Local News in Brief : Park Advisers Disband
After 14 months of work, hundreds of hours of meetings and the study of dozens of documents, the White Point Citizens Advisory Committee is going out of business with a call for a San Pedro park to be largely left undisturbed.
Its third and final recommendation--this one on the fate of White Point Park--was submitted to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and Councilwoman Joan Milke Flores, who jointly appointed the 14-member committee in December, 1986.
The committee urged that the 102-acre park be developed by the city, primarily for passive uses, with a small portion of the park set aside for sports fields. In so doing, the committee rejected arguments that the land should be turned over to the state for a park and nature preserve, or that 35 acres of it should be set aside for an athletics complex. In fact, because the city has no money to develop White Point, it appears that the coastal park will, for the meantime, be left alone.
“We were saying it was precious,” said committee chairman Jerry Gaines. “We weren’t ready to turn it into a Candlestick Park.”
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