If You Received Our Mailer And Want To View Or Download The Entire Draft Environmental Impact Report For The “3701 Pacific Place – InSite Self Storage Project”, You Can Do So from This Website:
Click Here To Access The Draft Environmental Impact Report
Western Long Beach Deserves a Major Park!
DRAFT Environmental Impact Report for 3701 Pacific Place
Public Comments Due September 30th
The public has less than a week to provide comments, your support and expertise will be greatly appreciated. Comments are due to the city by Sept. 30th at 4pm. They can be emailed to: LBDS-EIR-Comments@longbeach.
Riverpark Coalition (RPC) position: RPC is opposed to an industrial warehouse at that location because of the pollution that will be brought in by all the vehicles that would use the storage facility as well as dump tank facilities. The neighborhood was promised a park for decades. The proposed construction will release significant toxics into the community and school. We want them to clean up the site – not pave over the pollution. We want a park for our children to play in.
More Background: Riverpark Coalition won a lawsuit last year and the outcome was that the developer, Insite, and the City of Long Beach are required to do a full Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the 3701 Pacific Place property. “The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) generally requires state and local government agencies, including the Commission, to inform decision-makers and the public about the potentially significant environmental effects of a proposed project, ways to minimize those effects, and to indicate alternatives to the project.”
Since this property had been used as an oil sump pond for 30+ years, there is speculation that there is a deep bed of oil residue and contaminants below the surface. The initial review did some tests down to 9 feet deep but did not provide a comprehensive review of the property and what to expect in terms of releasing contaminants (including arsenic, lead and other total petroleum hydrocarbons) into the air during soil preparation etc.
Native American peoples used this land as well and there can be artifacts and more.
That’s where YOU come in. The Riverpark Coalition board is evaluating the response and will reply to the request for comment, but we would encourage the community to do so as well. There are several topics in an EIR and you can choose just those that are familiar to you or all of them.
Here is a link to the complete Draft Environmental Impact Report for 3701 PACIFIC PLACE (518 pages) from our website. What follows are links to the separate sections of the Draft EIR from the city website:
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