The most important part of the transformation is the new housing that is going in near The Triangle and West 19th Street.
Watch now as top quality retailers jockey to get space in that area to serve all the new residents who have money to burn, and who--as the Improvers said years ago--will do a lot of walking in that immediate area and who will patronize the right types of businesses.
Watch also as single family homes behind the retail businesses on W. 19th Street start skyrocketing in value as hipsters move in.
Keep the Righeimer Council in charge and we'll have a truly amazing city that we can all be proud of.
But if Improvement obstructionists such as Katrina Foley and Jay Humphrey are elected, they'll try to stop improvement. Now, it's not that Foley and Humphrey are bad people, it's just that they don't understand the dynamics of how you improve a city. They showed that when they were on the council before.
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THE BLACK/WHITE EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED
American Renaissance column worth a read.
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HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO CONSTANTLY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE MAYOR ARE WOMEN?
HERE AGAIN, is a short video (1:41 min.) that may explain this.
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Rerun of our column giving a few of our axioms about cities...
AXIOMS:1. All people are not the same. They differ in abilities, motivations, education, values, world views and so on.
2. A city's quality is directly related to and dependent on the people who live in that city.
3. A city that attracts upwardly mobile, self-reliant, well educated, law abiding people will be a nice city and will have top performing schools, a low crime rate and a high quality of life.
4. A city that attracts downwardly mobile, dependent, poorly educated, non-law abiding people will not be a nice city and will have poorly performing schools, a high crime rate and a low quality of life.
5. Cities compete for residents whether the people in the city understand this or not.
6. Cities can't force people to live in those cities. They must attract them.
7. To attract the best residents, cities must have the look and feel of being high quality.
8. A city must constantly improve its infrastructure and amenities and must constantly try to attract the best retailers and merchants to provide for the needs of the upwardly mobile people it hopes to attract.
9. The demographics of a city can be changed for the better by attracting more upwardly mobile people, who will, in turn, attract more of the best retailers and merchants, who will then attract more upwardly mobile people. This is an upward spiral.
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WOMAN MAKES AN AD HOMINEM ATTACK
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| Laurene Keane speaking at podium |
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| Laurene Keane leaving podium |
At last night's Planning Commission meeting, I went to the podium during public comments and spoke about how the city needs to get rid of the slums to get rid of a criminal element.
As examples of what I was talking about I mentioned the attack on a girl at Presidio Square (in Mesa del Mar) on Sunday, that I reported in the CM PRESS yesterday, and I also spoke about the unsolved murder of a young OCC student who was killed in the Mesa del Mar slums.
No sooner had I spoken than did a woman, named Laurene Keane, who I had never met before, rush to the podium and call me a name and say that she finds the CM PRESS offensive. Huh? Neither of those comments--the name calling and her opinion of the CM PRESS were relevant to anything I had said. They were totally out of left field. I hadn't even put in a plug for or mentioned the CM PRESS during my three minutes at the podium.
At any rate, Keane, if the CM PRESS offends you, all you need to do is not read it.
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ALSO AT LAST NIGHT'S MEETING...GROUP HOMES
The Planning Commission discussed the proposed group home ordinance. I got bored and left before anything was decided, but perhaps the Daily Pilot will have a story about it later.
I did speak on this issue and told the Commission that it was a well done report, but not worth doing.
I suggested that Costa Mesa should simply wait and let Newport Beach go through all the litigation and that we shouldn't jump in with this ordinance and end up with huge legal bills.
The nub of the matter is that the courts want to look at small group homes--the ones with six or fewer residents--pretty much the way they'd look at a normal family home with, say, a family of six related individuals.
So, if Costa Mesa tries to restrict small group homes on some flimsy claim of a negative neighborhood impact such as saying those living in the group homes can't smoke or congregate outside their homes, the courts are more than likely to rule those provisions unconstitutional since there are no such restrictions on normal family homes.
And, again, it appears that the courts look at these small group homes not so much as though they're businesses but as being more like normal family homes, albeit with unrelated people in the homes. So, if the City says they're businesses because they charge for room and board, the courts may counter by saying that it is fairly common with normal families to charge room and board to adult children who live in their homes and those aren't considered businesses in this regard so why is Costa Mesa not treating these the same as the group homes?
I also told the Commission that the licensing Costa Mesa apparently wants to do of these group homes is fraught with all kinds of problems that will lead to discrimination claims if the requirements are too tough or if they simply appear that the intent is to harass the home owners into not opening in Costa Mesa. And, if, by contrast, the licenses are easily obtained, then Costa Mesa has, in effect, given its blessings to the group homes and the group homes can advertise themselves as being approved by the city of Costa Mesa and we might expect even more to open.
One thing that must be remembered here is that above the law is public policy, and the courts seem to be bending over backwards to follow a public policy notion that those who are recovering alcoholics or drug users should be integrated back into society in as normal and as non-institutional a setting as possible--and that means small group homes in regular neighborhoods.
Frankly, I think Costa Mesa's money would be better spent on buying up slum apartment buildings, tearing them down and putting in soccer and other sports fields, rather than on all the law suits we're going to have as a result of this ordinance. We're looking at legal costs of many millions of dollars once the law suits start. Those millions of dollars could be better used to buy up slum buildings, as I just suggested, to help improve our impacted slum neighborhoods.
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Photos of the White victim and the Black puke who shot him.
Also, a video (1:38 min.).
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TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BLACK WHO MURDERED A NINE-YEAR-OLD WHITE KID PLAYS THE RACE CARD
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THE AFRICANIZATION OF FRANCE; MEDICAL DATA SUGGESTS ONE THIRD OF FRENCH BIRTHS ARE NOW NON-WHITE
Genocide of Whites.
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that keane is another designated hit person. they live to denigrate. obviously does not know to not speak on items not under the authority of the planning commission. needs to get a life or go have coffee with the chick constantly talking about the sixtieth party for release of investigation findings. gaszi told her no but she won't listen. all the council approved the party, all the council praised it but the women on council seem to get a pass. why don't they do something for this troubled soul or at least comment on her pleas for info?
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