Family emjoying lunch and sunshine.

Hearing for 320 Sunset will be 13 November at 10:30 am by zoning administrator at West LA Municipal Building, 1645 Corinth Ave, LA 90025.

Business, called Gjusta, has been open for less than a month and is now operating as a bakery/kitchen/retail but owner wants to broaden the scope of the business to include a restaurant with alcohol and off-site sale of beer and wine.

Councilman Mike Bonin has already provided his concerns and disapproval for the project to the zoning administrator in a letter dated 31 October 2014. Letter was posted in 1 November Venice Update.

Not since the Abbot Kinney Hotel has there been such opposition. Owner, Fran Camaj, has another business on Abbot Kinney that has no parking and owner has flaunted the rules of occupancy. Residents are up in arms about another establishment ignoring the rules. Some object to M-1 being used commercially. Artists need the area they say. Others say the area is congested as it is without the bakery. The area is adjacent to Gold’s Gym. Many point out the narrow street. It is a 60-foot designated street but probably measures in the 30-digit range. The main concern is lack of parking and the use of a patio for eating and drinking with only a 13.6-foot alley between that and a residence.

The 5000-sf building is on a 6000-sf lot zoned M-1. The alley is a substandard 13.6 feet. The lessee has a lease on the abutting 6000-sf, westerly lot that he plans to use for parking, loading and unloading, and trash. The lessee has a 10-year lease on lot to be used for parking but the overall lease is not contingent on extra lot. Bakery could lose use of lot ten years down the line and not have any parking.

Sign posted in window states 320 Sunset is seeking a “change of use of existing 5000-sf commercial bakery/kitchen/retail building to a commercial bakery/kitchen/retail/restaurant with 717-sf of service area and 22 indoor seats, 65 patio seats, on-site sale and consumption of full line alcohol and retail sale of beer/wine.

“Proposed hours of operation are 6 am to 12 am (midnight) Sunday thru Thursday and Friday and Saturday, 6am to 1 am.”

Correspondence can be addressed to JoJo Pewsawang at JoJo.Pewsawang@lacity.org. Case No. is ZA2013-33769CDP)(CUB)(SPP), ENV2013-3377-MND.