Opponents of Pierside Village Plan Are Feeling ‘Sandbagged’
We have a Coastal Commission to protect the coast, right? How come this commission’s members are playing “no big deal” and turning their backs on protecting the environmental beauty (what’s left) of Huntington Beach’s coast?
Could it be there’s a big deal of green (and I’m not talking grass and flowers) among the Huntington Beach City Council, developers and the Coastal Commission?
Ask a first-grader to problem-solve the following: There’s a patch of land that has one building, walkways and some flowers and grass. Now if you put two more big buildings and a parking garage on the same patch, what will happen? I think every first-grader would reply: “There will be more water and air pollution, overcrowding and land erosion.”
How come the Coastal Commission can’t figure this out? Or don’t the commissioners want to, for reasons of their own?
SUE DOMINGUEZ, Huntington Beach
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