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To the editor: Marina Central Park is a housing venture wrapped in inexperienced area. The conversion of the Marina Freeway will not be a motion to create parkland. It’s an effort by builders to seize more room to construct.
The point out of reasonably priced housing is disingenuous. If the present multifamily housing development exercise is any indication, solely city-owned property is getting used for really reasonably priced housing. Each different venture is offering only a small share of models for decrease revenue households.
Too many earlier initiatives alongside Jefferson Boulevard and in Marina del Rey depend on the Marina Freeway, and people vested pursuits would vie with the brand new ones to make sure the viability of the prevailing housing and its worth to residents. Politicians’ marketing campaign coffers would possibly shrink in such a battle, and that’s unacceptable (to the politicians, not less than). Centinela Creek, a dead-end flood channel, may also have to be reworked to keep away from the potential for flooding.
Extra parks in L.A. are certain to be welcome, however they shouldn’t rely — in a metropolis that the state predicts will decline in inhabitants over the subsequent decade — on including housing as nicely.
Peter Altschuler, Santa Monica
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To the editor: The Marina Freeway ought to stay. Many individuals use it and it features as supposed. It retains automobiles from clogging up the floor streets resulting in the seaside areas and it doesn’t again up or delay like many different freeways. The utility, upkeep prices and safety of a park all are issues.
Albert Maddox, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Obviously absent from the article highlighting the notion of abandoning the Marina 90 Freeway is an acknowledgment of growth that occurred because the freeway was constructed and its reliance on the route.
When the 90 Freeway was born, the Marina itself was primarily a slow-growing unfold of two-story residences for boaters, sparse companies and largely small automotive dealerships on Lincoln Boulevard. That has all lengthy since modified.
Full redevelopment of the Marina because the ‘90s exponentially compounded the variety of space houses, albeit ones which can be largely unaffordable for folk as we speak. Playa Vista wasn’t even a dream when the 90 was constructed and now it homes hundreds of residents.
Like it or hate it, these individuals use the 90 Freeway as a 405 Freeway hyperlink. Attempting to take that away can be political suicide for any lawmaker naive sufficient to strive. The Streets for All group ought to ash can their pipe dream and get behind the California Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Ballona Wetlands restoration in the event that they wish to do one thing significant about open area and environmental justice within the space.
David W. Kay, Playa Vista
