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Post by Gokhan on Oct 23, 2009 16:19:59 GMT -8
There has been such overreaction to this maintenance facility. It's really nothing. People should go visit the Green Line facility by Aviation near Rosecreans before they make so much noise. It's funny that the hybrid site has condos built immediately adjacent to the facility in order to buffer the site from the existing residences. It doesn't make sense at all.
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Post by darrell on Oct 23, 2009 22:37:25 GMT -8
The Santa Monica City Council will make its final recommendations for the Expo Line maintenance yard next Tuesday, 10/27. Here's the full staff report ... Here's the map of the revised maintenance facility from the staff report. The existing Verizon buildings are the two large white roofs south of the yard tracks, beyond the proposed footprint.
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Post by Gokhan on Oct 24, 2009 10:01:53 GMT -8
Here's the map of the revised maintenance facility from the staff report. One good thing about the revised plans is that the bike path will go straight through, as it should. It makes no sense at all to divert the bike path. I think the large Santa Monica College parking lots needs to be given to the maintenance facility. I don't know the purpose of this parking lot, as it is way too far from the college campus.
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Post by kenalpern on Oct 24, 2009 16:06:41 GMT -8
Would the parking lots, then, have to be shifted to other parts of the city? After all, SMC students have to have some access to the college.
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Post by darrell on Oct 24, 2009 17:00:58 GMT -8
Would the parking lots, then, have to be shifted to other parts of the city? After all, SMC students have to have some access to the college. Yes, potentially to city-owned land on the south side of the airport adjacent to an SMC facility there.
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Post by kenalpern on Oct 24, 2009 20:23:04 GMT -8
Sigh...that's what I thought, and that's what I feared. Expect another war between Bill Rosendahl and Mar Vista on one side, and Santa Monica on the other side.
(Sigh)
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Post by warrenbowman on Oct 28, 2009 21:54:24 GMT -8
There has been such overreaction to this maintenance facility. It's really nothing. People should go visit the Green Line facility by Aviation near Rosecreans before they make so much noise. It's funny that the hybrid site has condos built immediately adjacent to the facility in order to buffer the site from the existing residences. It doesn't make sense at all. Maybe it's a creative new use of the term "Transit Oriented Development"?
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Post by metrocenter on Oct 29, 2009 7:51:28 GMT -8
Does anybody know who at SMC uses that parking lot? That is very far from campus. But of course, land availability for parking lots is very low throughout the area. Finding replacement parking would be difficult.
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Post by darrell on Oct 29, 2009 8:23:02 GMT -8
Does anybody know who at SMC uses that parking lot? That is very far from campus. But of course, land availability for parking lots is very low throughout the area. Finding replacement parking would be difficult. I see quite a few students who park there and take a Big Blue Bus shuttle along Stewart and Pico to the main campus.
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Oct 29, 2009 9:20:29 GMT -8
Now that there will be a future Expo Line station in a reasonable distance, can't SMC run shuttles to the nearest station and not worry about more parking? Isn't the expectation that if we build transit, less people would need to drive? We need to start cutting down on the parking requirements, especially near transit stations. Losing 100 parking spots should not be the end of the world. It will make more people consider transit. Look at downtown LA...more people take metro there because 1) transit is accessible, 2) parking is limited, and 3) parking is expensive. The same rules should begin to apply in dense corridors or where transit is accessible.
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