INSIDE SCOOP

-- Compiled by the Daily Pilot staff

With Newport Beach’s special election on the visible horizon, warring

camps on both sides of the Koll Center expansion project began pleading

their cases to residents’ mailboxes earlier this month.

Greenlight Committee fliers urge residents to vote against Measure G

in the Nov. 20 ballot. The controversially named Greenlight

Implementation Committee, of course, wants a yes vote. A yes vote means

that the city can modify its general plan to allow a 250,000-square-foot,

10-story office tower on Koll’s current property at the intersection of

Jamboree Road and MacArthur Boulevard.

In an effort to boost the vote and drum up support for their

respective sides, both camps included absentee ballot applications with

their mailers. But the pro-development team’s approach has raised more

than a few eyebrows. The address printed on the mailer cards isn’t the

county Registrar of Voters. It’s for the committee itself -- a legal,

though questionable tactic.