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I have just finished reading the article about Eric Bever winning

a seat on the Costa Mesa City Council. I took exception to some of

the reported comments made by him. I have known Katrina Foley for a

good many years. I find her to be concerned and forthright in her

voting on all issues big and small. If she has pink hair, I guess I

did, too, when I was younger. I always was told I had golden-blond

color. Shame on you, Bever. You sound like a male chauvinist.

NADINE ANDREEN

Costa Mesa

Parking underground an above-the-board solution

I feel that the only way to keep St. Andrew’s parking off of the

neighborhood’s streets is to build a structure and put it

underground. This will keep members from having to park on the

streets adjacent to houses. Although it is perfectly legal to park on

these streets, why not make it easier for the neighbors and church

members and build a structure? It seems like a simple win-win

solution.

COREY WICKS

Costa Mesa

Looking at mansions answers growth question

We can build mansions, two or three floors up and zero lot lines,

for residential purposes, but not allow a church to build additional

parking and/or modernize their buildings, especially since the church

and its facilities may be used for an emergency need or purpose in

supporting the community in a time of need.

So, I do support the remodel and the expansion of the parking St.

Andrew’s is requesting.

HAROLD NYHOLM

Newport Beach

It’s time for solution at Swan Drive properties

I think the Swan Drive homeowner encroachment issue has been

handled in an unreasonable way.

My neighbors just had their block-stuccoed wall removed, which

took one week, with workers there all day, each day. It was 18 inches

over their property line. This wall was erected before they bought

the home with no idea the wall was over the property line.

This cost them thousands of dollars, the biggest part being the

demolition.

I have lived in my home for 38 years, and it has been years since

the park area has been taken care of. I think it was before Costa

Mesa took it over.

This property is of no use to the park. It backs up to the main

storm channel and has no access. If a person goes to the end of the

property, he has to turn around and come back the way he came.

My suggestion is to sell the property to the homeowners. I have no

ax to grind, as I am inside my property by six inches. I’m just tired

of caring for it to keep my view neat. I have a chain link fence

across the property. And, it makes me feel bad that my neighbors have

to pay to remove it when the former owners were the ones who put it

up.

JULIE SURDEVANT

Costa Mesa

Writer’s point not

lost on community

Kudos to Paul James Baldwin for putting into words what so many of

us are thinking about Greg Haidl (“Greg Haidl’s get-out-of-jail-free

cards have long run out”).

Unfortunately, Baldwin misses one very important fact: had a

19-year-old Latino, African American or other minority male, or even

a low-income white, had this many run-ins with the law, he would be

in jail, bail revoked immediately, no questions asked.

I can only imagine the outcry in the Newport Beach community if a

19-year-old Mexican man, out on bail for alleged rape and statutory

rape, had crashed into another car because he was “lost,” nevermind

the amount of alcohol consumed.

It is time the Haidls and Judge Briseno act responsibly for the

greater good of the community and throw Greg Haidl into jail where he

belongs.

PATTI HAYMAN

Newport Coast

Signs were a sign

of vote outcome

Being undecided, it was clear to me that a lot of anti-Measure L

signs were being torn down, and even covered up, by the “yes

contingent.”

That made up my mind -- that I wasn’t going to vote “yes.” And I

think that had a big effect on people, as they saw all these yes

signs being posted right over the no contingent signs.

PAUL STEPHEN

Newport Beach