Re: “Residents outline concerns about proposed Bird Rock farmers market,” (March 3, Page 1): We, the undersigned, live less than a block from the Mira Mesa Plaza Methodist Church and are strongly opposed to the proposed Farmers Market to be held there each Friday afternoon. The anticipated problems with traffic, noise, commotion and crowding by vendors and hundreds of shoppers and just curious visitors have been amply discussed by others in the past. We are concerned that each Friday for a total of eight hours or more, our narrow street will become inundated with an overflow of cars, trucks and milling crowds. The setting-up and tearing-down of the vendors’ stalls, the use of generators and even cooking classes (!) will result in unacceptable noise, odors and other nuisances for us. It has been asserted that over a hundred signatures have been collected in favor of the farmers market, mostly from residents on streets farther removed from the church who would therefore be less affected. In order to make the market more palatable to our neighborhood the promoters have come up with the idea to share a percentage of the eventual profits with the Bird Rock Elementary School. The actual benefits for the school in dollars are, of course, unpredictable and at best are limited. They may turn out to be zero while we remain burdened with the market. It appears reasonable that a simple fund drive in our neighborhood for the needs of the school could easily surpass the potential benefits created by the farmers market with the advantage that 100 percent of collected funds would accrue to the school! We feel that the turmoil to be anticipated each Friday by the operation of the market is an unfair imposition on our neighborhood by the profiteering promoters of the farmers market and would degrade and cheapen the residential character of our environment. — Adrian and Alfred Zettner live in La Jolla.