Lawsuit Over?

So back in January, the residents (as the Concerned Citizens of Newport Beach, Inc.) decided to effectively sue themselves (actually the City of Newport Beach) for $250 million dollars (please use your best Austin Powers affect).

Well, Friday, they dropped the lawsuit.

While I was wrangling cats (actually, my toddler children), I thought long and hard about this and what I thought about it.

So I read and re-read the OC Register article and the Daily Pilot article in an effort to form an opinion.

First, according to Assistant City Manager Dave Kiff, the City of Newport Beach spent $100,000 of the taxpayers dollars to defend it (meaning $100,000 more will have to be borrowed to build stuff the City may or may not need)

But on the other hand, the Concerned Citizens of Newport Beach spent probably 4 times that (if what I've heard is correct) getting to where we are today.

So Half a Million bucks was spent...and where are we today?

Is the City of Newport Beach and it's residents better off because of it?

I'm not too sure...

The City is trying to settle it's own little spat with Sober Living by the Sea, using closed rehab homes as part of it's "Before Settlement" bed count.

So the bed count probably isn't dropping much...

In fact, if one can find a Silver Lining in the Sober Living by the Sea/City of Newport Beach "arrangement" it's that Sober Living by the Sea will be forced to spread it's bed count into other parts of the City.

What does this mean?

Read this carefully...

The City of Newport Beach is making Sober Living by the Sea take beds from the Balboa Peninsula/War Zone and put one of their Rehab Homes NEXT TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO LONGER WILL THIS BE A NIMBY ISSUE.

Welcome to our fight Corona Del Mar, Newport Coast, Santa Ana Heights, Balboa Island, and to all the other "Villages" in Newport Beach.

So Concerned Citizens of Newport Beach is going to essentially re-boot it's message and tackle the City without Lawyers and Lawsuits.

and the City of Newport Beach will be helping their cause by distributing Sober Living by the Sea's beds to previously unaffected areas of the City.

But it'll only be close to 50 beds.

So congratulations Corona Del Mar residents...

Congratulations Newport Coast residents...

Welcome to the Club.

The Club of the Institutionalized Neighborhoods.

The Club of having 12 "Handicapped" (according to the ADA) people living next door to you and your children.

...and now we'll see the Nimby mentality gone.

Don't believe me?

Next time you see your Councilmember, ask him/her if this is possible?

And when he/she responds that they won't allow it to happen in their District, ask him/her how they can stop this juggernaut to happen, after all...it's allowed to be anywhere with "Reasonable Accommodation" thanks to the Federal and State Government.

More to follow...I'm sure...