I am first going to write about the South Region High School No. 15 (SRHS 16) issue.
I have been on disability for several weeks and have not been able to go to work at my job at Verizon, so my wife and I took our camera to the proposed site of the new campus to see if we could get photos of the wildlife in the area.
Below are three photos we took during what turned out to be only about 1/2 hour visit.
We took a photo of the bird as it was standing in an area that got flooded by a sprinkler that malfunctioned.The dog in the bottom photo was quite happy we fed it some cheese after we took its photo.
Yesterday, I was also able to confirm that the new classrooms at SRHS 17 will have no windows. This is because the archetects decided that the Sun's reflective glare on any windows would hamper students during their physical fitness classes at the new campus.
It was also decided sometime last week, that the new campus would not need expensive central air conditioning due to its placement in an area that has much cooler climate than the main campus of San Padro High School.
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On the Ponte Vista issue, some dramatic news was uncovered over the weekend.
Now it seems, Bob Bisno will build at least one single-family detached house on the 62.35 acre site so he and his family will have a place to live, after his mansion in Beverly Park North is auctioned off.
The planners for Ponte Vista have also seriously considered planting Jacaranda trees near all the curbs on the streets in the development. They were heard stating that placing many of these beautiful flowering trees, with their purple flowers would enhance the area and force residents to park in their regular stalls.
David Shinder, Bob's traffic engineer, is planning to recreate the traffic patterns at the site by making all the streets one-way. Apparently Mr. Shinder believes now that having all one-way streets within the project site would allow for more smoothly moving traffic and less congestion at the gates along Western Avenue and Gaffey Street.
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As far as the McCowan's redevelopment issue, Mike Rosenthal will NOT appeal the Harbor Planning Commission's ruling that the lots currently zoned C1-1XV will have only residential structures that are single-family, detached houses.
Mr. Rosenthal has decided to build five beautiful and spacious houses on five of the lots he purchased last year.
Since the "Q" Qualification Condition only is used in residential development, Mr. Rosenthal has decided to keep one lot as a commercial lot and not subject to the "Q" Condition.
Mr. Rosenthal will not build a house on the second lot on the northwest side of the intersection of 20Th and Walker.
Instead, Mr. Rosenthal has Emailed me an illustration of a skate park that is fenced in and will be accessable only via a swipe of a credit card or a swipe of a debit card.
Mr. Rosenthat believes he will recoup money he loses by not building condos by keeping his "San Pedro Neighborhood Skate Park" open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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On the new cruise ship terminal at Kaiser Point issue, another big piece of news was mentioned last week.
It appears that the Disney Corporation is having four giant new cruise ships built in Rotterdam, over the next seven years.
The four new ships will be too big to use the existing cruise ship terminal at Berth 93, so the four ships and all other giant cruise ships and ocean liners will need to use a new terminal in the outer harbor.
Disney has decided to build a monorail, much like the one at Disneyland, between a new parking structure at Berth 93 and the new cruise ship terminal.
Disney will recover the cost of building the monoral through San Pedro by charging a small fee for riders.
When a potential rider of the monorail wants to take a ride, they will deposit coins into a machine and an "E Ticket" will pop out which the rider can keep as a souvigner.
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I am learning more about the "Clean Water" project the L.A. County Department of Sanitation wants to build.
The project looks to build a new tunnel under San Pedro to add capacity that has already been reached by the two other tunnels that have been in use since 1958.
The new tunnel may go under Gaffey Street, or it may parallel the two existing tunnels that leave the mainland on the cliffs of Rancho Palos Verdes.
If a new tunnel is built along the same route, Western Avenue will have to be reduced to one lane in each direction for approximately five years.
There would need to be a 30 foot diameter shaft built 500 feet from the ground level to the bottom to place the boring machine and allow access to the tunnel.
Currently the shaft is being proposed either at Green Hills, where graves will have to be moved, or on the site of the Albertson's Market's parking lot.
Construction equipment and buildings will take up about two acres around the shaft's site and will be fenced off from public view.
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Truck traffic, specifically container truck traffic is becoming a greater problem than anticipated, in the port.
The Port of L.A. officials have determined that the best way to move container traffic by truck from the port to downtown L.A. and access to the train yards is to make the Vincent Thomas Bridge a one-way bridge during certain times of the day.
There will be an experimental program, beginning today, to allow traffic to head over the bridge towards Terminal Island during even hours of the day. During odd hours of the day, the traffic pattern will be reversed to have traffic head towards San Pedro.
You may have noticed the new markings and barriers on the approaches to the bridge structure. They were installed during the last three weeks.
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One really neat thing is going to happen on the tracks where the trolleys now run.
Since the trips of the trolleys will be lengthened to accomodate the greater distance to the new cruise ship terminal, the Port of L.A. has invited folks who own a live steam locomotive to bring it down and have several old passenger cars pulled along the expanded route between Wilmington and Warehouse No. 1 in San Pedro.
The new locomotive and cars will arrive on April 31 and will begin taking passengers and tourists along the current route of the trolleys, beginning at the end of May.
The new steam locomotive will need to alert folks when it passes over intersections, so we will all now be able to hear that wonderful sounds of a steam locomotive's whistle throughout the day and well into the evening.
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There is just one more thing I want to add to this post:
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