More Information You May Need if You Wish to Fight Against the Placement of SRHS 15

Here is a flyer just produced by a new organization being built to fight against the building of South Region High School #15 near the intersection of 30Th Street and Alma Street, in San Pedro.

If you use a P.C., you can left-click over the flyer to make it large enough to read, OR
you can right-click over it to save image as, or print the flyer out.

In the illustration on the flyer, you can see a fairly well-remembered site plan for the proposed school. You should be able to make out three buildings that look like upside down "L" and three long rectangular buildings below each "L". These represent the three academies that may be built at the proposed school site. Two of the academies appear darker because those two will make up the initial building, with the third set of buildings built, if needed, in the future.

At this time, the Facilities Division of the L.A.U.S.D. is preparing a Notice of Preparation, along with a Scoping study and an Initial Study.

The Notice of Preparation is a document that spell out what is being intended to be built, in some detail.

The Initial Study is the first step in the Environmental Impact Report process wherein issues relating to the impact to the environment a school of its size would have on the area. It deals with soils, water, plants, animals, traffic, noise, and other environmental issues. The Initial Study places a statement of significance on each part of the areas that will be studied more in detail and initially considers whether items may have an insignificant impact to the environment all the way up to an impact that can't be mitigated, depending on the issue.

The Initial Study is important to see what the school district deems significant or insignificant, and how the later studies will be dealt with.

Case in point, when the Initial Study for SRHS 14 was done for the preferred site at Ponte Vista, it claimed that the soils and fill dirt would have a less than significant impact. But when the court finally demanded that Bob Bisno allow testers to actually test the soil at Ponte Vista, they determined that the filled in area would not support a school site, according to L.A.U.S.D. standards.

It will be quite interesting to read and then make public comments to the Scoping and Initial Studies, in the area of Traffic and Transportation. Especially if only Alma is considered the access road to and from the site.