“What concerns me is the polarization...

“What concerns me is the polarization that they created in the

last election. [Greenlight’s] one council member who was elected,

Dick Nichols, is supporting placing two baseballs fields in our Back

Bay regional parks. Is that what Greenlight stands for?”

-- Tod Ridgeway, Newport Beach councilman, on concerns he has

about Greenlight’s involvement in city politics

“Now you can conform to every code and design standard, then fall

into a subjective design compatibility discussion. Beauty is in the

eye of the beholder.”

-- Gary Monahan, Costa Mesa councilman, on the need to create

stricter guidelines for second-story homes

“The one thing about agriculture is, it is all about life, and

sometimes there are diseases and sometimes there are things we have

to do that don’t make for the best educational experience and we have

to deal with it, and we’ll make that part of our learning for young

people.”

-- Becky Bailey-Findley, general manager of the Orange County

Fairgrounds, on including Exotic Newcastle disease, which affects

birds and chickens at the fair, in educational programs

“We are completely opposed to what they are doing. They are trying

to steal a public park ... Every time we turn around, the people in

the trailer park have another proposal.”

-- Susan Smartt, president of the California State Parks

Foundation, on the El Morro Village Community Assn.’s plan that

combats the state parks’ plan to provide more public access

“I can’t say this with 100% certainty, but I’m as sure as I can be

that no Newport Coast resident has ever used that library.”

-- Jim McGee, a Newport Coast resident leader, on the fact that

Newport Coast dollars have been used to fund an Aliso Viejo library