I have not bothered to locate and photograph the closest 2-year, private college that has on-campus housing because I haven't been east of the Mississippi River since I served in the U.S. Air Force.
But I think the photographs below might give everyone some clues as to what could be expected when dormitories are placed adjacent to a two-year college.
May I introduce you to Columbia College near Sonora, California.
This College is a two-year public College that is nestled in the foothills of the western Sierras.
It is located in a hilly area and snow does fall and remain on the ground during most winters.
The college is not located in a residential area and it is outside Sonora a little bit.Even though you will view in a photo below that the student housing is deemed to be 'on campus' the location of the housing is actually adjacent to the campus and not technically on the campus of the college.
Did you notice the silver pickup? Ah, drivers who are also young students.
This is a compilation photograph illustrating the placement of a sign on the building.We have been reminded by many people that most 2-year college students are usually between the ages of seventeen and about twenty.
While there most certainly students attending two-year colleges who have reached the legal drinking age in the State of California, how many of them buy alcohol for persons under the age of twenty-one?
Columbia College doesn't appear to have switchbacks on roads around the site, but it is located in an area where many trees block views of oncoming traffic around bends in the roads.
I didn't notice many motorcycles in the parking lot, either.
I communicate with a wide number of people who live all over the San Pedro area. I have read, heard, and discussed issues surrounding the students who currently reside at the 24th and Cabrillo off-campus housing for Marymount College.
While Marymount College's President did talk about the Code of Conduct that students are to keep in mind wherever they are I have heard stories about events and issues at the southern San Pedro housing.
The Palos Verdes North off-campus housing complex contains 86 units of surplus government units that were deeded to Marymount College.
The housing complex contains four more units than is allowed according to city of Los Angeles zoning ordinances but a variance to that zoning was granted to the College so that no harm or foul would be considered.
One of the Alternatives to building on-campus dormitories at Marymount is to enlarge the housing at the Palos Verdes North facility.
I have worked for several years on issues dealing with the proposal to build a 2,025-seat senior high school on the Ponte Vista at San Pedro site and I have worked dealing with all the issues related to the Ponte Vista at San Pedro project and I can relate by experiences that there is no way that any Alternative that would need to have the bureaucracy of the city of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles City Planning Department, Department of Transportation, and any other agency in L.A. City government being dealt with would be granted at this time or for the foreseeable future.
I think I am now comfortable with the three parts of the report on the Hearing.
Now that I no longer represent the entire Rancho Palos Verdes community as a member of the Traffic Safety Commission, I can now devote more consideration to the particular portion of the city in which I live and love.
Eastern Rancho Palos Verdes would take almost the entire brunt of any further expansion on the Marymount campus and I feel we on this side of the hill should have a great deal of say in what is done at Marymount.
I hope you have learned a thing or two that you can use to better develop your opinions about the Marymount College Expansion Project.
Whether you are supportive of the Proposed Project of have grave doubts about it like I do, we need to have a say in the present and future of our city.
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