Odds and Ends 2

I am putting this post up after the post about LAPD Officer Simmons' event because that cause is most important to me, at this time.
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We had a defeat Wednesday evening when the Wilmington Neighborhood Council became the only one of the five, harbor area Neighborhood Council to vote in support of a motion to support Bob's current plan for building his weapon of mass development at Ponte Vista.

I covered that meeting on http://www.pontevista.blogspot.com/ and I mentioned that I am not willing to post negative comments about that Council on any other blog, other than my uncensored blog, which you will have to find in order to view any negative comments concerning Wilmington N.C.'s recent action.
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Mike Rosenthal seem to have gotten his dander up, since last he talked to the leader of Vista del Oro Neighbors Against Condos. An article indicated that he may sue somebody if he has the Q Classification Condition placed on his three, currently zoned C1-1XL properties he owns at the corner of 20Th Street and Walker Avenue.

As Glinda or Galinda might say, "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU"!

(I've got tickets for my threepeat of "Wicked").

Well, if a he wants to continue fighting, then we should oblige him, don't you feel? Or, perhaps if he states, in writing that he will only build single-family, detached houses, one per lot, on the six lots he owns, then I and others would be very willing to aide him in any way we can to support that type of redevelopment of the former McCowan's Market site.
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Although the Rudderless Steering Committee hasn't met yet, to determine how it might be willing or unwilling to support the placement of South Region High School #15 (SRHS 15) at Angel's Gate, I have talked to many members of that group or R Neighborhoods Are 1 members and I think they also agree that placing a high school of that size, at Angel's Gate, is a very bad idea.

Many neighbors living in the Palisades area of San Pedro are being joined by others in OUR community to deal with this issue. They are still to new to have a name picked out, but their Email list grows daily, they have buttons that can be worn, and they have a passion for their neighborhood, much like the great neighbors living in Vista del Oro have for the McCowan's site redevelopment issues.

What make me even more proud of both groups is they will actually meet together to share ideas, learn what works and what does not work and come together as members of different neighborhoods who are working on issues that affect OUR community and not just their own issue.

At the Wilmington N.C. meeting, we had committee members from the SRHS 15 group joining with the folks speaking from other neighborhoods, against Bob's weapon of mass development.

On the SRHS 15 issue we are learning that the chief deputy for Dr. Vladovich is more than willing to discuss issues and that is more refreshing that what we have witnessed from the Facilities Division of LAUSD, so far.

Looking so soon, for positive alternatives is a plus for all sides of the issue, I feel.

Please remember that whoever says that an 810-1,215-seat senior high school at Angel's Gate is a "done deal" demonstrates some peoples' lack of willingness to become part of the processes to find the best solution for educating students in Dr. Vladovich's area.
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The Port of Los Angeles still wants to build a cruise ship terminal at Kaiser Point, in the outer harbor.

Well then, what benefits will the port provide to local residents who will have to deal with the traffic and other issues involved in placing a terminal for the largest cruise ships in the world literally at the end of San Pedro below the bluffs?

The south side of San Pedro should sure use a great community swimming pool. OUR community already has a pool at Peck Park, but it is miles away from where the Gaffey Street Pool was enjoyed by bathers for decades. I'm not suggesting that rebuilding the Gaffey Street Pool is the only option, but I am suggesting that residents should benefit for all the things they would have to put up with.

I continue to stick to my overhead Monorail dream, between a new parking structure near the existing cruise ship terminal, and the proposed Kaiser Point terminal. Heck, I am very willing to listen to any and all types of mitigation and ideas that would benefit all of us and not just the taxicab drivers who will be able to get larger fares by traveling through San Pedro than they can get now by dropping passengers off at Berth 93.
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March 6, 2008. I hope I have warned enough people repeatedly how we might see a parking lot formed in the travel lanes along Western Avenue because of the Grand Opening of the Marshall's Store on the top level of The Terraces.

I'll be posting photos of the area later on that Thursday's Odds and Ends 3. If you see me with my camera wave and remember you have been warned.
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The great neighbors living in the lower Toscanini/Strathmore area of Rancho Palos Verdes wish that cut-through drivers go through that neighborhood not faster than the posted speed limit.

There is a concerned group of residents and HOA members who are waiting for speed humps, sought for the last three years, to be installed along several streets.

I am also requesting that striping of Toscanini, east of Western Avenue be accomplished to make it appear that the travel lane is narrower and that parking areas have diagonal stripes to try and keep drivers from going too close to the curb. When these stripes are placed it provides the illusion of a narrower roadway and drivers seem to slow down naturally, because of the illusion.

Please also be warned, a Sargent with the LASD may be placing more patrol cars in that area to catch speeders and stop sign violators. I can't tell you when or where these deputies can be found, but look for increased enforcement in the future.

Now, unfortunately, I do have to mention that not all of the speeders and cut-through drivers live in San Pedro. Some neighbors living in R.P.V. also speed and cut-through that neighborhood of R.P.V., so all of us must take some quilt and work together as neighborhoods to try ans solve the problems.
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The loss of More San Pedro, an insert to the Saturday edition of The Daily Breeze has been confirmed.

With the loss, the newspaper has laid off Ms. Justina Ly and Ms. Rachel Jones.

More San Pedro served me quite well and I think many others in OUR community will be a bit angry when we look for it in The Daily Breeze, but it won't be there.

I wonder if the cannibals at the company that owns so many newspapers will also can San Pedro Magazine, the monthly free publication from the folks that publish the Independent-Press Telegram.

Perhaps the profit margin has shrunk so low that newspapers all have to become cookie-cutters of simply one type and L.A. is heading towards having only one newspaper similar in the lack of community coverage that U.S.A. Today is.

No wonder so many folks actually believed that the military shot down the doomed satellite because of the fuel on board.Saturday mornings used to all start with looking through More San Pedro before I went on to read the rest of the paper.

I am also sorry that another two journalists are losing their jobs. It is even worse when I feel the two of them did a great job for OUR community.

It looks like we are going to have to deal with Less San Pedro, and live with options that can be cut and pasted to just about any other newspaper in the L.A. area.