Allan Pilger

Letter: Meaningless $44.5 Million Debt

January 30, 2012

In the late 1990s the City of Mission Viejo approved an $85 million bond issue, including principal, interest and fees for attorney’s, bond sellers, consultants, and accountants. The money was used in a redevelopment project to build two parking garages as part of the Shops of Mission Viejo renovation in the late 1990s. In a [...]

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Letter: Cities’ Customer Satisfaction Surveys

January 16, 2012

Mission Viejo and Laguna Niguel are affluent, family-oriented cities with strong public safety, upscale homes and neighborhoods, excellent schools, and quality parks and recreation offerings. Parents work hard to maintain their homes, homeowners associations mostly take care of neighborhoods, and public school districts provide perhaps the best education in the state. Abundant parks and recreation [...]

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Letter: MV Was Poster Child For Redevelopment Abuse

January 4, 2012

When the California Supreme Court last Thursday upheld the abolishment of redevelopment agencies, it offered up a rare victory for conservative activists in the state, including Larry Gilbert of Mission Viejo. Gilbert became a leading redevelopment opponent statewide starting about a dozen years ago when he exposed the myth about “blight” along the Crown Valley [...]

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Letter: Street Beat

December 28, 2011

The  City  of  Mission  Viejo  several months ago contracted for extensive asphalt patchwork and crack sealing in an east-central neighborhood, but left many deep cracks untouched. The neighborhood is south of La Paz and west of Felipe Rd.-Olympiad Rd.   There is no indication any pavement was removed for large-scale re-compacting of subsoil and aggregate before [...]

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Letter: Dispatch Enters Fifth Year

December 4, 2011

A  few  months  ago, a Mission Viejo Dispatch reader pointed out that the term “California Promise,” the original community slogan, is mentioned from time to time by long-term residents (like myself). But the slogan is not familiar to people like her who moved here more recently. It was the type of Dispatch comment by a [...]

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Letter: Recent Repaving Revisited

November 23, 2011

Mission  Viejo  citizens  should  be  outraged  at  the botched resurfacing job last summer on Corralejo and three nearby streets just east of Lake Mission Viejo. A sloppy coat of slurry sealing laid during this summer’s repaving project in northeast Mission Viejo is wearing off into a grainy film with noticeable tire tracks. Also: Cracks that [...]

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Letter: City Improving Street Repairs

September 19, 2011

The  City  of  Mission  Viejo’s  recent  repair  of Esgos, a cul-de-sac in my neighborhood, indicates major upgrading of the City’s street maintenance program. Contractor crews cut away and resurfaced a 60-by-30-foot square section of the crowned center so they could compact the underlay that had become saturated in the past two rainy seasons through an [...]

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Letter: Residents’ Forum

August 30, 2011

The   Mission   Viejo   Dispatch   has   welcomed   many  new readers in the past few weeks, particularly with ongoing coverage of religious expression in the classroom, which spawned dozens of thoughtful letters from readers who listed their names. New readers are encouraged to include the Dispatch as a web Favorite to view regularly. In addition to community news [...]

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Letter: Postal Home Food Drive Saturday

May 13, 2011

My mail carrier says the Mission Viejo Post Office is all geared up for a big haul on Saturday. That blue plastic bag you received in your mailbox is your opportunity to help feed hungry people, estimated at 20 percent of Orange County residents, including children and senior citizens. US Postal Service and the Post [...]

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Letter: Street Banner Addiction

May 2, 2011

   The City of Mission Viejo’s twisted priorities of  frivolous spending over infrastructure funding clashes head-on at the intersection of Oso and Marguerite where a slope tree in dire need of trimming blocks out an expensive banner promoting last weekend’s Arts Alive Festival.    The  bottom  of  the  banner  appears in the photo, taken from the sidewalk, [...]

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