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The CotoBuzz Journal Community Journalism, Newsletters and Blogs Covering South Orange County, CA |
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March 2007 Issue We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and the Coto de Caza Board of directors and report the facts!
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Coto de RiverRock to save water: OC Register-The Only Time You Have Too Much Fuel Is When You're on Fire! February
9, 2007 According
to the February 9, 2007 issue of the OC Register, the
Coto de RiverRock look is to save water.
Some of the arguments presented are: "It was hard to irrigate properly and was dangerous for the gardeners", said Devin Sanders” a landscaping consultant with Mosaic Landscaping. Perhaps the association can pay for “roadwork training” for Mr. Sanders – say, by sending him to Tokyo to see how roadwork is performed, safely, in extremely tight places - or if budget is an issue, just send him to any Sushi Bar in the area! "It
started as a landscape issue because the plants and
grass were always dying there,"
said Lott Steffer, with Mosaic Landscaping – You
mean, plants and grass need to be properly watered?
The same consultants who advanced the notion of
free $45,000.00 trees, and the Arizona look, more
appropriate for the exotic gardens of Eze
(France) than a bucolic Coto de Caza?
“Cars driven on Coto de Caza Drive were accidentally driving
over the narrow medians, tearing up the grass and
constantly breaking sprinklers”,
said John Bernards, a member of the Landscape
Committee Mmmm…let’s see, if cars are accidentally
driving over the medians, is the problem the medians
or the driver? – Perhaps this is what the Flight
Rules published by the Australian Aviation Magazine
meant when it stated “The propeller is just a big
fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start
sweating”! “
The river rock used is native to the area. According
to Sanders”
- Seems like the initial settlers missed the
mark and instead of calling the area a hunting
preserve (Coto de Caza), should have called it
Coto de Arizona, or at least Coto de Pesca
(river fishing preserve). "It
will hold up better than plants to vehicles, Sanders said” - A
profound statement indeed, rivaled only by the Flight
Rules as published by the Australian Aviation
Magazine: “In
the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum
going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going
zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose” -
no wonder the Coto de Caza board of directors
uses nothing but highly paid consultants –
“Don’t try this at home, strictly for use by
highly trained and highly paid professionals”! This
reminds us that during the first 2005-2006 Coto de
Caza board meeting, a freshman director was willing to
spend 10% of the budget on “irrigation
remodeling”, or that Keystone Pacific failed to
respond to repeated questions dealing with handling of
Maxicom, the water conservation system, or repeated
calls to repair leaky valves. So,
for a “lessons learned”, we need to fall
back on the Australian Aviation Magazine Flight Rules
one more time: “Learn
from the mistakes of others.
You won’t live long enough to make all of
them yourself”
The only problem is that the river rock is not in keeping with the over all design scheme in Coto which starts right at our gates. We have flat stone accents fronting our gates and just about every tract along Coto de Caza Drive . Someone would have to have rocks in their heads to not see the scheme of things. And, had flat, colored, stamped concrete been installed to look like the matching stone all over Coto, it could also been used for two foot mow strips. Gosh, I guess these high priced Consultants that cost a lot of dollars just don’t have any common cents. What is worse is that we have incompetent CZ Board Members who must be deaf, dumb and blind since they allowed the Consultants to make the mess in the first place. It is just one more Varo/Mezger fiasco of many and still counting. Joe Morabito Since I am very familiar with rockscaping used extensively in Las Vegas, I was surprised to see the rocks installed in the median strips of Coto were not placed evenly, but instead had a very jagged appearance. Now I realize that must be to discourage those wayward drivers who constantly drive over the median for fear of causing a flat tire. What a plan! Jan Jan: But that is exactly the point, there is no plan with this current incompetent CZ Board. There is a design scheme in Coto that was just ignored when those river rocks were installed. And, those ragged rocks cannot be used for a mow strip; hence the two foot dirt mow strips in some of our medians. Is anybody with any common sense minding the store? It would appear not. Joe Morabito Anyone with little to no powers of observation, who has driven Coto de Caza drive lately, can quickly realize that the landscaping/ hardscaping along the drive lacks a consistent, coherent theme, and is more a hodge-podge of ugly solutions arrived by highly priced consultants, more consistent with the proverbial horse designed by a committee, ending instead (of a horse) with a camel! – Coto de Camel Drive has merit! - Buzz RELATED STORIES Coto
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