Parking drama threatens new Norris dance studios in Rolling Hills Estates
by Elka Worner Palos Verdes Performing Arts, the nonprofit that runs the Norris Theatre, and the Harlyne J. Norris Pavilion in Rolling Hills Estates, is locked in a parking dispute with owners of the neighboring Promenade at the Peninsula. The dispute hinges on a decades-old, verbal agreement between Promenade builder Ron Florence, and PVPA founding benefactor Dick Moe. Both Florence and Moe are deceased. Moe’s daughter, and PVPA executive director Julie Moe Reynolds, contends the verbal agreement gave PVPA rights to 75 parking spaces in the Promenade parking structure. Promenade owners acknowledge PVPA has a right to 150 parking spaces in the parking structure for the Norris Theatre. But it disputes the non-profit’s claim to 75 parking spaces for the Norris Pavilion. Moe Reynolds hopes to expand the Norris Pavilion to include four new dance studios, for which she has received a $2 million donation. But city planners have told her the expansion can’t proceed without assurances she has sufficient parking. Moe Reynold’s parents, Joan and Dick Moe, helped found the Norris Theatre in 1977. In the late 1990s, Dick Moe chaired the fundraising campaign for construction of the Harlyne J…
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