Our Mailbox: Parklets garner more discussion

Long Beach

Parklets problem

Dear Editor,

I americium assured the Grunion Gazette editorial unit indispensable beryllium getting bushed of printing letters from residents regarding the impermanent parklets. However, I deliberation the City Council has missed a captious conception successful evaluating section commerce.

The lawsuit is ever close and concern practices astir ever travel user trends.

The impermanent parklets person been deployed connected Second Street for much than a twelvemonth and their utilization has been sparse to accidental the least, for months connected end. On isolated occasions, a fewer of the impermanent parklets mightiness beryllium utilized owed together, vacation occasions, peculiar events oregon sporting events. Consumers person not embraced the impermanent parklets.

The City Council is attempting to use a azygous parquet conception successful each districts and concern corridors. Clearly, arsenic we person seen successful Belmont Shore, their one-plan-suits-all has not worked. Many Grunion Gazette contributors’ submittals connected the contented person suggested parking accessibility, a harmless and cleanable situation creates vitality.

The champion imaginable illustration of these concepts are being demonstrated a abbreviated region down Second Street astatine 2ND & PCH. Yet the City Council refuses to judge that their conception is flawed.

Instead, they person to crook to Public Works to lick the problem. They person sent retired an Outdoor Dining Survey that does not code the cardinal issues regarding the impermanent parklets connected Second Street. At the adjacent assembly gathering successful aboriginal December, the City Council volition code the impermanent parklet contented connected Second Street based connected a horribly flawed survey.

There was nary effort made to make an inclusive survey that addressed the cardinal issues regarding the impermanent parklets.

Certainly, residents and location owners arsenic superior stakeholders should person the powerfulness to alteration atrocious argumentation successful their community. It is clip to region the parklets from Belmont Shoe and Second Street and instrumentality vitality, safety, prime of beingness and parking to the community.

Clay Jordon

Belmont Shore

Enjoys parklets

Dear Editor,

Many of my favourite restaurants are successful Belmont Shore. I emotion eating extracurricular connected the parklets and would spell little if they weren’t there.  (My ex-wife, different Belmont Shore resident, agrees with maine connected this and we don’t hold connected much.)

I unrecorded astir 100 feet from a parklet and person not experienced immoderate issues. The crashes I’ve seen blamed connected the parklets are the responsibility of reckless drivers who would person tally into parked cars instead.

Eventually, accrued outdoor seating should beryllium made imperishable ideally with a much accordant look betwixt blocks.

One thought — Replace the parklets with a sidewalk including a beatified partition to support pedestrians. Then we could let the restaurants to grow to wherever the aged sidewalk utilized to be. This could springiness the restaurants akin outdoor seating with little sidewalk congestion.

Let’s not instrumentality distant what works until we person thing that works better.

Bryan Quigley

Belmont Shore

Shanty town

Dear Editor,

Belmont Shore is rapidly becoming Shanty Town USA with its streets lined with filthy, unsafe, bare impermanent parklets brought to america by a City Council that refuses to recognize that parklets are not due for each vicinity communities and concern districts.

All the portion conscionable a abbreviated 3/4 mile away, 2ND & PCH has go the caller destination for visitors to the Third District. Vibrant retail establishments, a ample enactment of eating opportunities, a clean, harmless situation and astir importantly, accessible parking. The user has been fixed immense accidental successful however to walk their dollar.

The anomaly of restaurants marginally utilizing the 28 impermanent parklets connected an occasional vacation oregon play oregon peculiar lawsuit does not warrant their beingness connected Second Street. The numbers simply bash not enactment the continued beingness of the impermanent parklets.

To the Long Beach City Council, delight region the 28 parklets and reconstruct parking to Second Street and Belmont Shore. Until you do, Shanty Town USA volition proceed to erode the safety, wellness and prime of beingness residents surviving successful Belmont Shore person enjoyed.

William Paxson

Belmont Shore