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I was studying the Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan for Huntington Beach the other night. One of the chief goals of the specific plan is to remake Beach and Edinger into first-rate streets worthy of this Orange County community of 200,000 people, replacing the messy, strip-like conditions that currently exist on these major thoroughfares. With the deadline for my column looming, I fought to stay awake, but soon fell asleep.
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With my feverish brain preoccupied with streets, it should have been no surprise that I dreamt of Baron Eugene-Georges de Haussmann, who during the 1860s designed - and ruthlessly pushed through - a set of magnificent boulevards in Paris, including the widening of the Champs Elysees.
I quickly showed M. le Baron the specific plan document prepared by the urban design firm of Freedman Tung and Bottomley. He was delighted with the crisp drawings of tree-lined streets,...
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