Council already OKd putting resort on ballot...

Council already OKd putting resort on ballot

Regarding Joseph Weaver of Protect our Parks in Friday’s community

commentary (“Parks shouldn’t be hotels”), no, sir, the mayor is not

giving away our park land to private development.

In February 2003, the City Council voted 6 to 1 to put the

Marinapark luxury resort on the November 2004 ballot. If the proposed

project site is on tideland owned by the city and the state,

shouldn’t Newport Beach residents have a voice to accept or reject?

Why would anyone not want this project to go to a vote of the people?

Nov. 3 will tell.

PAT GREENBAUM

Newport Beach

Let’s keep fairgrounds, ditch bridge discussion

I left town for four days, maybe five. And in that time I come

back to find that Gisler bridge is being discussed again. I’ve lived

in Costa Mesa for almost 19 years now, and I think we’ve put this

bridge to bed about four times since I’ve been here, and I think it

has been put away before that.

So, I’m not going to leave town anymore until this bridge thing is

finally put to sleep forever. We don’t need bridges or any more

traffic in that area. That has already been discussed over and over

and over again.

The other thing is, as soon as I come back, the fairgrounds are

back on the chopping block. Those people in Sacramento don’t seem to

understand what goes on in Southern California. I just came back from

Northern California, and I can tell you for sure they don’t even

recognize the existence of Southern California, let alone Costa

Mesa’s fairgrounds. So we need to organize a writing campaign or

petitions or whatever’s necessary. The public needs to be informed as

to what should be our next moves to stop this considered sale of our

fairgrounds, which is a boon to everything in our city and is used

constantly.

So, no bridge, keep our fairgrounds, and we need to put Costa Mesa

on the map as the little town that said no. All of us have to get

together and work on this.

SHARON BOUDREAU

Costa Mesa

A few more Costa Mesa candidate stories, please

I wanted to thank the Daily Pilot for the wonderful and current

coverage that it’s given to the Costa Mesa candidates forum held at

the community center. I cannot understand why you haven’t published

anything in the last couple of days about that wonderful, wonderful

event. Are you a daily and local newspaper or not? We need to have

that coverage, so people who couldn’t attend can know what went on.

LANCE HAILSTONE

Costa Mesa

* EDITOR’S NOTE: A story on the forum ran in Friday’s Daily Pilot,

“Council candidates cover issues.”

Make those other cities abandon Gisler bridge

I just had an idea that will scare Huntington Beach and Fountain

Valley into abandoning the Gisler bridge. You just have to tell them

Costa Mesa is going to study closing the Adams bridge and Victoria

Street bridge, and they can tell their residents in Huntington Beach

and Fountain Valley that they can use Brookhurst Street to go to the

San Diego Freeway or Pacific Coast Highway, because Costa Mesa is not

a shortcut for other cities.

ROBERT SOMERS

Costa Mesa