READERS RESPOND

AT ISSUE: A countermeasure to the Greenlight initiative, that would

make the city’s Traffic Phasing Ordinance part of the City Charter.

Beware! The innocuous-sounding new initiative being proposed by the

Chamber of Commerce and others isn’t just about the Traffic Phasing

Ordinance. Read the fine print. It also repeals the Greenlight

Initiative. If both initiatives are approved at the same election, it

declares that the initiative with the most votes wins and the other shall

have no force or effect whatsoever.

Therefore, if you like Greenlight and the right to vote on major

traffic-generating developments that exceed our city’s General Plan, do

not support “Redlight” -- so nicknamed because it cancels out Greenlight.

NANCY SKINNER

Newport BeachI am writing to you in response to your request in the

Tuesday, April 25 edition of the Daily Pilot for comments on this new

measure that is based on the city’s law that provides traffic relief from

new developments.

1. I’ve had a home on the Balboa peninsula since the mid-1950s.

2. I’ve attended several of the Newport Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce

information forums on the Traffic Phasing Ordinance.

3. At one chamber information forum I asked Chamber President Richard

Luehrs if he would release the results the chamber obtained from its

telephone poll of 600 residents. He declined to release the results, and

nodded to me when I asked if their refusal was because they did not like

the results of their telephone poll.

4. Clearly the newly proposed initiative being sponsored by the chamber

is designed to confuse the voters of Newport Beach in an effort to

diffuse the potential impact of passage of the Greenlight initiative.

5. Please help the City Council and the chamber recognize the will of a

clear majority of Newport Beach voters: We’ve had it with increasing

traffic congestion. Balboa is now a residential community and we wish to

keep it so.

STEPHEN TITUS

Newport Beach