MAILBAG - July 29, 2006

Greenlight II is nothing to worry about

I am in favor of Greenlight II. I have been trying unsuccessfully to figure out how 65% of residential property could be affected by Greenlight II. It takes more than 100 residential units to trigger a Greenlight vote. There are very few places left in Newport Beach that would accommodate 100 units ? certainly not 65% of residential property. The explanation “because the exemption written into the measure only covers some kinds of residential zoning” is inadequate.

Even City Council members who oppose Greenlight admit that the likelihood of private residential property being affected is far-fetched.

Let’s not let city staff decide what our city will be. Let the residents vote for what they want.

ELAINE LINHOFF, Balboa

Never hear from majority on issues anymore

I usually do not write to you, but it just seems that this constant barrage of letters and articles regarding the new city hall for Newport Beach should just be stopped, and the only way for this is to occur is that our elected Newport Beach City Council takes the proverbial bull by the horns and accepts the fact that we voted in its members to take care of business like this.

I am getting most annoyed by the same type of people writing over and over with a tedious debate on this subject, so I guess I will interject my opinion and say that if we do not want to keep on being a funky (actually being funky is rather cute, but we are bigger than that now) little beach town, we should have a decent city hall, and it should be above the library, where all can drive by and view it admiringly or else visit it for business that they need to do in this fair city of ours.

The parking on the peninsula is lousy, the old location is obsolete and the traffic is too abominable to even get there without getting frustrated.

I would think the residents on the peninsula would cheer if it was moved, but then again, who am I to even guess what other people think, because the majority of them do not even seem to express their constitutional right to step into a voting booth and let “us” know what they think or value.

JOCELYN GILBERT, Newport Beach