| NO HOME DEPOT IN S-T CAMPAIGN WRITE A LETTER TODAY! Home Depot’s application for Project Permit Compliance Review is currently being reviewed by Maya Zaitzevsky of City Planning’s Office of Zoning Administration to determine the level of Environmental Assessment that will be required. It is critical NOW to let the City know that a full Environmental Impact Report must be required. Letters regarding the impacts this large warehouse operation will have in S-T are important. Be polite, be firm, and use your own words. Send a copy of your letter to STA (address below). Traffic, Air, Noise, and Water Pollution: Home Depot expects 18-20 truck deliveries per day from their suppliers: The heavy equipment used by Home Depot in their daily operations will negatively affect quality of life for our community with increased levels of noise and diesel pollution: The property abuts the Haines Canyon Flood Control Channel. Demand a Comprehensive Traffic Study: Foothill Boulevard is the only commercial street in Sunland-Tujunga, and the surrounding residential streets are too narrow for the overflow traffic. The proposed store is over a mile from the Sunland exit off the 210. Let the City know your concerns about streets and freeways surrounding Sunland-Tujunga. If truckers and contractors use the Sunland exit from the I-5, traffic in Shadow Hills will be impacted. Delivery trucks and contractors might use Foothill Boulevard through Lake View Terrace to approach Sunland-Tujunga. The truckers will surely find a way to avoid the 210/2 or the 210/118 interchanges because of the new traffic signals that have been installed. Land Use: A Home Depot warehouse in this prime location is inappropriate for this residential community: The property adjoins residential backyards and a senior mobile home park: There are homes directly across the street from the Woodward Ave. driveway: Apperson Elementary School is only 2 blocks away: Our Community Plan promises us a Community Center; pedestrian friendly, and serving the needs of the neighborhood. The Building May be Unsafe: The construction documents submitted by Home Depot in 2006 contain several errors, some significant: “Dead load” calculations for the new roof are too low: New roof openings weaken the roof: Incorrect seismic factor in relation to the roof; the project site is in close proximity to a known earthquake fault: Demand that the construction plans submitted with the new application be reviewed carefully for compliance to current safety standards and apply to this specific site. (Several pages of the Plans submitted with an earlier application were of another Home Depot location). Send your letters to: (we suggest addressing the original to M. Zaitzevsky with copies to the others) |