The Long Beach City Council unanimously took another step Tuesday night toward giving a small group of Belmont Shore landowner/businessmen/kinda-sorta-government officials another shot at a bond issue election that would pave the alleys around their properties and pay former city councilman Frank Colonna $1.5 million for a parking lot that serves his tenants.
But the 8-0 [...]

Some of Belmont Shore’s biggest landowners and businessmen, operating under the authority of two quasi-governmental agencies in the quaint seaside district, are taking another run at a bond issue that would pave the alleys around their properties and pay a former city councilman $1.5 million for a parking lot. Good deal if you can get [...]

P-T editorializes the Gene Rotondo ATM-parking saga
Belmont Shore restaurateur Gene Rotondo’s problems with the ATM at his newly-renovated and reopened Legends sports bar have been well-documented in the Press-Telegram.
It’s just interesting, sometimes, to take a step back and consider what it’s all about–and to wonder how much we’d care about all this if, say, Rotondo [...]