If you’ve been thinking about getting involved in local matters, 2020 is the year to do so. And here are just three reasons why:
- Sacramento has mandated that our city zone for an unreasonably large number of new housing units, and residents
and stakeholders will need to mobilize in response. - The City will move forward with efforts to update our General Plan and address a regional housing crisis.
- Citizens of Newport Beach will elect three council members in 2020.
Line in the Sand, a volunteer-run, community-supported grass-roots organization can’t tackle these important issues alone. We depend on you, our supporters, to attend meetings in numbers too large to ignore, write letters to our city leaders and to the press, and to provide financial support through donations large and small.
Working together in this way we can achieve our common goals of protecting and preserving the residential character of the Newport Beach we call home. We have an impressive record of doing just that! Let’s continue this momentum through 2020.
“…further growth is far more likely to be the problem than the solution for today’s communities. Urban growth is not something to be sought after like a prize or a blessing. Instead, it is more like a parasite that saps the strength and will of our communities…”
From “Better, Not Bigger – How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community”
by Eben Fordor
General Plan Update Resources
Still Protecting our Newport: General Plan Update
General Plan Update Website: NewportTogether.com
City of Newport Beach: General Plan Update
Our Goal:
Effect Positive Change Together
Preserving our beautiful town and residents’ right to participate in that endeavor has been our focus and yours since the last General Plan Update in 2006.
It was not until 2014, when Measure Y proposed a major expansion of Newport Center, that we saw the need to form a standing Political Action Committee to carry out SPON’s mission of preserving and protecting the residential and environmental qualities of Newport Beach. What began as the No on Y Committee became Line in the Sand PAC (LITS).
Shortly after it was formed, LITS had to mobilize against a plan to build the Museum House condo tower in Newport Center. We gathered 14,000 signatures on a referendum petition in just 14 days as the Christmas holidays approached. This was a huge success and firmly established us as a force to be reckoned with.
Our belief, shared by more and more communities and experts, is that continued, piecemeal growth of density, mass and height is unwanted and undesirable.
It takes a village to save a village . . . and time and again we have helped each other succeed in doing just that.
This Needs to Change
Join Us in the Conversation
Enough
We need to draw that line in the sand that says “this far and no farther”?
Disregard for the Public
Why are our City officials chipping away at the very things that are important to those who chose them to lead? Why is this happening?
Ignoring Policies & Guidelines
Why do our City officials allow never‐ending exceptions and modifications to our planning policies and guidelines, effectively allowing developers to dictate height and density allowances?
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This is especially important as the City is preparing to embark on its General Plan Update process which will formalize the vision of Our Town for years to come. We cannot afford to overlook or underestimate this opportunity. We must work together to find common ground on the vision of Our Town.
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