City to ELB: SCREW YOU

City says Screw You to ELB residents...

complete with a boldface lie:

"With no changes to many traditional shopping centers"

New Land Use Element (LUE) maps:

·      Los Altos Center- Mixed-use High Density Apartments

·      Los Altos Gateway- Mixed-use High Density Apartments

·      Circle Center: Mixed Use High Density Apartments

·      PCH/Triangle: Mixed Use High Density

·      Anaheim Street: Mixed Use High Density

·      Los Coyotes Diagonal-High Density Apartments

·      Recreation Park/Wilson High School Adjacent: Mixed Use High Density Apartments

·      Redondo Ave Zaferia District Adjacent: Mixed Use High Density Apartments

·      Cherry Ave: Mixed Use High Density Apartments

“It is clear from the community input we have received that changes to the proposed maps were necessary”

-City Manager Patrick H. West in LUE press release 11/10/17

After four community meetings with hundreds of residents showing-up protesting the mixed-use high density Land Use Element in East Long Beach, the Development Services released the new "revised" high density maps.   

While the original maps before the August 17, 2017 Planning Commission had NO increased density in the single family neighborhoods of East Long Beach, the New LUE maps continue to spread high density "mixed-use" (taking current commercial property and allowing residential) across East Long Beach.

Unbelievably,  the November 10th press-release statement that announced the new LUE maps that allows high density apartments at the Los Altos Center, the Circle Center and the Los Altos Gateway Center states:  

"With no changes to many traditional shopping centers"

The new LUE plan is particularly ominous because of  the passage of SB 35 which would allow super-sizing with NO PARKING requirements at current commercial centers. High Density apartments with qualifying "affordable" units at the Los Altos Center (Sears) and the Los Altos Gateway (Lowes/Kmart) would potentially qualify for NO PARKING requirements.

Most disturbing is that Long Beach Development Services Director Amy Bodek personally ran the October 4th Whaley Park Community Meeting and saw the close to 1000 people show up to the meeting against high density mixed use apartments in East Long Beach.

West 4th District's Crackerbox Land gets 

more density !

Amy Bodek's department also zeroed in on the over-crowded western portion of the 4th District that is home to hundred's of the disastrous 1980 "crackerbox style" apartments. 

Bodek's solution? MORE DENSITY!

Under the new LUE, the residents of the  Zaferia District and the AOC7 Neighborhoods  would be boxed in by density on the neighborhoods main arteries:  Anaheim, Redondo, Cherry, 10th and 7th streets.

The next step is for the Planning Commission to take up the LUE again.  The most likely date for the Planning Commission is December 7th. After being "approved" by the Planning Commission, the next step will be the City Council.

To see the "new revised" LUE maps click on: 
SCREW YOU MAPS

Councilman Supernaw wastes no time in saying NO to the new LUE maps

Fourth District Councilman Daryl Supernaw wasted no time in sending our a statement saying he does not support the new LUE Maps.

 

Less than an hour after the maps were released to the public, Supernaw released this statement in his weekly newsletter:

"The City released the revised Land Use Element Maps today. While most of the height increases were removed east of Clark Ave., much of the density remains on the western side of our district. The Los Altos Shopping Center, southeast of Bellflower and Stearns, remains mixed use commercial/residential. The proposed heights, while reduced from the August map, still include increased density on the north/south corridors of Clark, Los Coyotes Diagonal, Redondo and Cherry. Also, the east/west corridors of 10th St., Anaheim and PCH include increased height. For this reason, I will, not be able to support the proposed Land Use Element map for CD4."    

-4th District Councilman Daryl Supernaw 11/10/17

Click on: SUPERNAW Statement