Q: How many old farts complaining about parking and traffic does it take to build a cool city?
A: None.
Janice
· 2 years ago
“I’m not going to lie to anybody and tell them that there isn’t going to be an impact on traffic,” says David White, a redevelopment project officer for Long Beach. “But I can assure you that everything is being done to limit that impact.
Come on now....Maybe Mr. White should notify the residents East of Alamitos that the Downtown RDA plans to dump over 10,000 vehicles more cars per day onto residential streets such as Ocean Blvd., Broadway, and 4th street without any traffic mitigation in violation of the City's Transportation Plan. Worse yet...The City's Transporation Plan is over 25 years old, the City has approved 7500 downtown condos (much higher than anyone planned for or projected) and there is NO PLAN to handle City growth traffic impacts. Developers have not been required to pay their fair share of traffic impacts. Wait until the City has to raise taxes or lower services again to pay for roadway infrastructure. The RDA is razening buildings on one end of town and creating future traffic ghettos because of their total lack of transporation planning. Forget about the safety of homeowners from a tidalwave of traffic overunning their neighborhood.
Look at Cherry north of 7th street. Hair raising accidents rates/Traffic Ghetto . What exactly is cool about the City seizing private property through eminent domain, bulldozing culturally significant buildlings, displacing residents and small businesses, and then handing over the property to developers so that they can build something that looks like any town USA and make a fortune in the biggest public land give away in LB history. Let's all talk about the 350 million dollars in RDA non-voter approved City bonds to pay for this real estate developer's wet dream. Remember the indoor shopping mall? Queen Mary? Smart move? Now let take a look at the failure of "Pike" and "City Place Walmart center". What happens after the real estate market really tanks. Guess who's going to be left holding the bag? You-Really cool huh?
Dowtown Long Beach
· 1 year ago
Shoreline Gateway will be very nice and it's annoying for people with bad taste to try to stop it. Fix the situation with the cars yes......but don't hold the city back while you happen to live in some dumpy cracker box duplex that SHOULD be knocked down. People who live in cracker box duplexes shouldn't mind if Long Beach redoes itself.....because it is in the best interests of a nicer safer community.
Chris Ziegler
· 1 year ago
i agree, people who for some reason rent apartments ARE annoying and tasteless! let's plow out all the renters so things will finally be nicer and safer!
Chris Ziegler
· 1 year ago
also i'm no redevelopment officer but i think if you'd like to present an opinion on development in "downtown long beach" you should be maybe able to spell "downtown"...
Posted By Dowtown Long Beach on January 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Chris Ziegler
· 1 year ago
also check out the fugs
Gunther
· 1 year ago
@ #2 above. i can't believe you're comparing projects like shoreline gateway to things like the pike and city place. if you can't tell the difference between a well designed building and crappy stucco art decco abominations, i really feel for you.
with other parts of your email i agree, but not with that part.
All Comments
A: None.
Come on now....Maybe Mr. White should notify the residents East of Alamitos that the Downtown RDA plans to dump over 10,000 vehicles more cars per day onto residential streets such as Ocean Blvd., Broadway, and 4th street without any traffic mitigation in violation of the City's Transportation Plan. Worse yet...The City's Transporation Plan is over 25 years old, the City has approved 7500 downtown condos (much higher than anyone planned for or projected) and there is NO PLAN to handle City growth traffic impacts. Developers have not been required to pay their fair share of traffic impacts. Wait until the City has to raise taxes or lower services again to pay for roadway infrastructure. The RDA is razening buildings on one end of town and creating future traffic ghettos because of their total lack of transporation planning. Forget about the safety of homeowners from a tidalwave of traffic overunning their neighborhood.
Look at Cherry north of 7th street. Hair raising accidents rates/Traffic Ghetto . What exactly is cool about the City seizing private property through eminent domain, bulldozing culturally significant buildlings, displacing residents and small businesses, and then handing over the property to developers so that they can build something that looks like any town USA and make a fortune in the biggest public land give away in LB history. Let's all talk about the 350 million dollars in RDA non-voter approved City bonds to pay for this real estate developer's wet dream. Remember the indoor shopping mall? Queen Mary? Smart move? Now let take a look at the failure of "Pike" and "City Place Walmart center". What happens after the real estate market really tanks. Guess who's going to be left holding the bag? You-Really cool huh?
Posted By Dowtown Long Beach on January 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
with other parts of your email i agree, but not with that part.