Jenny Pirie, Peter Kastner and Jeff Mudrick A Short History of Ocean Park, Ocean Park Community Organization, 1982, (With a 1983 update.) 15 pp. 1983, 1982, 1980
"Not long after the Congress, the new organization helped achieve a major victory for Ocean Park, by getting a moratorium on commercial development on Main Street that lasted from January through October of 1980. During that time, residents and merchants worked together to develop the Main Street Plan which the City used as a guide to zoning commercial development on Main Street.
"That same year, neighbors won the first round in the battle for preferential parking - a way of assuring Ocean Park residents the right to park near their homes.
"Organizing efforts continued through 1980. A summertime Energy Fair drew people from all over the community. Late in the year, neighbors rallied at the base of the Pico drain to protest the dumping of toxic chemicals. By the time of the second OPCO Congress - November 15, 1980 - neighbors in the Pico Corridor, with help and encouragement from OPCO, had begun organizing themselves into their own neighborhood organization - the Pico Neighborhood Association."