HUMPHREY CONCEDES
Figured he couldn't make up the 47 vote lead of Righeimer. A wise choice. Humphrey has actually been one of the politest opponents of the Righeimer Council over the past couple of years.
But, politeness does not improvement make and what Costa Mesa needs right now is more improvement.
This means we need people on the council--such as Mayor Righeimer and Mayor Pro Tem Mensinger--who understand real estate; and especially retail real estate which involves demographics much more than other types of real estate.
In retail real estate, professionals have to find the right mix of tenants to make shopping centers and shopping streets (such as E. 17th and now W. 19th) develop a synergy that benefits all the retailers and attracts customers. And in doing this, and doing it right, residential neighborhoods backing up to commercial areas benefit in increased property values as people move in to be near the "hip" shopping areas. And, in doing it right a city is transformed. Crime goes down. Property values go up. Schools improve. Quality of life rises.
Humphrey, Leece, Foley, and Genis have no retail real estate experience. It's Greek to them. They are useless as far as improvement goes. They just don't have the right knowledge or perspective to understand how you shape a city for the benefit of the citizens.
The lack of knowledge of retail real estate was made abundantly clear by now fromer Councilperson Wendy Leece's constant carping about how Righeimer and Mensinger et al. should publicly tell everyone all the nitty gritty of their activities at the ICSC (International Conference of Shopping Centers). Folks, that's not the way the retail real estate biz works. It's a relationship business. Deals are made based on friendships, trust and confidentiality. Don't get it? Suppose you're a CEO of a major chain of stores and you meet the mayor at the ICSC and the mayor convinces you that you should open a store in Costa Mesa. Well, you have competitors who might like to know what you're planning. If they find out, it may ruin your plans and cost you millions of dollars. Leece apparently doesn't understand this.
Righeimer and Mensinger understand it, and to a lesser but on a more personal level so does Monahan. That's what we need on the council.
And, just as an aside, did you read that two more young men have been shot in Santa Ana, HERE? It's almost a nightly occurrence in that city just north of us. Improvement will keep Costa Mesa from becoming a new Santa Ana. It's about demographics, folks. People matter. Be a city that attracts upwardly mobile people and we all benefit. Be a city that attracts downwardly mobile people and we all suffer.
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MAYOR RIGHEIMER WARNED COSTA MESANS THAT WE WOULD HAVE MANY LAWSUITS OVER SOBER LIVING HOMES
And two lawsuits have now been filed. More to come. Count on it.
A city has to be very careful with a protected class of people and laws have to be carefully crafted so that there is no discrimination.
Keep in mind, as we've written before, the courts look at sober living homes as though they are the same as regular family homes. So, if you write laws and apply them to sober living homes, you also have to apply them to regular family homes or you're more than likely going to lose in court.
The legal difficulty is in trying to distinguish between sober living homes and regular family homes in a way that the courts will find meaningful. Just saying that the residents of the sober living homes aren't related is not going to fly. So, what is it that distinguishes sober living homes from regular family homes that the courts will accept as a reason to close them down or limit them in some ways?
Well, Costa Mesa is saying things such as the residents smoke outside or that they make noise or that they swear or do other things that disrupt the neighborhood and the quiet enjoyment of the residents of adjacent properties. And, while these claims may be true in some cases, we're not sure the courts will find them sufficient; simply because these behaviors can also be found in regular family homes and no one is shutting them down or telling the owners that they can't let people stay in those homes.
You see the problem.
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IMPROVEMENT THOUGHTS
The Westside Plans are working well, now we'd like to see the new Righeimer Council start coming up with some creative ideas to thin out or remove the functionally obsolete military barracks style slum apartments found in Mesa del Mar, North Costa Mesa and over near Wilson--just to name three areas that really need some improvement.
By creative, I mean the council might...
a) Offer super incentives for private developers so they can afford to buy, tear down and replace some of the slum buildings with modern, desirable housing--maybe even with single family homes to replace the decrepit and over crowded slum apartments.
b) Plan to put in some more sports fields right where they're needed by buying up slum buildings on the open market and assembling parcels until large enough contiguous pieces can be put together to become sports fields. Perhaps a public/private partnership might be needed to get over various legal hurdles, but life is all about overcoming obstacles.
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DAILY PILOT REWRITE OF THE CITY PRESS RELEASE THAT WE RAN YESTERDAY ABOUT 18 BEDS FOUND IN A GROUP HOME THAT SHOULD ONLY HAVE 7 BEDS AT MOST
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THE WORLD...
OREGON--YOUNG WHITE FOOTBALL PLAYER STABBED TO DEATH BY HISPANIC WHO MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY
Photo of the White kid who was stabbed to death with the above article.
C'mon White people, start taking care of yourselves and start looking out for your own best interests.
YOU, are always responsible for your personal safety. You can always delegate some of your authority to the police to protect you (which is what we do in society), but you can never delegate your personal responsibility.
It's your life, Whitey, protect it. You only live once.
There are too few of us on this dark planet. If you don't survive, you can't make more like us, and that's not a good thing.
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ABOUT SELF-PRESERVATION--From Wikipedia
Self-preservation is behavior that ensures the survival of an organism.[1] It is almost universal among living organisms.[citation needed] Pain and fear are parts of this mechanism. Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future.[2]
Most pain resolves promptly once the painful stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but sometimes pain persists despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body; and sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, damage or disease.[3]
Fear causes the organism to seek safety and may cause a release of adrenaline,[4][5] which has the effect of increased strength and heightened senses such as hearing, smell, and sight. Self-preservation may also be interpreted figuratively; in regard to the coping mechanisms one needs to prevent emotional trauma from distorting the mind (see: defence mechanism.)
Even the most simple of living organisms (for example, the single-celled bacteria) are typically under intense selective pressure to evolve a response to avoid a damaging environment, if such an environment exists, or to thrive in a benign environment (for example, a marine sponge modifies its structure in response to current changes, in order to better absorb and process nutrients).
Self-preservation is therefore an almost universal hallmark of life. However when introduced to a novel threat, many species will have a self-preservation response either too specialised, or not specialised enough, to cope with that particular threat.[citation needed] An example is the dodo, which evolved in the absence of natural predators and hence lacked an appropriate, general self-preservation response to heavy predation by humans and rats, showing no fear of them.
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[CM PRESS COMMENT: Whites are easy victims of non-White violent criminals because most Whites have been raised to believe all people are the same and will act and react as Whites usually act and react. This false belief equates to the "novel threat" mentioned in the immediately preceding paragraph and causes Whites to act and react much like the dodo, which is to say, Whites often seem incapable of picking up on social cues and signs of danger and are thus easy victims.]
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IS LEFTY POPE DESTROYING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND TURNING IT INTO A CHURCH OF WHAT'S HAPPEN' NOW BABY?
Pope seems to be trying to make the Catholic church conform to whatever is trendy right now. Conservatives in the church not pleased.
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THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE (including Costa Mesa)
Dr Nikola Tesla said that "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration".
Yup.
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EBOLA RAGES ON, BUT SEEMS TO HAVE FALLEN OFF THE FRONT PAGES OF THE PRESS
Just a few months, maybe even weeks, ago, Ebola was front page news just about every day. Now it seems to be cloistered in less read areas of the media.
Maybe this is just natural--story fatigue--but I have to wonder if some in the MSM are actually being paid off in some way to do just the reverse of product placement with Ebola; which is to say, bury the stories and don't assign any reporters to write about it.
When I lived in NYC, one of my day jobs was PR/advertising/marketing related and my office was in a building with similar firms. One of the PR firms had an account with an airline company.
One of the duties of that PR firm was killing or burying stories about parts (including engines or major parts of engines, apparently) falling off planes in international travel. They accomplished this via their friends at the major newspapers. If stories did run, they were way back in the papers and were small and written in non-sensational ways to minimize the problem and not cause panic among air travellers.
So, is something similar happening now with Ebola suddenly leaving the front pages of dead tree newspapers and the Internet?
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IS LEFTY POPE DESTROYING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND TURNING IT INTO A CHURCH OF WHAT'S HAPPEN' NOW BABY?
Pope seems to be trying to make the Catholic church conform to whatever is trendy right now. Conservatives in the church not pleased.
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THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE (including Costa Mesa)
Dr Nikola Tesla said that "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration".
Yup.
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EBOLA RAGES ON, BUT SEEMS TO HAVE FALLEN OFF THE FRONT PAGES OF THE PRESS
Just a few months, maybe even weeks, ago, Ebola was front page news just about every day. Now it seems to be cloistered in less read areas of the media.
Maybe this is just natural--story fatigue--but I have to wonder if some in the MSM are actually being paid off in some way to do just the reverse of product placement with Ebola; which is to say, bury the stories and don't assign any reporters to write about it.
When I lived in NYC, one of my day jobs was PR/advertising/marketing related and my office was in a building with similar firms. One of the PR firms had an account with an airline company.
One of the duties of that PR firm was killing or burying stories about parts (including engines or major parts of engines, apparently) falling off planes in international travel. They accomplished this via their friends at the major newspapers. If stories did run, they were way back in the papers and were small and written in non-sensational ways to minimize the problem and not cause panic among air travellers.
So, is something similar happening now with Ebola suddenly leaving the front pages of dead tree newspapers and the Internet?
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