Cheri N of Berkeley …
Ref: OFW Tragedy
Please pray for Venice.
Carolyn R of Venice …
Ref: LUPC meeting, last one of July, 812 Main St.
I like the idea of an outdoor patio restaurant, as long as they keep that open look and lots of shrubbery, but overall, it is bigger than it needs to be, and I like the argument I later heard from Imagine Venice, which is that owner does not get to plead financial need to max out the building site. Also traffic wise that is a very tricky and dangerous intersection.
My concern is that we have both that plus the hotel overbuilt a few blocks away. It is more than the parking. It is just too much concrete, and too little parking, and really just too many people coming into Venice which we already cannot deal with the number of people who have been coming into Venice.
Oh and by the way, the Post office Annex has looked like that for several months now, totally trash ridden along both fences Windward and Grand. They are very poor neighbors. Oh, and the bougainvillea is also totally overgrown and has vicious thorns so it is actually dangerous to walk on that side of the street.
I have just started attending LUPC regularly, but this stuff is hard to fight. They always claim financial need and they let the developers have all the time, while the immediate residents get a few minutes. I think LUPC should be protecting us more. But I do understand that by our by-laws they have to also represent businesses as equal stakeholders. I think residents should always have priority.
Comment: Post office was personally contacted. Sonja Alexander, a spokesperson, said one truck load of stuff had been removed from parking lot, another was to be taken, and the outside of the grounds will be cleaned thereafter as well as hedge trimmed. Carolyn Rios said they should clean the sidewalk at least once a week and trim those bushes. Sonja Alexander says contact Richard Maher, 714-662-6350
Peter G of Oxford …
Ref: Burglary on Dickson
We need to resurrect a little bit of Neighborhood Watch to all residents.
Most do not even know half dozen of their close by neighbors.
Most do not even know one dozen of their neighbors’ phone + email.
Most do not even know when close neighbors are away…..
See current issue of the Times….where Cheviot Hills now has strong N-W…..
Only because of a rash of burglaries exceeding a dozen homes!!!
Jane M of Thatcher …
Just for the record, if you are present it’s a robbery. If you are not present it’s a burglary. You can’t be home and be burgled. If you’re home, you were robbed.
Karen M of Dickson …
Ref: Statement regarding not enough room on OFW for Trayvon protest march.
I wish everyone would watch the following you tube video and get a little more insight on the Trayvon Martin shooting.
It’s just amazing to me, that in this day and age, we still are sheltered and only hear and see what those in charge want us to hear and see.
Regardless, this video shows quite a different story that what the media portrayed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXWlquZ-e_E
Roslyn W of Marina Point Drive …
I’ve been receiving your “Triangle Update” emails for approximately four years, I think, now, and just want to compliment you on a very well-done, attractive, and informative e-publication.
Gretchen R of Stanford …
Ref: Hedge Trim Time, please don’t forget the alleys! Last week there was a homeless guy sleeping under the leafy canopy in the alley between Stanford and Yale. The trees hang down to about 5 feet off the ground, and deposit a good-sized pile of leaves. Looks like a soft place to sleep, which is the last thing we want to offer. After Lead Officer Jacobus returned my call (nice guy!) and redirected me to the non-emergency line they rousted him, but it would still be better if the alley was less inviting.
The Non-Emergency Police phone number is 877-ASK LAPD (877-275-5273).
Comment: City cleared debris from light at Oxford and Washington and stop sign at Berkeley and Thatcher. Assume such was done for Dickson.
Heather K of Thatcher …
Over the last couple of months I have had two vehicles parked in front of my house for over 10 days. One was a white Mercedes with a license plate reading SHWOOOP. That was fun.
Then a week later a Pathfinder was parked there for ten days. More fun. I reported them to the abandoned vehicles line, and they never ticketed or towed these vehicles. Eventually someone moved them.
I ONLY CALLED KNOWING these were cars NOT belonging to one of my own neighbors, as I ALWAYS check, and NEVER would report one that I KNOW belonged to a neighbor. HOWEVER, someone has done this to me, AGAIN, and considering most of my neighbors I have known from 10 to 30 years, I KNOW who it ISN’T, which leaves very little to my wondering whom it likely is. It wasn’t a random parking enforcement drive by, someone called. Sure it was parked there for more than 72 hours, I have owned it for over 12 years and I live there.
I would like to ‘thank’ this “neighbor” for the headache I didn’t need since I have just lost my grandmother less than two weeks ago on a Monday morning, thank them for the costs incurred for the ticket I got (fortunately I got that before getting towed for 300 dollars) while it is parked in front of MY OWN house in front of my own gate where I have lived since 1983. And for having the courage to NOT ask about it to anyone about it FIRST, let alone us. It is (my Pontiac Bonneville) after all, parked right in front of my own gate.
I am of the opinion and treat my neighbors as ‘live and let live’. Are there things I wish they wouldn’t do? Sure. Am I entitled to disrupt their lives and choices? NO Do I want to? NO. I work around it -vines and hedges overtaking my roof, parking, noise, loud compressor motors, trash day, whatever – I deal with it, cut the vines myself, wait to place trash out until I leave, or deliberately make sure I have a place to put them, whatever I can figure out.
Why? Because that is the way I am, but also, for every neighbor that has a complaint there is very likely another who has a complaint about they themselves, we all have our flaws and such. Chances are that if you are annoyed with someone, that someone else is annoyed with you. That is human nature. No one is the “perfect neighbor”. And if one ever does have a complaint? The best way to deal with that is face to face, not with a note, or trying to get someone’s car towed. At least leave a note with a phone number stating you would like to have a word, rather than write out the complaint on a note somewhere where someone could come across it at a moment when they are already stressed out about life and death issues.
Chances are if one neighbor has a complaint about a neighbor, that another neighbor has a complaint or irritation about the original neighbor who is doing the complaining.
Bottom line is live and let live. We are all living on top of each other. Give your neighbors the BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT that they are doing the best they can given our close proximity and the issues that go with it. My surrounding neighbors that have lived here for decades – and that is nearly every single one, twelve I can think of off the top of my head- LOOK OUT for each other, have each other’s backs, and discuss things in person, if at all, as we generally all work around each other’s habits and flaws without being malicious. Which kind are you?
Cassie B of Yale …
Do you know anything about the other corner on Lincoln Washington? It says leased too!!
Comment: See previous Updates.
Tom K of Dickson …
Ref: Firestone Walker purchase
What great news!!!
Amy A of Abbot Kinney area…
Wondering (if they do open a microbrewery there) whether they will be allowed to open without much parking or any parking.
Jory on LUPC seemed overly concerned about protecting Gjelina, which opened with ZERO parking spaces, and utterly unconcerned with the hell that visits on residents whose parking is taken by a restaurants that seats over 100 customers three or four times a night and then has over 100 staff members.
Residents here have little protection in light of how the absurd grandfathering of parking spaces is done, allowing people to open businesses without providing adequate parking or any parking for their customers. Of course, this is unethical to do — to take residents’ parking to make a business’ profits greater — but some people need laws and regulations to keep them ethical. LUPAC needs to do more. And I’d love to see Jory off it, as he has not shown me that he has any sense of balance or fairness.
Comment: Site was approved for a Sizzler restaurant and built for such years ago. Same parking restrictions should apply.
Josh L of Carter …
Great news! I hope your speculation is true. Finally we’ll get to clean up our corner!
Ken H of Howard …
At least they have a parking lot so
(hopefully) parking for local property owners will not be affected as the ones at the intersection of Howard/Marr have been.
Stewart O of Presidents Row area …
What does Update speculate is planned for corner of Washington and Lincoln?
Answer: With Blackmarket going in on Washington, BevMor on Lincoln, the four Marijuana outlets on Washington now and the other liquor stores and alcoholic beverage serving restaurants just in Triangle area, Update speculates that the leased, northwest corner of Lincoln and Washington will be a Sober Living Facility. Do you agree?
Lockwood E of Howard …
Great information in your piece. I would like to point out that, although the Firestone in Firestone Walker Brewing is a direct dependent of Harvey Firestone (founder of Firestone Tires) and Brooks Firestone (founder of Firestone Winery), the winery has no ownership of the brewing company. By the way, Mr. Walker is a son-in-law of Brooks. According to the brewery’s web site, they have three locations with restaurants being a new business line. My guess is that world gym location will be their Los Angeles area entree and flagship.
Comment: Yes, apparently Brooks Firestone is the founder of the winery. His son Adam Firestone and son-in-law David Walker are the brewers of the brew. Update stated winery and brewery were one organization. Lockwood corrected that.
Peter G of Oxford …
My prediction for this property by new owner:
First, there are 2 alleys behind this property to be aware of.
New owner will want to buy from City the easterly 100 feet behind the office building.
This will close off zigzag traffic from Washington to Lincoln through Walgreen parking lot. This will connect + combine to enlarge the Washington property with the Carter lot.
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Comments–5 August 2013
Cheri N of Berkeley …
Ref: OFW Tragedy
Please pray for Venice.
Carolyn R of Venice …
Ref: LUPC meeting, last one of July, 812 Main St.
I like the idea of an outdoor patio restaurant, as long as they keep that open look and lots of shrubbery, but overall, it is bigger than it needs to be, and I like the argument I later heard from Imagine Venice, which is that owner does not get to plead financial need to max out the building site. Also traffic wise that is a very tricky and dangerous intersection.
My concern is that we have both that plus the hotel overbuilt a few blocks away. It is more than the parking. It is just too much concrete, and too little parking, and really just too many people coming into Venice which we already cannot deal with the number of people who have been coming into Venice.
Oh and by the way, the Post office Annex has looked like that for several months now, totally trash ridden along both fences Windward and Grand. They are very poor neighbors. Oh, and the bougainvillea is also totally overgrown and has vicious thorns so it is actually dangerous to walk on that side of the street.
I have just started attending LUPC regularly, but this stuff is hard to fight. They always claim financial need and they let the developers have all the time, while the immediate residents get a few minutes. I think LUPC should be protecting us more. But I do understand that by our by-laws they have to also represent businesses as equal stakeholders. I think residents should always have priority.
Comment: Post office was personally contacted. Sonja Alexander, a spokesperson, said one truck load of stuff had been removed from parking lot, another was to be taken, and the outside of the grounds will be cleaned thereafter as well as hedge trimmed. Carolyn Rios said they should clean the sidewalk at least once a week and trim those bushes. Sonja Alexander says contact Richard Maher, 714-662-6350
Peter G of Oxford …
Ref: Burglary on Dickson
We need to resurrect a little bit of Neighborhood Watch to all residents.
Most do not even know half dozen of their close by neighbors.
Most do not even know one dozen of their neighbors’ phone + email.
Most do not even know when close neighbors are away…..
See current issue of the Times….where Cheviot Hills now has strong N-W…..
Only because of a rash of burglaries exceeding a dozen homes!!!
Jane M of Thatcher …
Just for the record, if you are present it’s a robbery. If you are not present it’s a burglary. You can’t be home and be burgled. If you’re home, you were robbed.
Karen M of Dickson …
Ref: Statement regarding not enough room on OFW for Trayvon protest march.
I wish everyone would watch the following you tube video and get a little more insight on the Trayvon Martin shooting.
It’s just amazing to me, that in this day and age, we still are sheltered and only hear and see what those in charge want us to hear and see.
Regardless, this video shows quite a different story that what the media portrayed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXWlquZ-e_E
Roslyn W of Marina Point Drive …
I’ve been receiving your “Triangle Update” emails for approximately four years, I think, now, and just want to compliment you on a very well-done, attractive, and informative e-publication.
Gretchen R of Stanford …
Ref: Hedge Trim Time, please don’t forget the alleys! Last week there was a homeless guy sleeping under the leafy canopy in the alley between Stanford and Yale. The trees hang down to about 5 feet off the ground, and deposit a good-sized pile of leaves. Looks like a soft place to sleep, which is the last thing we want to offer. After Lead Officer Jacobus returned my call (nice guy!) and redirected me to the non-emergency line they rousted him, but it would still be better if the alley was less inviting.
The Non-Emergency Police phone number is 877-ASK LAPD (877-275-5273).
Comment: City cleared debris from light at Oxford and Washington and stop sign at Berkeley and Thatcher. Assume such was done for Dickson.
Heather K of Thatcher …
Over the last couple of months I have had two vehicles parked in front of my house for over 10 days. One was a white Mercedes with a license plate reading SHWOOOP. That was fun.
Then a week later a Pathfinder was parked there for ten days. More fun. I reported them to the abandoned vehicles line, and they never ticketed or towed these vehicles. Eventually someone moved them.
I ONLY CALLED KNOWING these were cars NOT belonging to one of my own neighbors, as I ALWAYS check, and NEVER would report one that I KNOW belonged to a neighbor. HOWEVER, someone has done this to me, AGAIN, and considering most of my neighbors I have known from 10 to 30 years, I KNOW who it ISN’T, which leaves very little to my wondering whom it likely is. It wasn’t a random parking enforcement drive by, someone called. Sure it was parked there for more than 72 hours, I have owned it for over 12 years and I live there.
I would like to ‘thank’ this “neighbor” for the headache I didn’t need since I have just lost my grandmother less than two weeks ago on a Monday morning, thank them for the costs incurred for the ticket I got (fortunately I got that before getting towed for 300 dollars) while it is parked in front of MY OWN house in front of my own gate where I have lived since 1983. And for having the courage to NOT ask about it to anyone about it FIRST, let alone us. It is (my Pontiac Bonneville) after all, parked right in front of my own gate.
I am of the opinion and treat my neighbors as ‘live and let live’. Are there things I wish they wouldn’t do? Sure. Am I entitled to disrupt their lives and choices? NO Do I want to? NO. I work around it -vines and hedges overtaking my roof, parking, noise, loud compressor motors, trash day, whatever – I deal with it, cut the vines myself, wait to place trash out until I leave, or deliberately make sure I have a place to put them, whatever I can figure out.
Why? Because that is the way I am, but also, for every neighbor that has a complaint there is very likely another who has a complaint about they themselves, we all have our flaws and such. Chances are that if you are annoyed with someone, that someone else is annoyed with you. That is human nature. No one is the “perfect neighbor”. And if one ever does have a complaint? The best way to deal with that is face to face, not with a note, or trying to get someone’s car towed. At least leave a note with a phone number stating you would like to have a word, rather than write out the complaint on a note somewhere where someone could come across it at a moment when they are already stressed out about life and death issues.
Chances are if one neighbor has a complaint about a neighbor, that another neighbor has a complaint or irritation about the original neighbor who is doing the complaining.
Bottom line is live and let live. We are all living on top of each other. Give your neighbors the BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT that they are doing the best they can given our close proximity and the issues that go with it. My surrounding neighbors that have lived here for decades – and that is nearly every single one, twelve I can think of off the top of my head- LOOK OUT for each other, have each other’s backs, and discuss things in person, if at all, as we generally all work around each other’s habits and flaws without being malicious. Which kind are you?
Cassie B of Yale …
Do you know anything about the other corner on Lincoln Washington? It says leased too!!
Comment: See previous Updates.
Tom K of Dickson …
Ref: Firestone Walker purchase
What great news!!!
Amy A of Abbot Kinney area…
Wondering (if they do open a microbrewery there) whether they will be allowed to open without much parking or any parking.
Jory on LUPC seemed overly concerned about protecting Gjelina, which opened with ZERO parking spaces, and utterly unconcerned with the hell that visits on residents whose parking is taken by a restaurants that seats over 100 customers three or four times a night and then has over 100 staff members.
Residents here have little protection in light of how the absurd grandfathering of parking spaces is done, allowing people to open businesses without providing adequate parking or any parking for their customers. Of course, this is unethical to do — to take residents’ parking to make a business’ profits greater — but some people need laws and regulations to keep them ethical. LUPAC needs to do more. And I’d love to see Jory off it, as he has not shown me that he has any sense of balance or fairness.
Comment: Site was approved for a Sizzler restaurant and built for such years ago. Same parking restrictions should apply.
Josh L of Carter …
Great news! I hope your speculation is true. Finally we’ll get to clean up our corner!
Ken H of Howard …
At least they have a parking lot so
(hopefully) parking for local property owners will not be affected as the ones at the intersection of Howard/Marr have been.
Stewart O of Presidents Row area …
What does Update speculate is planned for corner of Washington and Lincoln?
Answer: With Blackmarket going in on Washington, BevMor on Lincoln, the four Marijuana outlets on Washington now and the other liquor stores and alcoholic beverage serving restaurants just in Triangle area, Update speculates that the leased, northwest corner of Lincoln and Washington will be a Sober Living Facility. Do you agree?
Lockwood E of Howard …
Great information in your piece. I would like to point out that, although the Firestone in Firestone Walker Brewing is a direct dependent of Harvey Firestone (founder of Firestone Tires) and Brooks Firestone (founder of Firestone Winery), the winery has no ownership of the brewing company. By the way, Mr. Walker is a son-in-law of Brooks. According to the brewery’s web site, they have three locations with restaurants being a new business line. My guess is that world gym location will be their Los Angeles area entree and flagship.
Comment: Yes, apparently Brooks Firestone is the founder of the winery. His son Adam Firestone and son-in-law David Walker are the brewers of the brew. Update stated winery and brewery were one organization. Lockwood corrected that.
Peter G of Oxford …
My prediction for this property by new owner:
First, there are 2 alleys behind this property to be aware of.
New owner will want to buy from City the easterly 100 feet behind the office building.
This will close off zigzag traffic from Washington to Lincoln through Walgreen parking lot. This will connect + combine to enlarge the Washington property with the Carter lot.
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