As we can all see day-to-day, the hillside is being repaired. The project is coming along on schedule and without any major hiccups. It is scheduled to be completed in August 2008. It will result in the hill being in better condition than it has been in years, if not ever. Imagine the relief when we have a hill with a solid foundation and a street we can drive down without moving barriers.
Great news. We will no longer have a free-for-all at the subject intersection. Tomorrow (Friday, May 16), the city contractors will be out after 9 a.m. to begin laying down the new striping design. It will be on a test program for a maximum of 6 months and will be determined by the residents whether it is the best workable plan for that intersection.
I hope we all find the new traffic pattern safer and more user friendly than previous plans, or no plans as the case was. If, once the striping is complete and you’ve had opportunities to drive through it, you have any comments, please direct them to me at culvercity99 (at) aol (dot) com.
Good luck and safer driving.
Mike Bauer
President
C.C.N.A.
I believe most residents of Culver Crest will agree that having a progressive school system is vital to not only educating our children but of maintaining high living standards and property values to its neighbors. As such, we have an opportunity to support a new and dynamic program that is taking place right here at El Rincon. A Science Discover Lab is being developed that will be hands-on state-of-the-art and used by the entire Culver City Unified School District.
Please open the attached letter from the Culver City Education Foundation that will explain the program and inform you how you can support this program. It is rare that an opportunity like this is available. We can help it come to fruition.
Your Culver Crest Neighborhood Association
Mike Bauer
President
Yesterday, our CCNA Vice President Mark Salkin appeared on KCRW’s “Which Way L.A.” program, and talked about PXP Oil vis-a-vis our neighborhood. Also featured on the program was Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, our County Supervisor. You can download the podcast and listen for yourself!
Gabe Garcia (Culver City Traffic Engineer) has indicated that he has received approval for striping the Overland Blvd. and Ranch Road intersection per CCNA’s revised proposal.
He said that the striping project will now be put out to bid (3 bids minimum). While he wouldn’t commit to an approximate installation date, we guess it will happen within one to two months.
Please note that the additional items (the “Yield” sign in the Kelmore left turn lane from Ranch and the setting back of the “Stop” sign southbound on Overland) are not included. Also, the black and blue lines are traffic patterns only and not lines on the street.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
LOWER NORTH OUTFALL SEWER (LNOS) REHABILITATION PROJECT
PROJECT UPDATE – APRIL, 2008
Dear Neighbor:
The City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works is repairing many of its aging sewer lines. Part of this work includes the rehabilitation of a 3.5 mile segment of the 80-year old Lower North Outfall Sewer (LNOS) that runs through parts of Culver City. Culver City’s smaller sewers feed into City of Los Angeles larger diameter sewers, so it is important to keep them in good working condition. When completed, the LNOS will be more reliable and will reduce potential odors in your community.
The majority of the rehabilitation work is taking place inside the sewer tunnel to minimize impacts to your neighborhood, but some above-ground activities are necessary. Starting Tuesday, April 15, 2008 and continuing through Friday, April 18, 2008, the contractor will use the maintenance hole located near the intersection of Overland Avenue and Kelmore Street to clean a section of the sewer pipe. The sewer debris will be hydro-blasted to a location further upstream where it will be safely removed from the sewer. The sewer cleaning work will take place between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The contractor will set up and remove his equipment daily, and traffic control measures will be implemented accordingly.
Please be assured we have coordinated with the City of Culver City engineering and traffic departments prior to doing this work. City of Los Angeles project inspectors will carefully monitor the work to ensure that it is done as quickly, quietly, and safely as possible. However, if you have questions or need more information, please call the project’s community outreach representative, Vikki Zale, at (877) 700-3069. This hotline uses a message/pager system. When calling, please leave a message and Vikki will call you back as soon as possible
(from an email originally sent to Mike Bauer, President of the CCNA)
It’s been awhile since I’ve talked with you about the City of Los Angeles Lower North Outfall Sewer (LNOS) Phase II Rehabilitation Project. We want you to know about some work that is starting at Overland and Kelmore. The intent was not to work at this location until a couple of months from now, however the contractor ran into a situation where he needs to access the maintenance hole near this intersection sooner rather than later.
The contractor is currently cleaning the sewer using hydroblasters. The work is being done from access points along the sewer alignment. The work to take place at Overland/Kelmore is a half-way point between Playa Court and the West Los Angeles College. The hydroblasters are not able to “blast” the debris in the sewer from Playa Court to the college and an interim point is needed to make sure the debris is moved adequately to the college where it can be removed and disposed of properly.
We have met with the City of Culver City and hand-delivered notification to the community around the intersection (see notice below). The contractor only found out that the debris was not being moved adequately last Saturday. We hope that future notices to the community will be in a more timely manner. Hopefully, everything you need to know is in the notice below. However, please feel free to call me at my office tomorrow at (310) 822-2010 if you have any questions.
Thanks, Vikki Zale
Harris & Company
Community Outreach
(Received from one of our neighbors)
Last Saturday, April 12, somebody pried open the rear sliding glass door of a house on Hill Road. Whoever it was, pepper-sprayed the 2 small dogs in the face and then took some jewelry. The owners discovered this when they arrived home around 8 pm. Apparently, they had just missed the burglar(s).
The dogs are okay–the owners quickly bathed them, and there appear to be no further effects of the pepper spray. But apparently the house, and particularly the bedroom where the dogs were, continued to smell of pepper spray after the owners got home.Culver City police investigated, and went door-to-door to alert neighbors and look for anyone who might have seen something suspicious. A late-model, nice-looking, large white car with what appeared to be a middle-aged man was spotted in front of the burglarized home around 5:30 pm. But the car might not have had anything to do with the burglary.
The police officer cautioned neighbors to be wary of people knocking on doors and asking to do small jobs. Many times, it’s just a front to see if anyone is home. The officer advised anyone receiving such an offer to call the police, who will then check out the solicitors.
A Houston oil company has agreed to shut down its offshore oil production off Santa Barbara County decades early in exchange for approval this year to drill into untapped undersea reserves and cash in on the nation’s record oil prices.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oil11apr11,0,6514396.story
On behalf of the CCNA, a public records act request has been submitted to Rose Hamilton, the Assistant Administrator of the Regional Planning Department of the County of Los Angeles. Requested were:
- All contracts and agreements with regards to the preparation of the Baldwin Hills EIR and CSD, and especially the contracts with John Pierson of Marine Research Specialists (the folks who are creating the EIR), and any contracts the County has with PXP for reimbursement of EIR costs.
- All portions of the EIR that have been shared with any employee, representative, officer, or agent of PXP Oil. It seems that PXP has been given a copy of the screencheck EIR, which we were told was for “internal” review only — internal to the County, that is.
Culver Crest Neighborhood Association 