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Laguna Beach maps parking plan for day labor site
May 14th, 2008, 4:30 pm · 1 Comment · posted by Amy Taxin

Here’s the latest filing from Laguna Beach by the Register’s Christa Woodall:
Laguna Beach City Manager Ken Frank said today that workers at Laguna Beach’s day labor center will be allowed to park in a nearby city-owned lot for free.
The Act V lot, which opened last summer, sits a few hundred yards up the canyon from the hotly contested site. Frank said he met with the state’s Caltrans director in Sacramento, who expressed concern about workers running across Laguna Canyon Road from where they now park.  To fix that, workers will be able to park in the lot for free during morning hours. The going rate to park in the lot is $10 a day.
Day laborers are not the only ones who can park in Act V for free, Frank said. Groups like Laguna College of Art & Design have used it to park guests for events in the past, and groups that charter city buses like Annaliese’s School also park there. “If somebody wanted to park out there and carpool into town, we wouldn’t charge them either,” he said.

E Garcia Says:
May 15th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Ken Frank has announced he will allow the day laborers to park in the Act V lot for FREE!
Parking problems and cost have been the number one issue for Laguna Beach in surveys year after year. I don’t get to park for free, you don’t get to park for free, the tourists don’t get to park for free, the beachgoers don’t, the art festival patrons don’t. Why do the day laborers?
Ken Frank states here that he will allow them to park for free in the “mornings”. Is free parking going to be restricted to just the mornings? So, what happens when one of the guys gets work for the day and doesn’t return until the evening to get his car? Does it get towed? Ticketed? What? And if he is allowed to park there for the day does that mean everyone gets to park for free?
Can beach goers park there the entire day for free? That would be a great deal! Park for FREE, jump on the FREE trolley bus that takes you to the beach. Don’t worry about getting up to feed the meters every few hours. Stay the entire day, jump back on the FREE trolley and pick up your car.
What is going to happen when the art festivals open and the tourists have to mingle with the day laborers or the day laborers begin to loiter around the tourist’s cars? Will Ken Frank then section off a special area just for the day laborers? Maybe with velvet ropes or something? Kinda like the way he spent $10,000 of our city tax dollars to install that drinking fountain at the day labor site.
I’m sure the ACLU will be notified and there will be a debate as to whether it is legal to allow a select group of people (those that Ken Frank approves of) to park for free. I have a feeling the Act V parking lot will have to be turned into a “Free For All” lot.
And of course opening that lot up for free parking will take away one of the city’s revenue generating tools. Is protecting day laborers (most who are in the country illegally) and encouraging illegal hiring THAT important to Ken Frank and the city of Laguna Beach?

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This is an IMPORTANT issue for ALL Americans, but especially for those living and paying taxes in Laguna Beach.

Please see a letter from Caltrans to Assemblyman Chuck DeVore regarding the pending sale of the day labor site land to the City of Laguna Beach:

http://www.betsyrosspatriots.com/Documents/DOT_Letter.pdf

In this letter you will find Will Kempton, Director of Caltrans (the same guy who denied the SDMM their Litter Removal sign) states that part of the sale agreement is to address the issue of the day laborers parking across the street on Caltrans land and then darting into traffic to get to the hiring site.  You can see photos of this here:

http://www.betsyrosspatriots.com/index.php/site/photo_report_congressman_campbells_staffer_witness_to_dl_crimes/

Kempton states that the options to address this are “The City is proposing to use available City parking north of the day labor center site and to restrict on-street parking across the highway. These options will reduce the need for pedestrians crossing Laguna Canyon Road to access the day labor center.”

According to State Senator Tom Harman, who met with Kempton, the City of Laguna Beach is proposing allowing the day laborers to park in the Act V City parking lot, (I am assuming they will be allowed to park for free, although that parking lot charges $10 per day to everyone else.)

In addition, there was a conversation about the City of Laguna Beach being required to pay for Caltrans to build a “deceleration lane” for drivers approaching the day labor site, to slow traffic in case of pedestrians on the shoulder.  I have spoken with an engineer at Caltrans and have been told this lane will cost the City of Laguna Beach $50,000!!!

Surveys conducted in Laguna Beach year after year have revealed the biggest problem for residents and tourists is the parking situation.  The current parking meters charge $1.50 per hour and many residents conduct business in outlying cities due to the strain of finding a parking space and the high cost to park in town.

BUT, the City is now proposing to allow the day laborers to park in our city’s Pay-to-Park lot AND quite possibly being allowed to park for FREE!!!

There is also the possibility the City of Laguna Beach will pay out an additional $50,000 for the deceleration lane.

WHEN ARE THE PEOPLE OF LAGUNA BEACH GOING TO WAKE UP???

WRITE LAGUNA BEACH’S CITY COUNCIL:

http://www.lagunabeachcity.net/government/council/officials.htm

The city of Laguna Beach will be asking the Federal government (FEMA) for $33 MILLION dollars!!!

LAGUNA BEACH IS A SANCTUARY CITY WHO DEFIES FEDERAL LAW, BUT NOW
WANTS $33 MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT???

The city of Laguna Beach has proven itself to be a SANCTUARY CITY again and again. Not only have they funded a Day Labor site for 10 years that knowingly aids ILLEGAL ALIENS, they spent $75,000 of taxpayer’s money to defend the site in a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch.

In addition the city of LB encourages illegal activities at the day labor site as evidence in the following report:

http://www.betsyrosspatriots.com/index.php/site/photo_report_congressman_campbells_staffer_witness_to_dl_crimes/

The city of LB has proven it is a Sanctuary City, thumbing it’s nose at Federal law by inviting in and protecting illegal aliens. You can see some of this proof in the photo report below:

http://www.betsyrosspatriots.com/index.php/gallery/category/C27/

ACTION MUST BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY to see that the city DOES NOT receive ONE DIME in Federal money.   If they wish to defy the Federal government by aiding and abetting illegal aliens then they do not deserve Federal dollars!

Call or write YOUR Congressman AND Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. 

The Congressman for Laguna Beach is John Campbell.   His contact info is below.

WE MUST STOP THE CITY OF LAGUNA BEACH FROM GETTING OUR TAX DOLLARS!

Congressman John Campbell
Orange County Office:
610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 330
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone: (949) 756-2244
Fax: (949) 251-9309
Washington Office:
1728 Longworth Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5611
Fax: (202) 225-9177

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Landslide costs now at $35M; city may pay up to $9M

Repairs almost complete but final tally of costs still undetermined, city manager says.

By Barbara Diamond
Updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 5:41 PM PDT
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Costs to repair Bluebird Canyon after the June 1, 2005 landslide have ballooned to $35 million, and city officials aren’t sure how much of that will be paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The city will submit a request to FEMA for $33 million for the Bluebird Canyon and Flamingo Road restoration, Laguna Beach City Manager Ken Frank told the City Council Tuesday.

“It is 99.99% done,” Frank said of the repairs needed to restore the area after the landslide. “The total cost will be $35 million — give or take. FEMA has cleared most of the cost overruns already. Flamingo Road is the only one that has not been cleared and it is the biggest.

“We probably will have an announcement by this fall. My best guess is that it will cost the city $2 million. The worst case scenario would be $9 million.”

Laguna’s share of the restoration costs will be paid from the Measure A one-half cent sales tax increase approved by voters. Frank said the city would have about $4 million in the bank by June 30.

The FEMA decision will be put before the Measure A Oversight Committee, which will make recommendations for the expenditures.

— By Barbara Diamond

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