NEWPORT BEACH
After only six weeks, proponents of the Traffic Phasing Ordinance initiative have turned in more than 10,000 signatures to the city clerk in an effort to put their measure on the November ballot.
“Greenlight got 10,250 and it took them over six months,” said former Mayor Tom Edwards, who co-authored the countermeasure. “I’m feeling as positive as I can feel.”
Edwards and another former mayor, Clarence Turner, drafted the measure, which proposes to make Newport’s traffic law part of the city charter and nullify the slow-growth Greenlight initiative. If the measure gets the 6,750 valid signatures it needs, it will appear alongside the Greenlight initiative on the November general election ballot.
The Traffic Phasing Ordinance, touted by proponents as the toughest in the county, requires developers to pay for road improvements to prevent traffic congestion.
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