BRENTWOOD PARK ON CITY COUNCIL AGENDA TOMORROW NIGHT
The City Council is expected to vote on a Master Plan for Brentwood Park tomorrow night at its regularly scheduled meeting. LINK
If the Council chooses to simply vote up or down on the various proposals as presented, then the CM PRESS supports the Base Plan without any of the suggested alternative elements. LINK
Generally, however, we have four main thoughts on how the City should handle neighborhood parks throughout the city.
1. The neighborhoods themselves should decide what is right for their neighborhoods.
2. The City should take a minimalist/naturalist approach to plans and not over-plan, over- engineer or over-develop our parks. Stop being anal retentive. Let nature set the direction. Allow some natural spontaneity from nature. Design in such a way that the parks become like self-cleaning ovens instead of requiring constant human intervention and baby sitting to keep them maintained.
3. The City should stop trying to have our parks look as though Costa Mesa is not in a semi-arid area.
4. It costs lots of our money to try to maintain large green lawns in parks where the grass doesn't naturally grow. Go with native plants and landscapes. Nature knows best. Costa Mesa is where it is. Our low rainfall is what it is. Go with the flow instead of against it.
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YOU ARE YOUR DNA AND YOUR DNA IS YOU
Commit a crime and leave your DNA behind--even as a fingerprint--and science can now construct a picture of what you look like. LINK
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ENGINE DIES MINUTES AFTER PLANE TAKES OFF FROM JWA
Plane diverted to LAX for emergency landing. LINK
How soon will it be before a plane taking off or landing at JWA ends up in a neighborhood in Newport Beach or the Eastside of Costa Mesa? How many homes will be destroyed. How many people will die? (Stock photo of aftermath of plane crash into a residential neighborhood).
Come on politicians, get serious about finding a site where airplanes can take off and land safely and which will accommodate the growth in air travel for the next century.
The best location is on a tiny portion of Camp Pendleton. It has everything that is needed. Use the search feature on this blog to find earlier articles in the CM PRESS with all the statistics that indicate why Camp Pendleton makes sense.
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Those are our thoughts. Thanks for reading them.
