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Petition and Testimony, For your consideration - June 7 meeting - Item No. 3, 16-0627 CD 11

Tracey Price <[email protected]> Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:42 AMTo: [email protected], [email protected], Mike Bonin <[email protected]>Cc: Tracey Price <[email protected]>

TO: Councilmember Jose Huizar, Chair PLUM committee and PLUM committee members

RE: June 7 Meeting Item No. 3 16-0627 CD 11Outstanding concerns - Caruso Affiliated Palisades Village Project: One-way vs Two-way Swarthmore and

Traffic issues

I have attached a copy of the petition below plus the link (https://plsgivemefood.change.org/p/the-people-of-the- palisades-keep-swarthmore-a-2-way-street) to our online petition where we have collected over 200 signatures OPPOSING a 1-Wav Swarthmore. Caruso Affiliated proposes to convert Swarthmore, currently a 2-Way Street, to a 1-Way street. This will have a severe negative impact on the residential neighborhood surrounding the development.

Back in the 1980’s, Swarthmore was converted to 1-Way, it proved such a disaster it only lasted a few months before they converted it back to 2-Way. During the 1-Way period, a child was struck by a car at the bottom of my street, see the parent’s letter of testimony attached below. The 1-Way Swarthmore altered the traffic pattern resulting in cars circling through residential streets with no outlet to the commercial district.

An independent traffic is necessary to study the actual effects of this proposal. The residents and taxpayers deserve to be represented by the councils and representatives they elect and pay for. I submitted this information to Councilman Mike Bonin with NO RESPONSE. I hope your office has the respect and accountability to realize their duty to the people, unlike Mr. Bonin.

Sincerely,Tracey Price 1134 Charm Acres Place Pacific Palisades, Ca 90272 310.488.2702

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Mount O Saint Mary’s University

May 22, 2016

To Whom it May Concern:

I am writing this in support of the Palisades residents who are requesting that Swarthmore not become a one-way street. The impact that will have on the neighborhood has the potential for devastating effects, with the safety of the children in the area put at risk.

I reside at 1104 Charm Acres Place, the street that intersects with Albright in the block parallel to Swarthmore. Years ago, there was a time when Swarthmore was made a one-way street for a while, which significantly increased traffic on Albright as it became the part of the circular traffic pattern to access the one-way direction of Swarthmore. Drivers, intent on going around the block to look for parking or accessing Swarthmore, were not experiencing Albright as a neighborhood avenue, but as a thoroughfare.

During this time Cub Scouts met in our home. After one of those meetings, the boys were playing in the front yard and my ten-year-old son (one of the cubs) ran into the street. With all the cars parked on Albright and the increased traffic, pedestrian safety was severely compromised, and the worst happened. Brandon was hit by a car—not necessarily anyone's fault, but a result of too many cars and little visibility. I found one of his shoes over 30 feet away from where he was hit.

The Cubs ran into the house shouting that he had been hit by a car and I found him lying near the gutter on Albright. His femur (the largest bone in his thigh) had been broken and he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. Until you have held your child's quivering hand in yours in the back of an ambulance, you have no idea of the terror and powerlessness than a mother can experience.

Fortunately, Dr. Ronald Gowey was at the hospital, was able to examine Brandon in the emergency room, take him to surgery to set his leg, and subsequently put his leg in traction where he would stay in the hospital for six weeks. When Brandon was released, he was in a body cast that went from his waist, and down the entire leg with the broken femur. There was major concern that the femur, being such a large bone and Brandon being only ten, would not continue to grow at the same rate as the other leg and he would be left with a considerable limp the rest of his life. Brandon missed most of his fourth- grade year at Palisades Elementary, as his body cast did not allow him to attend school during the long months of recovery. His days were filled with tutors, baby-sitters, loneliness, bedpans and urinals—not a pleasant experience for a child. Months of confinement to a wheelchair and the occasional use of crutches (so he could stand upright when necessary), sweatpants and oversited t-shirts or sweatshirts are still vivid memories for him and myself today. It was a tremendously traumatic experience for all, including the children that witnessed it and all of the neighbors nearby.

Chalon Campus, 12001 Chalon Road, Los Angeles, CA 90049 Doheny Campus, 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, CA 90007 www.msmu.edu

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I subsequently attended a Community Council meeting that was addressing the permanence of a oneway Swarthmore, and I voiced my concerns about the increased risk to our children. A response from one of the Swarthmore merchants was, "People have to wake up and smell the coffee—the Palisades is not a sleepy little village anymore." No one then, or today, expects the Palisades to be a "sleepy little village." However, it does remain a village sitting smack in the middle of an extensive residential, with multiple elementary schools, and is a family-based small community. Business interests are important, but cannot be allowed to determine the quality of life for adjacent residents, families and children. Extra parking and ease of access to commercial sites is not a sufficient reason to put increased traffic into residential areas. Albright Street is embedded in a neighborhood with a great number of children whose safety is of paramount concern. Hopefully, our elected officials and their affiliated agents will remember this and consider the needs of their non-commerical constituents as they make decisions that affect our lives and our community.

Sandra Harte, Ph.D Professor of Sociology 1104 Charm Acres Place Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

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For your consideration - June 7 meeting - Item No. 3,16-0627 CD 112 messages

Sandra Eddy <[email protected]> Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 3:40 PMTo: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]

TO: Councilmember Jose Huizar, Chair PLUM committee and PLUM committee members

RE: June 7 Meeting Item No. 3 16-0627 CD 11Outstanding concerns - Caruso Affiliated Palisades Village Project: One-way vs Two-way Swarthmore and Traffic

issues

It is my understanding that PLUM Committee is the next step in the process before this project is submitted to City Council for final approval. For your information, hundreds of Palisades residents have signed petitions, expressing our disapproval of converting Swarthmore Ave. from its current two-way configuration to a one-way street as proposed by Caruso development. On May 15, 2016, I submitted the following email to Councilman Bonin expressing my personal thoughts about this issue:

Caruso Affiliated bought property in the Palisades with the intent to do business. Residents have bought property, many of us decades ago, with the intent to live in the Palisades for the rest of our lives. Change is inevitable but there are aspects of the Caruso project that WILL negatively impact our lives. Changing Swarthmore to one way is the most significant of these changes.

Brentwood-Pacific Palisades Community Plan, states issues that need to be addressed are:

• “Need to protect neighborhoods from spill-over of commercial areas traffic.” and “Protect residential areas from through traffic. “

• Making Swarthmore one-way does the exact opposite of protecting our neighborhoods from spill over traffic. It CREATES additional spill-over traffic into the Alphabet streets and directs through traffic into our neighborhoods that used to use Swarthmore as access to Sunset. Alphabet streets parents taking their kids to school and morning commuters are the most impacted by this change.

Changing Swarthmore from two-way to one-way will:

a. eliminate a highly trafficked exit from the Alphabet streets,b. drive additional traffic onto Monument and Via de la Paz, andc. alter traffic patterns in the Alphabet streets and on Sunset in ways that have not been thoroughly studied

• The only traffic study that has been conducted was done by Caruso Affiliated. There needs to be an independent traffic study to analyze the impact of additional traffic and dangers created bv the traffic on Monument. Albright and Via de la Paz specifically as stated above.

There has been discussion about converting Swarthmore back to two-way if it doesn’t work out the as one-way. If we do this right the first time, keep Swarthmore two-way, a do-over will not be necessary. Thank you, Councilman and committee members, for your consideration.

Respectfully,

Sandy Eddy 1155 Via de la Paz Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 310 454-1155





Sandra Eddy <[email protected]> Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:00 PMTo: [email protected]: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

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