Mailbag - March 4, 2000

Was I reading correctly the article about Fairview Park (“City hustling

to develop plan for Fairview Park,” Feb. 17) once again being victimized

by the Costa Mesa park planners? What is there about the word “no” that

these impostors don’t understand? The N or the O?

[Costa Mesa parks Supt. Dave] Alkema is a double talker. He says he

intends to make the park natural and then calls “weeds” all the

beautiful, natural wildflowers planted by God.

We, some homeowners around the park, just happen to like the way God has

planned the park. I remember when sheep grazed on the hills, a serene

scene for bustling Costa Mesa.

The park planners have already ruined a goodly amount of the park’s

acreage with a fenced-in bathroom facility that nobody uses and that cost

the taxpayers millions of dollars.

Please cut off the state and federal fat so we can once more become a

free nation.

Let’s begin by getting rid of surplus planners, inspectors and all other

busy bodies who take up the working people’s time. We have to attend

meetings, write letters and constantly be on the watch to protect

ourselves against the imposers on our freedom.

MARIE KOLASINSKI

Costa Mesa

Resident objects to Dunes applause

In Sharon Esterly’s applauding of the Newport Dunes proposed hotel

(“Resident applauds Dunes project,” Feb. 22), she neglects to mention the

negative environmental effects to the local community that this project

will impose.

The very bulk of the four-story buildings and three-level parking garage

will destroy the present atmosphere and views of a half-dozen neighboring

communities. There is no way mitigation is possible to solve this

enormous problem as stated in Newport Beach’s Planning Department

reports.

The worst case in this point is the imposition of the proposed

35-foot-high parking garage and the service roadway planned to face the

patios, decks, windows and doors of Mayflower Street homes in Bayside

Village.

The quality of life these residents enjoy will be destroyed as the 45,000

square feet of meeting space is set up and filled with throngs of guests

entering through the middle of this community. Additionally, being

adjacent to the back of a massive hotel will decrease our property

values.

In light of the above, I heartily disagree with Easterly’s statement in

the letter that she is convinced of the Dunes’ commitment to maintain the

highest quality of life in Newport Beach. Maybe we don’t count because we

are just a mobile home park.

ROBERT L. BALEN

Newport Beach

No more traffic, please