Donna Littlejohn's Recent Article Flawed, in My Opinion

Donna Littlejohn, the gifted reporter for The Daily Breeze wrote and article in today's paper concerning the Final Report of Janice Hahn's Community Advisory Committee.

Here is a link to that article: http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/9305631.html

I do not reprint articles on this blog on the day of their issue.

Ms. Littlejohn spent what I feel is way too much print on a report by five members of the CAC who were in the minority of members of the 13-member group.

Not only did Ms. Littlejohn spend too much print on "An Alternate Option for the Site", she also failed to include the recommendation from those five members, which shows that they, too not only oppose Bob's current plans, but suggest something that Bob would most probably reject on its face.

here is the final paragraph of the "Alternate Option" which I feel strongly, Ms. Littlejohn should have included major parts of, as she chose to include other parts of the "option" in the first place:

"It is our recommendation, based on information received and analyzed, that the Ponte Vista project be a mixed-use, multi-family development with final density to be agreed upon after deliberations by Councilwoman Janice Hahn, the City Planning Department and Bisno Development. We further recommend that a majority of the units be restricted to seniors and that the development include all of the proposed traffic mitigation and public amenities. We strongly believe that this solution provides maximum benefit to the San Pedro Community and its potential residents, and is economically viable for the developer.
______________________________________________________

Personally I have great difficulty with the paragraph listed above, but to have it not appear in Ms. Littlejohn's article, when so much other information about the "Alternate Option" did appear, was a big miss for Ms. Littlejohn, in my opinion.

I feel Ms. Littlejohn should have spent the vast majority of the article dealing with what the CAC members who attended the press conference actually said. Only one of the five signers of the "Alternate Option" attended the press conference, in the first place.

I was pleased, however to not read comments made by members of the public, at the press conference. There appeared to be three members who have lots of B.s. (Bisno support) who spoke at the public, CAC press conference, and only one member of the public who supports R1 who chose to speak. I remained silent throughout the CAC's press conference, mostly because I have a blog dealing primarily with Ponte Vista and I get all the chances to "speak" and write whenever I wish to.

Usually I applaud just about everything Ms. Littlejohn writes. The article that appeared today is one of the few that Ms. Littlejohn has written where I find great fault in her reporting.