Our city has been working on concepts to beautify the city entrance for some time without much action. Here’s an idea. As people enter our city from Laguna Canyon, they are greeted by an eyesore which is a median that extends for several hundred yards and includes half dead trees and dirt.
What a difference it would make to landscape the median with drought tolerant plants, trees, and possibly stonework? Hire two or three landscape architects noted for their drought tolerant work. Our own Ann Christoph did a wonderful job in the small median in south Laguna. Pay them to present landscape plans and pricing. Pick the winner. Implement. This is the time to do it with winter rains coming.
Please City Council, pull the trigger on this.
Paul Wenger, Laguna Beach
Nah, Paul….let’s save the space for light rail/people mover that circles out from Main Beach/Forest to City Hall, on to Pageant/Playhouse, off to Sawdust, then Canyon Acres. Perhaps onward to Act IV parking structure(please!), then city dog pound/dog park/Pacific Marine Center stop, Phillips Rd./Willow Staging/Annaliese stop, then a smooth sail to Dilley Preserve with a turn to Laguna Wilderness/Nix Nature. And then loop back.
Maybe Irvine could build their OWN parking structure(and that could be a turnaround pick-up/drop off stop!!!) on the dead, blank space of land where those big top horse shows take place every year….or is that gonna be Altura Laguna/Arroyo/Crystal Heights Canyon next??…but I digress…
Of course this could be all possible to incorporate this into the canyon walk/bike path. Just move those death-inducing, finite-resource-burning smog inducers to only one lane each side of Laguna Canyon Road(of course with turn lanes…) and truly be a city of the future not one that regresses back to the car being King. People are first.
if anything should be landscaped and visually camouflaged it should be SCE
Morro sub station(or whatever that metal and wire beast is in the north side of the canyon across from Sawdust)…now THAT’S an eyesore!!!
But I DO agree that the medians in South Laguna are beautiful!
Isn’t it wonderful to dream?