All I want for Christmas is the Bolsa Chica Mesa
Chris Thomas
Hearthside Homes, hopefully, has seen the writing on the wall --
in fact, they helped put it there. The question is, do they have the
business smarts to be proactive, willing sellers at a fair market
price.
Timing is everything -- the time is now and the money is available
to accomplish what many never thought, after 30-plus years, would
never be possible. The boat is about to sail with no Hearthside on
board.
New projects vying for Proposition 50 dollars keep surfacing, the
most recent being San Simeon. If Hearthside is serious about
Proposition 50 and value the hundreds of thousands of dollars they
pumped into the initiative, they will act now and get the ball
rolling on the sale of the Bolsa Chica mesa before the opportunity
passes.
Bolsa Chica has been an albatross for developers for decades --
and things aren’t going to change. It’s clear the public wants to
protect the last vestiges of wildlife and associated environment --
for water quality, history, balance of nature and, most of all,
because they just need some decent open space to escape the rat-race
... It’s the right thing for the right reasons.
Please, Hearthside, it’s your opportunity to be stockholder and
community hero -- sell the property at a fair price, recover your
losses and leave town a hero; there’s no better time than today.
Happy Holidays. Hope Santa leaves the wetlands and mesa wrapped
with a big red ribbon on Christmas morning for all of Orange County
and the state of California.
* CHRIS THOMAS is a Huntington Beach resident. To contribute to
“Sounding Off” e-mail us at hbindy@latimes.com or fax us at (714)
965-7174.
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