Sean Hitchcock will resume his Magically Forgiven Tour on Thursday, when the well-connected owner of 2H Construction asks the Long Beach Planning Commission to let him off the hook for illegally desecrating wetlands-area property last spring. The meeting begins at 5 p.m. in the city council chamber at City Hall.
 The process of pardoning Hitchcock began almost immediately [...]

Thomas Marchese, whose candidacy for the 3rd district’s seat on the Long Beach City Council was reported Friday by LBreport.com, confirmed today that he will oppose incumbent Gary DeLong in next April’s election. But the typically talkative activist rather uncharacteristically declined to say much more.
“I haven’t officially announced, but I will issue a press release soon,” [...]

Never again will somebody like Sean Hitchcock be able to illegally ravage Long Beach’s delicate wetlands areas without facing punitive remedies from the city. Thanks to regulations recently approved by the City Council, the next time somebody like Hitchcock disregards law, animal and plant habitat and human life, he could face a fine of $1,000 [...]

2H Construction’s Sean Hitchcock: He reads me! He really reads me!

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
In an exclusive interview with Sean Hitchcock, the wealthy and well-connected construction company owner who last spring ravaged nine acres of protected wetlands-area habitat near Studebaker Rd. and Loynes Dr. without bothering to get a city permit, The District Weekly has [...]

A long-awaited biological study commissioned last summer by Long Beach’s Development Services department agrees with a study commmissioned in May by contractor Sean Hitchcock. Both say the 8.3 acres of land Hitchcock illegally tore up in March is not officially considered to be wetlands.
The city study, by wetlands ecologist Richard Haywood of PCR Services Corp., doesn’t exactly [...]

Will the city forgive Sean Hitchcock for his wetlands razing?

PHOTO by DAVE WIELENGA
Long Beach officials intend to quietly let Sean Hitchcock off the hook this week, nearly seven months after the well-connected developer plowed a protected wetlands area—which also happened to be a reconfigured toxic landfill—during two days of unmitigated disregard for city law, endangered [...]

State Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) has been named a 2009 California Coastal Hero by Sunset magazine and the California Coastal Commission, the senator’s office announced via electronic press release Thursday.
Lowenthal was honored for being someone who can “effectively negotiate the legislative process without ever losing sight of coastal protection,” the release tells us.

Fourth District City Councilman Patrick O’Donnell e-mailed that message to his staffer Bridget Sramek at 1:44 p.m. on March 20 while heavy equipment was tearing up protected habitat on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands and confused city officials were simultaneously scrambling to figure out what happened, what to do about it and how to [...]

A former tenant says Hitchcock rebuilt his commercial space with nary a permit in sight
It may sound sensible now because we’ve repeated it so many times, but when word came late last month that workers for a local contractor had illegally destroyed 8.38 acres of wetlands, it seemed hard to believe initially that Sean Hitchcock’s [...]

Exactly three weeks after bulldozers began ravaging protected habitat on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands, Third District City Councilman Gary DeLong will face his constituents today when the monthly Third District Neighborhood Association meeting convenes at La Strada restaurant (4716 East 2nd Street) at 11:45 a.m.
DeLong has been in near seclusion since March [...]