Palisades Beautiful Sponsors Talk on Community's Future

What will Pacific Palisades look like decades from now and what will define its future growth?

That's what members of the community are asking heading into the first of three open talks entitled "The Future of Pacific Palisades." The first meeting is tonight, Tuesday, May 7. The second meeting is slated for May 16 and the third for June 1.

It's sponsored by tree planting organization Palisades Beautiful. The effort, spearheaded by Donna Vaccarino of the Pacific Palisades Community Council, aims to look closely at starting Pacific Palisades' strategic master plan study.

President Barbara Marinocci said the group is greatly expanding its interests from being mainly involved with street plantings and other beautification projects in the 90272. Most notably, her efforts have been showcased with maintaining the native plant garden in Temescal Canyon Park, a City of Los Angeles park.

The movement to begin talks about the community's future planning now coincides with the very prominent "City Beautiful" movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Marinocci said, which stressed the crucial need for intelligent urban planning in the rapidly expanding nation.

"Here in the Palisades, concerned people have the opportunity to help professional city planners structure special guidelines and rules that will then be applied to future developments," she said. Many contractors and companies that seek permits for buildings and other projects will inevitably be inappropriate or even harmful to residents' safety and wellbeing, as well as to the business community."

Although part of Los Angeles, organizers say Pacific Palisades' many unique geographic features and cultural values must be considered and protected whenever new construction and other changes are proposed that could adversely affect public safety, available services, aesthetics, population and traffic densities, transportation, and the natural environment, along with property valuation.

For more information, visit this Palisades Beautiful website link on the Brentwood-Pacific Palisades Community Plan, Commercial Village and Neighborhoods Specific Plan and others.

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