Huntington Beach has put its memorial bench program on hiatus, pending further study, after one installation was abruptly removed without notifying the donor.
When her mother was dying of pancreatic cancer, Stephanie Ladsous knew just the way to publicly honor her.
What she didn’t know was that the installation would soon touch off a controversy — and that the city would eventually opt to put its memorial bench program on hiatus, pending further study.Ladsous paid about $2,700 to buy the stone bench and memorial bronze plaque from a vendor, lay the concrete slab at the designated location in Triangle Park and cover a city administrative fee. The bench, which was installed July 3, is considered city property.
“I did get what I wanted,” Ladsous said, conceding that the bluff-top spot was her original preference.Recently obtained communications from inside Huntington Beach City Hall, however, have raised more questions for Ladsous and other residents.The memorial bench for Gloria Patin was relocated to the bluff near 14th Street and Pacific Coast Highway after being removed from its original downtown location.
Kramer said this week that he “called the city to ask if the bench would be moved to the front of the library,” as the original location was “attracting a lot of homeless people.”If the bench had been moved to the front of the library, it would have faced a commercial area, Kramer said.The library, he added, has full-time security that could have deterred people from using the spot to sleep or use drugs, which he reported seeing.
“Some benches were removed when they became an attractive nuisance,” Hopkins said, adding that city staff is exploring outdoor seating models that “encourage a different type of use” to keep public spaces “useful to everybody.” The memorial bench program is now on hiatus while staff evaluates the city’s procedures for identifying potential locations and assesses the model of the benches themselves in light of complaints that peoplesleep on them, Hopkins said.
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