More News From the Steering Committee

I know that I have been not keeping this blog up recently and I apologize.

Much of the news about Ponte Vista at San Pedro I publish on: www.pontevista.blogspot.com but you all probably knew that already.

The former 'Rudderless Steering Committee' of R Neighborhoods Are 1 has gone away for the past several months. In its place is a new Steering Committee that is focused, well organized, growing in membership, and ready to take any and all over developers who stray into OUR community.

The Steering Committee of R Neighborhoods Are 1 is now organized with specialists in many areas to deal with whatever needs to be done, regarding both Ponte Vista at San Pedro and the other area we have dealt with, the former site of McCowan's Market.

The Steering Committee is now working very hard with the developments that are happening concerning Ponte Vista at San Pedro.

The Harbor Area Planning Commission has scheduled a meeting to take comments and review concerns concerning Ponte Vista at San Pedro. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday November 18, 2008 and the new location for the meeting is the historic Warner Grand Theater, in San Pedro.

Two other sites have listed the start time for the meeting as being 4:00 PM or 4:30 PM, so you may wish to come early.

There will be red and white "R1" buttons to counter Ponte Vista's yellow sticker tags their supporters wear at meetings.

You should arrive early so you have plenty of time to fill out speaker's cards and I hope you oppose Bob Bisno's plans for building 1,950-condominiums on just over 61.5 acres of land.

Folks, this is a fifteen round fight and I think R Neighborhoods Are 1 needs to win all fifteen rounds.

Sure the group claims a 'victory' with the latest news that the Ponte Vista Vesting Tract Map has been disapproved. It is more an emotional victory than and there is much more that need to be done.

It seems more often than not, someone at the Ponte Vista Outreach Team is creating another post on another one of their sites that states things that can be so very easily contradicted.

The latest item for their site is that Ponte Vista would only have about 3,500 residents.

The facts are that during the Initial Study process, it was established that approximately 7,343 residents might live at Ponte Vista if they lived in a 2,300-unit project.

Even the Draft Environmental Impact Report stated that the approximate residential population at Ponte Vista would be 4,313.

I still do not know where the 3,030 people who represent the difference between the Initial Study and the Environmental Report vanished to.

Getting back to the Steering Committee, I think you should know that the members of that Committee are strong, informed, committed to keeping Ponte Vista with its current zoning, and willing to continue the fight for as long as necessary.

Of course, every member of the Steering Committee would like you do contribute to the defense fund set up to pay the lawyer that is handling legal issues that are large and require the expertise from someone who knows what they are doing.

Please visit www.rneighborhoodsare1.org and find out how you can contribute.

The Steering Committee wants all of you opposed to Bob's current plans to come and speak you mind and heart at the upcoming Harbor Area Planning Commission meeting. You are encouraged to share your concerns about having such a massive housing project on one of the few routes in and out of San Pedro and eastern Rancho Palos Verdes.

How will you deal with thousands of more cars on Western Avenue?

Will you need to make shopping changes or need to steer clear of northwest San Pedro if it becomes too over crowded?

How does the fact that an out of town developer believes he knows better than you what is best for San Pedro?

Many members of our community have discovered, except for a number of greedy business owners, that having such a massive development on the edge of San Pedro, directly along an evacuation route, where infrastructure demand may surpass availability, that OUR community simply cannot afford a housing project so large.

The Steering Committee continues to be a group of volunteers who use their time and money to help protect OUR community and they continue to seek your support and encouragement.

Please look at your spam Email sometimes and see if an Email from R Neighborhoods Are 1 is lurking there. Please read that Email for important information.

The Steering Committee is doing its best to try and keep everyone informed whether it is on this blog, my other blogs, and the R Neighborhoods Are 1 Web site, mentioned above.

I will try to be more diligent in updating this blog in the future because there are several events coming up that will ultimately determine what might get built at Ponte Vista or whether Bob Bisno will stick around to actually build something.