Draw Your Dreams consists of a series of photos and illustrations that you can save and edit so you can draw your dreams and ideas for what you feel is the best way to use the land inside the Ponte Vista at San Pedro site.
Draw Your Dreams is not a contest. You only get to compete with your own imagination. I have included in some of the illustrations, some of my dreams. You can keep them in, or edit them out. I am hopeful that there will be many folks who would be willing to share their dreams by sending their creations to mrichards2@hotmail.com. If you don't want your name used, I'll exclude it and perhaps attribute it to some long-dead painter. You can be humorous with your imagination, but please refrain from being mean.
So, get out your favorite photo editing software, your Web images of homes, buildings, parks, nature paths, roads, landscaping, fields, lakes, streams, and whatever else you want to put on the site. It's time for a little fun to break up the facts and figures, I think.
Be an artist with a mouse, scanner, Internet, and brilliant ideas swimming in your mind.
The first image is a copy of Mr. Bisno's illustration of his concept for the site. It is superimposed on top of an aerial photo of the site as it is today.
Notice the pink "road"? That is part of my "impossible" road. Many of us, including Mr. Bisno would like to see a road between Western Avenue and Gaffey Street. My thought is , if you're going to build a road to Gaffey Street, why not just go up the hill and put some ramps on the Harbor Freeway? But this is part of my dream road and if you don't like it, change it or erase it.
At least this image gives you a bit of idea of the size and placement of the development with regards to Western Avenue and the surrounding neighborhoods. What you can't see in this image is the new Mary Star High School, under construction, on the eastern side of Ponte Vista. I have the pink road ending at a possible eastern gate to Ponte Vista and well enough away from where the ball fields for Mary Star will be constructed along the southern side of the property.
This next illustration is the artist's concept of what an aerial photo of Ponte Vista might look like when completed according to Mr. Bisno's vision.
You may move buildings around, or use pieces of this shot on other images. You may also wish to change the number and type of structures within the development.
This image is "courtesy" of the L.A.U.S.D.. The pink area is the 24 acre, "Study Area" for the proposed 2,025 seat senior high school, now called SRHS #14. Within the 24 acres, L.A.U.S.D. has plans to purchase 15.03 acres of land as the "Preferred Site" for the school.
Mr. Bisno does not want such a large area seized using the right of eminent domain. He has publicly stated that he might consider a school site of up to 500-600 students within Ponte Vista.
With this image, you can play with the placement of any sized school you wish and create a residential community of your liking.
Now you get to see my favorite image of the property. Look, all you see are the trees and hedges that surround the property. With this illustration, you can create anything and everything you want. Perhaps you only want recreation, nature sites, learning areas, parks, and lakes. Maybe you would like to any number of single-family homes in your dream development. Maybe you would like to put a school somewhere else on the property.
This is your canvas to be as creative as you want to be. Here you see only the restrictions that are the property lines that you can't go beyond. Right click on the image (using Windows) and click "Save picture as" and have as much fun as you can have with a mouse, the Internet, and a willingness to draw the best thing for Northwest San Pedro!
Good luck with your endeavors. Please don't take this post too seriously. Give yourself the time to think what you would approve of in Ponte Vista. Perhaps you don't feel that you can draw your dreams. We might be able to have someone interpret you written words into images for one of these illustrations.
If Mr. Bisno can dream, so can you! Let's see what we can come up with.
Thanks.
3 comments:
Sorry to go off the topic of this thread, but a 8/4/06 article in the LA Times outlined:
"The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety has given special treatment to dozens of construction projects sought by political insiders, including nine current and former city commissioners and donors to the mayor and City Council, records show.
The department assigned the projects to the little-known Case Management Unit set up years ago to speed large and complex construction jobs, such as public schools and affordable housing. By sidestepping the standard permitting process, big developers can avoid delays that might otherwise cost them millions of dollar.
Some of the insider projects are large.."
A brief 9/28 article in the Breeze stated: "the city's Building and Safety Department is drafting new standards to ensure applicants for building permits are treated equally.." Villaraigosa asked for the task force apparently after the aforementioned LA Times article.
Question: has bisno's plan for 2300 condos been assigned to this "Case Management Unit" and/or is he expediting this process through any "insider" leverage?
Anonymous, again you hit a home run! That is an excellent question. It one that I will write down and take to the next committee meeting.
I tend to have a gut feeling that Mr. Bisno is an applicant in the "Case Management Unit" you referred to. As you heard in the first meeting, and what you see in all the three meetings I believe I saw you at, there are several folks assigned to the project from the Planning Department. We see the same folks at the meetings and we were already told that applicants who go with the "Specific Plan" agenda, do get assistance and special treatment from the Planning Department.
I think that I will ask to be recognized at the next meeting and directly ask the representatives from the Planning Department if they are assigned to the "Case Management Unit." Whether I get a truthfull answer, well that's another story.
See you on Oct. 12.
Thanx for doing this, and I would appreciate if you would post the answer (or at least the "spin") in case I'm unable to attend the meeting. Hopefully they will answer the question in a straightforward way.
As this is such a massive proposal that would impact both SP and RPV significantly, this process most definitely should NOT be expedited in any way. The Navy houses were vacant for a long time, and they can stay that way for awhile until everything is sorted out and we're reasonably sure this process is fully transparent and free of any undue influence (even if it costs the out-of-town developer $$).
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