Northridge Community Council 6-29-03 Update |
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DONE has recommended not to certify us in the report issued late Friday night. Their decision represents a misreading of the bylaws and various unsupported claims.
6-29-03 Analysis of DONE's third set of required by law changes sent to us at 10 pm on 6-27-03 as part of the findings.
6-27-03 The proposed findings of BONC by DONE as to the evaluation of our Certification Application (File No. 01-016).
6-29-03 Opposition to DONE's report that they cannot recommend our certification
6-27-03 DONE's report that they cannot recommend our certification.
6-24-03 History of bylaws changes
Read and see what DONE tries to read into our bylaws. Let us know your thoughts about their statements and our responses.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~1480064,00.html
By Lisa M. Soddersv Staff Writer
VAN NUYS -- To the cheers of neighborhood residents, the Los Angeles Planning Commission on Thursday rejected a 75,000-square-foot expansion of Hillcrest Christian School, saying the Granada Hills project should be scaled back.
The board's 5-1 vote, with Bradley Mindlin dissenting, effectively kills the plan to add a new middle and high school building to the existing 800-student campus at Rinaldi Street and Shoshone Avenue in Granada Hills.
"A high school is just too intense a use at this site," commission President Mitchell Menzer told the crowd of 300 people, almost evenly split for and against the plan.
School officials said they had not yet decided whether to appeal the commission's decision to the City Council. Hillcrest's plan for a 75,000-square-foot building would have allowed it to increase its enrollment from 800 students to 1,200.
"I'm very disappointed in the process," said Hillcrest Superintendent David Kendrick. "It took us nine years of work to get to this point."
But hundreds of residents who had long fought the proposal were ecstatic at the board's vote.
"The community came together," said Joy Ming with Neighbors Opposed to Planned Expansion. "The commission vote shows (Hillcrest) simply doesn't fit."
{Walter Prince and others worked to block this project at our boarder}
More than a year ago, the Planning Commission rejected Hillcrest's initial plan, saying it was "fatally flawed" because of traffic and parking problems.
The school revised its plan, adding $1.1 million in traffic improvements, and associate city zoning administrator Lourdes Green made further modifications.
But members of NOPE and other neighborhood groups said the project was simply too big for the neighborhood and would make already horrendous traffic problems even worse. They also said the school has repeatedly violated the terms of its existing conditional-use permit and expressed skepticism that it would abide by any new conditions.
Planning Commission members, while expressing support for schools, said they were dismayed that the school and neighbors couldn't reach a compromise and said the project should be scaled back, both in size and hours of operation.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20951~1474889,00.html
Three Valley pools are out for summer
6-25-03 For kids in parts of the San Fernando Valley, the only sight sadder than the past month of dismal weather is the sight of closed public pools -- just as the weather begins to improve.
Such is the disappointment for youngsters in Canoga Park, North Hollywood and Northridge, who will find no relief from the Valley heat this summer in the neighborhood pool, because the neighborhood pool is closed for repairs.
Apparently city officials weren't able to take care of renovations at the three pools during the off-season. So now the pools are out of commission for the summer, although city officials hold out hope that the Canoga Park facility might open sometime before Labor Day.
The kids in Northridge aren't so lucky. Although 13 municipal pools are operating in the Valley this year, the Northridge facility -- for the third year in a row -- isn't one of them.
[16,500 swimmers enjoyed the Northridge pool, in 1999, the last year it was opened. Today, only 3, 000 children can be accommodated in the busing to local public pools via the City Camp Program. The Northridge Council has championed the cause of the 13,000 persons who will not be able to use the pool each year until it is reopened. So far there are no funds identified to pay for a new pool and it could be closed for 2 to 10 years. We are working hard to see that viable funding and building options are identified and made a reality.]
For Valley residents without access to the pools they pay for with their own tax dollars, City Hall's bungling is even more disappointing than the June gloom
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