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Orange County, CA November 2, 2010 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Elizabeth Pearson

Candidate for
Council Member; City of Laguna Beach

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  • 2-term Councilmember

  • 3-time Mayor

  • 6 1/2-year Planning Commissioner

  • Fiscally prudent; pro-business

  • Championed the 12-year effort to build a Senior & Community Center which opened in 2009.

  • Co-chair of the Local Business Assistance Program - to help local businesses remain viable during these economic times and to secure new businesses to fill empty storefronts.

  • Led disaster relief and restoration efforts following the 2005 Bluebird Canyon landslide (securing over $30 million from FEMA and the State of California) to aid the City. The restoration project is completed and homeowners are re-building.

  • A bluebelt proponent, is leading efforts with the County of Orange and the cities in the Aliso Creek Watershed to restore Aliso Creek and to create a filtration system at "the end of line" to ensure that pollution does not reach our shores.

  • While on Council, supported purchasing -- or accepting -- over 300 hundred of acres of open space.

  • Advocated to secure over $3 million from the State of California for the Heisler Park improvement project.

  • Championed summer trolley service to serve Three Arch Bay.

  • Led advocacy efforts to secure beautification funds for South Laguna and other areas from OCTA and other agencies.

  • Pushed for 12 years for a Village Entrance project that consisted of a parking garage and park across from the Festival of Arts. Added 109 spaces in the lot next to City Hall by moving the Maintenance Yard to behind the Act V lot.

  • Supported -- and continue to support -- the free trolley program to reduce traffic congestion in the summer.

  • Continue to advocate for a parking garage in the downtown and peripheral parking in both North and South Laguna to manage traffic and congestion.

  • Voted consistently to maintain the "village character".

  • Supporter of the arts, artists, galleries and the hotel Business Improvement District which supports our major arts institutions, smaller arts non-profit organizations and Arts Commission projects.

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