THEY WANT TO PAVE OVER PARADISE
Mother Nature isn't enough of a planner for some anal retentive types. They want to fill every square inch of land with concrete and asphalt.
Fairview Park is the only natural park in Costa Mesa, but there is a constant attempt by some to put in buildings, more parking lots, more restrooms, more paved trails, sports fields, a skateboard park and you name it.
Remember how Lions Park used to be before it was whittled away with buildings? Now, many are saying that it's no longer big enough to even put in a small skateboard park. And, they may be right.
That may also be the fate of Fairview Park if the City Council allows a skateboard park to be built there or if it allows the model train engineers to put in the so-called temporary building (read permanent building) that they're asking the Council to approve on Tuesday.
See the red line on the map above? That's Placentia Avenue. Some are attempting to convince people that the area to the right of Placentia (the east) is okay to develop with a skateboard park and a new building for the model train engineers and that the parking lot should be made bigger and that it should be paved.
We don't buy it.
Fairview Park is one park. In fact, we'd like to see Placentia Avenue removed from the park. Just dead end it at the north end in Mesa Verde and on the south end near Estancia High School.
If you want to keep Fairview Park a natural park, then you should go to the City Council meeting tomorrow night--Tuesday, 11/6/07 starting at 6:00 p.m. --and be prepared to speak out against putting a skateboard facility in the park and against allowing the model train engineers to put in a new building.
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Dear CM PRESS:
In the early 60s, Placentia did end at Joanne, it was after the high school was built they extended it to Adams.
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