Sadly in this race, nobody will win.
At the latest report, San Pedro's White Point landslide is moving at about 1/2 inch a day but it is more dramatic than 'ours' because the new land movement appears much more dramatic when viewing pieces falling down the cliff and into the Pacific Ocean.
The old access road down the cliff has been demolished and now giant portions of Paseo Del Mar have crumpled into pieces and begun their slides towards memories.
A new chain-link fence has been put up around the San Pedro slide area because I guess folks are so interested in getting up close and personal with their land movement while most of us just enjoy a walk through 'ours'.
If and when the landslide in San Pedro ends there are going to have to be some pretty serious discussions about the possibilities of rerouting a portion of the roadway through a portion of the White Point Nature Preserve.
That won't be an easy task because of all the agencies, rights of way and other issues that will involve a slew of governmental and environmental agencies, including the Palos Verdes Land Conservancy.
One of the real victims of the San Pedro landslide is The Corner Store on the corner of 37Th Street and Barbara.
There are some good folks who run that store which is a real hub of information and also a local gathering spot for local residents and folks who enjoy strolls along the coastline.
There are some great sandwiches and other food items at that store, quite a few different varieties of sodas and beer and some sundries that most folks don't normally see in a local store.
The Corner Store is a warm place to meet and eat and if you are of a mind to head down to the San Pedro coastline, please have a visit to The Corner Store and enjoy a beverage, some food or maybe some local crafts to shop for.
That store has taken a very hard financial hit because it is now not as easy to get to, but it is very much worth the trip. If you don't believe me, ask Terri. She loves the place!
What I am already fearing that might come to pass with our new City Council got a bit of a preview earlier this evening, at the City Council meeting.
It is known by this blogger that there will be some 'revisiting' of decisions made by the current City Council members and that what may have been settled for the benefit or our residents, may not be settled at all.
This is disturbing for me because I feel progress is better than regress and any revisiting and changing of things by the new Council, to what has been decided by the current Council will only take time out of progressing forward, in my view.
While I requested that any decision on approving the staff bonuses I feel staff has most certainly earned be held until the new Council is seated, that went as I suspected it would.
What I wanted to do is allow the new Council to verify the current Council's position on Staff bonuses and I am pretty sure the new Council would have done so. To me this would have also provided some evidence that the new Council makeup would offer to staff sort of an olive branch before I suspect they will head straight into revisiting and re deciding pension reform or some other staff compensation issue.
Our city has enough issues on its plate that the new Council makeup can work very hard and long on the issues before it, rather than trying to recreate the wheel, which I don't believe is bent or broken.
I am one who strongly believes that Mayor Tom Long, former Mayor Stefan Wolowicz and former Mayor Doug Stern provided great leadership through some very difficult times in our city and we are all better off for their good governance than some of the voters in the last election thought.
We are in a pretty good financial position and our city made it through the financial storms of 2008-2011+so far, better than many other cities and I place a hefty amount of thanks on our governors for working with staff to have our city and its residents in a much better place that where we could have been.
I have not always agreed with some of the decisions made by the three outgoing Council members, but I don't think anyone can intelligently argue that they didn't have our backs covered during some pretty tough times.
I hope these fine gentlemen come back to speak at Council meetings when the regressiveness I fear will be happening for far too long with the new Council, starts pulling our city down.
With the election of Mr. Jerry Duhovic and Mr. Jim Knight, there is now an opening on our city's Planning Commission and Finance Advisory Committee.
Interested persons are urged to contact city staff to make their wishes known.
I am not qualified to sit on either of those two bodies but I hope whoever does, is well qualified and since we have so many great residents in RPV, we have a wealth of knowledge pool we can put up against any other city.
I don't know if former Mayor Ken Dyda wants to volunteer, but I think he has already demonstrated his greatness with city planning so perhaps he wants to deal with financial matters on our Finance Advisory Committee.
The F.A.C. might also be someplace where Mr. Eric Alegria might want to seek a seat on.
Next year, we all get to vote on who will represent us in the new 66Th Assembly District.
Right now, the Daily Breeze has an article about three men who have at least announced some interest in the seat.
There is one Democrat and two Republicans apparently interested, at this point. One of the Republicans was mentioned as a young Tea Party member and the other Republican is none other than Craig Huey, who lost to Janice Hahn, for a seat in the House of Representatives.
Note to self...watch to see if Ms. Dora de la Rosa might be interested in running.
I still don't have any word on when the new Environmental Impact Report for Ponte Vista at San Pedro will be available to the public. The item was not on the agenda during the latest meeting of the Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council, which has the property in their area.
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