Odds and Ends 11

First we begin with the issue that is current at hand.

The comment period for the Notice of Preparation and Initial Study for South Region High School No 15. (SRHS 15) ends at the close of business, this coming Monday.

If you haven't already sent in a letter or your own set of comments, and you still wish to do so, here is a FAX number and an Email address that you can use prior to 5:00 P.M. on Monday May, 5, 2008:

Fax: 213-893-7412

Email: www.ceqa-comments@laschools.org Please put "South Region High School #15" on the Subject line of the Email.

If you would like to view and/or use samples of letters concerning SRHS 15, please visit:
http://www.sanpedropalisades.org./ where you will find three sample letters.

NOISE has completed and sent in its set of comments and I think LAUSD will be surprised by what has been created. The comments will become part of the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the proposed school and it will become part of that public record when the Report is published.

Please remember to attend the Palisades Residents Association's Annual meeting and election on May 13, at White Point Elementary School.

The SRHS 15 issue will be discussed as well as the Clearwater Program from the Sanitation District, and other issuses that are very important to the Association's members.

Ms. Janice Hahn, Mr. Rod Hamilton of LAUSD Facilities Division, and hopefully, Dr. Richard Vladovic, the Board of Education for the area, will attend this meeting.

There will be much more information provided to folks who are very concerned about building a new high school campus directly next to a great Outdoor Education Center and also along Alma Street. You don't need to live in the Palisades Residents Association area to attend this meeting.

A meeting date and time for the NOISE organization members will be announced at the Palisades Residents Association meeting, and on this blog.
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As I wrote in a previous post, it is now more understandable why it is taking the L.A. City Planning Department so long to publish what they feel Bob can build at Ponte Vista.

The Planning Department is still reviewing comments and responses to comments by Bisno associates, that began at the end of the comment period for the Ponte Vista Draft Environmental Impact Report. That comment period ended in January, 2007 so even I can imagine that there were many, many sets of comments written and then the Bisno organization gets to respond to those comments.

I think we can all wait.

I still have no new information to report on whether Bob's house in Beverly Park was sold during a foreclosure auction.

Perhaps someone on the Outreach Team will straighten me out on the issue, but they usually are not very open to revealing things.
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Concerning the proposed new cruise ship terminal in the Outer Harbor, I have been gathering facts and figures, illustrations and photos and I will be creating a large post on the subject, soon.

The existing pier at Kaiser Point looks to be less than 900 feet long.

There are at least 31 cruise ships/ocean liners with passenger capacities greater than 2,000 passengers that are either under construction or have been agreed on to be built in the next five years.

There will be a new R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth built that will greet 2,092 passengers, as a matter of trivia.

Right now it seems very troubling to think about what the Port of L.A. wishes to do to San Pedro, especially the areas where our tourists usually visit.
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During the Palisades Residents Association's Annual meeting, there will be a presentation concerning the Clearwater Program from the County Sanitation District.

This issue will become more important to that area if the Sanitation District decides to place the access shaft on five acres of property either at Royal Palms or White Point Nature Preserve, or even at Angel's Gate.

The issue of where all of the double-trailer dirt haulers will travel through will probably become a very big issue as time goes by.

In other posts I have opined that perhaps, the neighborhoods should all get together with the three Neighborhood Councils and demand that the access shaft be sunk on Terminal Island where there is easier access to either the Harbor Freeway or the Long Beach Freeway.
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Victory with an asterisk was revealed on Tuesday when the L.A. City Council unanimously agreed to an ordinance creating a QC1-1XL zoning for three lots on and near the corner of 20Th Street and Walker Avenue.

The group, Vista del Oro Neighbors Against Condos (VDONAC) celebrated a great victory over the issue of building condominiums on three properties owned by Mike Rosenthal.

Mr. Rosenthal apparently cried foul because he claims he was not informed of the Council taking up the motion at their Tuesday meeting.

All Mr. Rosenthal and any and all of his associates, attorney's lobbyists, family members and/or friends had to do was read this blog after 11:05 A.M. on Monday April 28, and they would have learned of the meeting.

Any and all of them could have also visited the Daily Breeze Web site on Monday afternoon to learn of the meeting.

Somebody "assisting" Mike dropped the ball, it appears. If his lawyer was my lawyer and if his lobbyist was my lobbyist, I would have been on the phone with both of them wondering why he wasn't informed by folks who should have "had his back".

Now Mike is thinking of bringing a suit against the City. Please Mike, try that.

Mr. Rosenthal also suggested that he may attempt to build apartments. Well if he wishes to waste his money rather than building a total of six beautiful houses, one per lot, then perhaps he has the bankroll to fund all the things he would have to deal with, including VDONAC.

Let's support Mike in building six great houses that will fit into the neighborhood and strongly suggest to him that it could be folly for him to pursue any other building.
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On a personal note, I wish to thank so much all the wonderful people who wished me well in my recovery from my total hip replacement surgery.

I was able to take a walk along the cliffs at the end of Warmouth road where it meets the mobile home park, only 28 days after having the pin, plate, and screws removed from a prior failed operation, and then having a new titanium hip placed on my right side.

I now have a new 'toy' to play with, until either I encase it in Lucite to make a paperweight or Terri takes it away from me and hides it.