There is at last some reason to celebrate in Santa Ana. Our writers have hinted recently that the ill-conceived Renaissance Plan has been suspended while city planners try to do what so many in the public have been asking them to do. Fix it.
Now our friend Steven Greenhut, over at the O.C. Register, has weighed in with his take on the halting of the Renaissance Plan and the implications of this development. His editorial is written beautifully in layers, such that I cannot excerpt it without taking away some of its meaning. So here it is in its entirety:
George Washington Carver, the former slave who developed multiple uses for the peanut as a way to alleviate poverty in the rural South, liked to relay this story: “I went into my laboratory and said ‘Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?’ The Creator answered, ‘You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size.’
Art:
I enjoyed Greenhut’s read, but Senator Correa had nothing to do with the apparent defeat of the RSP.
We have our own Mayor to thank and Gustavo Arrellano. If Gustavo had not publicized the fact (followed by the LA Times) that the Mayor’s muffler shop was conspicuously exempted from the RSP, the Mayor would not have pulled the plug on the RSP.
What’s most shocking about this is that the City spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this plan, and the Mayor chucked it out the window as soon as the heat was turned up on him.
My anger is directed at the Mayor for wasting taxpayer money on a specific plan that he supported so much he had to have his property and business specifically exempted. What a sham!
#1..You are right and wrong…Yes Gustavo helped..But the Industrial businesses getting together with the residents in the area did most of the work.They went to ALL the meetings and showed the Council they were not going to back down to get what was right put into the RSP.They all rallied together, talked with Senator Correa that is why the RSP is on hold for now.
It was a group of people that did this, not just one man. You need to realize that.
The Senator was extremely helpful in the efforts.
Does it get any better than this?
The future of the City in the hands of three junk metal dealers, low income housing advocates, and an idiot from the Register
Art, what do you do for “the revolution”? Sit at your computer and rant on the blogs?
#3, you really need to do your homework and learn about what the Industrial businesses in this area of S.A. really are. “Junk Metal” you could not BE more incorrect in that statement.
Anon 1: You’re too kind, but…
Anon 2: is right. Reporters just put facts out there; it’s up to angered citizens to do something about it. Mike Tardif, Bob Adams and many others deserve all the praise for getting the Renaissance Plan held.
Anon 3: So I take it you’re of the end-justifies-the-means crowd? You like conflicts-of-interest when they match with your worldview?
Anon 4: And what’s so wrong with Art doing the very thing for which you lambaste him so?
Poster 4,
One of the biggest problems in our city has been how the powers that be cover everything up. This blog is dedicated to UNCOVERING what they are up to. You can call it ranting. I call it informing the public. And an informed public is one that cannot be taken advantage of as easily as Ream and Pulido have done so in the past.
Art,
There would be no problem if you simply informed the public. The problem with you is that you make too much stuff up and have little factual documentation to back it up.
Your blog has lost so much credibility over the last couple of months because of you. You quest for sensationalism trumps your quest for the truth.
Art P is Santa Ana
When Mill turned his back…
When Art el al got kicked off commissions…
When the people stopped listening…
Orange Juice has “jumped the shark”!!