1. Memorandum of Understanding with CSUN.

Q Please explain why we have not received a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between LAUSD and CSUN defining the use of CSUN's educational facilities and playing fields for the high school.

Comment: The EIR repeatedly states this project is viable and superior because of the joint use of playing fields and academic facilities. Without the MOU, which is constantly referred to in the EIR, the public has no way of knowing the adequacy of the mitigations and benefits of the high school.

2. Need for public schools in the community.

Q Please explain the need for a local high school in our community if there is no need for a local elementary and intermediate school in the same community.

Normally a community has at least two elementary and intermediate school students for each high school student. The claim by the LAUSD demographics unit that we don't have enough students in our community for an elementary and intermediate school (Prairie) makes the need for a local high school doubtful If we do not have enough students to fill a local K through 8, the high school must not be a local school and will be bringing in kids from outside our community. This means the traffic analysis and parking requirements, which are based on a local high school, are defective, as the students will not live close enough to walk to school. Since no busing will be provided by LAUSD, more trips and parking places must be added to the analysis.

3. Alternate project Q Please discuss the options of building of a larger high school at the corner of Zelzah and Lassen and refurbishing the Prairie Street School with FEMA money supplied by the Federal Government after the 1994 earthquake.

4. Traffic.

Q How do you plan to mitigate the level “F” service on all four intersections bordering the university? This monstrous traffic jam is not just caused entirely by the new high school, but the high school adds to the problem without mitigation.

The traffic analysis shows 80% of the High School traffic as coming from outside our community (East of Balboa). We want to know how the traffic study determined the trips' starting points for this traffic east of Balboa. The analysis must also include all planned and pending projects such as the faculty center expansion and performing arts center, the doubling of Mini-Med, and several conversions of single-family residences to high-density dwellings (including the new housing the university itself is planning). Further, the study should have an analysis of the build-out and conversion of all property, which is currently being used as single-family dwellings to their current zoning as high-density apartments.

Please comment the possibility of reopening Plummer through the university as traffic mitigation.

5. Requested Documents Q Why have we not received the documents requested in our 11-7-01 letter in response to the DEIR?

From our 11-7-01 letter “Added Documents needed as the public record has been changed to require documents to be made available in electronic form, we are requesting that all documents be provided in word and the tables in Excel. Other formats such as WordPerfect and other spread sheet forms are OK.

1. The Full RAW

2. The PEA

3. All enrollment data and projections for the next 20 years on attendance versus capacity of all schools both private and public within a 5 mi. radius.

4. The MOU, which allows the use of CSUN property by LAUSD students for this proposed school.

4. The zip code of each the Monroe High School students “ Charles Brink for the Northridge Community Council 818-886-5223

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