| Dear [drop in first name from
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Our Shea Parkside team won a major approval at our Coastal
Commission hearing earlier this month, as the Commission approved
“revised findings” that accurately reflected the
Commission’s actions in its approval of Parkside Estates’
land use plan last November.
Because of the support of you and hundreds of others, we
are closer than ever to approval, and all the great regional
benefits approval will bring. We will be asking for your help
with our next step, the City Council’s required approval
of the changes the Coastal Commission made to the Local Coastal
Plan in approving our plan. As soon as the
matter is on the agenda for the City Council, we will let
you know and ask you to send one of our quick and easy support
letters to the Council.
Here’s an update on some of the many benefits of the
Parkside plan.
- First, all the benefits that follow will come with less
traffic and fewer new school students,
because the Coastal Commission reduced the development area.
- The plan is now 50% conservation open
space and 50% development,
with five acres of re-created wetlands that will be permanently
maintained. Less than one-third of an acre of functional
wetlands are now on the site.
- Before a single home can be built, Shea will make improvements
to regional and local flood control infrastructure that
will remove about 7,000 Huntington Beach homes and businesses
from the flood zone.
- That means no more mandatory flood insurance
for approximately 7,000 homes and businesses and lower premiums
for another approximately 7,000. (Premium reduction
or elimination is subject to the terms of each individual’s
mortgage and the policies of each individual’s lenders.)
To see the changes to the flood map, click here. [link to
http://sheaparkside.com/flood-control.html]
- Approximately 800 homes near the Shea Parkside site will
be protected from tidal surge flooding.
If you have any questions, please send me an email [link
to http://sheaparkside.com/contact.html], or call our community
relations specialist, Laer Pearce, at 949/599-1212 ext. 202.
Thank you very much for your continuing support!
Best regards,
Ron Metzler
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