Venice : Cityhood Meeting Today
Backers of the latest effort for Venice cityhood will meet today to discuss the results of a survey that they say shows strong community support.
About 74% of the 1,239 homeowners and renters who returned the mailed surveys supported Venice’s secession from Los Angeles, with about 20% opposed, according to William McNally, consultant for the Ulan Bator Foundation, which paid for the $11,000 survey. The rest were undecided or did not answer the cityhood question, McNally said. The survey was mailed to nearly 12,000 homes, he said.
The foundation, established by college professor and activist Arnold Springer, is covering the cost of the survey with money that developer Jerry Snyder paid in 1990 to head off a Springer lawsuit challenging the construction of Snyder’s Channel Gateway development on Lincoln Boulevard.
McNally said the purpose of today’s meeting is to name a cityhood organizing committee and arrange a feasibility study. The idea of cityhood has come and gone many times in the past. But this time Springer has suggested adding to an incorporated Venice the massive Playa Vista project, a multibillion-dollar development planned for 1,000 acres between Marina del Rey and the Westchester Bluffs.
The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Westminster Elementary School auditorium, 1010 Abbott Kinney Blvd.
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