Fight for the Coast Has a Proud History
Lynda Sapiro Moon’s June 24 letter (“If It Weren’t for the Coastal Commission ... “) should be required reading. She could add that the old Orange County Coast Assn. did yeoman duty in the ‘50s by forcing freeway planning inland so as not to split Seal, Sunset, Huntington and Newport beaches in two and spoil the beaches.
It also helped those cities find a way via the state Legislature to get rid of the old Pacific Electric tracks that ran along the beach between Seal Beach and Newport Beach.
It also helped in its fruitless effort to get from the Legislature changes that would return to “localities of origin” a substantial portion of the royalty revenue the state gets from offshore oil and gas production.
I was Seal Beach representative in the Coast Assn. and look back with pride on what we did and also what we stopped.
Some of us went to Sacramento to lobby for the bills we got our senator, John Murdy of Huntington Beach, and assemblyman, LeRoy Lyon of Fullerton, to carry for us. Orange County was closely knit in those trying times.
Willard Hanzlik
Seal Beach
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