The official 3-day meeting agenda has been revised to provide time for the hearing.  (click here)  Our LCPA is Topic a. under Agenda Item # 22.5, LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAMS.  You'll need to scroll down almost to the bottom of the page when you open the link above within a web browser window.

It's most likely that our topic will be heard starting late in the afternoon.  Please join us in person if you can, but if not, you can tune in live on the Internet and watch online.  Here's a link to the commission's simulcast: (click here)  By the way, this link still brings up the May meeting right now, but it should be updated well before June 11th.

One area to keep a close eye on right now (remember, we're talking land side at this point, not waterside) is the likelihood of revised design requirements.  As we've mentioned before,  discussions started quite a while ago.  Our focus at the onset was upon boater and commercial parking, dry storage and the boat launch area.  But we've progressed from there.

Last week in our 14th meeting (or was it 15th? UGH!), two DPBA directors met with two directors of the San Juan Water District, their attorney, their general manager, the OC DPH Director and Deputy Director as well as County legal council in very productive discussion of higher, better coordinated uses of both the existing harbor and water district properties.  OC DPH has scheduled another Parking Task Force meeting next Thursday at 3 PM so that we can present the overall design concept to a larger group of harbor stakeholders, including merchants, commercial and recreational boaters.  Subject to personal schedules, your association will be represented by five directors and advisers.  Obviously our common goal is to get a well founded consensus, perhaps more, going into the first round of hearings in Marina del Rey.