Thanks pageant and Tivoli Terrace Big thanks...

Thanks pageant

and Tivoli Terrace

Big thanks go to the board of the Festival of Arts and June

Neptune of Tivoli Terrace restaurant for providing a wonderful

evening for more than 80 veterans on July 12.

Every year the Laguna Beach American Legion Post invites

hospitalized veterans from several different hospitals and homes as

far away as Barstow to attend the famous Pageant of the Masters and

have dinner at Tivoli Terrace. Our fellow veterans never fail to be

amazed and appreciative of this special Laguna Beach hospitality.

Thanks so much.

RICHARD MOORE

commander

American Legion, Laguna

Beach Post 222

Politician wearing one too many hats

Coastal Commissioner and City Councilwoman Toni Iseman last

Thursday proved the old adage, “Two votes are better than one.”

DENNIS MYERS

Laguna Beach

Change doesn’t have to ruin Pottery Shack

On July 6, I watched with despair as the City Council approved 3

to 2 the renovation of the now-deceased Pottery Shack.

Regardless that a number of locals offered sound reasoning as to

why the project should not be approved without adequate parking, it

was approved.

Now we are faced with a retrofitted Disney-esque facade, glutted

with market umbrellas where there once was pottery. It will be a

make-believe pottery shack that may not even be called the Pottery

Shack without the essence of what was once called the Pottery Shack.

One of the council members suggested a study be made on the

parking problem. There is no doubt in my mind that if such a study is

made, one of the first facts to be recommended will be “no new

construction to be approved unless there is adequate parking.”

It has also been stated that if the project was not approved, a

monstrosity would appear in its place. Does anyone believe our Design

Review Board would approve such a project?

A block away is Haster Grove, where Pete’s Laguna Nursery used to

be. This property was elegantly restored without the loss of one

parking space. It can be done.

PETER LEIBFRED

Laguna Beach

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