Taste In San Pedro Move

After years of the Taste In San Pedro being at Pointe Fermin park, it is now moving. I understand the move. LA is putting the squeeze on the use of our parks. Charging us to use the resources we pay taxes on. I also understand the desire to hold the event where it highlights the new promenade. I just do not know why they did not hold it at Ports O Call. It already has parking, is set up for big events (as the circus is held their regularly), and provides a better walking venue to other shops. Holding the Taste at Ports O Call would help people get reacquainted with the shops down there. Maybe they are concerned that those shops would compete with the Taste, but this is a San Pedro Chamber of Commerce event. Why not use it to help highlight our local businesses.

I do understand that the new Taste In San Pedro location down by the fire boat station will be tied into down town. And downtown can use some help as well. However, it is one thing to walk over to a shop in Ports O Call that is on the harbor, compared to walking or taking a tram downtown. Hopefully the downtown shops will be open during this event. Since we have so many independent shops there are no set hours for downtown and it is a hit or miss when shops are open. Also, if I am to take my family to an event, it is one thing to park and go to the event. It is another thing to go walking around the projects across the street from the chosen site.

Just a guy from Pedro

Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council Bias?

After reading the latest Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council newsletter I have to ask why the bias towards Mary Star of the Sea High School? The council donated $5000 of their precious resources to POLA High School. No funds for San Pedro High School, or a school directly in their neighborhood, Mary Star of the Sea High School (MSHS).

I know the council is working on trying to lower the density of the old Ponte Vista project, which would help Mary Star. But the logic against the density is all about traffic. Not about community. One only needs to look at the Vue and the condos down town to realize that the large number of condos will mostly become rentals. More transient (less than a few years) makes the community less stable, less Pedro like where people stay for generations. I wish someone would just lay it out there that Pedro is too dense already and that we have tons of low income housing already, jsut look below Pacific.

Maybe next year the council will donate to MSHS or Pedro High. Maybe the council will state clearly that the high density will affect the quality of the community. Inconsistent with the feel of Northwest San Pedro. It should point to the wider San Pedro community as meeting the housing requirements of greater LA.

Just a guy rambling.