Having thousands of people show up unannounced in a residential neighborhood late at night, with the resulting traffic jam, lack of parking for residents coming home from work, loud music coming from a number of cars arriving and leaving, occasional (friendly) yelling between groups returning to their cars in the dark after 10 pm, the need for a “massive” police response is just one more example of why the fire rings need to go, or be substantially reduced.

Events of this size need to fall under the permitting process, just like the “Taste of Newport” the “Concourse” or other event drawing large numbers of people. Residents need to be forewarned.

While this event apparently has no central planning, the owners of the web site upon which the directions to the party were posted should be considered the ones responsible.

Also, I’d like to know how much this Persian party cost the City.

And finally – kudos to the NBPD for what I observed was a calm and measured response. They slowly but persistently herded the crowd off the beach and had Big Corona pretty much cleared by 10:15 pm.

This event would be much better served if it was held near the Huntington Beach pier or the Newport Pier which are commercial areas designed to hold large numbers of people and where residents are not unduly displaced or disrupted late at night by the crowds.