I have been asked by Mr. Doug Epperhart, President of Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council, to post this contributed petition on this blog.
I neither endorse or object to printing and signing the petition.
I would also post contributed petitions from other interested contributors in support of their positions concerning the Ponte Vista Project.
If you move your cursor to any part of the petition and click on it, it will "magically" grow to a size you can better read. You can also right-click over the image and print it.
8 comments:
Mr. Wells,
Thanks for your succinct questions at the 11/9 meeting. I felt though that Bisno and his person tap danced around the questions of why 2300, and more importantly what is the estimated % of traffic increase for this project as now proposed. Can you provide concise "bottom line" answers to these? Also, did anyone adequately address your valid concerns about the impact on parking at current shopping centers?
Howdy again Anonymous.
Thank you for your kind words.
I'll try again in with this comment to better answer some outstanding questions.
Why 2300 homes?
According to Mr. Bisno, both during our trip back from Playa Vista and at last Thursday's meeting here is the basic answer.
Mr. Bisno asked his traffic engineers how many homes he could build and still successfully mitigate all traffic situations. The number given back to him by his engineers was 2,300.
In essence, he was told there would be no way to successfully mitigate traffic issues if he tried to build more than 2,300 homes.
As I believe we all heard correctly at the meeting, the traffic engineer either could not or would not provide the actual percentages of increased traffic specifically generated by new residents of Ponte Vista. He used actual traffic counts that are listed in the DEIR, but he didn't provide any actual % increase. In the DEIR and the WATF, they both suggest an annual growth of 1% per year, but neither of them state a % of increase due to Ponte Vista. The WATF could not have used any Ponte Vista information because the project was not considered at the time of the WATF studies.
The park lot forcasts, studies, reports, and information are not found in the DEIR and it appears they were not considered at all.
If I heard Mr. Bisno correctly, it will be up to the owners of the parking lots to make adjustments in their sizes. Whether they do or not, will determine if we all have to fight for fewer parking spaces or choose to shop elsewhere.
May I suggest that anyone having opinions on the Ponte Vista Project begin their own comment period by writing to Mr. Jonathan Riker at the City Planning Department. The address is listed on another page of my blog.
MW
there were, in my humble opinion, very good questions and comments made at the meeting on thursday. some though, were incessantly annoying and completely unneccesary.
dan dixon, mark wells, john greenwood, and janice hahn's staffer gordon teuber raised excellent questions.
thank you again for all your hard work.
Thanx for your answers. So, apparently, the developer will not share, or does not know (!) the % of increase in traffic that Ponte Vista as currently proposed will generate, and the impact on nearby parking lots was not even considered.
Where was Janice Hahn at the 11/7 meeting? It bothers me that she sent the kid in her place. It also bothers me that the meeting had more Bisno supporters than non-supporters, and the City Planning folks seemed completely satisfied with Bisno's traffic mitigation wizardry. Janice Hahn is the person we need to get to. She's been trying to emerse herself in San Pedro culture for some time now and this will be a true test of what kind of real San Pedran she is. She is the one San Pedran that can block the zoning change. But I think she needs help. I'd like to know what kind of specific data Janice Hahn would need to make a "data driven" case to vote no on the zoning change. I don't think she will make a decision solely based on our emotional pleas. I'm going to try e-mailing Hahn to ask what the key points of data are that she belives will influence her decision one way or the other. Somehow or another we need to fight data with data. Bisno is hanging his hat on suggesting that we are fearful of change just because of change itself and that we don't understand that our fears are unjustified and he's proving it through data manipulation.
Anthony K.
Good point Anthony K. Please post this data if and when you obtain this information.
Howdy Anonymous Anthony K.
Thanks for your comments.
On November 9, during the Community Advisory Committee meeting, Janice Hahn attended the United Homeowner's meeting at Taper Avenue. I know this because my wife handed out R-1 buttons and Ms. Hahn commented that she was pleased that so many folks were wearing buttons. According to my wife Ms. Hahn said something to the effect that there's no way she (Ms. Hahn) was going to let 2,300 homes be built at Ponte Vista.
At the CAC, Mr. Bisno state, rather emphatically, to my ears, that he will not be building any single-family residences at Ponte Vista.
There were black R-1 buttons made availble to folks who wanted to pass them out at the 11-9 CAC meeting. I know this because I have made all the buttons and provided them to interested folks. I make the buttons but I have chosen not to wear a button because I want to let everyone know that I am trying to be at least as objective as everyone else on the committee.
In fact, my personal opinion about what may end up being in Ponte Vista has changed. Please visit the comment section of one of the pages of "Life On The Edge" blog to get a hint about something I am thinking about. I am not quite ready to post my thoughts about that on this blog, maybe later this week I'll have a quite interesting post.
Now about helping Ms. Hahn. It was explained in one of the first CAC meetings that when a project finally ends up before the full membership of the L.A. City Council for a vote, it is customary and has some historical record that the majority of members of the council vote the way the C.C. member in whose district the project is proposed, votes. I am not too worried that if Ms. Hahn votes "nay" on the proposal, the majority of other council members will also vote "nay". MW
That sounds encouraging Mark. I sent Ms. Hahn an e-mail earlier today and hopefully she will read it and respond (I'm not going to hold my breath). If she responds I will be throughly impressed! Anyhow, it would be nice to know if there is anything she needs to solidify her decision making process. If I get anything, I will send it to you.
Anthony K.
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