Comments
13 July issue of Update dealing with mess on 3rd
Beth Allyn
Excellent Update.
Amy Alcon
I love that you’re writing about quality-of-life violations.
Pacific Division, under Brian Johnson, which is ultimately under Chief Beck, needs to stop ignoring quality-of-life violations. Chief Beck PERSONALLY told me at an event at Rand Corp (incidentally, on James Q. Wilson and “broken windows” theory) that his Commander, Andrew J. Smith, would help us get the noise laws enforced where we are. This has not happened. There’s clear language in LAMC 115.02 that says a commercial business within 500 feet of residences is prohibited from having amplified sound “AT ANY TIME.” For several years, I have had to sleep with big noise-canceling headphones on — very uncomfortable — thanks to the lack of enforcement of this law at The Brig, and the fact that I can hear a booming beat IN MY PILLOW. Sometimes, even with the headphones on. We need to visit social shame upon business owners who don’t act like neighbors. People should not have an easy time, at least psychologically, getting rich off their neighbors’ lack of sleep or by taking their neighbors’ parking (in the case of parasitic Gjelina, which provides NOT ONE parking space for the hundreds of customers it brings in many times a day). Treat strangers and visitors and businesspeople who act like neighbors like neighbors. Snarl at our abusers. It’s the least we all can do.
Jay Berine
If the city won’t provide bathrooms, how about giving them poop bags?
Gary Harris
Good one.
Yolanda Gonzalez
To all property tax payers, to all residents who rent live and work in Venice, the only way we can claim a clean and save community is to march to City Hall. Remember we in the 11th District represent 55% of the vote for the city and county. They have to hear us. We just can’t sit back and keep sending in pictures and writing in our complaints. You need to be very out spoken about this. Americans wake up. If anyone wants to protest with me I have the guts to do it. I have done it before from Boyle Heights.
I have requested to move the CPAB closer to Venicians with a free room and Parking. They don’t care and have not got a response from the Pacific Division. And Chief Beck will probably get nominated again.
I just got graffiti on my back wall on Alhambra alley and there is still a mattress sitting out in the back which late at night is moved to the center of the alley and we have to stop to remove it. I even got hurt pushing it to the side. I for the first time had a detective come and instruct me how to set up cameras which I will be doing. Never have I seen things so bad in Venice. There are some great improvements that have been done and great restaurants and stores that have opened. The scope of Venice is changing fast. New young people, new money.
People who have owned property a long time and own outright are moving out and selling. And you wonder why we are losing our affordable housing? For those that are demanding low and affordable housing, they have no idea that we have more low income housing in our area. It is just kept quiet. We need an audit on these low income housing units. At the prices and taxes to pay on new purchases, nobody in their right mind wants to invest in affordable housing. There is NO MONEY in that investment and section eight vouchers are closed off. I don’t blame old property owners for cashing out of their investment. Mr. Mike Bonin you got 63% of our vote in the 11th District. You don’t want to see us march into City Hall. Because the city depends on the money our district generates for the city. I remember a council man from another district saying don’t touch those on the west, especially Venice, we need their money. Wake up VENICE.
Kari Peck
Just wanted to make a comment on the appalling conditions at Walgreens, and the situation of all the unsightly and unhealthy garbage. Not only is that a problem, but the whole parking lot is disgusting. Walgreens has more money than God, I’m surprised city or Triangle hasn’t contacted their corporate offices and asked them to clean up the stuff. Literally!
14 July issue, 3rd Cleaned
Beth Allyn
Saw them cleaning this morning, Yeah! but interestingly enough those kids have less protective gear on than the “haz-mat” crew that is paid big bucks and have had training to take care of these situations before they become so dangerous…
Kari Peck
Best news of the day!
Pete Griswold
My bike was stolen last night from just inside my back gate. It was not locked to anything.
Only nine months before my bike cable locked to a telephone pole was stolen.
Karen Moses
I am SO sick of bicyclists thinking they can do whatever they want, wherever they want.
This afternoon I was coming off of Lincoln/Washington down Thatcher, turning down Howard, heading home.
Now, just coming off of Lincoln and Washington and then making that turn on Howard, there is not much time or roadway to build up much speed. So I’m turning at about 10 miles per hour MAYBE 15, but I doubt it.
Just beyond that turn is the alley and cars parked up and down the street.
Out from that alley pop two people heading south, man and woman, on bicycles. Woman in front. I HOPE THEY ARE SUBSCRIBED TO THIS UPDATE and read this.
The woman does not stop before she enters the main street off the alley, nor did she look.
She was quite surprised to see me there…surprise! A car in the street? Who would’ve thunk it?
She then yells at ME to SLOW DOWN!
Are you freaking kidding me????? If I was going much faster I would have hit her…..and would still have been UNDER the speed limit…and it would have been THEIR fault.
How DARE they yell at me when they should have OBEYED the traffic laws. THEY were entering the street from the alley, not me!!!!
I am so sick of bicyclists who have this attitude. I do not want to hit a pedestrian or a bicyclist any more than they want to get hit. They have to be as diligent as motorists, even more so perhaps. They also have to obey the laws.
And one last thing. Don’t say crap to me and ride off. You want to say something to me, stop and talk to me like a civilized human being, or better yet, when NOTHING happens (like getting hit by a car because you rode out in traffic) be thankful, and just keep going or hey, better yet…smile and acknowledge that you, like every other human being in the world, made a mistake, and thankfully you did not get hurt.
Crazy!! My friend actually hit someone a few weeks ago, luckily no injuries….but scary.
Deborah Lashever
Ref: story in LA Times regarding a change in policing on Skid Row.
Sounds like they may really be getting the message downtown–less hassling and arrests for petty infractions and more real help. Maybe lobby Bonin to implement our storage program, bathrooms and trash cans–at least–while these great organizations get them into homes like they say they will with the Housing First model. At least the cops say they will lighten up. That is huge.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-skid-row-police-20140716-story.html#page=1
“I don’t consider homelessness breaking the law,” LAPD Capt. Mike Oreb said. “We’re not the homeless police.”
“Our success will lie in taking a more progressive approach,” LAPD Capt. John McMahon said.
And wouldn’t it be great if we could mainly see unhoused people in Venice with a day pack and maybe a guitar, with clean clothes and not a bunch of stuff lying around? What a relief for everyone!
We could have that very soon. They do in other communities outside of LA. Simple. Cheap. Gives people dignity and the freedom to move up in life and makes the view nicer for your buddies. Everyone wins. There is no reason not to do this except that some people here do not want to help anyone if they stay in Venice. That is the one thing holding back change here. Property values are politically trumping people’s humanity.
Karen Moses
REF: This is a reprint of a mailing by Santa Monica Police Department Community Affairs Office
The Santa Monica Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Unit focuses on different driving behaviors each month that are primary causes for traffic collisions. In July, the Traffic Enforcement Unit will focus on bicyclists failing to follow the rules of the road.
The California Vehicle Code – Section 21200 Laws Applicable to Bicycles:
A person riding a bicycle or operating a pedicab upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle.
A majority of the collisions involving bicyclists have been determined that the other party was at fault. When a bicyclist has been at fault, the common causations have ranged from failure to stop at a traffic signal to unsafe speed.
City of Santa Monica Municipal Code – 3.12.540 – Bicycle Riding or Coasting Restricted.
(a) It shall be unlawful to ride a bicycle or to coast in any vehicle upon any public sidewalk, except as provided for in Section 3.12.550. It shall be unlawful to ride a bicycle or to coast in any vehicle in any public parking structure.
Lieutenant Marhaba, with the department’s Traffic Section, wants to remind bicyclists to use the bicycle lane to travel safely to your destination.
For more information, please contact Sergeant Phillbo Rubish with the Santa Monica Police Department’s Traffic Section at 310-458-8950, or Lieutenant Mohamed Marhaba at 310-458-8406.
Amy Alcon
Reprinted from Advice Goddess Blog, 17 July with permission from Amy Alcon
Welcome to Los Angeles, the Town Where They Fix Streets That Aren’t Broken
There have been public works guys on part of the street I live on all this week. I thought maybe they were working on the sewers or the power (which goes out when the sky, no, not storms but sneezes lightly). (I’m from the Detroit suburbs, where the lights stay on most of the time, even when there’s actual weather.)
They’re repaving a stretch of street. I didn’t think about this until my neighbor said something to me, but although the street wasn’t newly paved — and was probably paved last a few decades ago — it’s not a street that gets a ton of traffic, especially because it’s one-way. And most important, it didn’t need repaving. Not one pothole on it, that I can recall (and I take it with some frequency to get home, because I live just on the other side of the “one way” sign).
I could be wrong in my speculation, but with how short on money Los Angeles is, it’s odd that the city is running around fixing things that aren’t actually broken.
Reta Moser
Check the alleys. People have been seen loitering there.
Stanford 2900 block had theft from vehicle.
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Comments–20 July 2014
Comments
13 July issue of Update dealing with mess on 3rd
Beth Allyn
Excellent Update.
Amy Alcon
I love that you’re writing about quality-of-life violations.
Pacific Division, under Brian Johnson, which is ultimately under Chief Beck, needs to stop ignoring quality-of-life violations. Chief Beck PERSONALLY told me at an event at Rand Corp (incidentally, on James Q. Wilson and “broken windows” theory) that his Commander, Andrew J. Smith, would help us get the noise laws enforced where we are. This has not happened. There’s clear language in LAMC 115.02 that says a commercial business within 500 feet of residences is prohibited from having amplified sound “AT ANY TIME.” For several years, I have had to sleep with big noise-canceling headphones on — very uncomfortable — thanks to the lack of enforcement of this law at The Brig, and the fact that I can hear a booming beat IN MY PILLOW. Sometimes, even with the headphones on. We need to visit social shame upon business owners who don’t act like neighbors. People should not have an easy time, at least psychologically, getting rich off their neighbors’ lack of sleep or by taking their neighbors’ parking (in the case of parasitic Gjelina, which provides NOT ONE parking space for the hundreds of customers it brings in many times a day). Treat strangers and visitors and businesspeople who act like neighbors like neighbors. Snarl at our abusers. It’s the least we all can do.
Jay Berine
If the city won’t provide bathrooms, how about giving them poop bags?
Gary Harris
Good one.
Yolanda Gonzalez
To all property tax payers, to all residents who rent live and work in Venice, the only way we can claim a clean and save community is to march to City Hall. Remember we in the 11th District represent 55% of the vote for the city and county. They have to hear us. We just can’t sit back and keep sending in pictures and writing in our complaints. You need to be very out spoken about this. Americans wake up. If anyone wants to protest with me I have the guts to do it. I have done it before from Boyle Heights.
I have requested to move the CPAB closer to Venicians with a free room and Parking. They don’t care and have not got a response from the Pacific Division. And Chief Beck will probably get nominated again.
I just got graffiti on my back wall on Alhambra alley and there is still a mattress sitting out in the back which late at night is moved to the center of the alley and we have to stop to remove it. I even got hurt pushing it to the side. I for the first time had a detective come and instruct me how to set up cameras which I will be doing. Never have I seen things so bad in Venice. There are some great improvements that have been done and great restaurants and stores that have opened. The scope of Venice is changing fast. New young people, new money.
People who have owned property a long time and own outright are moving out and selling. And you wonder why we are losing our affordable housing? For those that are demanding low and affordable housing, they have no idea that we have more low income housing in our area. It is just kept quiet. We need an audit on these low income housing units. At the prices and taxes to pay on new purchases, nobody in their right mind wants to invest in affordable housing. There is NO MONEY in that investment and section eight vouchers are closed off. I don’t blame old property owners for cashing out of their investment. Mr. Mike Bonin you got 63% of our vote in the 11th District. You don’t want to see us march into City Hall. Because the city depends on the money our district generates for the city. I remember a council man from another district saying don’t touch those on the west, especially Venice, we need their money. Wake up VENICE.
Kari Peck
Just wanted to make a comment on the appalling conditions at Walgreens, and the situation of all the unsightly and unhealthy garbage. Not only is that a problem, but the whole parking lot is disgusting. Walgreens has more money than God, I’m surprised city or Triangle hasn’t contacted their corporate offices and asked them to clean up the stuff. Literally!
14 July issue, 3rd Cleaned
Beth Allyn
Saw them cleaning this morning, Yeah! but interestingly enough those kids have less protective gear on than the “haz-mat” crew that is paid big bucks and have had training to take care of these situations before they become so dangerous…
Kari Peck
Best news of the day!
Pete Griswold
My bike was stolen last night from just inside my back gate. It was not locked to anything.
Only nine months before my bike cable locked to a telephone pole was stolen.
Karen Moses
I am SO sick of bicyclists thinking they can do whatever they want, wherever they want.
This afternoon I was coming off of Lincoln/Washington down Thatcher, turning down Howard, heading home.
Now, just coming off of Lincoln and Washington and then making that turn on Howard, there is not much time or roadway to build up much speed. So I’m turning at about 10 miles per hour MAYBE 15, but I doubt it.
Just beyond that turn is the alley and cars parked up and down the street.
Out from that alley pop two people heading south, man and woman, on bicycles. Woman in front. I HOPE THEY ARE SUBSCRIBED TO THIS UPDATE and read this.
The woman does not stop before she enters the main street off the alley, nor did she look.
She was quite surprised to see me there…surprise! A car in the street? Who would’ve thunk it?
She then yells at ME to SLOW DOWN!
Are you freaking kidding me????? If I was going much faster I would have hit her…..and would still have been UNDER the speed limit…and it would have been THEIR fault.
How DARE they yell at me when they should have OBEYED the traffic laws. THEY were entering the street from the alley, not me!!!!
I am so sick of bicyclists who have this attitude. I do not want to hit a pedestrian or a bicyclist any more than they want to get hit. They have to be as diligent as motorists, even more so perhaps. They also have to obey the laws.
And one last thing. Don’t say crap to me and ride off. You want to say something to me, stop and talk to me like a civilized human being, or better yet, when NOTHING happens (like getting hit by a car because you rode out in traffic) be thankful, and just keep going or hey, better yet…smile and acknowledge that you, like every other human being in the world, made a mistake, and thankfully you did not get hurt.
Crazy!! My friend actually hit someone a few weeks ago, luckily no injuries….but scary.
Deborah Lashever
Ref: story in LA Times regarding a change in policing on Skid Row.
Sounds like they may really be getting the message downtown–less hassling and arrests for petty infractions and more real help. Maybe lobby Bonin to implement our storage program, bathrooms and trash cans–at least–while these great organizations get them into homes like they say they will with the Housing First model. At least the cops say they will lighten up. That is huge.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-skid-row-police-20140716-story.html#page=1
“I don’t consider homelessness breaking the law,” LAPD Capt. Mike Oreb said. “We’re not the homeless police.”
“Our success will lie in taking a more progressive approach,” LAPD Capt. John McMahon said.
And wouldn’t it be great if we could mainly see unhoused people in Venice with a day pack and maybe a guitar, with clean clothes and not a bunch of stuff lying around? What a relief for everyone!
We could have that very soon. They do in other communities outside of LA. Simple. Cheap. Gives people dignity and the freedom to move up in life and makes the view nicer for your buddies. Everyone wins. There is no reason not to do this except that some people here do not want to help anyone if they stay in Venice. That is the one thing holding back change here. Property values are politically trumping people’s humanity.
Karen Moses
REF: This is a reprint of a mailing by Santa Monica Police Department Community Affairs Office
The Santa Monica Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Unit focuses on different driving behaviors each month that are primary causes for traffic collisions. In July, the Traffic Enforcement Unit will focus on bicyclists failing to follow the rules of the road.
The California Vehicle Code – Section 21200 Laws Applicable to Bicycles:
A person riding a bicycle or operating a pedicab upon a highway has all the rights and is subject to all the provisions applicable to the driver of a vehicle.
A majority of the collisions involving bicyclists have been determined that the other party was at fault. When a bicyclist has been at fault, the common causations have ranged from failure to stop at a traffic signal to unsafe speed.
City of Santa Monica Municipal Code – 3.12.540 – Bicycle Riding or Coasting Restricted.
Lieutenant Marhaba, with the department’s Traffic Section, wants to remind bicyclists to use the bicycle lane to travel safely to your destination.
For more information, please contact Sergeant Phillbo Rubish with the Santa Monica Police Department’s Traffic Section at 310-458-8950, or Lieutenant Mohamed Marhaba at 310-458-8406.
Amy Alcon
Reprinted from Advice Goddess Blog, 17 July with permission from Amy Alcon
Welcome to Los Angeles, the Town Where They Fix Streets That Aren’t Broken
There have been public works guys on part of the street I live on all this week. I thought maybe they were working on the sewers or the power (which goes out when the sky, no, not storms but sneezes lightly). (I’m from the Detroit suburbs, where the lights stay on most of the time, even when there’s actual weather.)
They’re repaving a stretch of street. I didn’t think about this until my neighbor said something to me, but although the street wasn’t newly paved — and was probably paved last a few decades ago — it’s not a street that gets a ton of traffic, especially because it’s one-way. And most important, it didn’t need repaving. Not one pothole on it, that I can recall (and I take it with some frequency to get home, because I live just on the other side of the “one way” sign).
I could be wrong in my speculation, but with how short on money Los Angeles is, it’s odd that the city is running around fixing things that aren’t actually broken.
Reta Moser
Check the alleys. People have been seen loitering there.
Stanford 2900 block had theft from vehicle.
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