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The people YOU elected, the COUNCIL/AGENCY, are STILL negotiating (as of Sept. 6, 2000) with OliverMcMillan (IN SECRET)! No conclusions have been reached YET? Wouldn't you like to know what is going on? Will you be told "they" have reached a "better" arrangement! Better for WHOM? Will it be "better" like PLAYA VISTA? PLEASE, stay informed!!
CULVER
CITY
ANSWERS QUESTIONS
INSPIRED BY
LA WEEKLY
This is VERY long. Be patient, and you will see the whole
story.
THE INITIATIVE WILL BE
ON THE BALLOT (April, 2000)
GET THE FACTS HERE!
FULL TEXT
OF THE
INITIATIVE
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SMOG!
POLLUTION!
YOUR CHILDREN!
from
LA TIMES
The most recent story is detailed in the
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Let's just look at a few figures: Las Vegas, population over 25 times the size of Culver City, invests $32 million in 16 screens, 3,000 seats!
Culver City: Latest COMPLETE figure will total just about $32 million, also. (Where is the money coming from?) This is for 16 screens and over 3000 seats!
Somebody, somewhere, explain the logic to me! Please!
If you have questions, call a City Councilperson.
This is about much more than money! Pray tell, where do you find, anywhere 3000 seats! 16 screens! within 350 feet of a grammar school? YES! 300 FEET!
This is about a, albeit flawed! but nevertheless a certified EIR (FEIR, if you will) that has UNMITIGABLE, BUT ACCEPTABLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY HAZARDS. (Read this on Culver City's own website, accessible from
Your elected City Council feels auto exhaust, noise, crowds, traffic, all impossible to "mitigate" is justified by "overriding benefits", ie money. Childrens' health for MONEY!
Please, LEARN about the initiative!
Thanks for taking this extra time, here!
Read, also, what was written
in November, 1998 in the
THE SAN DIEGO DAILY TRANSCRIPT
about
OUR
CULVER CITY!
Is there a difference, to you, between the City of Culver City, and the Culver City Redevelopment Agency?
How much debt is there, now? Who is going to pay? How much money is your Council/Agency paying/bribing businesses to locate, remodel or whatever? The debt is over 35 million dollars? Is this what closed sessions are all about?
Think about: has the (night time, residential) population changed in the last 30 years? Have the number of city employees changed in the last 30 years? Who are they serving? Is our City Hall primarily for the commercial, industrial and business community. It is very possible that it is!
Is this quiet, restful, tree-filled small "town" becoming a raging additional "core" for LOS ANGELES, with everything you came here to escape?
Visualize, if you will, this street filled with cars, looking for a place to park! EVERY DAY, ALL DAY!
` I invite comments!
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I do not understand the "posture" or "decorum" of our City Council. This is why we have not one or two, but 3 and possibly four citizen groups at "WAR". At least one, is trying to "DESTROY" one other group.
You might examine the "CITIZENS FOR A LIVABLE CULVER CITY" and the "Culver City Community Network". The "CCCN" can be reached by a link from the "CLCC"! (This will be found just below.)
Does this suggest "unity" in a community?
I ask "Why are these groups necessary?"
And now, there is a group, unofficially sponsored? by the council, itself! called "ABC"! Can you believe this? "Alliance for a Better City". The audacity is unbelievable! I believe this group is bent on destroying at least one other group!!!
There are other community groups, in this city of 40,000 in a five square mile area!
The clock is ticking!
It is time now, to get involved!
If not now, when?
(when it's too late!)
Are you concerned about the future of CULVER CITY?
(Read the traffic/parking report paid for by your elected
City Council, with YOUR money!)
There will be a minimum 3,200 "new" seats for an ***AMC
complex IN DOWNTOWN.
Now, the curtain falls on AMC!!!
READ THIS
READ THIS
So far, less than 2,000 spaces for parking, spread over
about a six block area??? are planned! How about parking
for existing businesses, and a future CULVER THEATER? (Parking is presently provided in CITY HALL GARAGE.
This over three thousand seat complex is planned
within 300 feet of a grammar school! (I ask, IS THIS
LEGAL? AND, if it is, why?)
WAKE UP, CULVER CITY. Where do you think over 10,000
people (on a commercially GOOD day) will come from? And
what kind of movies will attract a crowd like that?
Why has this City Council (acting as the Redevelopment
Agency) persisted in negotiating for three (3) years,
excluding any other possible alternative?
Is it possible, our downtown area of approximately six
square blocks or less! will in all probability be
completely strangled with traffic and noise and
pollution? And, IT WILL BE PERMANENT, for you, for me,
AND THE CHILDREN in the neighborhood and in the school!
You can look forward to future respiratory problems! at
the very least!
***The AMC megaplex is at the leading edge of theatre design, offering moviegoers the finest customer amenities and the most dynamic screen presentation available, along with a greater choice of films and viewing times. A megaplex is a multi-screen theatre featuring wall-to-wall screens, stadium-style seating in plush, high-backed LoveSeats® with retractable armrests and AMC's signature cupholders, and full digital sound systems featuring Sony Dynamic Digital Sound® (SDDS®).
AMC Entertainment Inc. is a leader in the theatrical exhibition industry. Through its circuit of AMC Theatres, the Company operates 210 theatres with 2,916 screens in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal, Spain and France. Its Common Stock trades on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol AEN. The Company, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., has a website at www.amctheatres.com.
go to the following link
and read some of the most
revealing information for any citizen
facing a new development in their
neighborhood or community.
Read what is happening in EUREKA, CALIFORNIA as the community is faced with a new
WAL-MART
(TWO articles)
and
after Eureka and Wal-Mart, read what follows!
LA CANADA-FLINTRIDGE
DAILY BREEZE
MANHATTAN BEACH
(also, TWO articles!)
As of Sept. 6, 2000, this is ongoing
This is probably FINAL!
WAKE UP, CULVER CITY! Is this WESTWOOD? Just how many
of those projected 4,000 will "dine" and "shop" in
addition to "going to the movies"? (One seating! - And,
wouldn't you expect at least three shows, daily?)
Each day brings us closer to a total loss of our city to "special interests"!
Your city budget is out of control, as it rapidly
approaches $2,500 per person, every man, woman, and child,
per year!
Do you know what costs so much money?
Traffic is increasing, as this is written!
As the corridors through our "little" community are
widened to allow for greater traffic flow, what do you
think happens?
This, in turn, increases our "daytime population". What do you think that produces?
Litigation is costing our community an average of a half
million dollars a year! (This is a VERY conservative
figure!)
Whatever open space exists, is being gobbled up for
development, increasing either density with more
residents, or DENSITY AND TRAFFIC, with more business!
None of this is improving your quality of life, or
PROTECTING YOUR INVESTMENT IN YOUR PROPERTY!
In the meantime, the few parks we do have, are becoming
more and more crowded, with each passing day!
When was the last time YOU attended a City Council or
Redevelopment Agency meeting? Have you ever watched a
meeting on television or listened to one on the radio?
Already, I am observing our citizens being "discounted"
when they approach the speakers podium at Council/Agenda
meetings!
| I am observing individuals "positioning" (affiliating with the "right" organizations), for future POLITICAL AMBITIONS! |
Are you willing to see a small group "take over" Culver
City, as was the case, not too many years ago?
"ALL" our elected officials should be "ACCOUNTABLE"!
FACT: Last election, nowhere near 30% of eligible voters,
actually participated in our local election!
I hope, soon, to detail all of the information.
PLEASE, help me "get the word out"!
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
KEEP INFORMED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING
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