COASTAL MESA
As improvement minded citizens work to help improve Costa Mesa in 2007, it's important to remember that Costa Mesa is a coastal community. It is not an urban city even though some big developers seem to want to turn it into one.
Yes, we're going to have new buildings and some high rises by South Coast Plaza, and we're also going to have new buildings on the Westside bluffs, but if we turn our back on that which makes us unique--our closeness to the ocean--we're going to lose out in the long run, and we'll end up with a city that might as well be a thousand miles away from the ocean.
As the CM PRESS has written many times; even a quick look at a map of Costa Mesa, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach shows that something is missing from Costa Mesa that the other two cities have--an opening to the sea.
Costa Mesa's opening to the sea should be through the area below the Westside bluffs near the Santa Ana River.
In fact, there should be water all the way up to Victoria Street instead of the present dirt and weeds.
Go ahead, look at a map. See how Costa Mesa is between Newport Beach and Huntington Beach except near the ocean, and then Newport Beach (with some county land as well) has muscled us out of the way as it goes all the way over to Huntington Beach on land that should be ours?
That land along the ocean and PCH that puts Newport Beach and Huntington Beach cheek by jowl should be Costa Mesa's land. Costa Mesa should extend all the way to the ocean.
And, we're probably talking about less than three quarters of a mile of land, proceeding south from the mouth of the Santa Ana River along the beach, that would turn Costa Mesa into a true ocean community.
Isn't it time that Costa Mesa's politicians started working to get us our beach and/or marina?
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GOD'S GIFT TO COSTA MESA?
Remember how people used to say that men or women who are full of themselves think they're God's gift to the opposite sex?
That expression came to mind when we read some recent letters sent to the City Council by some applicants for various positions in the city.
Hopefully, the City Council will appoint people to various positions who have lived in Costa Mesa for many years and who have been active in improving our city.
This is not a time for unknown Johnny-come-latelies.
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IF YOU'RE A HIGH RANKING CITY EMPLOYEE, YOU SHOULD LIVE IN COSTA MESA
Improvers are telling the CM PRESS that they're tired of city government hiring high ranking employees who can easily afford to live in Costa Mesa, but who choose to live in other cities.
Improvers are saying that they want these high ranking employees and their families to experience the same conditions as the citizens experience.
Violent crime on our streets becomes very real and personal when you see shot up bodies lying in your neighborhood near your home and your kids, but if you're only punching a time clock in the city and your own family is in a safer community, you don't care as much about such crime.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
