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Thursday, January 11, 2007
CM PRESS # 58
ALL FIVE COUNCILMEMBERS GET IT WRONG ABOUT GANGS!
(It's time for the wrecking ball)
Ever see alligators living in places with no swamps?
Ever see gang members living in fancy homes in Newport Beach?
Alligators live in swamps.
Gangs live in slums.
Remove the swamps and the alligators will go find another swamp--they need their slum habitat.
Remove the slums and the gangs will go find another slum (in some other city)--they need a slum habitat.
If Costa Mesa is serious about ridding this city of gangs, then it has to stop with the gushy PTA level talk about education and social programs. They're bandaids on a cancer. It's time to cut the cancer out of our city.
Most of the gangs in Costa Mesa are territorial in nature. This means the gang members live in certain areas and they "protect" those areas from rival gangs.
In Costa Mesa, most of the gangs are concentrated in just a few slums: Mission-Mendoza; Coolidge-Fillmore; Shalimar and other barracks style apartment buildings on the Westside.
These slums are not going to get any better. Their time has passed. They are functionally obsolete. They are too dense. They are overcrowded. Most upwardly mobile people don't want to live in these Costa Mesa versions of tenements.
And, why should coastal Costa Mesa even have such slums? It doesn't make any sense. Industrial cities far from the ocean may have to have such places because they don't have anything else going for them, but we have Mother Nature's Pacific Ocean very close to us. So, why do we have housing that looks like it's from an industrial city with no ocean nearby? Hmmmm?
If the City of Costa Mesa will simply start buying up slum buildings in these slum areas as they come on the market and then tear the buildings down and put in pocket parks or parking or simply open areas--in the short term--with an eye to assembling larger parcels, as adjacent buildings come on the market, and then put in larger parks or sports fields, we'll see a reduction in gangs and crime in the city. We'll see a reduction in traffic. We'll see a reduction in crowding. We'll see the end of gangs. We'll see an improved Costa Mesa living up to what it should be as an ocean close city.
The Daily Pilot asked the five Councilmembers: "What do you think is the best way to eradicate gangs in Costa Mesa?" Read the paper to find out why the CM PRESS thinks all five got it wrong.
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CITY SHOULD REACH OUT TO HOME DEVELOPERS
The CM PRESS believes that the City of Costa Mesa should reach out more to home developers
and encourage them to start building upscale homes on our bluffs where these homes will have ocean views.
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ANOTHER YOUNG KID WITH BRAIN CANCER
The Pilot is reporting today (1/11/07) about yet another young kid (this one is nine-years-old) in Costa Mesa who has brain cancer.
Is there a link to air pollution from the Westside bluffs? The CM PRESS doesn't know. Here's a link that might be of some interest. If you do a google search "brain cancer + air pollution" you'll turn up many more links. http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/report-22130.html
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STILL NO WORD FROM JOE N. BELL OR STEVE SMITH
Joe still hasn't contacted us about when he wants us to help him put a job center into his Newport Beach neighborhood, and Steve hasn't told us his bright ideas about improving Costa Mesa's schools.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
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