Metro to hold public hearing to evaluate maintenance facility sites for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor
Metro will hold a public hearing on Thursday, March 31, to update the community and to receive verbal comments on the evaluation process of the proposed maintenance facility sites for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Light Rail Project.
Metro staff is analyzing four sites for the development of a new maintenance facility, which will be used to store, maintain, repair, and clean light rail vehicles. The four sites are located in the cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Hawthorne and Redondo Beach. Metro staff will also update the community on an analysis of parklands and historic resources. The hearing will take place at,
Open House/Public Hearing
Thursday, March 31, 2011
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Inglewood City Hall
Community Room A, First Floor
One West Manchester Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90301
(Served by Metro Bus Lines 40, 111, 115, 212 and 740)
The Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement/ Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report (SDEIS/ RDEIR) is now available for review and public input and is posted under Reports and Info at www.metro.net/crenshaw. It is also available at the Metro Transportation Library at One Gateway Plaza, 15th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012 and at the following public libraries near the corridor.
Westchester-Loyola Library
7114 W. Manchester Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Inglewood Main Library
101 W. Manchester Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90301
Lennox Library
4359 Lennox Blvd.
Lennox, CA 90304
El Segundo Public Library
111 W. Mariposa Avenue
El Segundo, CA 90245
Hawthorne Library
12700 Grenvillea Avenue
Hawthorne, CA 90250
Wiseburn Library
5335 W. 135th St.
Hawthorne, CA 90250
The New North Branch
2000 Artesia Blvd.
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
The deadline for comments is April 11, 2011 by 5 pm. Comments can be made at the hearing, mailed to Roderick Diaz, Project Manager, Metro, One Gateway Plaza, 99-22-3, Los Angeles CA 90012 or e-mailed to diazroderick@metro.net.
Special accommodations and information in alternative formats are available to the public. All requests for reasonable accommodations must be made three working days (72 hours) in advance of the scheduled meeting date. Please contact Bronwen Trice at (213) 922-4465 or triceb@metro.net or call the California Relay Service at 711.
The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor is an 8.5 mile light rail line that will extend from the intersection of Exposition and Crenshaw Boulevards to the Metro Green Line's Aviation/LAX station. The project will serve the cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Hawthorne, and El Segundo and portions of the unincorporated Los Angeles County.
