Keep Baldwin Hills Green and Clean for All! Public Comments Draft EIR Due August 19, 2008; County Issues Third Draft Community Standards District
The County Department of Regional Planning on August 13, 2008, released a draft Community Standards District to regulate the Baldwin Hills oil field. According to the County:
“This draft was prepared by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Department in consulting with staff from other County departments, our environmental consultant and interested parties. It includes all of the mitigation measures identified in the Draft Environmental Impact Report, along with additional provisions to address issues expressed by the community through comments provided in the Planning Department’s outreach efforts. This draft is intended as a working document and is subject to change up until the time that the Board of Supervisors adopts the CSD. The upcoming public hearings will provide interested parties with an opportunity to comment on the County’s Draft CSD.”
The County’s draft builds on prior drafts by the oil company and the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance. Click here to download the County’s draft CSD.
Public comments on the draft Community Standards District can be presented at the upcoming public hearings on August 14, August 27, and September 10, 2008.
Public comments on the draft Environmental Impact Review are due on August 19, 2008, to:
Paul McCarthy
County of Los Angeles
Department of Regional Planning
Impact Analysis Section, Room 1348
320 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://planning.lacounty.gov/spBH.htm#Resources
The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance is engaging, educating, and empowering the community to better ensure that the Baldwin Hills are clean and green for all for generations to come. We seek to protect human health, homes, and the environment and restore the area to parkland by regulating the existing oil field. This is the next best thing to prohibiting oil drilling.
The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance is a collaborative effort of Community Health Councils, The City Project, neighborhood associations, block clubs, and others representing more than 50,000 diverse households. The Alliance formed after Plains Exploration and Production Company (PXP) announced plans to expand their oil and gas operations in the Baldwin Hills by up 1,000 new wells in the next 20 years. GBHA was formed to provide a forum for the community to take action.
The Alliance is working with elected officials and PXP to improve the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and draft Community Standards District (CSD). The Alliance is working to establish health and environmental standards; public accountability; monitoring; a health and environmental baseline; oversight of the oil operations; a built in process to improve the regulations as new information and better technology becomes available to protect health and the environment; transition to parkland; improved aesthetics; and respect for all neighbors.
Learn more at www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.
