Proposed comments (html)
by Phyllis and Larry Marquardt Northridge residents
Northridge Community Council Education Committee |
Proposed comments (html)
by Phyllis and Larry Marquardt Northridge residents
Presented at a meeting concerning the CSUN school EIR at CSUN on 11-7-01.
2-18-02 Comments on the 2-28-02 LAUSD meeting
2-13-02 Report on meeting
11-7-01 The Northridge Community Council official position
11-7-01 We request, due to the need for more information and community input on the issue of the proposed Academy High School Number 1 on Zelzah on the California State University Campus in Northridge, that the decision on the school be delayed for 60 days after the Removal Action Workpaper (RAW) plan is released so that all questions about it, the Preliminary Endangerment Assessment (PEA) and the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) can be answered.
Jim Parker's 11-7-01 comments on bringing Belmont High School “Planning” to the Valley
Charles Brink's 11-7-01 comments concerning the proposed Valley New High School.
Anita SantoSpirito's10/18/01 comments on LAUSD's Draft EIR Report For Valley New High School #l
For the full DEIR about the project. The DEIR was in a PDF file is so large it is unusable to most internet users. I have converted to the standard internet format and loaded it here for the community to read. LAUSD still refuses to make this report available in a usable form.
Links to other pages about the project
LAUSD Project Name: Valley New HS # 1 Project Number: 55.98032
http://laschools.org/project-status/one-project?project_id=11725
CSUN site on the School
http://www.csun.edu/~pubrels/academy/
We expect the e-mail traffic from the Education Committee to be fairly frequent. They will typically have Word documents attached for you to comment on. We will be using Word so that you can set it to show you changes by clicking under tools - track changes - highlight changes - track changes while editing - highlighted changes on screen.
This will produce a Word document that shows your additions and deletions from the original document. We intend to post all these proposed revisions online so that the committee members can see the changes as we go towards the final document. In this way each person has a input in the final document and we can benefit from everyone's diverse opinions and knowledge.
We will be posting, later today, on the Website information concerning attendance data for the schools in local area. A quick look shows that the residents within a school area will not fill up any schools except for those along the freeway. What is occurring is a sizable amount of students are being transported to fill the empty seats in the schools.
For example, many of you have heard that Granada Hills High will be forced to go multi-track. What you have not heard is that it is solely because 1200 students are being transported into the community. LAUSD, because of it’s inability to build schools in the communities where the students live, is transporting students to other communities. This forces these schools to go multi- track. This simultaneously damages communities by having multi-trick schools for the local students and the students who have to waste hours in a bus everyday.
A separate group headed by Jim Parker, now named the mid Valley Coalition, formerly the White Oak neighbors, is going ahead independently of the council. We offer to post their proposals on our website and they are of course are invited to join our education committee.
We have on the Web site the Full DEIR
http://www.northridgecouncil.org/lasud/lausdcsunedit-index.htm
But again, LAUSD refuses to make it available in any reasonable electronic form. Our conversion process from the unusable PDF to HTML damages the tables. If you have a high speed access, we have a link to our site to the 46 meg PDF which is about 200 times as big as our HTML file which are indexed and searchable, LAUSD PDF's are not.