To the Vanguard News Home page 2-8-09 The City of Los Angeles Department of Power and Water (DWP) is proposing a new Barren Ridge Renewable Transmission Project for the transmission of LA's renewable wind energy from Tehachapi wind farms and improvements for reliability and upgrades to their existing transmission lines.
This power line is needed to serve the rapidly growing sanctuary city of "Lost Angeles”. LA wants to build apartments for up to one million immigrants. Los Angeles is changing its zoning code to allow about five story apartments with virtually no parking to replace duplexes, providing the new apartments are located within a mile of a bus stop.
In fact, Los Angeles has zoning codes to allow group living homes, read rooming houses, in every residential area. You can also now add as many bedrooms and bathrooms as you want in a single family zoned area and rent them out to an unlimited number of tenants with no parking requirements, zoning changes, or neighbors' approval. This is essentially the end of single-family zoning.
Los Angeles has just changed the water and power rates to vastly raise the cost on single-family homes to reduce the single family use and allow power and water to the city for its growth of apartments. Apartment buildings only have a group water meter for the entire building and have no individual usage meters for each apartment for usage fees to the apartment renters.
These power lines for Los Angeles are the result of this insane growth plan.
To spread the impact of the disaster, one of their ideas is to condemn hundreds of properties outside of their city and to run these ugly power lines down our mountains. The claim, of course, is that the power lines in a national forest will harm the looks of the national forest, but power lines in Acton and Agua Dulce are perfectly acceptable.
The most damaging route to Acton and Agua Dulce is alternate route I. It breaks off from the main route at about 90th St. and Avenue J, it continues in a straight line across Ritter Ridge to Palmdale Boulevard at about 40th Street, then it then cuts across to Acton paralleling the high-pressure gas lines across the mountain ridge above Shannon Valley, then down to Sierra Highway, and paralleling north of Sierra Highway, all the way to Vasquez Canyon Road.
The proposed route I, through Acton and Agua Dulce, is the only route that does not cut through the National Forest, which the Forest is rejecting, but was approved for the Edison power lines.
The argument against this route is exactly the same argument which we raised against the Edison line, with the additional argument that the project does not need to be built because Los Angeles does not need to build housing for millions of immigrants, as project B on their ballot in March builds a huge solar power system within the city of Los Angeles that would require no transmission lines.
A Public Information Meeting is scheduled
February 24, 2009
at Agua Dulce Elementary School
11311 W. Frascati Street
Agua Dulce, CA 91390
The meeting will be conducted in an “open house” format to allow participants to attend anytime between 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm. A brief presentation will be given by the project team at 7:00 pm followed by a general Q and A session.
We encourage you all to attend this meeting. The purpose is to start the environmental process for the project and to ensure that issues are identified early and properly studied. If there are important environmental and social impacts that the public wants considered, the time to raise these issues is at the meeting. The DWP and Forest Service must listen to the public’s comments on what alternatives and environmental impacts should be studied.
Please participate in this important public meeting. We need to make a strong, united stand at this stage in the process.
For more detailed information, please visit the DWP's website: