The Department of Beaches and harbors and the County of Los Angeles is trying to OverBuild and will mess up the Marina if we do not get involved.   Those of you who care...  I hope that includes a lot of you MDRA members... need to speak up.  the County and Dpt of Beaches and Harbors is hoping that we do not.

Reprint...   From Nancy Marino of "We Are Marina Del Rey"

Hi, All,

 

Attached  is the sneak "end run" that the County pulled at the Coastal Commission on June 11.  It was not agendized as a separate item, but was in the Deputy Director's oral report only (not in the written report attached to the agenda.  The Deputy Director's report purportedly covers only "exemptions, waivers, emergency permits, immaterial amendments and extensions."

 

This proposal would fast-track seven projects (not 6, as the County claims) through the Coastal Commission WITHOUT doing the comprehensive LCP update the CCC recommends in the LCP Review.

It includes seven of the eight PUBLIC PARKING LOTS the County proposes to convert to private use:

    Parcel GG (at Dock 72 on Fiji Way)

    Parcel 49R (the Public Boat Launch Ramp)

    Parcel 49M (next to the visitor center at Admiralty/Mindanao - entrance on Mindanao)

    Parcel OT  (next to the Oxford Basin on Admiralty Way near Palawan)

    Parcel NR  (across from Mothers' Beach on Palawan Way)

    Parcel IR  (at Mothers' Beach)

    Parcel FF (at Via Marina/Marquesas Way)

 

This proposal is an egregious attempt to facilitate major land grab by large developers without any opportunity for public participation in the decision to CHANGE the LAND USE of the parcels, most of which are currently zoned for PUBLIC USE ONLY.  It covers a majority of the twelve existing public parking lots.  Our current LCP states emphatically that only a park or parking shall be allowed on an existing public parking lot.

 

Please note:  this proposal includes a mega-project for the boat launch ramp and Chace Park expansion parcel (Parcels 49/77), which it claims is "in the pipeline" but has never been presented or described in public.  It would more than double the amount of proposed NEW commercial/retail in the Marina, plus up to 26,000 sq. ft. of office space and 255 new residential units, located on the boater facilities that will be increasingly needed as the County continues to pursue the elimination of many hundreds of small boat slips from the Marina. 

 

This is BAD PLANNING by the County.

 

This is NOT a public process regarding the basic decisions about land use.

 

Please join the call for a master plan NOW.  Call 310.306.4275 to help us circulate the petition for a Marina del Rey Master Plan to your organization or around the community.

 

 

Together,
We ARE Marina del Rey,

Nancy

www.wearemdr.com

This is important for a lot of reasons.  Not just the loss of the boat ramp and free parking while going fishing on the MDR Sportboats.  Access to "Mothers Beach" for launching small boats and Kayaks etc.   Wind will be cut off for the youth sailing programs.  parking will be reduced in the area.  Water views will be reduced.  Traffic and health concerns for all of us and the animals in MDR.

Please check into it.   Speak up!

Keith L.