Father Greg Boyle, founder of job-training nonprofit Homeboy Industries, who had supported Measure S while supporters were still gathering signatures for it, withdrew his support several days later, saying he had only given it after two friends recommended he do so and, after reading the measure, was convinced it would not ease the city's housing crisis. None of the city's homeowners' associations opposed Measure S, but neighborhood councils in Central Hollywood, Olympic Park, Palms, Panorama City and Richard Close's home neighborhood of Sherman Oaks did. "It's a tale of two Valleys," said Councilwoman Nury Martinez, challenging Close's narrative. She pointed to the redevelopment of a former Montgomery Ward and the expansion of a shopping mall near her home in Panorama City, both "desperately needed and desired", as the sort of development that the initiative would imperil, since they depended on parking variances. "It literally took 20 years to get developers interested in these areas," she said. "Measure S punishes communities like this one." The "Los Angeles Times" strongly opposed Measure S, even before it had qualified for the ballot. In April 2016 it ran an op-ed by Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer for "The Atlantic" and city resident. Likening the proposed moratorium to the Mexican border fence proposed by Donald Trump, then seeking the Republican presidential nomination, he said the initiative would "wall off this city from newcomers on behalf of homeowners who don't want more traffic on 'their' streets." A month before the election, the paper ran an editorial urging Angelenos to vote no on S, calling it "a childish middle finger to City Hall." The city's other daily newspaper, the "Los Angeles Daily News", also recommended voters reject it, saying that the legitimate issues it raised did not require a moratorium to solve. As soon as council placed the initiative on the ballot, supporters and opponents staked out their positions. Stewart said that it would allow 95% of development proposed at that time to proceed "while the greediest 5 percent of developers are put on a timeout while we force the City Council to come up with a real plan for Los Angeles". Speaking against the measure, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce chief executive officer Gary Toebben told the "Los Angeles Business Journal" that the measure "goes way too far", which would become opponents' main argument against it, to the point of becoming the URL of their website. "[It] means moving hundreds of thousands of Angelenos one step closer to homelessness," he said, alluding to a recent increase in the city's homeless population over the last several years despite slow population growth and general economic prosperity.