NEWPORT BEACH
The Chamber of Commerce is seeing red over an initiative drive to overturn the city’s new traffic phasing ordinance. The Green Light group, a local band of environmentalists, unveiled the proposed initiative last week with plans to gather enough signatures to qualify for an election next spring. They need 7,600 signatures by Nov. 1 to qualify for the ballot.
Richard Luehrs, the president of the Newport Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce, said that while the traffic phasing ordinance has flaws, the business district fully supports it.
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