Time for Changes at Home

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Editor,

I went to the March For Our Lives event at Main Beach park on Saturday, March 24, and realized again that things in America are and will change and that we are living in unusual times.

I believe the Women’s March in Washington D.C., the day after the inauguration really announced the beginning of the end of the so-called “Make America Great” election. America can’t be great again without fairness to citizens of all races, religions, incomes, and sexual persuasions.

A recent poll showed that most Lagunatics want a new city council. Paying some city employees millions after retirement and bus and trolley drivers nothing isn’t fair. I believe in pensions, but as Elizabeth Pearson said years ago, our city government pensions are out of whack and will eventually bankrupt the city.

We desperately need affordable housing for seniors and others and the possibility of rent control for residential and commercial buildings. We need to stop cars going 70 and 80 miles an hour on Coast Highway.

We need to help our young people who are L.G.B.T. and make Laguna a more friendly place for gays.

We need to promote small business all over town with new ideas and sidewalks friendly to walkers with more benches. A permanent Park Plaza downtown offering a cool place for all on hot days and other times and easier crossing zones on Coast Highway at Broadway, Ocean, Forest and Laguna Avenues. These four intersections like others need much bigger handicap curb ramps and should be criss-cross zones for people to cross from all four corners.

The Laguna Avenue signal needs longer walking times, a.s.a.p.

We are living in a dynamic time in America and come November, America will get greater.

Roger Carter, Laguna Beach

 

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