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Corona Del Mar High School Sports Field Project.- EIR
Jim Petrilli <jameslpet@gmail.com> Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 7:14 PM
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Dear Ms. Yelsey:
We met on Wednesday evening September 13th at Corona Del Mar High School after the Corona Del Mar High School
Sports Field Project public meeting.
During this meeting I mentioned that originally when the school first started discussing the field renovations it started with
no lights. When I said this during the meeting I was told that this was incorrect that there was never any discussion of a
new field without any lights. I insisted and said that about five years ago when the new field was first mentioned in the
papers it did not have any lights. The point that I was trying to make is that the neighborhood is consistently being baited
and switched on this new field proposal and that the bottom line was that we could not trust the CDM High School to be
good neighbors and keep their word as it relates to this sports field project. After I insisted that I remembered this new
field being discussed at the beginning without lights, somebody else came up to the podium and while he did not say I
was right he did not completely contradict me. When I then pressed this person to admit that there was an original field
discussion that did not include lights he would not admit to this but also did not deny it and then said they had to move
on.
You then came up to me after the meeting and again told me I was wrong, that CDM never mentioned anything about a
new field without lights. I then asked for your email and said that I would look up the article and would send it to you.
Well attached is the article with a headline CDM coach leading charge for a new football stadium. You can see in this
article that the rendering does not include any lights nor does the article mention any lights. Also in the approximate 3
million dollar budget it does it not mention anything about lights. It mentions just field renovations and new seats and
architectural fees. You will note that this article is from 2012 so you can see that I was also correct about this new
stadium proposal without any lights being mentioned approximately five years ago.
I also have attached an article from 2014 from the Daily Pilot mail bag that says that Newport Mesa Unified School
district wants to build a sports stadium with 1,000 seats, a synthetic turf field and a new track at Corona Del Mar High
School. It then mentions that an augmentation includes lights. So again this shows that the original discussion did not
include lights but that this was an augmentation.
To further my point about this project keeps getting expanded to the detriment of the neighborhood is now the current
proposals in the EIR does not just have one field with lights on them but now has two fields with lights on both fields.
This came about because as an alternative to the single lighted field plan that that the board was looking at in 2016 , a
plan was presented to the board in 2016 by Newport Citizens for Responsible Growth that showed a two field plan with
no lights (also attached).
What has now happened is that instead of considering a two field plan with no lights, the current EIR does include the two
field plan but with lights on both fields. So once again the project has expanded. This especially shows how CDM
High School is acting in bad faith towards its neighbors. It has taken a two field plan with no lights that the
neighborhood endorsed and came back with a plan that does have two fields but with lights on both fields. So
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now we have more lights which is exactly opposite of what the neighborhood proposed. I feel like the school,
and if the school board agrees to this, will have back stabbed us who live in the neighborhood.
I strongly urge you to vote against the proposals as outlined in the current EIR which has two lighted fields and stands.
The neighborhood is strongly against this and there is a viable alternative to the school which is two new fields with no
lights as was previously presented.
Other high schools that have lighted fields have more of a buffer area between the school and single family homes. CDM
high school is in a unique area whereby single family homes are directly across the street from the school with some
homes being located just a few feet from where these light pools will be placed.
Also I want to point out that the high school already has lighted activities going on outside at night with the lighted pool
complex and its stands. This already causes traffic, and noise and light pollution to the neighborhood that would be
exacerbated with two lighted fields that has stands that seat approximately 700-900 people as currently proposed in the
EIR. My wife Shelly and I have lived in our home at 2501 Bamboo Street for 30 years and when we first moved in our
home there was no lighted swim stadium at CDM High School. We did not object to this lighted swim stadium when it
came up because we felt this was reasonable for the school. Now the school is going too far with its two lighted fields
proposals and we would ask you to vote against the current two lighted field proposals that are being proposed in the
EIR.
Thank you,
James Petrilli
2501 Bamboo Street
Newport Beach, CA 92660
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2012 Article.pdf
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CdM coach leading charge for new football stadium
A rendering of what a Corona del Mar stadium would look like.
By BRANTLEY WATSON I Orange County Register
December 14, 2012 at 10:54 am
If teams think it's difficult to defeat the Corona del Mar football team now, imagine if the Sea Kings, who have an aging, pockmarked
football field and play their home games at Newport Harbor High, had a legit home field advantage.
Well, opposing teams' imagination might be able to take a rest come 2014.
Corona del Mar High is in the process of securing approval from the Newport -Mesa Unified School District to build a new football
stadium on the campus that would cost about $3 million, according to track coach Bill Sumner.
Sumner, who has spearheaded the effort to build the new stadium, says it will be privately funded by sponsors and members of the
community.
"I have a lot of people that want this;" Sumner said. "I've been thinking about it and we went to the district and they were worried about
the money. But we'll bring it to them. The community will pay for it. And we'll be offering some jobs in the community as well."
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Deputy superintendent Paul Reed said he and Superintendent Frederick Navarro are both in support of the new stadium - and Sumner's
fundraising efforts.
Sumner presented a $15,000 check to trustees at their last meeting to pay for preliminary architectural and engineering studies to launch
this effort, Reed said.
Trustees will discuss authorizing the studies at their Dec. 11 meeting, he said.
Sumner - who has worked on gathering support and information on the project for six months — says he receives emails daily from
community members looking to donate money for the stadium.
"The track is 10 to 14 years old, but I can live with it," he said. "But I can't live with that football field. We probably have the worst field in
all of Orange County. As a track coach, I've been through hundreds of facilities. That football field, since I've been there, has been
repaired over and over. But it's just a Band-aid. It's horrible."
CdM football coach Scott Meyer says the school is in need of a new outdoor facility for not just football, but all sports.
"It's definitely time for a new field," Meyer said. "We would love to have our own stadium for all the sports. We have to get on a bus every
week and play our home games at our rival school. It would be awesome for all CdM athletes."
While the facility will be state of the art, it will not be a huge structure that will practically sit in neighbor's backyards, Sumner said.
"We're going to make it really pretty instead of big, and really futuristic," he said.
If the stadium is approved, Sumner says he hopes to break ground within the next 18 months.
"We're bringing jobs and a couple bucks into the community," he said. "It's going to last for decades, not just a couple of years. And it's
going to service thousands of kids."
No. of seats: 1,500
Cost of seats: $250 each
Cost of architectural work: $900,000
Cost of field: $2.1 million
Approximate total cost: $3.7 million
Timeframe: "I would like to have the legal stuff and planning done within 9 months, and 18 months after, to start building it. I hope to
break ground this time next year." -Track Coach Bill Sumner
Contact the writer: bwatson@ocr ster_com
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April 03, 2014
The Newport -Mesa Unified School District wants to build a sports stadium with
1,000 seats, a synthetic turf field and a new track at Corona del Mar High School.
An augmentation includes 1,500 stadium -style seats, field lights, a press box, snack
bars and team rooms.
This stadium would be in the middle of a calm residential community of more than
1,5oo homes and would cause huge problems for the residents. I'm thinking of added traffic, parking and safety
issues, excessive noise and blinding lights.
The school district initially called this a "stadium project," but after residents in the surrounding neighborhood
opposed the stadium, the district characterized the project as a "sports complex" and then recently a "field
renovations project."
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FEATURED ARYtCLES All to make it sound less threatening and to obscure the fact that the district wants to build a stadium. No changes
were made to the project itself, only the characterization of it. It is very disappointing that the school district is
Residents worry about traffic, playing a game of semantics and can't be more forthright.
lights from CdM stadium
November 6, 2013 Ronald Madaras
Newport Beach
What good is high-speed rail project?
I was totally flabbergasted by "Commentary: High-speed rail will meet needs" from March 3o.
It was written by Michelle Boehm, Southern California regional director of the California High Speed Rail Authority.
She's endorsing the project to protect her job and salary.
You can fly to San Francisco faster than you can travel on a Zoo -mph train that stops here and there en route. Even
recognizing the problems and delays in air travel, it will beat the train every time.
How does Boehm propose to finance the project?:
•$300 million from cap -and -trade proceeds.
•33% of future cap -and -trade proceeds.
•$3.3 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Grant funds.
•$6 billion to $12 billion in capital from the private sector.
All of it paid for with other people's money.
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