Ponte Vista Updates

March 13, 2013: Ponte Vista Specific Plan Comments from NWSPNC
Link to view Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s Comments on the Ponte Vista Specific plan.   View Comments

1/14/13:  Read the Press release announcing the intention to shift toward the 830 unit reduced density alternative. Download here:  PV Reduced Denisity Press Release 1-14-13

1/7/13:  Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s Comments on the Ponte Vista DEIR as approved by the NWSPNC Board and sent to the Planning Department:
View Letter to Planning Department Re: Comments.
View DEIR_Comments final (THIS IS A LARGE FILE AND MAY TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO DOWNLOAD)

Link to December 10, 2012 Traffic Study Power Point Presentation 
Update 11/12/12:  A new project for Ponte Vista has been proposed by iStar Financials and the City of Los Angeles has released the Draft Environmental Impact report for this project. The DEIR is based on 1135 units, a combination of single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and apartments.  Comments on the DEIR are due January 9, 2013.  A copy of the DEIR is available at: http://cityplanning.lacity.org/eir/PonteVistaProj2/DEIR/DEIR%20Ponte%20Vista%20Project.html
In addition, they submitted a draft plan to the city for 830 units that included a request for approval of track map, general plan amendment, specific plan, and development agreement.
 More information is available at their website www.pontevista.com


Update 4/1/11: The property owner, I-Star, announced plans to construct 1,135 units consisting of 143 single-family, 600 condominiums, and 392 apartments. Currently they are in the process of conducting the environmental review required by the City of Los Angeles. Recently their traffic consultant met with our Planning and Land Use Committee to discuss the methodology they are using in the traffic study. On the positive side, it appears that they are using more reasonable traffic generation formulas. Nevertheless, there is more work to be done to provide a satisfactory analysis. The NWSPNC Planning and Land Use committee made it clear that we expect them to go beyond the city requirements to realistically project “believable” impacts. Of particular concern to the committee is that the developer find a way to factor in the increased traffic anticipated as the economy recovers. The owner’s representatives have committed to continued dialogue with the Planning and Land Use Committee. We encourage you to attend these meetings and give your input. We have posted a number of documents we received from them below. The Council plans to review and comment on the traffic study and the Draft EIR when the documents become available.

Ponte Vista Traffic Study Documents:
Document 1 - Location of Related Projects
Document 2 - Existing Saturday Traffic Volumes
Document 3 - Project Trip Generation
Document 4 - Existing Weekday Traffic Volumes
Document 5 - Related Projects for EIR

Documents available for review:
Ponte Vista EAF (2010)
Ponte Vista Initial Study for NOP _Final 10.21
Ponte Vista 2010 EAF Application#44DDC3
Ponte Vista Filed NOP

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April 2, 2010 (San Pedro, CA). SFI Bridgeview, LLC, a subsidiary of iStar Financial Inc., a leading publicly traded finance company focused on the real estate industry, announced today that it has taken ownership of Ponte Vista, a 62-acre residential property located on Western Avenue in the community of San Pedro, in a negotiated transfer of the property. Download Statement here:  Media Statement Ponte Vista