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Recent News
3/14/09 Ballona Stewards is ON this Saturday, April 11. We will share our programming with Go Ecokids. For more details, click here.
2/22/08 There have been two exciting special sightings at Ballona recently by the sleuthing Jonathan Coffin. Check out his photos of a Gray fox and Fishing hawk by clicking on "Special Sightings" under "Explore Ballona."
12/13/07 California Supreme Court denies Playa Vista's appeal of September's ruling. All work on Phase II remains halted.
9/15/07 Major court victory for the wetlands! California Court of Appeal finds Playa Vista's Environmental Impact Report deficient and overturns L.A. City Council's approval of Phase II!
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Ballona Wetlands Clean Water PSA
You can choose clean water, a clean bay and clean beaches for LA instead of massive development, traffic and taxpayer subsidies. Click here for:
The Ballona Wetlands Land Trust
Current Action
Currently the Land Trust is advocating and litigating to protect the remaining 200 acres of the Ballona Wetlands Ecosystem. This last open space could not only be used for habitat, but also as a treatment wetland. This Natural Treatment Wetland could clean Ballona and Centinela creek before they reached the preserved 600-acre Ballona Ecological Reserve and the Santa Monica Bay. Our vision is not only ecological; it is financially viable.
The Ballona Wetlands Land Trust is also a key player in the Restoration of the permanently preserved 600-acre property.
The Playa Vista developers recently released a revised Environmental Impact Report (RS-DEIR) which they hope will overturn the court decision of 2007, when all Phase II construction was forced to stop. Playa Vista's Environmental Impact Report for the proposed development was found deficient in its analysis of environmental impacts related to land use, archaeological resources, methane, waste water, and water supply.
The Ballona Wetlands Land Trust is currently preparing comments on this RS-DEIR, which we have found insufficiently addresses the above issues, as well as the global warming impact. We want to show Playa Vista that they cannot evade California's environmental requirements by submitting ponderous and inaccurate documents.
To read the City's notice of the release of the RS-DEIR, click here.
To read the RS-DEIR, click here, then go to Environmental --> Draft EIR --> Village at Playa Vista, then click ON THE TEXT of “Village at Playa Vista” to view the PDF entitled “Re-circulated Sections of Draft EIR (January 9, 2009).”
Due in part to BWLT action, the deadline for comments to the City was extended, and comments are now due by Thursday, April 30th. We encourage our supporters to add their voices in opposition to the development. Send a letter of opinion to David.somers@lacity.org, or fax to: 213.978.1343. Mail should be sent to David Somers, Dept. of City Planning, 200 N. Spring Street, Rm. 750, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Environmental Impact Reports are long documents with hefty technical components. Realizing that most people have neither the time nor desire to delve too deeply into them, the Land Trust has worked up a summary of our take on the RS-DEIR, highlighting its main failings. Click here to read this summary!
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