From Huntington Beach Mayor Pro-Tem Joe Shaw:
Happy New Year everyone!
I wanted to share the following extremely important and timely information about Bolsa Chica— I’m hoping you’ll take action and share it with others:
Help Stop the Ridge Project
We’ve already saved a large portion of the Bolsa Chica wetlands.
Yet there remains an 11-acre site with sweeping views of Orange County and the wetlands. Notably it is also the site of native civilization that goes back 9000 years — predating Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids.
The previous city council approved the Ridge Project — actually changing the zoning from open space to residential — without an Environmental Impact Report and in addition violating their own Local Coastal Plan.
The California Coastal Commission will determine the fate of a portion of this important resource on Jan. 8 in San Diego.
The developer, Signal Landmark, wants to build 22 homes here — forever destroying this rare and precious site.
9000-year old Native American cogstones from the Bolsa Chica mesa.
This development will destroy more of our open space and critical wildlife habitat and will destroy one of the last remaining Sacred Sites for the Native American people.
If you would like to write a letter in response please send it to:
California Coastal Commission
Attn: Meg Vaughn
200 Oceangate #1000
Long Beach, CA 90802-4316
All letters and postcards should be received at the Commission office by Jan. 3, 2014! [that’s Friday, so write ’em today and mail ’em first thing in the morning! – Ed.]
If you can attend the hearing on Jan. 8 in San Diego, the Bolsa Chica Land Trust will provide transportation — please call their office at (714) 846-1001.
Happy New Year!
I sincerely hope your Holidays were merry and full of cheer!
I’m excited that I had the opportunity to visit my mom and dad, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles in Oklahoma and had a wonderful holiday. But I am sure glad to be back in sunny Huntington Beach!
Here’s to a truly great 2014!
Joe Shaw
Mayor Pro Tem
Huntington Beach
joe.shaw@surfcity-hb.org
714-858-0599
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HB Mayor Pro-Tem Joe Shaw (with Bartender Kyle) delivering Christmas presents for the children of overseas military, at Johnny’s Saloon. Pic by Vern.
stop the bag tax
Or maybe, just get a few canvas bags like the rest of us. The rest of us who care about keeping our beach clean.
i moved to HB in 1967 and the beaches seem as clean today as then. those canvas bags will get you sick eventually as they get as nasty and smelly as your hat.. ten cents to get a paper bag? ridiculous. HB will lose sales tax money on this although most groceries are not taxed. know many here who go outside the city to shop, gladly spending two bucks on more gas to save eighty cents on bags just due to the principle. hopefully there will be another alternative to haul around groceries. Plus, my bird loves to have a paper bag on the bottom of his cage. maybe get rid of the oc weekly and save all that wasted paper? Or charge ten cents for it too and any other newspaper. why did they have to go after food buyers? seems like a regressive charge, hurting the poor the most.
I’m confused as to why the meeting for Bolsa Chica concerns are to be held in San Diego…..?
Coastal Commission is a statewide board that has its meetings all over the state.