January 7, 2022
Linda Vista-Annandale Association
Pasadena, CA
RECEIVED
2022 JAN -7 PH 3: 1+8
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Re: Council Meeting 1/7/2022; Agenda Item 25.; Music Festivals -- Increase in Displacement Events for 2022.
Mayor Gordo and Councilmembers,
The Linda Vista-Annandale Association (LVAA) has several significant concerns with this Agenda item and the proposed large number of Music Festivals, resulting in a very significant increase in Displacement Events in the Central Arroyo.
1. Increase in Displacement Events To exceed 20: "Temporary" or Permanent? Just how "temporary" or permanent was the 2017 increase in Displacement Events from 12 to 15? We believe that the original intent of the increase was to temporarily expand the number of Music Festival Displacement Events to enable the agreed upon large number of Music Festivals over a number of years, and, then the base number of Displacement Events under the Arroyo Seco Public Lands Ordinance would revert back to 12. In fact, the Arroyo Seco Public Lands Ordinance was amended to make the 15 number permanent under the assumption that the Music Festivals would occur as envisioned over an extended period of time. However, both the original contract with AEG and the 2020 revised contract with AEG were never fully implemented or realized. At some point, the 15 number for Music Festivals should have been publicly reviewed, and consideration given, based on the situation with the AEG contracts, whether or not the base number of Displacement Events should revert back to the original number in the Arroyo Seco Public Lands Ordinance, which is 12, and the Ordinance amended back to
12. This did not occur.
Now, you are asked to treat the 15 number as the permanent "ceiling" and increase the number of Displacement Events for AEG Music Festivals to a "temporary" 20 plus as indicated in the Staff Report. Actually, the total number of proposed Displacement Events for 2022 is unclear: is the proposed increase for 2022 composed of 10 Music Festivals plus 1 Rose Bowl game plus 1 July 41h Event plus 8 UCLA games plus 2 International Soccer games, for a total of 22 Displacement Events this calendar year? Is this new number of 19 as currently counted by Staff, or 22 as we count, intended as another permanent increase in the number of Displacement Events? Has this possibly permanent total proposal received adequate public review and comment? When and how will this "temporary" number be terminated? Is eventual termination tied
01/10/2022
Item 25