What Measure P and The Marymount Plan Delete, Eliminate, Or Leave Out

If you vote for Measure P, you are approving two new residence halls and a new municipal code that would supersede existing codes and provide one business more rights and authorities than any other business or resident in Rancho Palos Verdes, including the Salvation Army's Officer's College.

What you will be leaving behind is all that The Marymount Plan and Measure P eliminates, deletes, forgoes, ignores, and does away with many items already approved for with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project.

So to illustrate what the two new things that would be added, here is a list of the things now not included in Measure P and The Marymount Plan and what you won't get with a "Yes" vote:

Compliance with mitigating measures
Ensure compliance with conditions with 6 month review
Failure to comply revokes Conditional Use Permit
Indemnify city of lawsuits
Limit grading based on geology
No export of grading earth. Marymount will allow a great many dirt-hauler trips
Grading & drainage plan specifically for athletic field
Review results of landscaping plan for compliance in 6 months
Violations of landscaping plan revokes Conditional Use Permit
Limit stone cutting to # of saws, time & location
Limiting operation of tennis courts sunset to sunrise
Limit outdoor amplification to 24 times a year. It allows unlimited outdoor sound amplification
Noise limits
No amplified sound in outdoor areas
Implement corrective measures for justified noise complaints
Review College Code of Conduct to control noise
Shutting off motors when not in use, including diesel engines
Verification that reasonable noise attenuation is achieved
Demonstrate reasonable Noise attenuation in parking areas
Submit a light plan to comply with city lighting requirements
Submit a mock up to verify lighting
Adjust lighting after installation for proper levels and direction
Verify lighting after 30 days and correct if necessary
Construction safety lighting directed away from adjacent residences
Use minimally reflective glass on south facing facades
Reduce Height of athletic building
Screen street side and property line with 6 ft trees
Produce and submit a parking management strategy
30 ft. retractable fence for athletic field
Prohibit activities that require fence on Sundays and Federal Holidays
20 ft. chain link fence on west side of tennis courts
Athletic field moved 60 feet further away from Palos Verdes Drive East
Limit enrollment to 793 weekdays and 150 weekends* This has been removed from Measure P’s language.
Maximum B.A. Registration at 250 out of 793
NO commercial subleasing for non college events
Private security to enforce Marymount Code

Now, let's go back just a tad and remind you of what would not be limited should Measure P pass.

The College would be eligible to sublease for non college events, its facilities for commercial purposes including concerts, sporting events, meetings, summer camps, weekend encounters, activities during vacation periods, filming site uses, and many other commercial ventures that will not find any mitigation to the surrounding neighborhood and little if any revenue streaming into city funds.

There would be no limit on the number of dirt haulers traveling along Palos Verdes Drive East because the limitation of removing grading materials would be gone forever and we all know what happens when a loaded dirt hauler loses its brakes on twisting hilly roadways.

Noise limitations would be gone and there would be no limits on the number of outdoor activities using amplified sound systems which would not have a municipal code mandate for volume or time of day usage.

Marymount won't necessarily have to do what it promised to do with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project regarding traffic mitigation other than spending some funds to partially fund some things that taxpayers would have to pick up the remaining tab for.

Noise, lighting, hours of operation of indoor, outdoor, and sporting activities limits would be eliminated providing Marymount with the ability to lease out any of its facilities to entities who would have virtually no municipal restrictions from doing whatever they want to do, once they paid Marymount for using its facilities.

The College will be able to do what it wants to do according to its own Specific Plan that would supersede municipal codes and when there is any question of this, Marymount's position trumps the city.

Marymount would have the right to rent out its athletic field to a company holding beer tasting events during a musical concert where there would be no limits on the amplifications, no time limit on the duration of the event, no lighting mitigation required, and no recourse from the City of Rancho Palos Verdes and its residents.

The language of Measure P, The Marymount Plan authorizes Marymount's ability to sublease its property and then its specifically designed municipal code would enforce Marymount's right to supersede noise, lighting, duration, and other factors now regulated by existing municipal code for every other business and all residents.

I don't think it is safe to hand over that much power, authority, and rights to a "remedial" College and one that could see a huge safety risk during any construction and operation of dorms because of the new codes.

Please vote "No" on Measure P, The Marymount Plan.

Safety. Everyone. Everywhere. Every hour.