Problems in South Placentia

Why is it that the people in the southern section of Placentia--the original part of the city--have so much trouble getting the attention of the Placentia City Council?

What do we have to do to be included as part of Placentia and share in the benefits and services that the rest of the citizens enjoy?

I have lived in Placentia for 68 years and have been interested and involved in the welfare of South Placentia and all of Placentia throughout that time.

Since 1963, I have been trying to get the City of Placentia to do something to slow down the dangerous through traffic on narrow La Jolla Street. La Jolla is a heavily trafficked through street crossing a residential area.

La Jolla and Arnold Drive is a site where the 57 Freeway overpass creates a down-the-hill speed-limit raceway into a narrow residential street.

The other thing I have been concerned about is the old city corporation yard. We in the community have asked the city to remove it from Melrose Street because it is a neighborhood eyesore.

The Placentia council promised to landscape the old corporation yard on Melrose and incorporate it into the adjacent McFadden Park. They didn’t do that at all. Instead, they rented it out to a cable television company, right across the street from homes. That was even a worse blight with all the equipment and cables stacked in the yard.

Meanwhile, the city bought a very expensive property for a new corporation yard and left us with the old one, now full of weeds.

Just what is it we have to do to get even the slightest help with our serious problems? Isn’t the government supposed to represent everyone equally?

LEONEL MAGANA

Placentia