GRAFFITI EXPRESS COMING TO COSTA MESA?
Remember the goofy light rail plan? It's coming back in pieces so this time you won't catch on and shout it down as you did last time.
At their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, 12/5, the Costa Mesa City Council is being asked to rubber stamp a plan to give Costa Mesa's OCTA funding in the amount of $ 100,000 to the City of Santa Ana and allow Santa Ana to act as the lead agency for Costa Mesa in coming up with a transit plan involving Metrolink.
Sound a little like deja vu?
To the CM PRESS, this sounds like the old, goofy light-rail (read "subway" but above ground) proposal that was killed off. Instead of trying to keep selling that stupid plan, the people pushing this one apparently think they can have better luck in selling it piecemeal. Just feed you the bad tasting medicine a little at a time and you won't catch on.
If Costa Mesa goes through with this thing, we'll be handing a large part of Costa Mesa's future over to Santa Ana.
Remember our article "Metropolis Rising" about South Coast Metro possibly breaking away from Costa Mesa in the future? This light rail plan would fit in with that.
Irvine opted out of this deal, folks. They don't want any part of it. Apparently, Newport Beach isn't even considering this goofy thing.
What will this eventually lead to? A light rail train (subway, but above ground) from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa.
This plan is just another step to blend Costa Mesa into Santa Ana and it should be turned down cold. Santa Ana is not Costa Mesa's sister city--Newport Beach is and should remain that way.
WE DO NOT NEED LIGHT RAIL BETWEEN SANTA ANA AND COSTA MESA AND WE ESPECIALLY DON'T NEED TO TURN COSTA MESA'S AUTHORITY AND MONEY OVER TO SANTA ANA AND LET THEM DECIDE THINGS FOR COSTA MESA.
This item is buried among sixteen other items in the Consent Calendar. What this means is that unless someone calls this item for discussion, the Council will take one vote and rubber stamp this item along with the sixteen other items.
Folks, the way a lot of little bad decisions have been made over the years for Costa Mesa is through this fast shuffle Consent Calendar. All a proponent has to do is bury something important in the Consent Calendar and the Council usually just approves it.
The CM PRESS plans on calling this item for discussion.
Here's the link where you can read all about this goofy idea. Be sure to read the actual agreement with Santa Ana by clicking on the sublink at the bottom of the agenda page that opens when you click on this link: http://www.ci.costa-mesa.ca.us/council/agenda/2006-12-05/12-05-06%20Go%20Local%20Coop%20Agreement%20with%20OCTA%20and%20Santa%20Ana%20Report.pdf
If you want to let the City Council know your feelings on this matter, here's the contact email address: op2council@ci.costa-mesa.ca.us
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Here's the link to the CM PRESS that you can bookmark and send to citizens who want a nicer Costa Mesa--one that is NOT like Santa Ana--http://cmpress.blogspot.com/
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
