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| Fiction #1: Trailer Park hired guns say their plan is about creating affordable housing and helping Crystal Cove State Park. |
FACT #1: The Trailer Park plan is really all about a 30-year lease extension for the trailers, beyond the 25 years they’ve already had. |
| Fiction #2: Trailer Park hired guns say their plan generates revenue to replace funds soon to be lost for renovation of the cottages historic park |
FACT #2: The funds for the cottages remain in the state budget because they are Bond Act funds and can’t be used to solve the budget crisis. |
| Fiction #3: Trailer Park hired guns say their plan will help solve Laguna Beach’s need for affordable housing. |
FACT #3: In their plan, affordable housing would not be ready for another 30 years. The city will not be able to use a statewide public resource to solve local problems. |
| Fiction #4: Trailer Park hired guns say a 50-unit apartment complex can be built now for housing for firefighters and teachers. |
FACT #4: There is no room for this in the trailer park. Underground construction would actually be underwater parking because of the high water table. |
| Fiction #5: Trailer Park hired guns say that the State Park Plan will include a "seawall" on the beach. |
FACT #5: State Parks will remove 70 trailers, their support and existing riprap from the beach. New, small riprap will protect a combined lifeguard/ restroom building. Thus there will be fewer structures and a more natural beach. |
| Fiction #6: Trailer Park hired guns claim the State Park campground planned next to the schoolwill bring in ‘transient’ and criminal elements. |
FACT #6: The current list of crimes at the Trailer Park includes Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Assault & Battery, Narcotics, Burglary, and Domestic Violence et al. Concordia Elementary School, next to San Clemente State Beach and its campground have coexisted since 1957 without problems. |