It was brought to the communities attention that a motion to sell the site of the Sewer Interceptor Project on San Fernando Road, which has been paved over and used by the KIA dealer since '06, is on the Agenda for our City Council this Tuesday 10am. To be sold directly to the KIA dealership owner, without any outreach to the community or, (as far as I know) to LAUSD, the immediate neighbor. This site was promised to be held as open space by Ed Reyes at a community meeting back in '05. The community felt that the site might be used for improving the access and egress to the school that was going to be under construction, and certainly would be preferable to keep it as a simple green space after the sewer project was completed, and our Councilman; Ed Reyes agreed. In 2006 it was paved over for KIA's use. This also flies in the face of the GP/CP Community Design Overlay which the community was working on at the time. http://cityplanning.lacity.org/complan/othrplan/pdf/CypGlassprkCDOGuidelines.pdf Needless to say, there were many emails flying downtown from the community after this happened. In December 2012, there was an item on the GPNC Executive agenda, requesting the GPNC issue a letter of support of a transaction of ownership from the City to the KIA dealer. That agenda item was withdrawn after discussion. There was no information offered to the public in attendance, even as to who was requesting the letter of support. In January 2013, the GPIA Board voted on, and did send in a Public Records request regarding activity on the site. Following you will see the email I sent, and then the ONLY response we have received from CD1. We also had concerns regarding a cell tower located at the same KIA dealership that went up without any notification, and which is in fact direct violation of our CDO, not to mention the GPIAs long standing position paper on the location of Cell Towers. The PRAs are attached. And here is the link to the activity and the motion scheduled for this Tuesday from the CIty Clerk: http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=13-0532
You can see it is on a fast track, most city motions take months, if not years, to be placed on the City Council Agenda. Yesterday at the FOLAR event, I was told by CD1 that they were not aware of the communities interest in this item. How short some memories are...and I thank you for caring, and reading this far.
