NEW CITY COUNCIL TO BE SWORN IN
At the December 2, City Council meeting, the newly elected City Council members will be sworn in and then the Council will elect a Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tem. LINK
As you probably already know, the new Council will consist of Eric Bever, Allan Mansoor, Wendy Leece, Gary Monahan and Katrina Foley.
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CHANGES NEEDED AT PLANNING AND PARKS
Hopefully, the majority on the new Council will make a few changes to the Planning Commission and the Parks and Recreation Commission and put in people who will work to improve Costa Mesa. There are just a couple of changes that are needed and most of the Commissioners have been good for improvement and should be allowed to continue on the Commissions.
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GRADING ON MONROVIA
Nexus Development has almost finished its grading work on its site at 1640 Monrovia Ave. in the heart of the industrial Westside Bluffs.
As you may recall, Nexus had planned on building 151 for-sale condos on the site, but because of the drop in the housing market got city approval to rent out some or all of the units until the market turns. According to Nexus, the units will still be built to higher condo standards and the company has said that it does not want to keep them as rentals any longer than necessary.
The CM PRESS believes that this is a good project for the Westside Bluffs and may be seminal.
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TOM MCCLINTOCK GOING TO WASHINGTON
Tom McClintock is one of the brightest and most fiscally conservative bigs in the GOP in California and we're happy to report that McClintock has now won a seat in Congress. LINK
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BARBARA VENEZIA SWITCHES
Barbara Venezia, who used to be the hyperactive (think cuchi-cuchi) part of the late John Crean's cooking show, and who more recently wrote a column for the almost daily Daily Pilot, is now over at the OC Register and The Current penning a new column about Newport Beach and Costa Mesa. LINK
Venezia may be okay on the Newport Beach part of the gig since she lives in that city, but it remains to be seen whether or not she knows much about Costa Mesa.
It appears that the Reg, which like most newspapers has big troubles these days, may be trying a go-local, breezy writing style strategy to get more readers of the dead tree editions and more hits on their website.
Anything is worth a try.
Anything is worth a try.
One problem in Venezia's first column in the Reg today is that she reports that the Costa Mesa City Council will be meeting on December 3.
Ooops. If she actually lived in Costa Mesa, she probably would have known that the correct date is December 2.
Ooops. If she actually lived in Costa Mesa, she probably would have known that the correct date is December 2.
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