Community activism rarely takes a summer hiatus in Pacific Palisades, as reflected by the agenda for next Thursday’s Community Council meeting beginning at 7 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. The public is invited to participate in the following discussions, as arranged by chairman Norman Kulla and fellow board members. 1. Paul McGlothlin, founding director of the new Renaissance Academy, will talk about his high school’s mission, faculty and enrollment prospects. He will also address community concerns about traffic and parking impacts on Alma Real and neighboring streets. The school (grades 9-12) will open September 9 at 9 a.m. in the 881 Alma Real building and is anticipating upwards of 300 students. (See story below.) 2. Kulla will given an update about the proposed creation of a preferential parking district for neighborhoods bordering the Palisades Recreation Center and the Village business district. The issue was discussed at the July 22 meeting. 3. Verizon representives will give a brief PowerPoint describing their proposal to have Pacific Palisades serve as an early ‘test community’ as Verizon begins to replace all its copper wiring with high-speed fiber optics in a $40-50 billion national project. ‘Huntington Beach is already aboard and they’re also talking with Malibu and Topanga Canyon,’ Kulla said. ‘Verizon wants the community to invite this buildout, subject to their agreeing to abide by community concerns.’ 4. Council member Patti Post and resident Steve Lantz will discuss the threatened cancellation of Commuter Express Route 430 between Pacific Palisades and downtown L.A., the Department of Transportation’s August 11 hearing on the matter, and proposed follow-up action. 5. Chamber of Commerce representatives will evaluate their inaugural four-week Movies in the Park series (which concluded at the Palisades Recreation Center last Saturday) and respond to community input. 6. Dan Hackney, executive liaison to neighborhood councils for the L.A. Bureau of Sanitation, is expected to give an update on the polluted ‘mystery pond’ at PCH and Chautauqua, and will bring someone expert on the problem. 7. Area Representative Stuart Muller will report on his Car Wash Noise Committee, based on communications with Inspector Jay Paternostro (L.A. Department of Building and Safety, South Region Noise Abatement) and Palisades Gas and Wash operations manager John Zisk (USA Petroleum Corporation). 8. Kulla will update arson coordination between LAFD and LAPD regarding the Palisades Letter Shop dumpster fire that was set by vandals on June 4. 9. Charlene Baskin of Palisades Beautiful will announce a tree-trimming fundraising proposal. For more information about the Community Council, visit www.90272.org
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