Those against Pacific City are few Let’s...

Those against Pacific City are few

Let’s put things into perspective. Pacific City will help

Huntington Beach by bringing in money through tourism and shopping.

It will also make the area much more pleasing than the large dirt lot

that occupies the area now. I look forward to walking over to Pacific

City and getting a coffee while looking at the surf. It seems to me

that only a few people want this project stopped and they are loud

about it, so it seems like many. I wish people would stop hiding

behind environmentalism for their own self-interest. I say build it.

BOB BAUERLEIN

Huntington Beach

Leipzig and Murray offer key support

Vic Leipzig and Lou Murray deserve credit, kudos and any other

attention you could lavish on them! Without their column over the

years, the plight of the Bolsa Chica wetlands would have been unknown

to us newbies.

I’m a seven-year Huntington Beach resident and have supported the

Amigos for years. But those two brought the Bolsa Chica to the public

in a very personal and informed way. Many kudos and ovations to them

both. Merry Christmas!

DEAN LIVINGSTON

Huntington Beach

We need principles, morality in City Hall

There isn’t a large hotel, or department or other large chain that

this City Council will reject. Brick by brick Huntington Beach is

being reduced to nothing more than a city that now looks much like

its neighbors -- shame. The character and history of this city along

with its location could have done much better than the 20-plus years

of for-profit city governance.

Petitions seem to mean nothing in town as the Wal-Mart’s of the

world still come in -- even across the street from one of our most

gracious cemeteries.At what point does the City Council and the

Planning Commission take seriously that notion of a social contract

with residents? The trust of the people of this community is not to

be spent on a few insiders or those notions that bigger is always

better.

As I read the weekly paper it seems we need politics with

principle and commerce with morality.

BOB SPERRING

Huntington Beach

The erosion of Huntington Beach’s ethical and moral political

foundation is a diabolical disgrace. Unless conditions radically

change good residents, who seek support and connection with their

community in order to survive a future filled with challenges, can

expect to be greeted with a continued pattern of disrespect and

indifference.

RHYS BURCHILL

Huntington Beach

City shouldn’t give title companies a deal

I wonder how the city can grant a special deal to the title

companies for $10,000 but they want to charge the individuals

$20,000. I’m not involved in it but I think they’re in partisan in

this venture. Somebody ought to crack down on the council in that

regards.

JOHN OLSON

Huntington Beach