C-12 Correspondence – Edwin Parker
From: Jamie Parker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2023 1:23 PM
To: CityClerk <[email protected]>
Subject: Approve the Addendum (EIRA-02-22) to the Downtown Plan Program Environmental Impact Report (SCH No.2009071006), et al
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Re:
Recommendation to Approve the Addendum (EIRA-02-22) to the Downtown Plan Program Environmental Impact Report (SCH No.2009071006), approve Site Plan Review for the construction of three (3) eight (8)-story apartment buildings with a total of 900 dwelling units and 38,405 square feet of ground floor commercial space, and 1,383 parking stalls in at-grade parking garages (SPR22-060), and approve Vesting Tentative Parcel Map No. 83693 to subdivide one 170,736-square-foot lot into two lots of 101,724 and 68,712 square feet (TPM22-002), located at 450 The Promenade North/501-599 Long Beach Blvd. in the Downtown Plan Planned Development District (PD-30). (District1)
Thank you for your decision to require this project to use electric appliances instead of natural gas. This is the only sensible choice due to safety concerns over natural gas appliances which could be a liability issue and the ongoing transition to electrification that will make such appliances obsolete; any new purchase of such appliances is an unnecessary burden on homeowners and other taxpayers.
Perhaps more importantly, we must speed electrification at all levels of government in order to minimize the worsening and increasingly expensive damage from climate change due to the burning of fossil fuel.
Voters, especially the younger voters who will be forced to live with disastrous climate change, will remember elected and appointed leaders who choose to fight climate change -- or those who deny the crisis or delay taking action.
Edwin J. Parker