietly covered our streets with huge, fat, rust colored poles, darker than existing wooden ones, refused to underground through neighborhoods because of cost, damaged our vistas and walled in our streets with the stifling effect of 10-12 story height poles. The impact affects our moods, mental health, the capacity to elicit pleasure as we drive toward the mountains or along any of these impacted streets. Beautiful things enhance our lives and stimulate our brains. They should be a big part of any decision to put up anything within our views. That includes the destruction of the Santa Ritas with mining the leaves their purple and green faces reduced to dirt piles. Think beyond your pocketbook.