Santa Monica Daily Press, October 21, 2013

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013

Volume 12 Issue 295

Santa Monica Daily Press

SAMOHI ROUTS BEVERLY HILLS SEE PAGE 3

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THE SO MANY POINTS ISSUE

Transit projects nothing new for Santa Monica BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer

BACK IN THE DAY Residents debated heartily over the direction of the city’s newest approved project — one that would undoubtedly bring more people from Los

Angeles to Santa Monica than ever before — forming coalitions, passing out buttons and pennants, and soliciting city officials. Political disputes kept the project on ice for three years, but following City Council approval the mayor said, “Nothing can now prevent the consummation of the work.”

With funds already set aside and construction underway (being called “as high a class of work as has ever been done in the West”) but completion a long ways off, every city meeting circled back to the project. This is not the Expo Light Rail line, a new development, or even October 2013. This

was Pico Boulevard, October 1913. One hundred years ago this month, City Council voted to pave Fremont Avenue from Ocean Avenue to Eighth Street and then to connect Fremont Avenue to Pico Street in SEE HISTORY PAGE 8

Report: Quake mapping has slowed down THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Very few earthquake faults in

BIG OPENING

California have been mapped over the past two decades despite an ambitious campaign launched in the early 1970s to help scientists learn more about the state’s seismic activity. Only 23 maps have been drawn since 1991 and there haven’t been any between 2004 and 2011 because of budget cuts, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. More than 500 maps were published over a 20year period beginning in 1971. State officials estimate there are roughly 300 maps to draw and even more to revise, which accounts for about 2,000 miles of faults statewide. Public safety may be affected because a ban on new construction atop faults is enforced only for those formally mapped by the state. New buildings located near faults that have been mapped are required by law to perform extensive testing to ensure the structures aren’t on top of the fissures. The issue has arisen lately because of several new developments planned along the Hollywood fault, which has not been officially mapped, even though the state has known about its existence for decades. State officials hope to complete mapping the Hollywood fault by 2014. The state geologist’s budget has dropped from $9.1 million in 2001 to $2.9 million for the current fiscal year. State geologist John Parrish said enough funding has been found to restart the mapping program last year.

Photos by Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com

(ABOVE) Angeleno Tongva dancers perform during the opening ceremony of Tongva Park and Genser Square on Saturday morning. (RIGHT) Local band String Theory performs for visitors of the Tongva Park celebration on Saturday afternoon. String Theory uses different percussion instruments in their self-designed music.

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