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Port Ships Are Massive L.A. Polluters. Will California Force A
Port ships are becoming L.A.’s biggest polluters. Will California force a cleanup? In December, a barge at the Port of Los Angeles uses a system, known as a bonnet or “sock on a stack,” that’s intended to scrub exhaust. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Ships visiting Southern California’s bustling ports are poised to become the region’s larg est source of smogcausing pollutants in coming years, one reason state regulators want to reduce emissions from thousands more of them. Air quality officials want to expand the number of ships that, while docked, must either shut down their auxiliary engines and plug into shore power or scrub their exhaust by hooking up to machines known as bonnets or “socks on a stack.” But some neighbors of the ports say the California Air Resources Board is not moving fast enough to cut a rising source of pollution. Some also fear that the shipping industry and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will use their clout to weaken the proposed restrictions, which the Air Resources Board will decide on in the first half of the year. “We need relief; it’s just that simple,” said Theral Golden of the West Long Beach Assn., a neighborhood group that has long fought for cleaner air in a community that is among the hardest hit by port pollution. Ruben Garcia, president of Advanced Environmental Group, points out the telescoping tube of an emissions capture system that’s attached to a barge at the Port of L.A. (Allen J. -
Bibliographic Essay
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY Any study of Rancho Los Alamitos will be enriched by familiarity with the history of the state and region of which it is a part. In this connection West of the West: Witnesses to the California Experience, 1542-1906 by Robert Kirsh and William S. Murphy (New York, 1967) is valuable for the way firsthand accounts are woven into the text. There is no comparable book for the twentieth century. Carey McWilliams’ classic if somewhat outdated Southern California Country (New York, 1946) narrows the historical focus to the region of which Rancho Los Alamitos is a part. More recently, Kevin Starr’s ambitious work, Inventing the Dream: California Through Progressive Era (New York, 1985) focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California culture. Harris Newmark’s Sixty Years in Southern California (Los Angeles, 1919) is an ill-organized but monumental gathering of data by a Los Angeles merchant of the latter part of the nineteenth century. A third edition was published in New York in 1930. The dominant city of the region has been treated in many books. For obvious reasons I used David Lavender’s Los Angeles Two Hundred (Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1980). A twin volume by the same publisher and also amply illustrated is Larry Meyer and Patricia L. Kalayjian’s Long Beach: Fortune’s Harbor (Tulsa, 1983). Much of Long Beach spreads across lands that once belonged to members of the Bixby family. The story of that development is touched on in Walter H. Case’s detailed, two-volume History of Long Beach and Vicinity (Chicago, 1927). -
DLBA 2020 Annual Report
2020 ANNUAL REPORT To overstate the obvious, 2020 was a year unlike any other, and despite its challenges, the strength, resiliency, and compassion of the Downtown Long Beach community has carried us through. We could not be prouder of how our residents, workers, businesses, and property owners came together to support one another through the COVID-19 pandemic. True character is never clearer than when it is tested – and the character of Downtown Long Beach is shining bright. TABLE OF CONTENTS The public health and economic crisis coupled with the politics surrounding the pandemic were the defining aspects of 2020 across the globe and made a profound impact on our Downtown. With businesses under tight operating restrictions and physical distancing protocols in place, local businesses, government, and community-serving organizations like the Downtown Long Beach Alliance (DLBA) became creative, nimble, and fiscally assertive. At the outset of these events, when everyone was essentially drinking information from a firehose, DLBA set its sights to manage the crisis on three major tenets and deliver assistance to its stakeholders by providing accurate information on a consistent basis, alleviating fear, and helping build a road to recovery. These objectives quickly took shape with the creation of such programs that included, but were not limited to, a higher touch of communication 3 MISSION STATEMENT and outreach to stakeholders, creation of landing pages such as the COVID-19 Resource Page to manage the amount of information that was being produced, launching a gift card promotion to continue to keep businesses front of mind and help instill some funds back into the local economy, and the Open Streets Program. -
Long Beach Water Department [ Vii ] J CONTENTS TABLES (Continued) Page Nlllllvcr Page LETTER of Transmitral
WATER DEPARTMENT CITY OF LONG BEACH. CALIFORNIA HISTORY AND ANNUAL REPORT -.k 1943 - 1944 , i --_.--- ---- --- WATER DEPARTMENT CITY OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SKETCH and ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1944 I i I I LONG BEACH 1944 Dedicated to tile memory of GEORGE ROYAL WADE, beloved GenerallY!ana!ler of tIle Long Beach Waler Department from December 19, 1940, to November 24-, 19#. under 'Whose direction tile book 'Was pre pared. His great desire -'Was to see it in print, but the Supreme Architect of tile Universe 'Willed otherwise and called him while it was still unfillislud. ---------------~ • ~ drop of water~ taken up from the ocean by a Slln healll~ shall fall as a snowflake upon the moun/a"in top, rest in the frozen silence through the long winter~ stir again under the summer sun and seek to find its way back to the sea down the granite steeps and fissures. It shall join its fellows in mad frolics in mountain gorgesJ singing the song of falling waters and dancing with the fairies in the moonlight. It shall lie upon the bosom of a crystal lake, and forget for a while its quest of the ocean level. Again it shall obey the law and resume its journey with mUT111urSflnd !rettinULo and then it shall pass out of the sunlight and the free air and be borne along a weary way in darkness and silence. for many days. And at last the drop that fell as a snowflake upon the Sierra)s crest and set out to find its home in the sea) shall be taken up from beneath the ground by a thirsty rootlet and distilled into the perfume of an orange blossom in a garden . -
Welcome to Rancho Los Cerritos the California Native Garden
Welcome to Rancho Los Cerritos Explore the region’s cultural and natural history as you stroll the site! Rancho Los Cerritos is located on the ancestral land of the Tongva people, and it was part of a large Spanish land grant. Built in 1844, the U-shaped adobe building has served as a ranch headquarters, an apartment house, and a private home. Today, the adobe echoes with the fascinating stories of all those who have called it home over the years, while the gardens provide space for people to unwind, as well as habitat for native and migratory birds, butterflies, and other critters. Rancho Los Cerritos is a national, state, and local historic landmark. It is open to the public Wednesdays through Sundays. Admission, tours, and parking are free, thanks to continuous donations. Donations also support the site’s innovative exhibits, award-winning education programs, and extensive preservation activities. Walking Route: Please connect with us on social media and join our California Native Garden (A), email list (www.rancholoscerritos.org) for upcoming Adobe (B), Orchard (C), events. Membership, site rental, and volunteer Backyard (D), Forecourt (E) opportunity information is available at the Visitor Center. The California Native Garden (A) Near the entrance to the California Native Garden is a plaque commemorating the site’s status as California Registered Historical Landmark #978. This portion of the site was originally covered with native grasses and coastal sage scrub. In the 1930s, landscape architect Ralph Cornell installed a garden of native and exotic plants for Avis and Llewellyn Bixby Sr., which helped to prevent erosion caused by rainfall. -
Prehistoric Pottery of Coastal Los Angeles County
Prehistoric Pottery of Coastal Los Angeles County Matthew A. Boxt and Brian Dervin Dillon Abstract no territory only during the Spanish Colonial period. Expanding upon his position, Kroeber (1925:628) Aboriginal ceramics within Los Angeles County were long thought to have been exclusively of historic age and a result of accultura- stated emphatically “… no pottery has been found in tion. Excavations at CA-LAN-2630, the California State University, ancient remains in the Gabrielino habitat,” and thus Long Beach, Parking Structure site, have produced the largest any Gabrielino use of pottery had to be historic. assemblage of pottery from controlled stratigraphic contexts yet known from Los Angeles County. With 55 associated radiocarbon assays this ceramic assemblage is the best-dated excavated pottery Following Kroeber’s lead, Strong (1929:347) and collection from southern California. The LAN-2630 evidence Johnston (1962:31) suggested that ceramics would reveals a ceramic industry that predated the arrival of Europeans by several centuries. This discovery also extends the distribution of have been of little value to Indians with access to San- prehistoric ceramics into a part of California hitherto thought to be ta Catalina steatite. Stone vessels, they argued, could lacking such pottery and represents the northernmost extension of duplicate some, if not all, of the cooking functions Southern California Brown Ware. Moreover, it provides new data for functional interpretations of ceramics within the Native cultures performed by pottery vessels. When confronted with of California. evidence that at least some historic Gabrielino women made pottery, Johnston (1962:3,16) argued that they Gabrielino Ceramics? learned this from the Serrano during the Spanish Colo- nial period and possibly even at the missions. -
The History of Zaferia the Story of Zaferia & East Long Beach
The History of Zaferia The Story of Zaferia & East Long Beach Early Zaferia The Zaferia village of the early 1900’s was one of the last vestiges of the old Californio days of the Ranchos in Los Angeles County. Situated in what would have been a high valley between Rancho Los Alamitos’ adobe farmhouse property and the imposing peak of Signal Hill, Zaferia was a sleepy enclave where Bixby Ranch laborers lived and held small truck farms. These mostly Mexican families worked on the Rancho for the Bixby family in various capacities; they leased land from Fred Bixby in the fields surrounding the rancho, which included what they called Zaferia. Bixby would buy their produce and crops from them if they wanted, but they were never obligated to sell to him. Children of the ranch hands either went to the Bixby ranch school (vaguely recorded in a LBUSD Chronology as “one mile north of Bixby Ranch” or to an early school established at Anaheim Road at Temple, called the Alamitos Heights School (established in 1898). Later, many children of these early families attended Bryant school on Termino. The name “Zaferia” has been credited as a Spanish word meaning “little village,” but no dictionary supports that theory. There was supposedly a man named R.H. Zaferia who lived in Long Beach and was on the early school board, but, again, there is no supporting data that he lived in the village or was of any great importance. Spain has a Zaferia Pass in Andalucia – could that be the origin? Zaferia also has Greek roots. -
Line 60 (12/15/19) -- Metro Local
Saturday Effective Dec 15 2019 60 Northbound (Approximate Times) Southbound (Approximate Times) COMPTON LYNWOOD SOUTH GATE VERNON DOWNTOWN ANGELES LOS DOWNTOWN ANGELES LOS VERNON SOUTH GATE LYNWOOD COMPTON 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Artesia Station Long Beach & Rosecrans Long Beach & Imperial Long Beach & Firestone & Pacific Slauson 7th & Central Sunset & Figueroa Sunset & Figueroa 7th & Central & Pacific Slauson Long Beach & Firestone Long Beach & Imperial Long Beach & Rosecrans Artesia Station 4:43A 4:55A 5:02A 5:09A 5:20A 5:34A 5:47A 3:56A 4:18A 4:33A 4:44A 4:52A 5:00A 5:12A 5:08 5:20 5:27 5:35 5:46 6:01 6:15 4:47 5:01 5:16 5:27 5:34 5:41 5:53 5:22 5:34 5:41 5:49 6:00 6:16 6:30 5:12 5:26 5:41 5:52 5:59 6:06 6:18 5:35 5:47 5:54 6:02 6:14 6:30 6:44 5:34 5:49 6:04 6:15 6:22 6:29 6:41 5:48 6:00 6:08 6:16 6:28 6:44 6:58 5:55 6:11 6:27 6:39 6:46 6:54 7:06 6:02 6:14 6:22 6:30 6:42 6:58 7:12 6:11 6:27 6:43 6:55 7:02 7:10 7:22 6:16 6:28 6:36 6:44 6:56 7:12 7:26 6:24 6:41 6:57 7:09 7:16 7:24 7:36 6:30 6:42 6:50 6:58 7:10 7:26 7:40 6:38 6:55 7:11 7:23 7:30 7:38 7:51 6:44 6:56 7:04 7:12 7:24 7:40 7:55 6:52 7:09 7:25 7:37 7:45 7:53 8:06 6:57 7:10 7:18 7:26 7:38 7:54 8:09 7:06 7:23 7:39 7:51 7:59 8:08 8:21 7:10 7:23 7:31 7:39 7:52 8:08 8:23 7:20 7:37 7:53 8:05 8:13 8:22 8:35 7:24 7:37 7:45 7:53 8:06 8:22 8:37 7:34 7:52 8:08 8:20 8:28 8:37 8:50 7:38 7:51 7:59 8:07 8:20 8:36 8:51 7:48 8:07 8:23 8:35 8:43 8:52 9:05 7:51 8:04 8:13 8:21 8:34 8:50 9:06 8:01 8:21 8:37 8:49 8:57 9:06 9:20 8:05 8:18 8:27 8:35 8:48 9:04 9:20 8:14 8:34 8:50 9:02 9:11 9:20 -
Implementation 5 Identifying Working Solutions
Implementation 5 Identifying Working Solutions “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher 5 Implementation Identifying Working Solutions • Implementation Overview ......................................................................................125 • Citywide Implementation Strategies .................................................................. 126 » Sustainable Development Patterns and Building Practices ................... 126 » Economic Development and Job Growth .................................................... 127 » Growth and Change ............................................................................................. 128 » Neighborhood Preservation and Enhancement ........................................ 129 » Broad-based Housing Opportunities ............................................................. 130 » Fair and Equitable Land Use Plan .....................................................................130 » Green Industries and Jobs .................................................................................. 131 »Effi cient Energy Resources Management ..................................................... 132 » Reliable Public Facilities and Infrastructure ................................................. 133 » Increased and Diversifi ed Open Space .......................................................... 133 » Natural Resources Restoration and Reconnection ................................... -
ULI Waterfront Taskforce Report (PDF)
A ULI ADVISORY SERVICES TECHNICAL AssistaNCE PANEL REPOrt DOWNTOWN LONG BEACH WATERFRONT SEPTEMBER 2014 ULI LOS ANGELES MISSION STATEMENT At the Urban Land Institute, our mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI Los Angeles, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, carries forth that mission as the preeminent regional real estate organization providing inclusive and trusted leadership influencing public policy and practice. ABOUT THE ULI LOS ANGELES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PANELS In keeping with the Urban Land Institute mission, Technical Assistance Panels are convened to provide pro-bono planning and development assistance to public officials and local stakeholders of communities and nonprofit organizations who have requested assistance in addressing their land use challenges. A group of diverse professionals representing the full spectrum of land use and real estate disciplines typically spend one day visiting and analyzing the built environments, identifying specific planning and development issues, and formulating realistic and actionable recommendations to move initiatives forward in a fashion consistent with the applicant’s goals and objectives. STAFF AND PANEL MEMBERS TAP CLIENT ULI LOS ANGELES PROJECT StaFF Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) Gail Goldberg, FAICP Executive Director PANEL CHAIR Richard Bruckner Jonathan Nettler, AICP Director, County of Los Angeles, Director Department of Regional Planning Matthew Severson Senior Associate PANELISTS Brian Jones REPORT EDITOR Managing Director, BMJ Advisors James Brasuell Bruce Baltin PHOTOGRAPHER Senior Vice President, PKF Consulting John Dlugolecki Taylor Mammen REPORT DESIGNER Principal, RCLCO Stephen Sampson Vaughan Davies, ISAA Principal, AECOM Midori Mizuhara Urban Designer, Gensler Patrick A. -
Architectural Narrative “Rancho Los Alamitos” by Sally Woodbridge (Original Research by Loretta Berner and Pamela Young)
Architectural Narrative “Rancho Los Alamitos” by Sally Woodbridge (Original research by Loretta Berner and Pamela Young) The legacies passed from one generation to the next are many and varied. Each reveals some aspect of human endeavor and achievement, but perhaps the most universal and enduring expressions of tastes, attitudes, and circumstances are to be found in the buildings each generation chooses to construct or modify to provide shelter and a place called “home.” Changing needs, lifestyles, and values dictate constantly changing patterns of settlement and building style and use. Multitudes of structures vanish without a trace, to be replaced by a new generation of buildings suited to contemporary taste. However, those structures that do survive for an extended period as archaeological fragments, romantic ruins, or, more rarely, as relatively intact buildings, tell us much about the people who built and used them, and occasionally, about those who preserved these tangible links to our past. On Rancho Los Alamitos mesa the buildings of the earliest inhabitants are gone. The impermanent structures erected by the Tongva, native inhabitants of Puvunga, left little trace beyond holes in the earth for lodge poles and fire pits. The Spaniards and Mexicans who followed built structures of adobe mud—only slightly more permanent than the reed and willow “wickiups” of the Tongva. However, in the case of Rancho Lo Alamitos, and at other rare sites, circumstances have intervened. The adobe walls of the Alamitos Ranch House, which date from the Spanish period, have survived because, layered over the old mud brick walls, generations of ranchers have added their own walls, successive structural modifications, and extensions. -
City of Long Beach Demographics
City of Long Beach Demographics GOVERNMENT The City of Long Beach, California covers approximately 52 square miles on the southern City of Long Beach coast of Los Angeles County. With a current Ethnic Diversity population of 491,564, Long Beach is the second largest city in Los Angeles County and Black Asian 14.5% 11.9% the fifth largest city in the state. It is a diverse Other and dynamic city that, based on the 2000 4.7% Census, has the following ethnic breakdown: White 35.8% Hispanic, 33.1% White, 14.5% Black, 33.1% 11.9% Asian, and 4.7% all other ethnicities. Hispanic 35.8% Long Beach was originally incorporated in 1888. After a short period of disincorporation, the City was reincorporated on December 3, 1897. Since 1921, Long Beach has been governed as a charter city, and operates under a Council- Manager form of government. The City Council is made up of nine members, elected by district. The Mayor is chosen in a citywide election to serve as the full-time chief legislative officer of the City. Although the Mayor does not vote, the Mayor presides over City Council meetings, presents the annual budget to the City Council and has veto power over Council actions. The Vice-Mayor is elected by the Council from among its members. The City has three other full-time elected officials: City Attorney, City Auditor and City Prosecutor. The City Council appoints the City Clerk and City Manager. The Mayor nominates and the City Council approves members to various boards and commissions.