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PLANNING COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING
JUNE 6, 1992
The meeting was called to order at 1:10 p.m. by Chairman Katherman at The Salvation
Army Headquarters facility located at 30840 Hawthorne Boulevard.
PRESENT: Katherman, Alberio, Byrd, Hayes, Lorenzen, Mowlds
ABSENT: Clark
Also present were Director of Environmental Services Dudley Onderdonk, Associate Planner
Joel Rojas, Assistant Planner Kimberly Klopfenstein, Deidre Gee (The Keith Companies),
Major Kenneth Gibson (The Salvation Army), Thomas Hause (HRC Consultants), Elizabeth
Kelly, and Lois Larue.
The Planning Commission met in the parking lot adjacent to the main open court of the
Salvation Army complex. Associate Planner Rojas introduced Major Gibson, the Salvation
Army project manager, and Mr. Hause, the project architect, to the Commission and
explained that the purpose of the site visit was to view the existing Salvation Army facility
and the location of the additions proposed as part of the 15 -year master plan build -out
(attached).
Major Gibson led the Commission on a walking tour of the developed facility while
explaining the function of the Salvation Army Headquarters and the uses of the existing
buildings on the site. The Commission viewed the location of the proposed expansion of
existing Building "C" (administration), sites for proposed Buildings "J" ( offices) and "I"
(cadet housing), and the recently completed chapel expansion (Building "D").
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Major Gibson explained the Salvation Army's planned use and need for the proposed
Education/Conference Center and the Commission was shown a full-scale architectural model
of the proposed structure. The Commission then viewed the location of the proposed
Education/Conference Center from the upper developed facility as a silhouette of the
proposed structures (Buildings 'T" and "L -l") was constructed by the Salvation Army.
Also viewed were the locations of the three proposed private homes (Buildings M).
The Commission then drove off the site, exiting onto Palos Verdes Drive South and onto the
undeveloped 7 -acre site of the proposed Education/Conference Center. The Commission
viewed the silhouette of the proposed structures from Palos Verdes Drive South.
The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.