Greetings!
Balboa Park needs your help again.
For the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition, the newly completed Pan-American Plaza in Balboa Park’s Palisades was a landscaped pedestrian plaza encircled by park buildings. Both the Balboa Park Master Plan (adopted in 1989) and the Central Mesa Precise Plan (adopted in 1992) call for the Pan-American Plaza to be restored.
Eventually, the plaza was overrun with parked cars (sound familiar?) as it is to this day. Now, as the Committee of One Hundred moves to help implement park plans approved decades ago, many of the same people behind the Plaza de Panama project oppose this restoration. Their goal is to remove the plaza’s restoration from these two vetted planning documents and leave a parking lot only.
We need your help. We need you
to
strongly oppose the misguided gutting of these two park plans that were professionally prepared with public input.
Please come support the 1935 Pan-American Plaza restoration by attending the Balboa Park Committee
meeting on
Thursday, August 1 at 6pm in the Balboa Park Club’s Santa Fe Room, 2150 Pan American Road West.
We expect the restoration opponents will organize a large turnout and show of support, which is why SOHO is calling on you to attend this meeting and reject removing the Palisades plaza’s restoration from the park’s planning documents. Bring your partner, friends, and neighbors, too, to support the Master and Precise plans. A large turnout of preservationists will send a strong message to the Balboa Park Committee and city officials.
Thank you for your advocacy
! Even if you don’t wish to speak, we still ask that you attend, and cede time to others, including the Committee of One Hundred and SOHO. Speakers may be allowed only one minute to register their objection.
Here are links to the meeting agenda, the Balboa Park Master Plan, and the Central Mesa Precise Plan.
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