LA Metro meeting on new facility for Crenshaw/LAX light rail project

Los Angeles' Metro will hold a Community Open House on December 1, in the City of Hawthorne, Calif., to update the community on various proposed sites for a maintenance facility selected for environmental review as part of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project light rail line.

Metro staff is looking at
four sites for a new maintenance facility, required for the operation of a new
light rail transit line to store, maintain, repair and clean light rail
vehicles. The four sites to be examined are in the cities of Los Angeles,
Inglewood, Hawthorne, and Redondo Beach.

The issues to be
addressed include displacement, relocation, employment changes, traffic access,
noise and land use policies, all of which will be incorporated into an
Environmental Assessment/Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report
(EA/RDEIR).

The EA/RDEIR focuses
solely on the maintenance facility issues and is a supplemental to the Original
Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (Draft
EIS/EIR). The four candidate sites are currently under a detailed environmental
review in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The EA/RDEIR is planned to be
completed and released in early 2011 with a formal comment period and public
hearing at that time.

The Crenshaw/LAX Transit
Corridor is an 8.5-mile light rail line that will extend from the intersection
of Exposition and Crenshaw boulevards to the Metro Green Line’s Aviation/LAX
station. The project will serve the cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Hawthorne
and El Segundo and portions of unincorporated Los Angeles County.