Wrestling with a City Entrance, Undergrounding and Views
Editor,
As usual, our city is embroiled in difficult issues, some of which are very costly and all of them very emotional. The divisive issue...
Will Farmers Market Be Displaced?
Editor,
If council person Elizabeth Pearson gets to build her high-rise car-lot and if you use and treasure our farmers market please consider contacting our...
Ode to Cars
Editor,
In '64 few cars drove after five but then one could on asphalt be and survive.
Fifty years since whizzing cars took oak arbors stripping...
Thoughtless Dog Owners Spoil a Public Park
Editor,
Taking a walk on an otherwise neat and clean Main Beach and Heisler Park, one notices dog poo at every few steps left by...
Granny Flats Approved Without Public Hearings
Editor,
The Design Review Board is being undermined in a surreal manner. Worst case: new homes
go through and obtain Design Review Board approval
during...
Impose a Measure of Accountability on Street People
Editor,
It's nothing new to have a large congregation of homeless during the summer here in Laguna. But after witnessing one of the regulars smoking...
Critiquing Actions of Two Elected Officials
Editor,
It’s hard to believe that Laguna Beach City Council person Steve Dicterow said nothing at a recent meeting to discuss the village entrance project...
What Are They Thinking?
Editor,
The city just received a $50,000 parking study that concluded we could have the functional equivalent of 200-400 parking spaces in the downtown where...
Fee Hike Requires a Coastal Development Permit
Editor,
The three council members that voted in favor of the current village entrance project have promised to institute a $1 per hour parking meter...
Parking Garage’s Cost Seems an Unwise Investment
Editor,
I write as a longtime resident of Laguna Beach (17 years) to express my concern over the proposed parking structure, and specifically that the...
Parking Garage’s Use Questioned
Editor,
I attended Laguna’s meeting about the village entrance on Monday.
I am rather disheartened by some of the responses I heard from John Pietig. I...
Canyon’s Beauty Lost in the Discussion
Editor,
One of the public comments at the last City Council meeting addressed William Wendt’s appreciation of beauty (as it relates to the village entrance project),...
Other Issues Merit Funding, Too
Editor,
We need to un-link the revenue from the proposed village entrance parking structure from the revenue projected to be raised from raising rates on...
Preservation Includes Respect for all Creatures
Editor,
Re: “Pet Owners Schooled on Scaring Off Coyotes,” Aug. 23.
I sincerely have heart felt sympathy toward any pet owner that has lost their beloved...
Rein in Territorial Instincts
Editor,
I wanted to respond to Michele Leighton's complaint that Bluebird Park concert attendees removed "reserved parking blockades" that she had placed for her "late...