The city and the Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Board is to hashing out a plan to bring enough ample parking required to open the long anticipated Potrero Canyon Park, the Pacific Palisades Community Council learned on Thursday, June 12.
Norm Kulla, senior counsel to Councilmember Mike Bonin, told the council a new architect was brought on to help bring more spaces “for less controversy,” in order to meet the mandates of the coastal development permit in order to open the park. Currently, the aim is bring an approximate 24-parking space net gain over what exists in the Alma Real Drive lot adjacent to the recreation center.
“The city believes they are feasible,” Kulla told the council, adding that getting parking spaces at the maintenance yard is no longer an option.
Members of the Park Advisory Board, currently handling local oversight of the project from the now-defunct Potrero Canyon Committee, met this week to come up with a design for additional parking at the Alma Real Drive lot.
Also at the June 12 PPCC meeting:
⇐ New PPCC officers were elected for 2014-2015, with terms beginning July 1. Chris Spitz, an attorney and 22-year Palisadian, becomes president after serving two years as vice president. Area 8 Representative Andrew Wolfberg becomes vice president. Incumbent Secretary Jennifer Malaret stays on as secretary and former PPCC President Richard Cohen becomes treasurer. Current President Barbara Kohn becomes president emeritus.
“I’m honored, humbled and excited,” Spitz said.
Elections are heating up as petitioning statements for area and at-large representative seats on the PPCC are due July 10 and can be sent to info@PacPalicc.org.
Anyone interested in being on the PPCC can also stop by the Palisades Farmers Market on Swarthmore on June 22, June 29 and July 6 to meet PPCC members and find out more about the process.
⇐ The PPCC approved a new way for residents to vote during its elections. Currently, the PPCC sends mailed ballots, but the return rate is “really low.” Cohen said the PPCC’s executive committee has been concerned with the low return rate for several years and, citing the changing times, needs to figure how to conduct “fair representative elections.”
Kohn and Spitz said they want to give residents an opportunity to vote in person.
⇐ Comras reported the Design Review Board met July 11 and approved forming a seven-member Design Guidelines Committee to analyze the existing city zoning code guidelines and prepare a new, revised document.
The subcommittee will consist of three DRB members – Comras, Barbara Kohn and member Donna Vaccarrino, Pacific Palisades Historical Society member Randy Young and three other members to be selected at its July 16 meeting.
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