“We’ve heard a lot from the view...

“We’ve heard a lot from the view community tonight, but a lot of

people like me live in the flatland where the view is the trees. I

think we need to look at ways we might be a little more proactive in

protecting problem trees in areas where there aren’t any views. In

those areas, we need to make an effort to keep them.”

-- Don Webb, a Newport Beach councilman who lives across from

Mariners Park, on a different view of the city’s update tree policy

“It makes class a lot more enjoyable.”

-- Megan McCal, a first-year student at Orange Coast College, on

the fact that students in college want to be there, as opposed to her

classmates in high school

“There’s one thing we don’t want, and that’s closure. We want to

continue to celebrate her.”

-- Zach Biehl, on the 10th anniversary of his sister Amy’s death

in South Africa and the fact that he and his family continue to help

others in her name

“We’re not really anti-bark park. We’re saying, ‘They already have

a bark park. They don’t need another one. We need a skate park.’ Dogs

aren’t more important than kids.”

-- Jim Gray, a longtime advocate for a skate park, on the fact

that he supports a skate park, but not necessarily at the expense of

bark park proponents

“Eventually, no matter how good the intentions are, one of these

days, some young man or woman will be on a skateboard going through

that parking lot and someone will not be caring for their dog the way

they should be and whether the dog bites somebody or just scares the

skateboarder, they’re going to go down and we’ll probably end up

losing our bark park.”

-- Terry Tyson, the vice chairman of the Costa Mesa Bark Park

Foundation, on his opposition to placing a skate park near the bark

park off Arlington Drive