2 New Year’s Wishes for L.B.
May 1989 be the year when grass-roots neighborhood groups work together to:
1. Establish a permanent “Center for Law in the Public Interest.”
2. Apply political pressure on city government to place an emergency moratorium on all new apartment and other high-density projects, until developer fee schedules are established and fees collected.
Unlike many other cities, Long Beach, while continuing to allow much higher-density development and, thus, much higher profits for real estate development financiers, has allowed the overwhelming majority of such projects--$1.2 billion worth between 1983 and ‘87--to be built without payment of a penny toward funding basic facilities and services required by this development: parks and recreational facilities, road improvements, schools, police and fire protection.
May ’89 be the year when all the people of Long Beach, not only those who live and work in South Long Beach and suffer most directly from the negative effects of overdevelopment, realize that by playing a greater role in the affairs of their community, they can make their wishes come true!
DAN ROSENBERG
Long Beach
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