Laguna Canyon: Bargain Buy or Waste of Money?
Political analysts tell me I’m supposed to be against Measure H--the proposal to buy more than 2,000 acres of Laguna Canyon.
Demographically, I should be in the anti-camp. I’m 68 years old, living on a fixed income, plus a couple of bucks from free-lance work. My wife plans to retire from her job by Dec. 1. Naturally we’re supposed to watch our dollars and vote against anything that adds to our tax bill.
We watch our dollars, sure, but we also look for bargains. Like this one. For less than 20 cents a day, we end up buying much of Laguna Canyon and saving it from development.
We receive an awful lot for those few pennies. Cleaner air to breathe. A safer Laguna Canyon Road. Uninterrupted access for wildlife. Hundred-year-old groves of oaks and sycamores untouched by developers’ bulldozer blades. The Greenbelt, its last link in place.
And I get all this for a measly $60 or so a year.
Hey, I’m rich!
ARNOLD HANO, Laguna Beach
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