Keep outside food vendors out of Car Show
I want to thank the Seal Beach Chamber for leaving the Main Street alleys open during the car show, so Main Street merchants could still get their customers anddeliveries to their businesses.
However, the Chamber has always said the reason of this event is to promote Seal Beach businesses, to expose people to the great businesses in our town.
So I don’t understand why the Chamber chooses to bring in out of town swap meet food venders and plops them down right in front of local eateries.
On Main Street, no matter what your budget or what kind of food you desire, we have great places for people to try.
Many of us in our community have worked hard to bring in, promote and support our eateries, and these businesses in turn, have supported our community while providing us great food choices.
To bring in these out of town food venders and plop them down in front and block our eateries makes as much sense as if you got rid of all the beautiful cars in the show and replaced them with the trade ins from the Cash For Clunkers program.
Let’s use Main Street businesses to promote Main Street. Kinda makes sense, doesn’t it?
Woody Woodruff
Seal Beach
Good use of eminent domain
I enjoyed your article today in the Sun. I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop regarding this property.
I am very pleased and proud that the city is taking a portion of that DWP property by eminent domain. The driveway to the public parking as well as the bike path should belong to the public. And good for the city for getting a grant to expand and improve the windsurfer’s area, bike path and parking area.
A bit of landscaping would be very much appreciated. In fact, why not take the whole property and make it a park. That is what 75 percent of it was intended to be anyway?
There is no way I would be in favor of changing the zoning for that property. It is unfortunate for the “owners” that they purchased it thinking that they could change the zoning to develop it excessively, (40-70 homes), and line their pockets. Countless residents would be affected by such an undertaking especially the residents of First Street who purchased their homes with the understanding that their views would not be obstructed.
I am a neighbor of that property. I live on Ocean Ave. As it is now I can barely back out of my driveway because people go throughout the stop sign at 1st and Ocean. We don’t need to add 150-200 more vehicles to that area.
Good luck to the city
Maureen Oblachinski
Let them develop DWP
Let me get this straight. A group of [local] investors want to develop and beautify the ugliest property in the city.
They’ve provided a couple, seemingly reasonable plans for approval.
They’ve offered to donate some of the land (that they own) to the city for its use, and, as I understand the article, is looking for the city to pay them a fair price for some other portion of the land, for development of a driveway and bike path.
The city has received $2 Million dollars from the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy to be used towards development of said driveway and bike path.
What on earth could be the hold up!
Whether a hotel, or residential units, the Bay City development will add much needed revenue to the city’s coffers.
The hotel would not only generate occupancy tax revenue, but also be a boon to Main Street and other retail centers, from tourist spending.
Mr. Antos, or the city expresses concern about public access to the parking lot. While I’m not a lawyer, I’m pretty certain that long-standing easement laws require the land-owner to provide access to the lot and River’s End facility. Mr. Antos – Lead, follow, or get out of the way! This is not a group of out-of-town, fly-by-night investors looking to jam up the city and leave misery and heartache in its wake. This is a group of local people, who presumably don’t want to negatively effect their own businesses or property values, by developing this project. Aside from some of the financial considerations, what is the resistance to getting this deal done? The DWP property is an eye-sore. Give them approval, and then get out of the way.
Earick Ward
Seal Beach resident
Tasered in Leisure World
As I understand it, on Wednesday there was a man with a large dog who came into Leisure World without a pass.
He was going to see his grandmother.
He blew off the guard at the front desk and went thru anyway. Security called the Seal Beach police. The guard told the cops he believed the man had a gun on the front seat.
SBPD called in Los Alamitos Police Department and they scoured Leisure World. When they found the residence the man refused to come out. Finally when he did, the cops had to taser him.
That’s all I know.
Hope it helps.
Good luck.
Ike Shatori
Seal Beach Leisure World
