Harbor Commission Meeting Today - San Pedro Waterfront Public Comment

This notice arrived in my inbox at 8 PM last night - my late notice is your late notice. Here it is as they sent it. The whole purpose of the meeting is the Waterfront project - there's nothing else on the agenda.

The Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners
Hosts a Special Public Meeting on the San Pedro Waterfront Project

WHEN: Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: Crowne Plaza - Los Angeles Harbor Hotel
601 S. Palos Verdes Street
San Pedro, California
Link to Directions

The Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners is holding a special public meeting to report on the San Pedro Waterfront Project. Comments previously received from the public will be discussed. Please click here to view the meeting agenda.

Breeze Coverage of the Scoping Meeting

The Breeze has a great article covering Tuesday's scoping meeting. It's totally mandatory reading.

Read the whole enchilada here. Sounds like they blew it on this one. Based upon what I've seen from the article, heard on the streets and read elsewhere, it looks like the plan is so laughably bad as to be capable of pleasing no one, let alone inspiring any measure of vision.

Almost all of the 25 speakers derided the plan. Among the more colorful project descriptions hurled at Tuesday night's meeting: B.S., a "drive-by" waterfront, piecemeal planning, a subsidy for the cruise ship industry, urban planning without imagination, a cookie-cutter version of other ports, absurd, disjointed, superfluous.

In what seemed like an impossibility, objections to the new plan were so widespread that they drew together former adversaries in a rare show of unity. Low-density and high-density proponents at this week's public hearing all appeared united in their disdain for the new plan, though perhaps for different reasons.

"Some people have dreams, but it looks like someone had a nightmare here," longtime San Pedro resident Ray Patricio said of the plan.