{"id":380,"date":"2015-06-26T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwp.zct.mybluehost.me\/website_bd4521cf\/?p=380"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T18:58:07","slug":"do-we-want-an-80-foot-tall-building-in-our-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/26\/do-we-want-an-80-foot-tall-building-in-our-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"80 foot tall buildings in our backyard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please stand up for your community and attend\u00a0the City Council meeting at City Hall on July 6th at (4:00pm, Room B-8). The more people show up, the louder our message to the City Council.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some alarming news for the communities of Piedmont Cove, Broadmoor and Bayport and also for us at Huntington Marina. \u00a0The city of Huntington Beach has been considering a full &#8220;high-density&#8221; re-zoning of\u00a0our area that could affect our property value and quality of life<\/p>\n<p>The plan involves re-development of both Peter&#8217;s Landing and Don The Beachcomber properties into a &#8220;high-density mixed used&#8221; zone where buildings would be permitted to be as high as 80 feet (that&#8217;s 7 to 8 stories) and possibly 300 new condo units!<\/p>\n<p>The trend started by the City of Huntington Beach and greedy developers has already turned the HB pier and Bella Terra areas into soul-less tourist factories. They are now\u00a0now threatening\u00a0Sunset Beach and North Huntington Harbor. We need to show the City Council that we oppose this disastrous initiative. Here are some of the areas of concern should such project arrive to fruition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Permanent increase in traffic (and noise levels) on PCH due to large number of additional residents in the area (both tourists and permanent residents).<\/li>\n<li>Increase in crime level due to increase in number of people and additional opportunities for criminals.<\/li>\n<li>Worsening of parking situation which is already quite a concern.<\/li>\n<li>Permanent increase in beach occupancy and related pollution.<\/li>\n<li>Transformation of our area into a sub-urban neighborhood, with associated decrease in property value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are all affected by these plans and get involved in the process to show the city that they just cannot trash our neighborhood and quality of life to benefit their business buddies (and campaign contributors).<\/p>\n<p>We have compiled a few documents with additional information as well as links to videos of meetings that have already occurred in this matter.<\/p>\n<p>We will propose that a commission be created by HMA board to represent Huntington Marina and collaborate with neighboring communities. If we are all united, we can defeat these attempts to take away our quality of life and property value for the sole benefit of a greedy few.<\/p>\n<p>As required by law, the City of HB has an online survey that we can all respond to\u00a0show our opposition to this project (see link below).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Documents and Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/?sm=QBnjKmTrNReAUT%2bgumqGX12v6CdREFuaW96wwAtnHy4%3d\" target=\"_blank\">City of HB Survey &#8211; PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY<\/a>!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Meeting-6-28-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Agenda from Concerned Homeowners Meeting from 6\/28\/2015<br \/>\n<\/a>Includes letter from Peter&#8217;s Landing developer to City<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/David-Johnston-Email-to-Piedmont.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">David Johnston e-mail to Piedmont Cove resident (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbthenextwave.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150401_GPAC-Meeting_Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Beach General Plan Update, April 1st 2015<br \/>\n<\/a>Look for &#8220;Site 8: Peter&#8217;s Landing&#8221; section on page 12.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbthenextwave.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150121_GPAC-Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) &#8211; January\u00a02015 meeting (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=niIdOZ2rEMw\" target=\"_blank\">Video: HB GPAC meeting September 10th 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9C2iH-shck8\" target=\"_blank\">Video: HB GPAC meeting August 6th\u00a02014 (part 1)<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g02AuJS2C0c\" target=\"_blank\">Video: HB GPAC meeting August 6th\u00a02014 (part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4qe1pcF8YjI\" target=\"_blank\">Video: HB GPAC meeting June 4th\u00a02014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please stand up for your community and attend\u00a0the City Council meeting at City Hall on July 6th at (4:00pm, Room B-8). The more people show up, the louder our message to the City Council.\u00a0 Some alarming news for the communities of Piedmont Cove, Broadmoor and Bayport and also for us at Huntington Marina. \u00a0The city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntingtonmarina.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}