U. KNOW WHO TO RUN?Apparently, there are unfounded rumors circulating that U. Know Who is going to run for City Council.
The CM PRESS caught up with Mr. Who and asked him to tell us what he would do if elected.
After telling us that he's not running for the City Council, Mr. Who still offered the following off the cuff comments:
U. KNOW WHO'S PLATFORM
Costa Mesa needs to be improved to provide a higher quality of life for our citizens. Everything that will help accomplish this is on the table.
To know how we're doing as a city, I will constantly compare our statistics with our surrounding cities.
When our specific statistics are close to corresponding statistics in higher quality of life cities, we'll know we're going in the right direction. When our statistics are closer to lower quality of life cities, we'll know we're going in the wrong direction and we'll move to improve those statistics.
Here are a few specifics, in no particular order, of what I'll work to do:
1. Change the priorities of the City Budget so that the City can start investing in itself by buying up slum properties to be turned into open space and other uses.
2. Ensure that all of our police officers are cooperating fully with ICE.
3. Cross train some of our police officers in ICE procedures.
4. Encourage the building of more upscale homes on the Westside Bluffs.
5. Improve our municipal codes concerning solicitation. Use the codes recently enacted in Orange as a guide.
6. Establish a public/private partnership to remove slum buildings that are safe havens and breeding grounds for gangs.
7. Change our municipal codes to ensure we are not stuck with empty eyesore buildings and lots.
8. Investigate the possibility of merging Costa Mesa with Newport Beach.
9. Eliminate group homes.
10. Find an alternative site for an airport to stop the expansion of John Wayne.
11. Get 55 Freeway traffic removed from our city streets.
12. Ensure that when projects are approved for development in the city that not only will it be clear as to what will be developed, but also when they will be developed.
13. Attract a college or college satellite campus to the Westside of Costa Mesa.
14. Restart the conversation of putting in a marina/beach below the Westside Bluffs.
15. Work to turn West 19th Street into a destination location similar to 2nd Street in Long Beach.
16. Cut off tax funds to non-profits in Costa Mesa that serve illegal aliens.
17. Attempt to break up the over concentration of non-profits on the Westside.
18. Reach out to up-scale retailers and encourage them to locate on the Westside.
19. Have regular meetings right in all of our neighborhoods where residents of those neighborhoods can make suggestions for the improvement of their own neighborhoods.
20. Bring a supermarket to the Westside.
21. Help establish part of the Westside as an art colony.
