Let’s recall the Pilot’s right-wing writer Since...

Let’s recall the Pilot’s right-wing writer

Since all the readers are so actively involved in supporting the

recall of Armando Ruiz, I think it’s also time to start a recall of

Wendy Leece as a weekly columnist in the Daily Pilot.

We voted her out of office several years ago because she didn’t

reflect the mainstream ideas in the school district. Why are we

subjected to her inanities every week?

No one elected her, no one voted for her, and she should not be

entitled to spew her right-wing rhetoric every week.

Recall Wendy Leece.

SHARON BOUDREAU

Costa Mesa

Columnist needs to check his facts better

Humberto Caspa is again way off base when he talks about part-time

faculty in the Coast Community College District. Part-time faculty

are organized.

They are members of the Community College Assn., a branch of

CTA/NEA. They have collective-bargaining rights and have released

their set of bargaining points for this session.

Previously, Caspa had written that part-time faculty and students

had no say in the selection of the new president of Orange Coast

College and that there should have been a committee to screen and

interview applicants.

There was such a committee that involved representatives of all of

the stakeholders in the college, including part-time faculty and

students.

Good journalism requires a writer to check his or her facts before

printing. More people read the erroneous article than the retraction.

Maybe that’s the point.

BARBARA PRICE

Newport Beach

Expansion has been ill-advised since ’84

I have been following the St. Andrew’s issue in the Daily Pilot

and have some knowledge of the matter. And what is happening within

it is frightening.

The main thing that people and the city need to understand is the

awful precedent that is set -- especially for other communities -- by

approving such a huge develop- ment. The church now, before the

proposed expansion, is already more than 100,000 square feet.

I am familiar with no project of an area that large that resides

on a four-acre site and asks its city for a general plan amendment

and a zone change, which cannot possibly in itself be a good idea.

The Planning Commission split vote is shocking.

This project in a residential community has a proposal for an

underground parking garage that is capable of parking so few cars

that off-site arrangements need to be made for the remainder of the

expected visitors.

The entire original and mature landscape along the length of the

Clay Street side of the church will be plowed under and removed for a

new concrete parking garage and a wall. What are people thinking?

This proposal doesn’t need 50 or even 100 conditions of approval;

it needs to be reduced to the limits set forth by the intelligence

afforded it by Evelyn Hart and the 1984 City Council.

They saw the high-occupancy gathering spaces, the residual meeting

and convention areas and the underground parking garage for what they

were and threw them out on their collective ears a long time ago. Now

that it is 22 years later, when twice the number of high school

juniors and seniors are driving, the residents are again asked to lie

down for more? We, as residents across town, say “Please, just don’t

do it!”

NANCY S. HEATON

Corona del Mar