Mailbag: Proposed condominium development does not benefit taxpayers

As a Newport Beach homeowner, it occurs to me that it’s pretty rotten to have my water consumption cut back, with the possibility of fines, if I want to keep my landscape and my roses, yet the city will add a ton of additional water use for a proposed 26-story development?

Some of us homeowners have been here a long time, and this seems unfair. Having approval for this building and much of the proposed additions to Newport Beach is absolutely not for the benefit of taxpaying homeowners.

Christine Cook

Newport Beach

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Museum House doesn’t need Greenlight

Yogi Berra was fond of saying, “We made too many wrong mistakes.”

Yogi must have been referencing Susan Skinner’s recent column about the Museum House.

Skinner’s tortured logic about Greenlight and mythical density transfers causing a public vote for Museum House has been rejected by the city.

Last week, Skinner’s echo chamber buddy, Melinda Seely, made the same argument in these pages. If you say it often, it still doesn’t make it right.

Greenlight allows for up to 100 residential units in Fashion Island. Anything over 100 units requires a public vote. Skinner knows this because she helped write Greenlight.

So, Susan, Museum House is complying with the rules as set by the voters of Newport Beach in 2000 and 2006. You can’t change the rules to fit your narrative, because, as Yogi said, you’ve already made too many wrong mistakes.

Craig Gibson

Newport Coast