Letters to the Editor 12-8-2016
Low and loud Dear ER: There seems to be many more low flying commercial airliners from LAX over North Hermosa Beach. This seems to occur mainly late at night. Some of these giant planes sound like they are going to land on our roof. Didn’t the beach cities install a device that would record the number of these planes not following the flight pattern and report this to the FAA? Does anyone know what happened to this device?? Paul Gerhardt Hermosa Beach Editor’s note: LAX flights can be tracked at webtrak5.bksv.com/lax4. One step at a time Dear ER: The Manhattan Beach Downtown Specific Plan (DSP), if approved, would allow increased building heights, increased tenant frontage, private dining in public right of ways and second story outdoor dining (“Common ground: City Council vote looms on Manhattan Beach’s Downtown Specific Plan,” ER December 1, 2016). This will almost certainly increase downtown traffic and increase the demand on the already insufficient downtown parking. I would request that the approval process for the DSP be separated into three sequential stages, specifically: Stage 1: implement only the traffic congestion/parking elements of the DSP to prove that these plans…
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