Comments of the Week: Sewers, Stereotypes and Seismic Safety

It’s a big thrill for Patch when readers engage with us and the community by commenting on stories on our site. Here's a roundup of comments we received during the week. Feel free to weigh in and continue the discussion.

This week began with reader responses to a column addressing a "spoiled" stereotype on the Peninsula.

Are kids on the Peninsula spoiled?

Our contributor, who grew up and raised children on the Peninsula, addressed this stereotype in a .

• these kids are here....at least most....are spoiled rotten...the parents are worse... ...especially in a particular city here on the hill. —
• I have to agree with this article. I graduated from Peninsula High school just this past year, and one of the things that has a valid basis is the act of walking through the Peninsula parking lot. It is absolutely ridiculous the cars that some of these kids drive. How many kids can say they drove a high-end car for their first car, such as a Benz or a Lamborghini? Many Peninsula high kids can. —

What do you think?

Seismic safety in local schools

RPV Patch investigated the seismic safety of schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. In , district officials said performing costly evaluations to further determine safety in schools is near impossible given a shrinking budget.  

• If there are any geologists out there, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that PV is one of the safest places to be in LA to be in an earthquake because most properties are built on bedrock. Further, our fault, such as it is, is a baby fault, that is likely to produce a magnitude 7 earthquake only once a millenium (compared to the San Andreas, which is once every 15 years). And, by the way, I personally experienced the 6.9 earthquake at its epicenter in Big Bear in 1992. While it was scary, it was not cataclysmic. In my personal risk assessment, bedrock wins over baby fault any day. —

Sewer talk

One resident in a .

• Many residents of R.P.V. are learning that the City Council of our city will most likely request more in fees for our Sanitation Sewer system and we need to be mindful of how that might come about, what those fees may come up for a vote, and how long that new fee would be imposed for... —
• ... The notion that the sanitation district (of which RPV is only one of dozens of members) will changes its practices to subsidize our repairs costs for lines our city owns is very unlikely. Some of the other cities are resisting district fee increases that are needed to take on EPA mandates for district trunk lines. RPV must meet its own needs. —