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We’re just not ready to make Bolsa offer

Don’t you just love how both Lucy Dunn of Hearthside Homes and Ron

Metzler of Shea Homes gleefully boast, “No one’s ever made an offer”

to buy their respective company’s property on the Bolsa Chica?

Well, duh, no one’s made an offer. Do you think a current, fair

market value appraisal has been done for either property? You

wouldn’t buy a new home without checking comparable prices on nearby

homes, getting an appraisal of the home’s worth, or completing a home

inspection, would you? So why would anyone make an offer on land

without truly knowing what it’s worth?

And just because nobody’s made an official offer doesn’t mean lots

of people aren’t interested in seeing the land purchased.

Environmental groups have been working diligently to round up public

agency and government support for purchase and preservation and to

cobble together financing (another one of those pesky details.)

So the next time you hear or read Dunn or Metzler state, “No one’s

made us an offer,” translate that to, “People are interested in

buying, but are unable to do so at this time.”

JULIE BIXBY

Huntington Beach

Let’s try for homes on none of the mesa

There should never be any homes built on the lower or upper mesa.

None. I’ve been driving by there for about 30 years now, and it’s a

pleasure to see, as far as I can without the view being unobstructed

by houses in your way. It’s a beautiful sight to see.

There’s so little space left over. Let’s leave that one open.

Let’s leave it a legacy for the future generation of our children,

for the wildlife, for the birds. If you build houses all the up to

the edge of the water, that’s more traffic, thousands more cars on

Warner Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway. They’re not going to expand

the roads at all, and everyone will be walking their dogs and the dog

droppings will get into the wetlands and pollute the water.

So, let’s keep this open. No homes on the Bolsa Chica Mesa, upper

or lower mesa.

ROB NELSON

Huntington Beach

Monday’s rain is why wetlands are important

As I listen to the rain come down on this very wet Monday

afternoon, I cannot help but think about the effect of all this water

running down the Wintersburg flood control channel. This water in the

channel will add to the pollution of Huntington Harbour.

If we could only build a constructed wetland in the Shea bean

fields (an area just northwest of Slater Avenue and Graham Street),

it would help to cleanse the water as it flows into the harbor. This

area is one of the most restorable wetland areas in Bolsa Chica.

Using it as a means of cleansing the effluent as it comes down the

Wintersburg channel would be most beneficial for the harbor and for

the city.

How about it, folks?

NANCY DONAVEN

Huntington Beach

We don’t need the Parkside congestion

I live off Graham Street and Warner Avenue, and the area is

already so congested that it is my opinion that the last thing we

need is another Parkside Estates so close to the wetlands that

eventually it seems as if they’re inching on to it, and there’s

plenty of places to build besides that close to the wetlands.

ROBERT NIGRO

Huntington Beach

Harbor cleanup is the responsibility of many

I believe the clean up of the harbor is an issue with the county

and state. It shouldn’t be dumped onto the harbor residents to go and

assess them money to do those kind of things because we live at the

end of the railroad track, where all the stuff ends up in the ocean.

I mean, why doesn’t Sunset Beach contribute to this, too. They live

in the area, Peter’s Landing, and so forth.

I don’t see any assessments going on there. Likewise, if there was

some kind of a toxic chemical dump or spill or landfill issue problem

in the city of Huntington Beach, you wouldn’t assess the immediate

surrounding communities for that and assess them the living tax and

whatnot against them.

So I think this is really a county and a state issue, and I know

nobody has money nowadays, but they make it sound like the harbor

people have all this money.

Well, we don’t. We work hard for our money, too. Not all of us are

multi-millionaires. I just don’t think it’s correct. It should be a

county and a state issue to kind of deal with this matter.

One man very eloquently indicated the situation at the council

meeting in terms of why should I be paying for all the dog feces and

everything else in Buena Park and all the other upland Orange County

cities that wash down in our harbor? Now we pay for it because we’re

at the end of the track. I don’t think that’s correct.

DREW KOVACS

Huntington Beach

Bring the movies back to Surf City

Absolutely, I’d like to see a revival of surf movies. This is Surf

City -- tourists that come to our great little town expect no less.

Yes, bring back the surf movies! Start with “Endless Summer”!

DENISE BENNER

Huntington Beach

I would like to see a revival of surf movies on the big screen in

Huntington Beach just like the good old days.

STEVE WEAVER

San Clemente