On Friday afternoon, LAUSD released its draft environmental impact report for the district's proposed high school on 39 acres at the former Army installation at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro. The school is officially known, for now, as South Region High School No. 15.
(The facilities department's laschools.org website, where the report is available, was down when I posted this ... I'll add a link when it's back up.) It's here.
This document, with design details and traffic plans and the like, is the one that many San Pedro LAUSD-watchers have been waiting for -- especially those folks in the residential Palisades area the largely surrounds the site. I haven't had time to give it more than a cursory glance yet, but I did notice there was a plan for 50-foot windmills on the north part of the site. I wonder how that will go over with neighbors.
District officials said they've tried their darnedest to respond to the concerns of area residents with the new plans. David Kooper and Jacob Haik -- chief and deputy chief of staff, respectively, to district 7 board member Richard Vladovic -- met with members of NOISE (the group of residents who've opposed the project) on Thursday, they said. I'm eager to hear reaction to the report from NOISE members and others.
(A story ran in today's paper about last week's meeting at which the district discussed contamination and cleanup of the site.)
Comments will be accepted on the DEIR through Oct. 10.
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