The California Coastal Commission will not hear Los Angeles Unified's application for a permit to construct a proposed high school in San Pedro until January. The meeting had been scheduled for Nov. 14 (agenda) -- and notices were already sent out this week.
I found this out yesterday when I called the commission to get a copy of the staff report for the coastal development permit for South Region High School No. 15, which would be built on district property at the former Upper Reservation of Fort MacArthur. The school is set to house about 500 magnet kids from San Pedro High School.
Commission staff told me the meeting was being postponed until January.
Edwin Van Ginkel, LAUSD's senior development manager, said commission staff had told him that their biologist would be unable to complete a review of the proposed wind turbines (and their potential effects on migratory birds) in time for the November meeting. Van Ginkel said the district could have presented the application in two parts, but ... "We want them to review the same scope of work that our board is reviewing."
The district will not go before the commission in December because that meeting is in San Francisco, he said.
The January meetings set for Jan. 7-9 in the San Diego area (PDF of tentative 2009 meeting sked).
The Board of Education's review of the project EIR is still set for Dec. 9.
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