SPORTS COSTA ' MESA Looking back on Council reduces fees Corona del Mar boys paid by developers PAGl 8 PA(Jf .i Serving the Newport-Mesa community since 1907 ·School changes .coUld mean hectic schedules • With plans to open Rea and Davis as fifth- and comes to logistics. Principal Ned Hall said most par­ For bis part, Pomona Eemen­ the fact that she will have to add "There's a lot of logistical ents seemed less than satisfied tary School Principal Kenneth Kil· another school to her list when her sixth-grade campuses in the fall, some families will issues to be addressed," said Lau­ with the plans for some 125 stu­ lian has seen few people upset son starts at Rea in the fall. Whitti­ have children attending two schools. ra Yourex, parent of ·a soon-to-be dents to start at Davis. But he said about the decision to send about er will have a dramatic c;hange in sixth-grader at Davis and a past­ he's had several "calls about 100 of his fifth-graders to the Rea enrollment, with some 250 fewer to new carpool routes and hiring PTA president of Sonora Elemen­ when school hours are - that's facility. students on campus. By Rachel Fischer, Daily Pilot teachers and support staff. tary School. ~rm not worried the biggest concern [parents) "I think parents feel a little "Having four kids and having Though it will relieve over­ because I live [nearby). ... But have.H more comfortable [because) the them all at d.iff erent schools, it NEWPORT~MESJ\ - In the crowding while trustees search most of us do take our children to Paularino Eementary School older students are going to the doesn't faze me, ~ said Marin, a wake of last week's decision to for permanent school housing, school [by car) ot walk them to Principal Brooke Booth, who will new location," he said, adding Costa Mesa resident who was also open Rea and Davis Adult Educa­ the decision to reopen the two school. We're going to have to see just under 200 of her fifth- and that Rea's location only a half­ on tbs committee that studied the tion centers as fifth- and sixth­ centers as satellite campuses for learn to carpool.• sixth-graders start at Davis this block away makes it "more like issue of student housing. Hit's the grade schools in the fall, .parents older, elementary-leveJ students Basic questions about the fall. noted •there are questions an extension campus." lesser of two evils. 'Jbat'd be and administrators are bracing for from six Costa Mesa schools switch remain unanswered. (from parents) about who the staff Whittier Elementary School great. if we have (children] all a chaotic academic year, adjusting may still spell a hassle when it Killybrooke Eementary School will be.• parent Eva Marin is resigned to together at one school." I I "' I I ", I I> Newport weighs idea of joseph n.bell auto mall • Officials look for ways to compete for sales revenue Another dive with neighboring cities. into water By Jennifer Armstrong, Daily Pilot NEWPORT BEACH - When it comes to revenue-producing busi· district fight nesses in the John Wayne Alrport area, Newport Beach just doesn't ere I go again, letting measure up to neighboring Irvine issues get all muddied up So a conuruttee lS now weigh­ H with people. ing the city's options - including After doing a column a few creating an auto mall, attracting weeks ago in response to the bigger businesses and putting car comments of Dave Ferguson of rental agenoes i.n one central loca­ the lrvine Ranch Water District tion. regarding its acquisition of the The city's Econonuc Develop­ Santa Ana Heights Water Co., I ment Comrruttee has been scruti­ ru.zing the airport area for more was determined not to write than a year but recently hired a about th.is clearly parochial sub­ consultant to study the problem ject again. Enough was enough. The businesses around CdOlpUS Then 1 got a call from two Drive, MacArthur Boulevard, board members of the Mesa Birch Street and Bristol Street JUSt Consolidated Water District sug­ don't generate sales tax revenues gesting r might like to he'ar their Monica Conlon holds a picture of her cat, Oscar, who was killed llke their Irvine neighbors, New­ point of view over lunch. Since I earlier this month on Minorca Drive. Since then, area kids have port City Manager Kevin Murphy seldom tum down lunch and it been working to get signs put up to slow down drivers. said seemed only fair to listen to both "We need to look at the land sides, I was waffling on my reso­ A positive uses out there," Murphy said. lution when a Pilot editorial "He was everybody's cat," The accident has brought Ne,vport Beach faces a few came down hard - very hard - Monica's mother, Lois. said "He neighbors together; some fear obstacles m culling sales tax from the com.merdal land near the air­ on Mesa. I guess that made me went to everybody's house and one of their children could be check them out in person. ate everybody's food." next. A year ago, neighbors port. For instance. speaal land use Nobody could be that bad. CAT-ASTROPHE Lois Conlon said neighbors urged the city to paint 25 mph on restnct:Ions mean builders have to I'll admit I went to the meet­ the pavement along Minorca Dri­ · pay the Irvine Co. tf they want to are now urging the city to place a add on to buildings. Also, the glut ing feeling not at all kindly Children of Minorca Drive neighborhood sign stop sign at the comer of Andros ve, but it did little to slow toward Mesa. I didn't buy into Street and Minorca Drive to slow motorists down. of car rental agencies produce no taxes for the city because their all the diabolical suggestions in petition asking for speed bump or stop sign drivers down. Neighborhood children poked the editorial, but l was irritated yellow and white flowers and an point of sale is at the airport, wtuch A petition circulated in the is county property that Mesa had chosen to step after pet is killed by speeding car neighborhood will be given to American flag into the edge of the curb, nearby where the cat Improving the land uses could into a done deal and'muck it up traffic manager Peter Naghavi mean more offices or more hotels after aUowing it to get to that Story By Susan Deemer • Photo by M a rc Martin along with a petition signed by was killed. They placed half a dozen signs on either side of the - or even an auto mall or a car stage in the first place. And I the neighborhood children rental "mall." Plans won't take was angry that Mesa had COSTA MESA - Nine-year­ speed bumps or a stop sign to The three children who wit· street pleading with motorists to slow down. The temporary signs shape until the corruruttee consid­ opened a legal can of worms old Monica Conlon 's cat, Oscar, slow drivers down. nessed the cat's death were pret­ ers recommendabons. ty shook up, said Yosha Zimmer, appear to be working for now. that could delay the resolution of hadn't come close to living all of "Everybody cried," said Mon­ "We'll see if there is any interest this matter indefinitely and cost his nine lives when a speeding ica in a quiet voice. whose son, Tunmy, wrote the Amanda Chester was one of · by some property owners in everyone involved except the car ran him down last weekend Tears fell from the eyes of both petition and got neighborhood three children who witnessed the bundling parcels," said committee accident and later helped put up lawyers a whole pile of money. on Minorca Drive. children and parents in the children to sign it. member Richard Luehrs, president So that was my stale of mind Oscar was just a kitten when neighborhood when they learned "We really need speed the signs. of the Newport Harbor Area "We did it so that people wtll when I met Hank Panian and he was given to Monica for her of the accident that claimed the bumps," said Timmy, who Chamber of Commerce. "U we do remembers every detail of the slow down," said Amanda, 9 Dana Haynes. Panian, the board fifth birthday, two years ago. Her life of their half Siamese, beige that, all of a sudden it goes from a feline friend with the big blue accident that day. "We don't want "So that the cars won't hlt the veteran, is an American history mom doesn't want her to have couple of attorneys or offices to a another cat unless the city installs eyes. anyone to get hurt or anything." kids." substantial million-dollar sales tax • SEE BELL PAGE 10 generator " .-------------------~-----------------------~-- --------, l\DF'\ NOT SO IRRELEVANT West Newport feels slighted Mr. Irrelevant XXD, who CLASSIFIED .••.....••.11 quarterbacked Army to ltl •While city will spend Ken POUC£ FILES • •.••.... .' .2 belt-ever football record lut $540,000 polishing up the Kuhlmann PUBLIC NOTICES .... ...10 fall, ll ln Newport Beach today wants lo peninsula, West Newport get West SPORTS •••••••.•..••.8 as Irrelevant Week begtna. residents feel they've Newport SURF UPDATE ....... ...2 It'• a week of celebntton for cleaned up, the lut player aelectecl In the become the 'forgotten land.' lnclud.lng \\. 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