Public Has Biggest Right to Use El Morro Park
Re “El Morro Residents Labor to Stay Put,” Jan. 24:
Here’s one more desperate scheme by the El Morro tenant speculators to extend the state’s already generous lease extension beyond the current Dec. 31, 2004, termination. This time it’s to benefit others: the Laguna Greenbelt and also the California State Parks Foundation (wisely rejected by each). It’s also for the Crystal Cove historic cottages (already adequately covered by recent bond funding). And, of course, it’s for affordable housing elsewhere in the state park; who could possibly oppose this?
The one group it ignores is the general public, who bought the state park with the trailer park in 1979 and has been waiting patiently for the superb campground that will result from an exemplary planning process.
This “wildest yet” proposal by another consulting firm for the tenants should be rejected out of hand by the public and by any elected officials to whom it is directed.
Ed Merrilees
Laguna Beach
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