SMMC Ballona Wetlands Public Comments-Dec 2020 & Jan 2021
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2021-01-13

This Ballona Wetlands-related material was brought before the Santa Monica Mountains
Conservancy Board during our December 2020 and January 2021 Meetings. 

These excerpts are from the regular public comment periods.  The vast majority of public testimony offered to the board spoke to voting items before the board and are not archived here. These excerpted comments spoke to the unagendized topic of Ballona Wetlands, an area outside of SMMC's primary jurisdiction. It is rare that we received comments on topics not before the board, and particularly unique to have multiple members of the public provide comment on a topic not before the board/on an unagendized item. These commenters appeared to have been organized by the newly-formed "Defend Ballona Wetlands" group in an effort to pull more public agencies into efforts to disrupt the decades-long planning effort to restore the degraded, remnant Ballona Wetlands.

Testimony provided here was merged from our December 21, 2020 and January 11, 2021 meetings, held over Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic.