Grassroots Pushback On Density: New Group -- "The Eastside Voice" -- Spanning Council Districts 4 and 5 -- Will Hold Inaugural Meeting Re City Staff Proposed Increased Density: Sun. Sept. 17; AND Another New ELB Grassroots Group -- Density Watch -- Will Hold Its Second Community Meeting Saturday '

' Grassroots Pushback On Density: New Group -- "The Eastside Voice" -- Spanning Council Districts 4 and 5 -- Will Hold Inaugural Meeting Re City Staff Proposed Increased Density: Sun. Sept. 17; AND Another New ELB Grassroots Group -- Density Watch -- Will Hold Its Second Community Meeting Saturday '

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Grassroots Pushback On Density: New Group -- "The Eastside Voice" -- Spanning Council Districts 4 and 5 -- Will Hold Inaugural Meeting Re City Staff Proposed Increased Density: Sun. Sept. 17; AND Another New ELB Group -- Density Watch Long Beach -- Will Hold Its Second Community Meeting Saturday

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(Sept. 12, 2017, updated 7:30 p.m.) -- Concern over city staff-proposed increased density has moved from talk on social networks to the launch of a new neighborhood group -- The Eastside Voice -- spanning Council districts 4 and 5 and holding its inaugural meeting on Sunday afternoon Sept. 17 (details below) AND [update] a separate grassroots ELB group -- Density Watch -- will hold its second neighborhood meeting on Saturday Sept. 16 (details below)

The Eastside Voice will hold its kick-off meeting on Sunday afternoon Sept. 17 at the El Dorado Library, 2900 Studebaker Rd. from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

A dispatch on NextDoor.com announces the "inaugural meeting of The Eastside Voice," a "newly formed neighborhood association for Council Districts 4 and 5." It states: "Don't let them give away our neighborhoods! The city is about to approve a plan to change zoning [initially land uses] all over Long Beach. This new zoning will allow: high density developments (apartments, condos, townhouses and mixed use developemnts)...decreased parking...increased traffic, pollution and crime."

[UPDATE] Meanwhile, a separate group of residents -- labeled by one its organizers as Density Watch -- will hold its second neighborhood meeting for 5th Council districts residents on Saturday Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m. at 2909 Ostrom Ave.

The organizers' of this group -- Kimberly Costas, Angela Kimball and Ramen Vashishth -- held their first neighborhood meeting over Labor Day weekend which drew roughly sixty people to a South of Conant area home (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

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