Steve Kellenberg News Today

Our Laguna Beach Planning Commission is not the leader in city planning it is meant to be. The presentations and staff reports seem to be arranged to limit the commission’s planning functions—and they go along with it!

Apparently, the Laguna Beach Planning Commission fell all over itself during a recent meeting in which it attempted to ignore the facts and somehow justify the baseless claim that relocating the existing South Laguna Fire Station to the corner of Coast Hwy. and 5th Ave. was consistent with the General Plan.

The Laguna Canyon Foundation is poised to add offshoots to an existing walking trail in the Michael and Tricia Berns Canyon Preserve by next spring.

Two incumbents were reappointed to the Laguna Beach Planning Commission on Tuesday, signaling councilmembers' confidence in the panel amid housing plans.