City of San Pedro Process

Making San Pedro its own city could be done. We have the leaders in town. And we have a lot more people than a ton of other cities. Heck, if we combined the Harbor corridor into one city and took the Port with us like Long Beach we could be formidable. Below is some information on what it would take for San Pedro to be its own city.

The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act applies to municipal annexation, or when one municipality requests to expand its borders, as well as in municipal incorporation, which is the creation of an entirely new municipality. Starting The Process:
o When residents of a certain area within California containing 500 or more people wish to incorporate their own municipality, they can go through one of two steps. The first method is a resolution for city incorporation by a government body which currently oversees the area in some form or another, either a city, county or other district providing a certain service like schools or other infrastructure resources. The second method is a petition signed by 20 percent of the people within the area that wishes to be incorporated into a new municipality

For a town like San Pedro we are looking at about 16,000 signatures to make our own city. Throw in one feasibility study and you are done.

Something to think about as Los Angeles seems like a separate universe where they levy their will on this small town and set up regulations that complicate business development.

Just a guy from Pedro

Vacant Lot 2 Parks

The economic downturn and housing market collapse has created a number of vacant lots in San Pedro. When I was younger these vacant lots were play yards. Now, owners put fences around the lots to avoid liabilities and to keep people from dumping on them. The lots with the fences actually look worse than the vacant lot because now you have an unkept vacant lot AND a cheap fence that usually has some tattered cloth on it.

We need to find a way to turn these vacant lots into public use areas. Neighborhood Councils would be a great local resource for leading the effort to convert vacant lots into public use parks. The Neighborhood Councils already have a link to the City and can work the legal issues associated with transforming a private vacant lot into a public use park. The owner of the property could let the public use the property until he/she is ready to sell or develop the property. In turn, the city could limit the owner's liability from injury if the property is maintained. The Neighborhood Council could help maintain the property in exchange for its use. This would take some effort. But it is being done in other cities and it is helping to increase the quality of life in those cities as well as the property values of the surrounding neighborhood.

Just a guy from Pedro