Harbor View Parents Up In Arms

“What’s Up” was contacted yesterday by angry parents of students at Harbor View elementary school regarding the construction of a “giant T Mobile  tower “ bordering the school property at 4343 Pickwick Circle, near the intersection of Saybrook and Heil.

According to our contacts neither the parents nor the school officials had any notification that such construction was even contemplated until Wednesday (April 23) and at that time they were told construction would begin the following day.

There were considerable neighborhood concerns regarding the environmental impact of the tower on the school and the community. A meeting was scheduled last evening at the school with school district officials,  Harbor View officials the Mayor and angry parents.

Whether the tower construction is right or wrong we don’t know at this point, however, the perceived “secrecy” surrounding the construction smells of the many “midnight” diggings and existing wetland area  destructions that haunted Huntington Beach during the 30 years of battle between environmentalists and the contractors who wanted to build 5,000 homes and a Marina on the Bolsa Chica Wetlands.  Lets hope the city and its leaders have progressed since those days.