A few days ago, Bill Bunch and Colin Clark of "Save Our Springs" penned an editorial in the Austin American Statesman (http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editoria l/stories/12/21bunch.html) urging Advanced Micro Devices not to build its new facility on a piece of property in Southwest Austin which sits in the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. I wanted to write about it at the time but I didn't have the opportunity that day. Today's Statesman has an outstanding letter to the editor from Ed Ferguson. I appreciate the Statesman publishing it. It reads in part, "As much as the Bunch bunch would like Austin to be a dictatorship, the mayor does not have the power to tell Advanced Micro Devices that it cannot build on the Lantana site. The land is privately owned, and like it or not, it will be developed by somebody. AMD's plan, going far beyond what is legally required for environmental protection, is likely the best- case scenario for all concerned." Exactly. Unless the Nature Conservancy or some other potential owner were to buy the land, it will be developed. Just pleading for all land development to be stopped is an effort in futility. SOS makes its irrelevancy even more clear by not offering any alternative uses for the land nor compensation for its owners. GREGG