1 David Yakobson
From: Karen Melick <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 8:57 AM
To: councilmtgitems; Oliver Chi; Christopher Dishlip; Lana Negrete; Dan Hall; Ellis Raskin; Caroline Torosis; Barry Snell; Natalya Zernitskaya; Jesse Zwick Subject: Agenda item 5.E Clover Park for the Trapeze School
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Hello,
I’m writing about item 5.E, the negotiations between the City and the Santa Monica Trapeze School, for the price and terms of payment of a license at Clover Park.
The Pier was the perfect place for the trapeze school. It’s too bad the City and the City Council decided against it staying there.
I don’t understand why the City appears to be responsible for finding another place for this commercial business that lost its lease.
Clover Park is not the place for this business, even temporarily.
The City should not give or lease to a commercial business with a limited clientele the equivalent of 3 tennis courts of space in a very busy park when park space in our City is so limited.
That sets a very bad precedent of taking away our park space for commercial use.
I’ve heard that the space it may go to is where the trailers are. The RPC has been trying for years to free up the trailer space at Clover Park to return it to an amphitheater. That hasn’t happened for the public, but you’ll free up that space for a commercial business? Who’s going to pay the cost to remove the trailers? This space is directly adjacent to the two reservable large group BBQ areas. Having this business in that space would be very disruptive to events at those locations. We just had the FOSP Annual meeting/picnic there, and thank you to the Council members who attended.
Please do not move forward with an agreement for the Santa Monica Trapeze School to move their operation to Clover Park. It should be at or near the pier.
Thank you.
Item 5-E
August 11, 2026
Item 5-E
August 11, 2026
2 Karen Melick
Sunset Park
Item 5-E
August 11, 2026
Item 5-E
August 11, 2026