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Council approves redesigned berm and recreation plan for C Street in Wilmington despite community calls for further review
Summary
Council approved funding and design work for a landscaped berm and recreational facilities along C Street near the Port of Los Angeles, while some community members asked the council to delay action so the Port Community Advisory Committee could review an alternate "Polo Park" concept.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Dec. 12 to proceed with a landscaped berm and related improvements along C Street near the Port of Los Angeles in Wilmington, approving the engineering contract to begin work on the design and community process.
Public testimony included remarks from Skip Baldwin of the Wilmington Citizens Committee and the Wilmington Neighborhood Council, who urged the council to delay spending until the Port Community Advisory Committee (PCAC) had reviewed a community-backed "Polo Park" plan that would preserve flat playing fields along C Street. Baldwin said the community—s plan had drawn more than 500 signatures and argued the existing proposal effectively restores a 20-foot-high barrier where residents had feared a long concrete wall.
Councilmember Janice Hahn said the approved design is a landscaped berm with a walkway on top and space for a soccer field near the base; she emphasized the engineering contract requires continued community input as the design proceeds. "There will also be a place, as I'm told, towards the bottom of it where we will build a soccer field, 1 soccer field," Hahn said.
Baldwin asked the council to delay action until the PCAC had formally reviewed the Polo Park plan; the council majority voted to approve the item, with Councilmember Hahn stressing the design process would continue and that engineers must maintain community outreach as part of the contract.
The council recorded a 12-0 vote to approve the item. The roll call recorded: Eric Garcetti; Janice Hahn; Nate Holden; Tom LaBonge; Cindy Miscikowski; Nick Pacheco; Janice Perry; Ed Reyes; Mark Ridley-Thomas; Jack Weiss; Deniz Zine; and Alex Padilla.
