Mailbag: Measure Y would reduce traffic citywide

The general plan is Newport Beach’s master plan. About every decade it needs updating and approval by voters to ensure that it reflects today’s realities and remains effective at protecting our quality of life.

Measure Y builds off the success of the last update in protecting the city’s uniqueness and charm.

Measure Y will:

• Reduce future traffic citywide, adding to the 28,000 daily vehicle trip reductions approved by voters in 2006.

• Protect the environment by providing funding for water-quality improvements in the Back Bay and lower bay and require developers to use landscaping that conserves water.

• Help fight future flight traffic at John Wayne Airport by maintaining current development limits.

Measure Y will preserve our quality of life in Newport Beach. It will reduce traffic, protect our environment and limit growth, and that’s why I support Measure Y.

Joe Stapleton

Newport Beach

The writer is a Newport Beach harbor commissioner.

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Lido looked prettier in pink

Re. “Lido Theater’s new color has some residents seeing red,” (Sept. 4): As the expression goes, I thought the balcony would always be open.

My mother, Miriam Pope, saw movies at the Lido, as did her son, my brother, Butch Pope, his wife, Marilyn, and their children. Butch Pope, sitting in the balcony, could share his bag of treats with the audience below.

The colors at my dentist’s office are more inviting than taupe and brownish gray to dark, yellow brown.

Who is Smokey Robinson? Will he sit in the balcony and share popcorn with seats below? Looks as if the balcony is closed.

Diane Putman

Costa Mesa

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A John Wayne Airport couplet

Don’t Look Up At Jets:

Pilots see the freeway lanes curve,

Don’t look up here or you will swerve.

Al Wonders

Newport Beach

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Stop running campaign pieces

The Daily Pilot is supposed to be a newspaper, with the emphasis on the word news.

For the last couple of months, the emphasis has been on printing candidates’ “commentaries,” when in fact they are political statements by politicians running for office and hit pieces against their opponents.

They are not reported by Daily Pilot staff, as they should be. These are free campaign pieces printed for a candidate’s own benefit while subscribers, including me, are paying to read what they have to say. This is wrong, and the Daily Pilot needs to quit running these types of “commentaries.”

Jane Hilgendorf

Corona del Mar