Knoll Hill Files

petition

Help circulate our petition to perserve Knoll Hill as is and develop a park on it. Download and print out copies of the petition in color or in black and white. Before you circulate petitions and to turn them in, please contact Tom Politeo.

Documents

These are public disclosure documents obtained from the Port of Los Angeles regarding work planned for Knoll Hill.The project will involve a road widening, grading, fill dirt, retaining walls, and pilings to support the road widening. The cost in the millions. All work is to be done under a categorical exemptions for an EIR. Despite a public documents request made on August 16, 2007, the Port did not respond until September 12, 2007, four days after the deadline lapsed to challenge their filing for a categorical exemption. There are still missing construction documents and an incomplete document in this list. The files are offered here without further explanation for use by activists and interested parties.

There are nine (9) files in all associated with this massive project provided by the port through a public records disclosure request. (These are all mostly large files that will take time to download, especially on a slow link.)

1 - POLA Cover Letter 091207 (3 pages)
2 - Site Plan (11x 17 map)
3 - CEQA Response 081007 (2 pages)
4.- CEQA Exemption Filing 080807 (39 pages)
5 - Archaeological Assessment 031596 (8 pages NOTE: 1/2 missing - single sided copy of duplex document provided)
6 - Corresp Jul 07-Aug 07 (57 pages)
7 - Corresp Feb 07-Jun 07 (51 pages)
8 - Corresp Nov 06-Jan 07 (47 pages)
9 - Corresp Jun 06-Oct 06 (58 pages with 11 x 17 map)

Provided by Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council (Central SPNC)

B1 - Central SPNC POLA summary timeline - 2007
B2 - Central SPNC Knoll Hill resolution Oct 10, 2006
B3 - Central SPNC Land Use Planning Subcommittee letter to Janice Hahn, Dec 22, 2006
B4 - Central SPNC Letter to POLA, February 13, 2007
B5 - POLA response to Central SPNC, March 12, 2007
B6a - Knoll Hill resolution June 18, 2007
B6b - Central SPNC Knoll Hill resolution June 18, 2007, alternate version
B7 - Central SPNC Land Use Planning letter to Daily Breeze, July 12, 2007
B8a Central SPNC Knoll Hill protest and public records request to POLA, Aug 15, 2007, signed, scanned
B8b Central SPNC Knoll Hill protest and public records request to POLA, Aug 15, 2007, unsigned, text
B9 - Central SPNC draft minutes from May 15, 2002 (Front Street alignment/Knoll Hill)

C1 - Coastal SPNC resolution (Draft?), passed August 20, 2007
C2 - Northwest SPNC Resolution Regarding Knoll HIll (Draft), passed August 13, 2007

Additionally, these items are provided from our own sources.

H1- Sierra Club Knoll hill letter of August 12 2007 (11 pages)
H2 - POLA China Shipping NOP/NOI mentions archaeological/paleontological resources on Knoll Hill, June 27, 2003
H3 - Sierra Club China Shipping comment letter August 1, 2003
H4 - Pola reply to letter of Aug 12, Sep 27, 2007 (2 pages)

And some state CEQA references:

CEQA reference index page (providing CEQA guidelines)
Article 19: CEQA guidelines on categorical exemptions

Additional Documents

Port of Los Angeles land use planning maps are available in our map room. Here's a clip showing the Knoll Hill area.

KH-1- Land use map
KH-2 - Land use map with faint street overlay on Knoll Hill

On the above two maps (KH-1 and KH-2), the green area on Knoll Hill desigantes open space. The brown area next to the hill designates "institutional use." The same designations is given, for example, to the Boy Scout facility north of Cabrillo Beach. The brown area covers the low lands on the south-east side of Knoll Hill.