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# Santa Monica If it ain’t broke, don’t enhance it
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-if-it-aint-broke-dont-enhance-it-editor/
- Published: 2007-10-10T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:18:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Steven Keats*

As soon as (City Manager Lamont Ewell) arrived, he gassed the squirrels. Now, he’s raised the city’s hatchet against the trees we love. What, or whom, else is on his hit list? All this in the interest of enhancing our shopping experience.

We didn’t ask for having our experience enhanced by (Ewell) or the legions of consultants that that infest City Hall. We asked for less traffic, and we are asking for the Santa Monica we know and love, not the one City Hall keeps trying to sell us.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 10, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101007.pdf?ref=smdp.com)