Peter Griswold
PARKING: City + County chooses laws to ignore or to enforce.
Why not enforce the zoning code for onsite parking NOW!?
Too many existing and new homes dodge this requirement.
HOUSING: Government should simplify the red tape just a little to
facilitate building Single Room Housing in designated areas all over
the City and County. How about deferred permits that earn interest until project completion?
SIDEWALKS: Steve Lopez wrote September 16, 2012 about a retired professional who offered to study the program for free. Recently that same man even bid to Construction Manage the repairs for just one City area. His bid was low but ignored (his company was too small). Now the City is finally going forward to make it into a super huge project that will cost many more times than it should cost.
David Thomas
Note: This is a note to Peter Griswold, neighborhood watch captain
I’m going to forward you some photos in a subsequent series of mails which depict the growing presence of homeless encampments, trash, and indications of their criminal activity spilling into the Oxford triangle neighborhood.
The below 45 second video shows two men, both with backpacks, capering down Oxford Avenue on Tuesday, May 5 at about 9:30 p.m. The two men split up, with one man going to the door of the residence of Martha Thomas, 810 Oxford (my mother). The one rings the doorbell, then seconds later hops the wall and his shadow is seen near the rear sliding glass door. He is presumably scared off by the dog barking and subsequent exterior lighting being illuminated by Martha Thomas. This is a second occasion. The first occasion was almost identical, occurring about the same time but about 2 weeks ago.
On Sunday morning May 16 at about 6 a.m., a neighbor on Oxford Avenue near Berkeley saw 4 homeless males walking down the street trying to open the handles of car doors. The neighbor called police who detained, and possibly arrested, the suspects for auto tampering. I think it’s important the neighbors continue to be vigilant and recognize this is occurring
Another note …
Note: He is referring to county land behind Oxford Ave wall.
I also found two paint spray cans.
The presence of bicycle parts, tools, spray cans, garage door remote, etc., are indicators of 1) bicycle theft, where the suspects modify and spray paint the stolen bicycles, and 2) burglary from motor vehicle theft, where suspect(s) remove any valuables, including garage door remote, for use during subsequent burglary attempts.
Can I recommend you contact L.A. County sanitation department with a specific request they clean up this area, and make periodic checks to deter the homeless activity? If you get nowhere, let me know and I’ll just do it on my own.
DeDe Audet
Thank you, Update, for providing a means to comment on the apparently narrow interests of this one small community: the Oxford Triangle.
I wish to comment on the appearance of a slick mailer from L.A. County about the Oxford Basin. Sure, folks here will be pleased to know that the intent is to provide increased flood protection.
But where is the plan to accomplish it? We need flood protection before it happens again, not after.
So is there any plan to coordinate tides, sea level rise, flood drains, and habitat? There was no such plan in the EIR the county published.
This community had a Ten Year Flood in 2003 and we need better protection before another one occurs. Why can’t engineering tell us exactly how it will be done? And what, in view of sea level rise, will be the range of life expectancy of the new, expensive, tidal gates?
L.A. County has not said. What they have said is only in regard to what L.A. County expects to gain: enhancement. Is the County perhaps in denial about sea level rise?
So the question arises: will L.A. County be coming back in a few years for more money to make these things right? Or should we complain to the State Land Commission that Los Angeles County neglects its management duty to a tidal basin and the California Flood Control Act?
Alexa Miller
Our car was recently stolen, Saturday night (16 May)… out of our driveway while we were home sleeping… It happened between 2-6am, (and it was locked)… they also got into my car (not locked) and rifled through it, (and smoked a bunch of cigarettes in it!) It seems like they tried to steal it as well, but for some reason didn’t…. but they pulled the panels off and they had exposed the wires…
Anyways, I just want to spread the word out to as many neighbors as possible!
Roxanne Brown
In my 27 years here, I had never seen the binoculars between Rose and Sunset on Main getting a cleaning.
The joy of life in Venice.
Roxanne Brown
Found the following stapled to a fence regarding parking lot at Sunset.
Marilyn Roland
Encampments at Glen Alla Park, Glencoe and Alla.
Anonymous
Some residents are very angry about the recent installations of these blue arches all along OFW. Residents were not informed ahead of time and did not vote on this expenditure of tax dollars. Not only are they ugly, but they block public and emergency vehicle access. Some are even redundant, as in the case for example of 30th where there were already steel pole barriers on either side of speedway to block cars from entering walk street. I’ll be writing to the coastal commission to complain.
Reta Moser
Yes, I goofed in previous Update. The organization is called Keep Neighborhoods First, not Free.
Sometimes a comment is inadvertently missed. It is not you or your comment, it is the compiler, me. Let me know. All comments are important.
Your story ideas and inputs are important. Look how much Roxanne Brown added to the Update this time.
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Comments–26 May 2015
Peter Griswold
PARKING: City + County chooses laws to ignore or to enforce.
Why not enforce the zoning code for onsite parking NOW!?
Too many existing and new homes dodge this requirement.
HOUSING: Government should simplify the red tape just a little to
facilitate building Single Room Housing in designated areas all over
the City and County. How about deferred permits that earn interest until project completion?
SIDEWALKS: Steve Lopez wrote September 16, 2012 about a retired professional who offered to study the program for free. Recently that same man even bid to Construction Manage the repairs for just one City area. His bid was low but ignored (his company was too small). Now the City is finally going forward to make it into a super huge project that will cost many more times than it should cost.
David Thomas
Note: This is a note to Peter Griswold, neighborhood watch captain
I’m going to forward you some photos in a subsequent series of mails which depict the growing presence of homeless encampments, trash, and indications of their criminal activity spilling into the Oxford triangle neighborhood.
The below 45 second video shows two men, both with backpacks, capering down Oxford Avenue on Tuesday, May 5 at about 9:30 p.m. The two men split up, with one man going to the door of the residence of Martha Thomas, 810 Oxford (my mother). The one rings the doorbell, then seconds later hops the wall and his shadow is seen near the rear sliding glass door. He is presumably scared off by the dog barking and subsequent exterior lighting being illuminated by Martha Thomas. This is a second occasion. The first occasion was almost identical, occurring about the same time but about 2 weeks ago.
On Sunday morning May 16 at about 6 a.m., a neighbor on Oxford Avenue near Berkeley saw 4 homeless males walking down the street trying to open the handles of car doors. The neighbor called police who detained, and possibly arrested, the suspects for auto tampering. I think it’s important the neighbors continue to be vigilant and recognize this is occurring
Another note …
Note: He is referring to county land behind Oxford Ave wall.
I also found two paint spray cans.
The presence of bicycle parts, tools, spray cans, garage door remote, etc., are indicators of 1) bicycle theft, where the suspects modify and spray paint the stolen bicycles, and 2) burglary from motor vehicle theft, where suspect(s) remove any valuables, including garage door remote, for use during subsequent burglary attempts.
Can I recommend you contact L.A. County sanitation department with a specific request they clean up this area, and make periodic checks to deter the homeless activity? If you get nowhere, let me know and I’ll just do it on my own.
DeDe Audet
Thank you, Update, for providing a means to comment on the apparently narrow interests of this one small community: the Oxford Triangle.
I wish to comment on the appearance of a slick mailer from L.A. County about the Oxford Basin. Sure, folks here will be pleased to know that the intent is to provide increased flood protection.
But where is the plan to accomplish it? We need flood protection before it happens again, not after.
So is there any plan to coordinate tides, sea level rise, flood drains, and habitat? There was no such plan in the EIR the county published.
This community had a Ten Year Flood in 2003 and we need better protection before another one occurs. Why can’t engineering tell us exactly how it will be done? And what, in view of sea level rise, will be the range of life expectancy of the new, expensive, tidal gates?
L.A. County has not said. What they have said is only in regard to what L.A. County expects to gain: enhancement. Is the County perhaps in denial about sea level rise?
So the question arises: will L.A. County be coming back in a few years for more money to make these things right? Or should we complain to the State Land Commission that Los Angeles County neglects its management duty to a tidal basin and the California Flood Control Act?
Alexa Miller
Our car was recently stolen, Saturday night (16 May)… out of our driveway while we were home sleeping… It happened between 2-6am, (and it was locked)… they also got into my car (not locked) and rifled through it, (and smoked a bunch of cigarettes in it!) It seems like they tried to steal it as well, but for some reason didn’t…. but they pulled the panels off and they had exposed the wires…
Anyways, I just want to spread the word out to as many neighbors as possible!
Roxanne Brown
In my 27 years here, I had never seen the binoculars between Rose and Sunset on Main getting a cleaning.
The joy of life in Venice.
Roxanne Brown
Found the following stapled to a fence regarding parking lot at Sunset.
Marilyn Roland
Encampments at Glen Alla Park, Glencoe and Alla.
Anonymous
Some residents are very angry about the recent installations of these blue arches all along OFW. Residents were not informed ahead of time and did not vote on this expenditure of tax dollars. Not only are they ugly, but they block public and emergency vehicle access. Some are even redundant, as in the case for example of 30th where there were already steel pole barriers on either side of speedway to block cars from entering walk street. I’ll be writing to the coastal commission to complain.
Reta Moser
Yes, I goofed in previous Update. The organization is called Keep Neighborhoods First, not Free.
Sometimes a comment is inadvertently missed. It is not you or your comment, it is the compiler, me. Let me know. All comments are important.
Your story ideas and inputs are important. Look how much Roxanne Brown added to the Update this time.
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