{"id":6151,"date":"2007-11-15T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/thank-you-for-supporting-armory-park\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:18:57","slug":"thank-you-for-supporting-armory-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/thank-you-for-supporting-armory-park","title":{"rendered":"Thank You For Supporting Armory Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A month ago the publishers of the Long Beach Post came to me with the idea of running a piece on a proposal I had been working on in the community for nearly four years.  <\/span>The goal was to focus attention on Armory Park<\/a> and take advantage of the readers’ ability to share their opinion regarding the concept.  <\/span>While I had reservations about using this forum to lobby support for a project I am working on in the community, the opportunity to get input from a larger audience was important to vetting out the concept.  <\/span>There were over sixty comments posted to this piece, all of which were positive to the proposal.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Armory<\/span><\/st1:placename> Park<\/st1:placetype><\/span><\/st1:place> is an effort to simplify a series of dangerous intersections, while creating a new park in community desperately in need.  <\/span>It would serve as the focus for series of local efforts to revitalize this very important entrance into the downtown.  <\/span>This at a cost significantly less that creating a park of comparable size in this densely built-out community.  <\/span>Both consultant traffic studies yield results that predicted that the performance of the intersections would improve, in some cases quite drastically.  <\/span>Every City department and agency has been supportive of this concept save one; the City Traffic Engineer.  <\/span>Despite the larger implications beyond traffic, City staff circled the wagons around public work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is of little surprise, considering that the proposal has unanimous support in the community.  <\/span>From the East Village Association and the Hellman Area Neighborhood Association to the Downtown Long Beach Associates and Arts Council of Long Beach, the support is wide reaching.  <\/span>Recently the diverse interests of the Redevelopment Central Project Area Committee spoke with a single unified voice endorsing the project that they voted nearly three years ago to fund the feasibility study for.  <\/span>The local city council person, Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal continues to voice her support for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Armory<\/span><\/st1:placename> Park<\/st1:placetype><\/span><\/st1:place> will be included in the City’s general plan update; Long Beach 2030<\/a> for the public to voice their opinion.  <\/span>Thank you all for your continued support.  <\/span>Please continue to make your feelings known regarding this very important project.<\/span><\/p>\n

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