By Geno Schotte
Santa Monica does not need a shady-canopy urban forest in the Downtown business district. If you want a shady-canopy urban forest, go to a park. Then you can lay down your blanket with your picnic basket and enjoy your shady-canopy urban forest. Downtown requires a different style of beautification. A beautification that will draw tourist and shoppers which is in progress at this time if the construction workers were left alone so they can do their job. Jerry Rubin, instead of trying to run for City Council should run for president for the Critical Mass bike riders. This would show that he is a true principled, peaceful, stalwart member of the community
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 11, 2008. Read the original PDF.