CITY COUNCIL GIVES FIVE THUMBS UP TO WESTSIDE LOFTS
At last night's City Council meeting, the Council voted 5-0 to allow Nexus Development to move forward with plans to build 151 condo/apartments on it's 6.8 acre site at 1640 Monrovia Avenue on the Westside Bluffs. This site is almost directly behind MacGregor Yachts.
If Nexus can get funding and moves forward as we hope they will, this project may be the one that will jump start a real revitalization of the Westside.
As we listened to the people who spoke in favor of this project--and almost everyone in the audience was in favor of it (although some wanted to tweak it a little)--including industrialists and Return to Reasoners, the following quote from Arthur Schopenhauer kept running through our head:
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Followed by:
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
While there are still a few sad sack improvement obstructionists in this city who want the Westside to continue to rot--most notably a couple of know-nothing low I.Q. bloggers and serial name callers with deep seated psychological problems--most people now realize that the Improvers were right all along.
And now, it seems that many decent, clear thinking people are putting aside petty political divisions and are supportive of a real revitalization of the Westside. They are rejecting the smearmeisters and haters who do little but whine and gripe and backbite.
Costa Mesa can be a truly great and unique city from its world class shopping and entertainment centers in the north, to a slightly bohemian and artistic Westside, to "standard" single family neighborhoods, to a healthy industrial sector--an eclectic mix with a proper balance of uses.
But, the job is not done and no one should think that they can give up their activism and that everything will just spontaneously fall into place. Firm hands must be on the wheel.
We still have a major problem with slums and illegal aliens and their support infrastructure run by slum profiteers and we still have gangs that grow in direct proportion to the number of illegal aliens, slums, and non-profits we have, and we still have failing schools that are full of the children of illegal aliens and which are failing precisely because of this.
We have an election this year in Costa Mesa and it's important to elect improvement minded people with a clear and unwavering vision of the correct direction for Costa Mesa and who also have the backbone to stand up to the negative forces that profit from a down-scale city.
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