Laguna Beach beach use curfew idea folds

From Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot, written by Barbara Diamond, Friday, July 10, 2009

 

 

United opposition of divers and residents on Tuesday scuttled a proposal to close city beaches between 10 or 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

 

No one from the public spoke at the City Council meeting in favor of an agenda item sponsored by Mayor Kelly Boyd to direct staff to work up a curfew for North Laguna beaches, which he verbally expanded to include all city beaches bordered by residential neighborhoods. The audience in the Council Chambers stood and applauded when Boyd withdrew his recommendation.

 

“I got a petition from a neighbor to close the beach, but I plead with you not to do that,” said Crescent Bay resident Pamela Horowitz, also known as Pamela Lawrence. “I’d find it a sad situation.”

 

Horowitz said she enjoyed strolling to Crescent Bay early in the morning or at night, sometimes just to watch divers and would consider it an imposition if her walks were curtailed.

 

“I even went to the dive shops and asked them to do something — we don’t want our beaches closed,” Horowitz said.

 

If the curfew were approved, residents and visitors would have been banned from those beaches during stipulated hours.

 

To read more, click the following link: http://coastlinepilot.com/articles/2009/07/21/top_stories/cpt-beachcurfew071009.txt

 

 

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