Friday, December 7, 2007

CM PRESS # 248


NEWPORT NOT BUILDING ENOUGH CHEAP HOUSING

The DAILY PILOT is reporting today that the state is telling Newport Beach that it has to build more housing for low income people.

What's missing from the report is what happens if Newport Beach doesn't do it. The answer? Nothing.

The fact is that many in Newport Beach have long considered Costa Mesa to be the location for Newport's low income housing requirements and also the place to put whatever else they don't want in Newport Beach.

Costa Mesa is the reason that Newport Beach doesn't have a bad part of town.

In fact, Costa Mesa is the bad part of town for Newport Beach. And, isn't that wonderful, boys and girls? Newporters don't have to pay for their bad part of town, and their bad part of town doesn't pull down their property values--because it's another town altogether!

Costa Mesa is to Newport Beach what the tunnels below Disneyland are to that pristine park. All the dirty stuff takes place out of sight.

Of course, there are some in Costa Mesa who believe that our city should be almost as nice as Newport Beach and other coastal communities and who don't want Costa Mesa to remain as the bad part of town for any other city.

These people who want a nicer Costa Mesa are the Improvers and they've been working to improve all of Costa Mesa-- starting with the Westside.
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