Another Contribution to this Blog.

The following post to this blog is a letter to the editor of "More San Pedro", and is scheduled for publication in the Saturday, November 4, 2006 edition.
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Turn Up the Volume on Ponte Vista!

By Doug Epperhart

It’s time, San Pedro, to raise our voices and tell Councilwoman Hahn we do not want Bisno’s titanic development on Western Avenue.

By now, we’re all aware of the plan to build 2,300 condominiums on the old Navy property across from Green Hills cemetery. They would house 7,300 people with parking for 5,000 cars.

Despite the call of the Coastal and Northwest San Pedro neighborhood councils to maintain the current R-1 zoning (single-family homes) and nearly unanimous opposition to the project at public hearings last year, Councilwoman Hahn decided to appoint an “advisory group” to tell her what we think.

This group spends plenty of quality time with the developer, who sits at the table with them at meetings. Fortunately, some of the group’s members are interested in more than merely reacting to Bisno’s unrelenting sales pitch. We must speak to them.

The group will be meeting at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 9, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown San Pedro. The Ponte Vista environmental impact report, including the traffic study, will be distributed and discussed.

Now is the time and this is the place to make a stand, San Pedro. If you can, come to this meeting and tell the advisory group members and Councilwoman Hahn you do not want massive development on Western Avenue.

Whether you will be attending the meeting or not, you should call the councilwoman’s office at (310) 732-4515 or e-mail her at councilmember.hahn@lacity.org and give her the message: “Ponte Vista R-1!” It’s all you need to do. It will only take a few minutes. Don’t wait. Do it now.

Tell Councilwoman Hahn and her advisory group that Bisno’s vision is not what San Pedro is or wants to be. San Pedro’s character—San Pedro’s soul—is not preserved by a thing like Ponte Vista.
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Editor's notes:

Mr. Epperhart is the President of Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council. He is an oppenent of Mr. Bisno's plans to build 2,300 homes at the Ponte Vista at San Pedro site.

I will continue to accept and print posts from individuals who endorse, oppose, or are neutral, regarding Mr. Bisno's proposed development.

I feel it is important to provide the opportunity for everyone to be heard, so I along with the rest of those interested, can have the widest range of views in which to learn from.