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Sports park the clear answer to field woes
I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry while reading the story
about the athletic fields at Estancia High School (“Difference in
fields called ‘discriminatory,’” Saturday).
I have a freshman boy at Newport Harbor, and I can’t imagine how
disappointing it would be to see him playing on substandard fields.
Then I wanted to laugh at the idea that the school district is
spending more money at Newport Beach fields than Costa Mesa fields,
considering I just returned home from working all day on a Newport
Harbor High School baseball field.
There are two reasons the fields look different. Number one is the
joint-use agreement has non-high school groups from the city using
the fields, and the city will not do the proper job to repair the
turf. Number two is that Newport Harbor and Corona del Mar boosters
are putting in thousands of dollars of their own money into the
fields, and the fields are used only by high school teams.
I hope at the upcoming elections, tthe residents of Costa Mesa
will vote into office people who will build the sports park that the
city needs, because this problem is only going to get worse.
CHARLIE MASSINGILL
Newport Beach
Habitat project should
be scaled down a bit
Regarding the proposed Habitat for Humanity homes (“Low-cost
housing project stirs neighbors”), here again, it’s a nice,
meaningful project. However, as your paper stated, the project called
for a general plan amendment. How many times do we have to do that?
Of course, it’s nice to have a change to low-density, but to me it
doesn’t sound like it’s low-density. And then also, it’s going to
affect Wake Forest Drive. That’s a nice area now.
So, I would think they would think twice about this. Instead of
having the great number of houses, perhaps they could scale the plan
down to have fewer homes. That would probably work better, and you
wouldn’t have the neighbors being put upon. I know the plan sounds
like a good idea, but when you disrupt the lives of the people who
live in the neighborhood, I don’t think that’s right either. It just
depends on how you look at it, I guess.
The need is so great for housing, but also you just can’t
disregard the existing neighborhood. Who knows what the outcome will
be, but it addresses the needs of the neighbors first and then the
project.
JUNE MCKINZIE
Costa Mesa
Marinapark timeshares won’t improve the area
I cannot agree with Alan Silcock that a hotel and timeshares at
Marinapark would provide an excellent improvement for our city (Daily
Pilot Mailbag, Sept. 12). Is it legitimate or even principled to take
land that is in city ownership -- land that belongs to the city
taxpayers -- and give it to a developer for his private enrichment?
West Newport is already many acres short of what it should be for
recreation/environmental open space. No on Measure L is the only
responsible vote that should be cast on Nov. 2.
LOUISE S. GREELEY
Newport Beach
Newport ought to
take care of its own
Regarding “Difference in fields called ‘discriminatory’” in the
Daily Pilot Saturday, real discrimination is the very existence of
the Newport- Mesa Unified School District. Plainly, it is not the job
of Newport taxpayers to subsidize those who choose to live and breed
in Costa Mesa.
Forcing Newport taxpayers to pay for the education of kids from
Costa Mesa is an outrage. It is pure Marxist creed -- from each
according to his ability, to each according to his need.
This injustice foisted on Newport taxpayers by closet communists
in Washington D.C., as a means of income redistribution, is morally
and politically wrong. It behooves Newport to stand up to the
socialists in D.C., and tell them to keep their handouts, reject and
dissolve the combined school district, and develop a Newport-only and
Newport- funded school district. Our kids would benefit from this
demonstration of courage and backbone.
WILFRED KNIGHT
Corona del Mar
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