Leave at least part of the canyon...

Leave at least part of the canyon green

The greenbelt around Laguna Beach will be further damaged if the

city moves the corporate yard to the ACT V parking lot.

Right now ACT V is not heavily used and it is seldom full thus its

impact on the surrounding native plants is minimal. However, moving

all, or most, of the city maintenance, trucks, buses and cars with

very heavy daily use will seriously degrade the ecology of the

canyon.

Many Laguna and Orange County residents have fought hard for the

open space in the canyon. In addition, the city government, the

county government, the Coastal Commission plus at least four major

Laguna organizations (The Laguna Canyon Foundation, the Laguna Canyon

Conservancy, the Laguna Greenbelt, and Village Laguna) have all

fought to hold down development in the canyon.

Actually everything on the left-hand side (leaving Laguna) of the

canyon road should be left green. But so far on the left we have the

Festival of Arts grounds, an electrical power station, the art school

and the parking lots for the Wilderness Park.

Please, let’s not use the left-hand side any more or it will start

to look like the right-hand side. Don’t move the city maintenance and

vehicle storage facility to ACT V.

EDWARD FRY

Laguna Beach

Surfrider shouldn’t support RV park

As parents of children at El Morro Elementary School, we would

like to know why the Surfrider Foundation is supporting a

recreational vehicle park next to our school?

Since when are they in the RV camp business, much less the

business of safety for school children? What they should be doing is

preventing a seawall at El Morro Beach, but they can’t even get that

straight.

MICHAEL AND

KATHLEEN KAYLOR

Laguna Beach

El Morro plan could be housing answer

I have lived in Laguna Beach since the mid 1970s. Throughout the

years, the subject of affordable/workforce housing has been actively

discussed, but never on the scale of what El Morro Village has

proposed in its alternative plan.

A community of teachers, artists, seniors and the city’s emergency

and public safety personnel living together at El Morro is an

attractive idea and would provide a nice balance for Laguna.

JODY HOY

Laguna Beach

Resolution not the job of our council

“Should the City Council approve a resolution to end the conflict

in Iraq?” (Coastline Pilot, April 4)

No. Our City Council has plenty of work to do on issues that they

can truly make a difference on and that they are directly responsible

for here in town.

If the council just has to be heard, take five minutes and present

a resolution in support of the troops and maintain city employee

compensation at normal levels should any city employee be serving in

the military (if they haven’t already done so), and wish them a safe

and speedy return to their families.

ROB PATTERSON

Laguna Beach

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