Seal Beach Zoning
The Housing Element is a major problem for Seal Beach. If we fail to comply we face the following consequences:
1. Suspension of local control on building matters
2. Court approval of housing developments
3. Fees
4. Lawsuits from developers/advocates
5. Loss of grants
There is very little undeveloped land in Seal Beach, and complying with the Housing Element may conflict with our Open Space/Recreation/Conservation Element.
I love Seal Beach, and do not want to see it further developed. It is a small town, and should stay as such.
Matt Grayson
Seal Beach
‘Can I get a witness’
On Friday June 7, between 9 and 9:30 p.m., a pedestrian was hit by a two-door white truck. If you witnessed this vehicle in Sunset Beach or have surveillance footage—your help is needed!
The driver sped away from the scene on Broadway at S. Pacific going South on S. Pacific Avenue for an undetermined distance before possibly returning to Pacific Coast Highway.
The 16th Street resident hit by the truck was walking Southbound across Broadway when the newly remodeled (late ’70s or ’80s) truck with tinted windows veered out of the lane hitting the young woman. She was taken to the hospital from the scene. Her injuries are debilitating and she will need surgery as the driver broke her ankle, fractured her back and also drove over her arm. If you have any information at all please contact the Huntington Beach Police Department at (714) 960-8811Case # 13-007686.
Diana Dodson
Sunset Beach
Bamboozled again by Measure A
Cypress residents are being bamboozled again … This time with the enticing promises of Measure “A.” If they approve this measure, they will:
• Lose their “open space” zoning
• Create a windfall profit for the owners
• Re-zone to industrial
• Set a precedent for industrial zoning for the entire race track property
• End-up with (when the track closes—possibly in two years), a “huge” through-put (one-day turn-around) trucking distribution center
• See cargo shipments come to and from the center from the ports, railyards, and airports via 710 to 91-Carmenita- Moody, 405 – 605 – Katella, 605 – Valley View, 91 – Valley View
• Also, possibly see, if the base closes and becomes a municipal airport (due to “sequester” and BRAC (base closing and realignment 2015-2017) cargo coming in off Lexington and Katella
Cypress residents were deceived by Measure “L,” and, it’s happening again!!! This time, they can really lose “BIG.”
P.S. You don’t need truck bays (docks) outside a building to unload. U.P.S. in Cerritos unloads their semi’s inside to rear platforms connected to conveyor belts that run down into the center of the building where they hand load their delivery trucks. All you need is a “BIG” building with a few cargo doors.
Lois Waddle
Los Alamitos
Vote No on Measure A
Like Measure L, Measure A is over 150 pages of new Cypess law written by Sacramento developer Christo Bardis’ attorneys.
Like “L,” “A” takes away voter control of dozens of acres of open space won by dedicated Cypress citizens in 1987, before Bardis bought the property.
Like “L,” “A” is essentially a piecemeal up-zone so Bardis can “flip” the parcels and pocket millions in extra profits.
Last year, Bardis gave us “L,” a seniors’ center that turned into a trucking terminal, unless we stop it.
Don’t be fooled twice!
Vote No on A!
Dave Emerson
Los Alamitos
Voting YES on Measure A
I moved to Cypress in 1973 when it was mostly strawberry fields and farms so I know about the loss of open space.
I live across the street from the Los Alamitos Business Park with trucks coming and going all day and night so I know about trucks.
I voted NO on Measure “L” because I lived through the Shaw Carpet fiasco as my parents live very close to Shaw.
I saw the ambiguous wording in measure “L” and voted NO! The measure passed and we were left with ProLogis as the landowners, and the fight was on.
After our neighbors in Los Alamitos made us aware of the fraud that was perpetrated against the voters of Cypress with measure “L,” I joined in the fight with the CFRD.
I walked the streets of Cypress passing out NO on “A” flyers because it had the same ambiguous wording as measure “L.”
Steve Mauss and George Pardon worked tirelessly with the landowners and the city to work out the deed restrictions that have been found to be enforceable by three different land attorneys.
I am now confidant that passing measure “A” is the right thing for my family because if there are houses on that land near my home it can never be a warehouse with more trucks.
I think it gives us a better chance to beat ProLogis with more homes near their site.
I’m not worried about the homes near the stables because I don’t think the stables will be there by the time the houses along the back of the project are occupied and selling the homes does not concern me, having them built does.
As I have trucks driving by my house all day and night I am not willing to have any more trucks.
For that reason I will continue to fight the ProLogis project with everything I have.
I have friends that live in Carrier Row and I owe it to them and my family to continue the fight.
So to recap, I voted NO on measure “L” and I’m voting YES on measure “A.” I encourage all Cypress residents to do the same.
Thank You,
Douglas Nobles
Cypress
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