Developer Rick Caruso and anyone else invested in the community’s future will be interested to know that a sample size polled by the Community Planning Initiative for Pacific Palisades (CPIPP) wants to maintain the small-town feel.
The 48-question survey, which 151 residents completed during a community visioning workshop in January, was released in May and comes at a poignant time its chairperson calls “a perfect storm.”
That storm Donna Vaccarino refers to is the frenzy of attention surrounding Caruso’s interest in the 2.77-acre Village parcel and the City of Los Angeles’s effort to revise its zoning code, which hasn’t been updated since 1946.
The survey covered participant demographics, use and traveling habits, wants versus needs of goods and services, parking, pedestrian and bicycle use, views on mixed-use development and other types of architecture, climate change and sustainability.
Vaccarino serves as a member of the non-profit Palisades Beautiful, the Pacific Palisades Community Council and the town’s Design Review Board. Now manning CPIPP since July 2013, she’s organized 21 strategic planning meetings and has raised $7,000 on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter for the campaign. The UCLA Luskin School of Social Public Affairs’ Urban Design School helped produce the survey as it conducts its own study of the Palisades Village.
“What we hope, as a community, we are having an out loud discussion about what’s important,” Vaccarino said. “Caruso wants to hear it. I truly believe he wants it to succeed.”
Dovetailing with the survey results, CPIPP plans to tackle the always-trending topic of parking in full on July 15 with Donald Shoup, professor of urban planning at UCLA. It begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library Community Room.
SURVEY RESULTS
55+ | Age of approximately 60 percent of respondents
30 | Percentage of respondents who are retired
40 | Percentage of respondents involved in civic life
55 | Percentage of respondents who would want permit parking in residential areas during commercial hours
87 | Percentage of respondents who think the Palisades needs more parking
89 | Percentage of respondents who want underground parking
92 | Percentage of respondents who would not pay for valet parking
Movie Theater | Most desired program or service
Traffic | Biggest problem in town
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