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The City staff ’s scheduled a “community meeting” tonight, but it doesn’t seem to want us to actually  show up.

Notices were sent only to those people who receive all notices. There’s been   virtually no press coverage – beyond  Bill Bauer’s column in Monday’s Daily  Press, and this and a previous story (FLASH! CITY JUMPS GUN ON LUCE, see below).

The meeting is set for 7 p.m. tonight in the Thelma Terry building in Virginia Avenue Park, rather than any of  the usual places. The building’s at 2200 Virginia Avenue. The park’s at Pico and Cloverfield, and there’s parking in the park.

The subject of the meeting is “concept plans” for a proposed one million square foot commercial development at 26th and Olympic, Bergmot Station Transit Village Center.

There are problems. It’s a major part of the revised land use and circulation elements of the General Plan (LUCE). But the revision is still in draft, so this meeting is clearly out of  order.

In addition, a number of other mega-  projects are scheduled for this overburdened neighborhood.

Please read the previous story – FLASH! CITY JUMPS GUN ON  LUCE (below), and remember the residents’ first rule: when the City

doesn’t really want us to show up, we show up.