NEIGHBORS WIN
After residents threatened to file a lawsuit, the Manhattan Beach Unified School Board voted 4 to 0 Monday night to conduct an initial study to determine whether an environmental impact report should be completed for a proposed $17-million middle school next to Polliwog Park.
Members of the La Marina Neighborhood Assn. who live near the park are afraid that the 1,200-student middle school, scheduled to open in September 1998, will generate too much traffic and should have its entrance way farther away from Redondo Avenue.
The school district wasn’t planning to conduct an initial study or an environmental impact report because one was completed when an elementary school was on the site. The old school is now occupied by school district headquarters.
But neighbors felt the issue needed to be studied to see how increased traffic would affect the surrounding areas.
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