Parking enforcement answer for Southeast I would...

Parking enforcement answer for Southeast

I would like to respond to the question of revitalizing Southeast

Huntington Beach. The solution is as plain as the 38-foot RV parked

across the street from your house. Enforcement of parking laws

already on the books would bring in revenue through parking citations

and make our neighborhoods more attractive. I live near Yorktown

Avenue and Brookhurst Street. Boats, RVs and big commercial vehicles

stored on the streets, moved only to the local school parking lots on

street sweeper days, is the norm rather than the exception.

The northeast corner of Yorktown and Brookhurst has become a

weekend used car lot, as has the nearly vacant strip center at the

northeast corner of Adams Avenue and Brookhurst. I urge people not to

patronize merchants who take old vans, paint their ads on the sides

and abandon them in strip center parking lots and on street corners.

What about broken down old cars that sit in the driveway or lawns

year after year?

All that I ask is that our Police Department enforce the law as

diligently in this area as they do in others. We pay a lot of

property taxes to live in this wonderful city and as sure as the

taxes go up every year, so do the number of eye sores we have to look

at as we drive the streets.

PAUL WISDOM

Huntington Beach

Positive debate good for the Southeast

I would like to start off by mentioning that I regret being too

hard on one of Southeast Huntington Beach’s leading citizens, John

Scott.

The exchange of views among community members following Scott’s

own Sounding Off article last month has certainly elevated interest

in the affairs of our part of the city.

The latest rejoinder by my esteemed yet crusty Southeast neighbor,

Glenn Woods is, of course, the exception rather than the rule to the

good residents around here (“Southeast members are the problem, May

1). He criticizes me like he knows me (which he doesn’t). It seems

Woods’ diet includes far too many sour grapes.

Ultimately, nothing good will come of the negative attitudes

expressed by naysayers who can only criticize and complain about

affairs in which they refuse participation. Luckily, there are many

committed citizens in Southeast Huntington Beach who take a

constructive view of working with the city and other agencies to

ensure a better future for our neighborhood.

TIM GEDDES

Huntington Beach

City shouldn’t appeal Howard Jarvis ruling

No way should the city appeal the court ruling regarding Howard

Jarvis. As to our mayor, who was elected by less than 10% of the

eligible voters, she needs to get out among us and find out what we

really think.

RAY SHARPE

Huntington Beach

Debbie Cook was right in her criticism

For my money, Councilwoman Debbie Cook’s decisions are right on.

The people who declare she was violating the intentions of our

forefathers when she began to omit an invocation before the council

meetings are confusing the forefathers with the Pilgrims, who were

indeed religious. Not so the forefathers, Jefferson, Adams, Madison,

Franklin, et al., who were children of the Enlightenment and mostly

Deists instead of Christians. They believed complete separation of

church from state was vitally important in a democracy and would be

totally in favor of what she has done. She is also right, as is the

editor of the Independent, in what they say about yellow ribbons on

city vehicles.

JEAN BROOKHART

Huntington Beach

Our family, residents of Huntington Beach for more than 30 years,

fully agree with Debbie Cook and her courage to ask the questions

that need to be asked and not be intimidated by the right wing types.

Thank you for to opportunity to comment.

HAROLD GREEN

Huntington Beach

I strongly support Debbie Cook’s opposition to the idea of

covering our city with yellow ribbons. Yellow ribbons mean different

things to different people. To some, the yellow ribbon is simply a

demonstration of support for our troops. To others, the yellow ribbon

is a sign of support for the war and the current administration.

Because of this ambiguity associated with the yellow ribbon, I

believe public institutions should stay away from putting them up.

One thing is for sure, we all want our brave soldiers to come home

safely. What a yellow ribbon represents to each individual citizen is

something far less certain.

ADAM BERNSTEIN

Huntington Beach

I could not believe the hateful, hostile and disgusting e-mail

that has been sent to Debbie Cook by the “California Young Americans

for Freedom” regarding the yellow ribbon fiasco.

Debbie is one of the most intelligent, free thinking people we

have ever had on the City Council. We were lucky to have her as

mayor. Debbie is one of the few who has the courage to stand up for

her convictions and always has.

The manufactured state of fear we are now living in makes it

difficult to speak the truth. Any one who speaks up against this

administration is castigated and labeled un-patriotic. What utter

rubbish. A patriotic person is one who thinks and is informed and can

criticize the government when they know it is wrong. This used to be

a free country, not any more.

If yellow ribbons are put up to support the troops then black

ribbons should be put up for the Iraqi women and children. This war

was based on lies; it was illegal, immoral and insane.

MIKE SHRUBSOLE

Huntington Beach

I support Debbie Cook’s criticism of the yellow ribbon, and not

only that but Danette Goulet’s “Editor’s Notebook” article was

excellent and that I think swung me particularly. She is a good

representative and everything you point out is true.

LOIS WHELAN

Huntington Beach

I absolutely agree with Debbie Cook’s criticism of the yellow

ribbon campaign. If people want to decorate their private property or

vehicles with a yellow ribbon, that is fine but not on public

property because not everyone may agree with it, not that I disagree

or agree. But Cook should not be vilified for her statements on the

issue.

ARLENE NEWCOMB

Huntington Beach

Cook’s sentiments are way off base

Finally, Debbie Cook is having to answer to her anti-God,

anti-America actions. I am so disgusted and discouraged that people

voted for her, but maybe at that time they didn’t realize what they

were voting for. She doesn’t like America, she doesn’t like God and

it is what our country stands for. And I am fearful that Huntington

Beach has this type of a person involved in it because God can’t

bless what people try to pull apart and I just pray that people

never, ever vote for her again and that she will just be swept under

the rug where she belongs.

ROSEMARY COWELL

Huntington Beach

Long Beach plane monitoring useless

I think monitoring the flights in Long Beach will be totally

useless. Already they have said that they know their flights are

1,600 feet and living underneath the flight path in the Edwards Hill

area, I can verify that some of those flights come in or leave as low

as 500 feet or maybe 700 feet. I think an independent observer with

someone with a device to measure the altitude would be much more

useful. I think being able to track flights is cute and fancy but I

think it is not useful. I think what would be more useful would be

able to call in on flights and complain about low flights so they

actually get a registration of how many flights are annoying their

neighbors.

JIM DELLORUSSO

Huntington Beach

I am a pilot and I do flights out of Long Beach Airport. I do not

think that the monitoring system for flights into Long Beach will be

helpful. They go over the property in this area at 1,600 feet. But

there is a solution, maybe this can be brought up to the Long Beach

committee. If the weather is good, they could certainly go about a

mile and a half to the north which would take them to the Los

Alamitos air space and it is just open field, there is nothing there

and that will cut down on the noise. Unless the weather is bad, in

which case they would go this way because the instrument lining

system is pointed in this direction but on a visual approach, they

could fly a bit to the north.

AJAY SINHA

Huntington Beach

If you complain, then quit using it

After reading yet another letter complaining about aircraft

approaching Long Beach Airport (Mailbag, May 8), I have come up with

the perfect, universal solution to airport noise.

Anyone who complains about airplane noise is not allowed to fly.

Anywhere. From any airport. After all, if you can’t tolerate

airplanes over your own neighborhood, you have no business flying

over anyone else’s neighborhood.

Judging by the number of people complaining, this rule should

greatly reduce air travel and cut down on noise. This same idea can

apply to all the other prices of civilization that annoy

hypersensitive NIMBYs. If you object to power plants, then you get no

electricity. If you sign a petition against oil drilling, then turn

in your driver’s license. And I dare anyone to speak out against a

sewage treatment plant.

I know my plan would encounter minor obstacles, such as the First

Amendment, but it’s still fun to think about.

FREDERICK SINGER

Huntington Beach

Desalination plant is a good idea

Yes, [the desalination plant] is a good idea. It helps save the

Colorado River and it prompts a local economy improvement and also

shows great foresight among our city leaders. So yes, let’s have a

desalinization plant.

BOB STUART

Huntington Beach