INSTANT UPSCALE CITY--JUST ADD WATER!
(DIG OUT COSTA MESA'S SILTED-OVER BAY)
Take a drive down PCH into Huntington Beach and cast your eyes over the area near the Santa Ana River and our Westside Bluffs and the bridge further north on Victoria.
What's that area that is mostly full of dirt and scrub brush look like to you?
Right. It looks like a basin--a bay-- a bay that has been silted over.
And, that's what it is.
The area below our Westside Bluffs starting at about Victoria Street on the north, PCH on the south and the Santa Ana River on the west is a silted over bay. That area should be full of water, not dirt. I mean, where are we? The desert?
We've got the ocean right next door to Costa Mesa and some "leaders" in this city are acting as though we're a thousand miles inland as they push various projects that they claim will improve our city, but which often means turning our back on our greatest natural asset--the ocean.
That silted over bay should be dug out, and the ocean should be allowed to reclaim that dusty bowl. Then, the present bridge across the Santa Ana River at PCH, which connects up Newport to Huntington Beach, should be made longer and raised high enough for the passage of boats.
If the dig is done correctly, Costa Mesa's bay can be a self-flushing and self-cleaning wonder that will secure our city as a true ocean community. This will lead to increased property values, more revenues and a nicer city.
A lot of newer citizens of Costa Mesa are probably unaware that Donn Hall, who now sits on our Planning Commission, is a former mayor of Costa Mesa and that he's the guy who spearheaded a marina plan a couple of decades ago--only to have the plan squashed on a two to three vote as the liberals on the council killed the marina.
Before that vote, the marina seemed to be a done deal. That's why we have a neighborhood in Costa Mesa near Victoria Street that is called Marina Highlands and why there's a landlocked part of Newport Beach at the end of West 19th Street called Newport Terrace. Those neighborhoods are there because there was going to be a marina full of water right next to them where now there is just dirt.
Instead of improving our city back then, the libs worked overtime to turn Costa Mesa into the landlocked illegal alien sanctuary city that you see today.
Well, this is a new day. With the advent of the improvers and their success in our elections, the marina/bay/beach idea can be given new life.
It just takes some political will and some smarts to get the ball rolling.
Here's the City Council's email address in case you want to tell the Council to start digging our bay (Note: This blog's software has kept this email address from being clickable in the past, so if this happens just cut and paste it into your own email address book and use it from there).
"CMCouncil@ci.costa-mesa.ca.us"
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