Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Next in a LOOOOOOOONG Line of Meetings Concerning the Proposed New High School

(left click over the announcement to enlarge on your P.C. or right click over it to save or print)

This announcement appears to announce the first public meeting on the Environmental studies and reports that are necessary before any formal decision is made as to whether a new high school and where it will be located.

There may be the third and final meeting by the Facilities Division with their schematic illustrations of the proposed school, sometime in April.

This newly announced meeting and the two meetings already held by the Facilities Division, and the third meeting in April are all leading to the Scoping Study and the Initial Study which determines the paths the Draft Environmental Impact Report will take.

These two studies give all of us the chance to look at what LAUSD considers, initially, what environmental impacts might happen with a new school, and how impacted the items might be, on the environment.

These same series of studies were conducted for the Ponte Vista at San Pedro project, but it appears that this particular process may be running faster than we saw for Ponte Vista.

The upcoming meeting is the most important meeting of the four first meeting. This meeting is where the public can address their first concerns about the placement of the proposed and even if the new school should be built at all.

I expect that proponents and opponents of having the school built at Angel's Gate will want to have as many ducks in their row as possible, at this time.

This is where the public gets to claim how much the proposed school may impact their lives, transit issues, the local areas, and how import the public feels about a environmental issues that the proposed school may bring.

If you can only make one of the two closest future meetings, then this one is, by far, the one you should attend.

It's the public chance to chime in on what the impacts might be and how much of those impacts might impact the members of the public.

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