Randall Sears
Being a long time Venice resident and now part- time, I always look forward to your missives.
Douglas Fay
If you missed the recent showing of “Heroes of the Coast – the Documentary” at Burton Chase Park sponsored by the Airport Marina Sierra Club, go to www.earthalert.org. It is the only documentary of the California Coastal Commission (CCC) and full of valuable insight. It ends with the late Executive Director Peter Douglas stating you’ll always be fighting to save the coast. The sad but honest irony is you’re fighting the Coastal Commissioners and Staff to protect our coast. The first thing they gutted from the Coastal Act under pressure from lobbyists was the affordable housing in the coastal zone. Now there isn’t anything the City and County of Los Angeles requests that they won’t do.
In my opinion, if you want to know the moment in time that the integrity of the CCC was lost it was when they replaced my father, Venice native, ocean lifeguard, marine scientist, and environmental hero Rim Fay with a developer.
If you want to know the moment in time that you lost the opportunity to have a City Councilperson that represented you, that would be when you voted for Ruth Galanter instead of Rim Fay. Your most recent opportunity to have one good vote in local politics was lost when only 4,205 voters voted for me last June for 3rd District Los Angeles County Supervisor.
Others chose Shiela Kuehl. The Sierra Club endorsed her stating, “Sheila has been a tireless and passionate advocate for the protection of…..all the fragile ecologies of our local environment.” Her first action was inaction. She and Mike Bonin allowed the Christmas 2014 Marina del Rey Tree Massacre to occur unabated. Public Records Act requests by Grassroots Coalition environmental activist Patricia McPherson show a Local/State organized plot to stop at nothing regardless of Monarch Butterfly overwintering, the Osprey, or any other sensitive species in the bird refuge/sanctuary/conservation area. No activity has occurred since the destruction. There was no need to denude the vegetation other than to deprive the wildlife of their right to overwintering and the spring nesting season. It was malicious and intentional. Heal The Bay, founded on my father’s work, also supported the destruction.
I’ve visited and briefly lived in high-density urban areas where quality of life isn’t a concern for the majority of the population. It tragically gets narrowed to survival. Get organized while you have the chance. Venice was the affordable recreational mecca of Los Angeles. Marina del Rey was built to replace it. You’re letting all of your quality of life opportunities slip away because you are trusting the wrong people to help and represent you.
Keep Neighborhoods Free
In case you missed this…the areas mentioned in this article about evictions track closely with the neighborhoods that have the vast majority of short-term Airbnb units in Los Angeles; a recent study examined how the rash of vacation rental is affecting the regular rental market in those places. These are involved with the Ellis Act which allows for building evictions when one plans to build new units or condos. Property must remain vacant for two years.
Comment: People are in business to make money. If they are willing to facilitate the Ellis Act and leave their apartments vacant for two years, it must be financially feasible for them to do so. Does that not say something!
Heather Kahler
The pictures of the cleaned up beach. How extraordinary. It actually looks like an inviting welcoming and safe place to be. Isn’t that not the image that Venice/marina wants to portray to the world? If it can only last. Bonin/mayor/LAPD- are you paying attention? This is what a community park beach and bus bench SHOULD look like. A place where kids can play and are safe. I am cautiously optimistic that perhaps the shocking pictures of a clean safe neighborhood may actually invoke some enforcement to keep it that way. Our city officials should make it so. Would the mayor or councilman want their kids waiting at the bus stop with transient encampments? Or playing on the grassy knolls at the beach at the beach with encampments full of addicts, perhaps crushing a crack pipe they step on nearby? (I stepped on one in front of my house on Thatcher recently).
To Bonnie Barrett. I too am a long time resident here, raising the fourth generation of my family in this house. I hear you. I would like my kids to take the bus home from school perhaps like I used to. But it is out of the question. I too have seen a bare asses dedication in plain sight at a bus stop while my kids were with me to witness. They still remember and they were in early elementary school. The plight of people can still be recognized without destroying the community we work hard to pay for and want to feel safe in. You don’t need to allow encampments crack pipes unusable bus stops and poop dropped right in front of your face to be an empathetic person. Asking for a cleaned up safe community is not mean. I too am exhausted by all of this craziness of allowing our once clean and safer welcoming community to become a cesspool of disgrace. Kids and families live here too. Not just hipsters. 1952. That’s how long my family has been here. You deserve better Bonnie. I am so sorry to hear about your husband. The addicts and mentally ill are not safe to be around for anyone. Not even safe for them! How many times so they incoherently wander in to intersections causing dangerous situations for themselves and others. When elderly people are assaulted and cannot feel safe at a bus stop or going to the grocery store, we have certainly sunk to our lowest level. Shape up Venice/Marina! LEAD Bonin/mayor/LAPD.
Tom Elliott
Whoever wrote Venice Update below must have found the glitch in the matrix. Meanwhile, back to reality. Here’s Park Ave now, at 7:30 this morning.
Comment: Update did exclude two knolls–Park Avenue and Westminster and two pergolas from park cleanup.
Brad Neal
North Beach is worse than ever. I have never seen so many drug addicted and/or mentally unstable people on the Boardwalk. Never.
Comment: This area was excluded too but should have been included. In all fairness the area here and at the backboards use to be lined with carts.
Mark Ryavec
Westminster Dog Park now. 8:22 and all is… Well?
Martha Hertzberg, a walk street resident
These two photos were taken on Wavecrest Avenue 2 days ago at 9am. Not only do we have encampments every night, but they are present far into the morning. The second photo is human excrement.
I found it interesting that the hazmat crew was here a few days ago to clean the boardwalk. When they come through, the people move all their stuff up the block. The hazmat crew doesn’t clean anything between Speedway and Ocean Front Walk, only OFW in a very strict sense. They won’t even step one foot over to pick up a piece of trash and certainly not human feces. That’s left for us to do.
Susan Heins
Last night, one of the bars on Washington got approval by the VNC LUPC to get an expanded alcohol license. Already people are over served on that block and we regularly see folks staggering down the streets late at night on their ways to cars. Setting aside the nuisance factor or outright vandalism, one day someone is going to die from a drunk driving related offense. In my opinion, LUPC had a chance to take leadership here and caved into public pressure from folks who were either employees, investors, or friends of the bar.
Doug Melville
The first is the knoll at the end of Dudley. the tent is on Ocean Front Walk between rose and ozone and the same men who sit over there every day are drinking malt liquor right now.
Mar Vista E-Blast by Debbie Rochlin
Free Senior Scam Alert Seminar
Aging in Place is hosting a FREE seminar to learn about the scams that target seniors.
The seminar is being held on May 21st from 6 pm – 8 pm at the Mar Vista Recreation Center.
For more information: http://www.marvista.org/node/3047
Mar Vista Park Events
“10th Annual Mar Vista Spelling Bee” – a comedic play with music
Sign your child up for acting, singing, dance or piano to be a part of the show
Performance is Saturday, May 30th 3 pm & 5 pm
Tickets $5 on sale starting May 15th
All performers will receive 2 free tickets
Roxanne Brown
David beats Goliath – Millenium (over)Development in Hollywood (on an earthquake fault)
Stopped – residents win
Lt. Rudolofo Lopez, Officer in Charge—beach detail
This note was addressed to Mark Ryavec
Friday Morning (1 May) we conducted an early morning check of the beach
outside of our regular deployment hours. There were not many violations observed
during the prohibited hours. Some enforcement action took place. We will continue
to adjust our hours and enforce the closing hours on the Beach.
Roxanne Brown
ABC news (was Diane Sawyer now David Muir) showed a couple who rented their
home via Air B&B in Calgary – 3 hours after they left their home, a PARTY BUS came and
people partied for 3 days causing $50,000 in damages. Reta, you may want to get the
clip/link….Air B&B covers the damage…but shows what happens when someone is not
ON PREMISES – when HOMEOWNER is NOT ON PREMISES.
Do you remember, a while ago – you can Google it – a woman Air B&Bed her place in
Palm Springs and the people staying refused to leave – paid no money beyond their
30-day agreement, then were “tenants” and ran her bills up…am sure you could do a
Google search and find it. Air B&B helped her when she got press on it.
Someone might send Update a photo montage/collage of people with their
suitcases all up and down our streets. I FORGOT last week to take a photo of what
I’m sure was an AIRB&B exchange as I walked by several young guys on a roof
drinking and standing – 8 probably….not safe…..nuisance.
Barbara Broide
“How the Law Can Help Communities” will be the subject of Robert Silverstein’s talk Saturday, 9 May at 10 am, Hollywood Presbyterian Church, 6054 Yucca St. Hollywood 90028. This talk is sponsored by PlanCheckNC.
Robert Silverstein is an attorney with speciality in eminent domain, land use, CEQA, and zoning issues. Hear the legal viewpoint of several court-stalled major projects in Hollywood. Attorney Silverstein is the attorney for groups successfully opposing these projects and the stalled Hollywood Community Plan Update. He will speak and later answer questions from the audience.
Comments–4 May 2015
Randall Sears
Being a long time Venice resident and now part- time, I always look forward to your missives.
Douglas Fay
If you missed the recent showing of “Heroes of the Coast – the Documentary” at Burton Chase Park sponsored by the Airport Marina Sierra Club, go to www.earthalert.org. It is the only documentary of the California Coastal Commission (CCC) and full of valuable insight. It ends with the late Executive Director Peter Douglas stating you’ll always be fighting to save the coast. The sad but honest irony is you’re fighting the Coastal Commissioners and Staff to protect our coast. The first thing they gutted from the Coastal Act under pressure from lobbyists was the affordable housing in the coastal zone. Now there isn’t anything the City and County of Los Angeles requests that they won’t do.
In my opinion, if you want to know the moment in time that the integrity of the CCC was lost it was when they replaced my father, Venice native, ocean lifeguard, marine scientist, and environmental hero Rim Fay with a developer.
If you want to know the moment in time that you lost the opportunity to have a City Councilperson that represented you, that would be when you voted for Ruth Galanter instead of Rim Fay. Your most recent opportunity to have one good vote in local politics was lost when only 4,205 voters voted for me last June for 3rd District Los Angeles County Supervisor.
Others chose Shiela Kuehl. The Sierra Club endorsed her stating, “Sheila has been a tireless and passionate advocate for the protection of…..all the fragile ecologies of our local environment.” Her first action was inaction. She and Mike Bonin allowed the Christmas 2014 Marina del Rey Tree Massacre to occur unabated. Public Records Act requests by Grassroots Coalition environmental activist Patricia McPherson show a Local/State organized plot to stop at nothing regardless of Monarch Butterfly overwintering, the Osprey, or any other sensitive species in the bird refuge/sanctuary/conservation area. No activity has occurred since the destruction. There was no need to denude the vegetation other than to deprive the wildlife of their right to overwintering and the spring nesting season. It was malicious and intentional. Heal The Bay, founded on my father’s work, also supported the destruction.
I’ve visited and briefly lived in high-density urban areas where quality of life isn’t a concern for the majority of the population. It tragically gets narrowed to survival. Get organized while you have the chance. Venice was the affordable recreational mecca of Los Angeles. Marina del Rey was built to replace it. You’re letting all of your quality of life opportunities slip away because you are trusting the wrong people to help and represent you.
Keep Neighborhoods Free
In case you missed this…the areas mentioned in this article about evictions track closely with the neighborhoods that have the vast majority of short-term Airbnb units in Los Angeles; a recent study examined how the rash of vacation rental is affecting the regular rental market in those places. These are involved with the Ellis Act which allows for building evictions when one plans to build new units or condos. Property must remain vacant for two years.
Comment: People are in business to make money. If they are willing to facilitate the Ellis Act and leave their apartments vacant for two years, it must be financially feasible for them to do so. Does that not say something!
Heather Kahler
The pictures of the cleaned up beach. How extraordinary. It actually looks like an inviting welcoming and safe place to be. Isn’t that not the image that Venice/marina wants to portray to the world? If it can only last. Bonin/mayor/LAPD- are you paying attention? This is what a community park beach and bus bench SHOULD look like. A place where kids can play and are safe. I am cautiously optimistic that perhaps the shocking pictures of a clean safe neighborhood may actually invoke some enforcement to keep it that way. Our city officials should make it so. Would the mayor or councilman want their kids waiting at the bus stop with transient encampments? Or playing on the grassy knolls at the beach at the beach with encampments full of addicts, perhaps crushing a crack pipe they step on nearby? (I stepped on one in front of my house on Thatcher recently).
To Bonnie Barrett. I too am a long time resident here, raising the fourth generation of my family in this house. I hear you. I would like my kids to take the bus home from school perhaps like I used to. But it is out of the question. I too have seen a bare asses dedication in plain sight at a bus stop while my kids were with me to witness. They still remember and they were in early elementary school. The plight of people can still be recognized without destroying the community we work hard to pay for and want to feel safe in. You don’t need to allow encampments crack pipes unusable bus stops and poop dropped right in front of your face to be an empathetic person. Asking for a cleaned up safe community is not mean. I too am exhausted by all of this craziness of allowing our once clean and safer welcoming community to become a cesspool of disgrace. Kids and families live here too. Not just hipsters. 1952. That’s how long my family has been here. You deserve better Bonnie. I am so sorry to hear about your husband. The addicts and mentally ill are not safe to be around for anyone. Not even safe for them! How many times so they incoherently wander in to intersections causing dangerous situations for themselves and others. When elderly people are assaulted and cannot feel safe at a bus stop or going to the grocery store, we have certainly sunk to our lowest level. Shape up Venice/Marina! LEAD Bonin/mayor/LAPD.
Tom Elliott
Whoever wrote Venice Update below must have found the glitch in the matrix. Meanwhile, back to reality. Here’s Park Ave now, at 7:30 this morning.
Comment: Update did exclude two knolls–Park Avenue and Westminster and two pergolas from park cleanup.
Brad Neal
North Beach is worse than ever. I have never seen so many drug addicted and/or mentally unstable people on the Boardwalk. Never.
Comment: This area was excluded too but should have been included. In all fairness the area here and at the backboards use to be lined with carts.
Mark Ryavec
Westminster Dog Park now. 8:22 and all is… Well?
Martha Hertzberg, a walk street resident
These two photos were taken on Wavecrest Avenue 2 days ago at 9am. Not only do we have encampments every night, but they are present far into the morning. The second photo is human excrement.
I found it interesting that the hazmat crew was here a few days ago to clean the boardwalk. When they come through, the people move all their stuff up the block. The hazmat crew doesn’t clean anything between Speedway and Ocean Front Walk, only OFW in a very strict sense. They won’t even step one foot over to pick up a piece of trash and certainly not human feces. That’s left for us to do.
Susan Heins
Last night, one of the bars on Washington got approval by the VNC LUPC to get an expanded alcohol license. Already people are over served on that block and we regularly see folks staggering down the streets late at night on their ways to cars. Setting aside the nuisance factor or outright vandalism, one day someone is going to die from a drunk driving related offense. In my opinion, LUPC had a chance to take leadership here and caved into public pressure from folks who were either employees, investors, or friends of the bar.
Doug Melville
The first is the knoll at the end of Dudley. the tent is on Ocean Front Walk between rose and ozone and the same men who sit over there every day are drinking malt liquor right now.
Mar Vista E-Blast by Debbie Rochlin
Free Senior Scam Alert Seminar
Aging in Place is hosting a FREE seminar to learn about the scams that target seniors.
The seminar is being held on May 21st from 6 pm – 8 pm at the Mar Vista Recreation Center.
For more information: http://www.marvista.org/node/3047
Mar Vista Park Events
“10th Annual Mar Vista Spelling Bee” – a comedic play with music
Sign your child up for acting, singing, dance or piano to be a part of the show
Performance is Saturday, May 30th 3 pm & 5 pm
Tickets $5 on sale starting May 15th
All performers will receive 2 free tickets
Roxanne Brown
David beats Goliath – Millenium (over)Development in Hollywood (on an earthquake fault)
Stopped – residents win
Lt. Rudolofo Lopez, Officer in Charge—beach detail
This note was addressed to Mark Ryavec
Friday Morning (1 May) we conducted an early morning check of the beach
outside of our regular deployment hours. There were not many violations observed
during the prohibited hours. Some enforcement action took place. We will continue
to adjust our hours and enforce the closing hours on the Beach.
Roxanne Brown
ABC news (was Diane Sawyer now David Muir) showed a couple who rented their
home via Air B&B in Calgary – 3 hours after they left their home, a PARTY BUS came and
people partied for 3 days causing $50,000 in damages. Reta, you may want to get the
clip/link….Air B&B covers the damage…but shows what happens when someone is not
ON PREMISES – when HOMEOWNER is NOT ON PREMISES.
Do you remember, a while ago – you can Google it – a woman Air B&Bed her place in
Palm Springs and the people staying refused to leave – paid no money beyond their
30-day agreement, then were “tenants” and ran her bills up…am sure you could do a
Google search and find it. Air B&B helped her when she got press on it.
Someone might send Update a photo montage/collage of people with their
suitcases all up and down our streets. I FORGOT last week to take a photo of what
I’m sure was an AIRB&B exchange as I walked by several young guys on a roof
drinking and standing – 8 probably….not safe…..nuisance.
Barbara Broide
“How the Law Can Help Communities” will be the subject of Robert Silverstein’s talk Saturday, 9 May at 10 am, Hollywood Presbyterian Church, 6054 Yucca St. Hollywood 90028. This talk is sponsored by PlanCheckNC.
Robert Silverstein is an attorney with speciality in eminent domain, land use, CEQA, and zoning issues. Hear the legal viewpoint of several court-stalled major projects in Hollywood. Attorney Silverstein is the attorney for groups successfully opposing these projects and the stalled Hollywood Community Plan Update. He will speak and later answer questions from the audience.
See Roxanne Brown’s utube input.
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