Follow-the-Money
Can City Councilmembers truly serve ALL residents of Rosemead if they receive financing from only certain sectors of the population?
Polly Low, Steven Ly, and Sean Dang took thousands of dollars from the PM’s landlords. Polly Low and Steven Ly were on the committee that made GASP which saw PM be rezoned for future mixed use development. Sean Dang was on the planning commission when the Garvey Avenue Specific Plan (GASP) was being developed.
According to the city’s website, the city council began developing documents for GASP on May 13th, 2014. City Council adopted the final version of GASP on Feb 13, 2018. It’s also worth noting that Rosemead has a history of landlords attempting to vacate their trailer parks to redevelop their land. Since 1986, 12 trailer parks have disappeared on Garvey Ave with some getting evicted by their landlords without a permit.
$1500 received from Hawaii Supermarket, the landlord of one of the mobile home parks endangered by the Garvey Avenue Specific Plan (GASP), Park Monterey, in Sept. 5th, 2014, months after drafting of GASP began. The land on which Park Monterey is located got rezoned to encourage mixed use development:
$1500 received from Hawaii Supermarket in 2019, a year after GASP was approved:
$2500 received from Hawaiian Markets in 3/4/19:
$5000 received from San Garvey Investments on 3/1/19. San Garvey Investments LLC are the landlords of Paradise Trailer Park (PTP). GASP proposed that PTP be displaced by commercial spaces and townhouses:
$1500 received from Hawaiian Markets in 7/1/2015:
$1500 received from Hawaii Property Inc in 7/1/2015:
$1000 received from Hawaii Market in 10/29/19:
$1500 received from Sunny Chen of San Garvey Investment in 11/13/19:
Sean Dang wasn’t a city council member yet when GASP was passed, BUT he was still on the planning commission when it was being developed.