IS MIKE SCHEAFER PLANNING ON RUNNING FOR CITY COUNCIL AGAIN, Goo, goo g'joob?
When Katrina Foley jumped on the latest big news item that has nothing to do with Costa Mesa but which was a sure bet to get her name in the newspaper--accepting donations for fire victims--we noted that her Return to Reason pal and former failed City Council candidate Mike Scheafer's office was also mentioned in the Daily Pilot article as a location to drop off donations (Pilot 10/25).
And, in today's Pilot we see an opinion piece by Scheafer in which he says the City should put a proposed skateboard park in Fairview Park and not in Lion's Park so the annual Fish Fry can continue at the Lion's Park location.
The CM PRESS agrees that the Fish Fry should continue at Lion's Park, but we disagree with the skateboard park idea.
We believe that Fairview Park should be left as natural as possible.
What we're now hearing, though, is that every person and group with some park need wants to fulfill that need by stuffing it in Fairview Park. This is absurd. If the City Council starts nibbling away at Fairview, we'll soon have a huge parking lot, various buildings, restrooms galore, soccer fields, more paved trails, trash containers, access roads, ADA approved ramps down the bluffs, and on and on and on. Soon, there won't be any room for plants or nature.
So, what should the City Council do?
What we've suggested all along: Start investing in the City by buying up decrepit slum buildings, tearing them down, and putting in additional park land.
How about approaching a local billionaire for a donation and then name a new park after him?
Those who want to run for City Council should take note of Foley's and Scheafer's moves. It looks as though they're trying to gin up some issues to run on.
It also looks as though some boxes are being set up to trap unwary candidates into a Hobson's choice.
Will Improver candidates see the traps and (please excuse the cliche) think outside the box as the CM PRESS suggests? Time will tell.
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