California Port Shut Down Over Possible Terrorist Threat (Port Hueneme)

FOX News Channel ^ | 26 June 06 | AP

[sionnsar]

Vaguely familiar with it from my time in Santa Barbara.

[stephenjohnbanker]

"I guess that's known as creating job security for city workers, lol."

Nothing tops the 12 years that they tore up and fixed and tore up and fixed Ventura Rd. from Port Hueneme to Oxnard : )

[Bernard Marx]

I missed that one -- don't get out that way often. But it does remind me of an old joke.

What's orange and sleeps 3?

Answer: A Cal-Trans truck, of course.

[merry10]

Are you in Somis? I think those citizens will resist it as long as they can. The new high school - not MOVING the HS - was supposed to be behind LA Workout. Santa Clara HS from Oxnard had wanted to move into the seminary, but the archdioscese did not think that was a good idea.

[stephenjohnbanker]

ROTF! Good one, Bernard.

[Bernard Marx]

I'm in Mission Oaks. I'm not up to speed on the High School but I know it was under discussion for a while until Oxnard refused to give up control. I think it's an issue that won't go away.

Those strawberry fields are just too tempting to developers to last much longer. When I look at all the development in Santa Rosa Valley I know in my bones the Camarillo-Somis corridor is next. I recall the lovely avocado orchards near the RR tracks kitty-corner from the workout center that have been replaced by the ugliest high-density development I've ever seen anywhere. I couldn't be paid enough to live there. And I remember the acres of orange groves owned by the Archdiocese that have been relaced by $1 million + houses crammed so close together they give me claustrophobia. Guess I'm just getting old and cranky.

[Son Of The Godfather]

Nah, not too old and cranky, Bernard... I remember riding my bicycle to Los Altos school on Temple... Had to cut across the field that used to be near the bottom. When I now drive down Pleasant Valley road and see all the new housing tracts by Lewis Rd, I ponder what we will be like in 5-10 yrs time.

[Bernard Marx]

I ponder what we will be like in 5-10 yrs time

Orange County West, as I wrote in the post that started this discussion. As a conservative I strongly favor private property rights and all that implies, including development. But it's the kind of ultra-high-density development that's taking place here that concerns me. I don't understand why people pay a million bucks for a house that's only 15 or 20 feet away from their neighbor. But they do, lots of them, so I guess the Market has decided and I'm the one who's out of step. I'm still stuck in the old-fashioned era when a million bucks was a lot of money!

[Son Of The Godfather]

I'm still stuck in the old-fashioned era when a million bucks was a lot of money!

You and me both, amigo. ;)

[bruin66]

You can always tell Californians - they're the only ones who can pronounce "Hueneme".