Coastal's and Northwest's Stances on Ponte Vista

To find out what both the Coastal San Pedro and Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Councils thought of the current Ponte Vista at San Pedro plans, we have to go back to the year, 2005

In researching the facts and basis for the publication of this post, I found a few surprising thing, most notably how long ago both N.C.s actually revealed publicly their opposition to the current plans, but how I had access to the information by using their Web sites and how well, compared to a third N.C., their records and Board meeting minutes are kept.

Starting back as far as I read, shows that Coastal San Pedro made two announcements about how their board considered the Ponte Vista at San Pedro development and what their stance became.

In the Monday, October 15, 2005 copy of the Board meeting of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council, and contained on page three of the .pdf copy, is the following:

Under Agenda Item VI, Consent Calendar, "Item 10:

"Whereas the propose (sp) Ponte Vista development would severely impact all areas of San Pedro with regard to traffic, air pollution, schools, and other elements of the civic infrastructure; the Coastal San Pedro Neighboryood Council opposes the project as proposed, as well as any modification of the existing R1-1XL, zoning in the area of the proposed project."

The Consent Calendar passed 13 Aye 0 Nay 1 Abstained.

In the November 21, 2005 meeting minutes this item can be found:

"Consideration of a motion to oppose Ponte Vista development as proposed and any change in existing R1-1XK (sp) zoning"

That "consideration passed 14 Aye 0 Nay.

If the above portions of two meeting minutes doesn't describe Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council's position on the Ponte Vista development, I invite you to conduct further information gathering. For me, two votes by their board opposing Bob's current plans and calling for no change in the existing zoning is enough.


Now, moving on to Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council's position by its Board, concerning the Ponte Vista at San Pedro development, I need to direct you to an address on the Internet where you can read two documents totaling seven .pdf pages of information and comment. This document was submitted and approved of, by the Board of that Neighborhood Council on November 14, 2005.

Please visit: http://www.nwsanpedro.org/pdfs/BisnoScoping01Dec05.pdf. This address will get you to the comments to the scoping of the project and includes the following on the first page:

"oppose any change in the zoning"

The approval of the comments to the scoping was unanimous.

Whether the information is created in a "resolution" or by some other means, documented correctly by the secretaries of Neighborhood Councils, or provided to the community by minutes, the three positions by the three councils have now appeared on this blog, to the extent I could provide with limited time to look up the information.

Actually I have had Northwest's position on file for quite a long time, but I didn't feel I should have published it earlier until I also had Coastal's position, which has been sitting in the files of their Web site for about 1-1/2 years!