Michael Lipson
Huntington Beach voted against rezoning commercial area for residential. Would have rezoned Don the Beachcomer and Peter’s Landing area.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/beach-670510-beachcomber-huntington.html
Peter Griswold
How many homes cannot reach 311.
Anonymous
A = Government chooses which laws to enforce……those that draw revenue.
B = Government chooses which laws to ignore……those that don’t draw revenue.
A= Zoning Code violations from onsite parking requirements do not draw revenue.
B= Parking Code violations in the street do cause citations that do draw revenue.
C= Revenue would actually reduce if onsite parking requirements were enforced.
D= Parking problems will actually reduce if offsite parking congestion were reduced.
Many projects built to Code no longer have that required parking that is now inbuilt.
Many projects today show an apparent plan to convert parking to be inbuilt.
Heather Kahler
Mark Shockly’s comments could have been my own, just swap out needle in car seat for crack pipe nearly stepped on when my 8-year-old son got into the car in front of my house. Change the bathroom incident and the insolent and apathetic cops for my incident after being chased down the center of Lincoln Blvd. (on foot) by a lunatic meth or pcp vagrant chasing me on his bike threatening to kill me. Same cops likely, at least the same attitude certainly. Why do some of these officers become police? Steady income? OT hours? Does anyone become a cop due to the dire need to ” protect and serve”? We marina and Venice residents are not protected and not served but ignored, laughed at, made to wait endlessly for help if it ever even arrives. Apathetic. That is a virus running through law enforcement. And the Mayor not signing the new ordinances is a slap in the face to every hard working tax paying citizen raising kids and working in his district. Shame on him. Regret ever voting for him. It’s politics like this that create a low voter turn out. I vote nearly every time, BUT I do it because I legally can and out of respect for people in other countries who cannot. I certainly don’t do it because I think ANY leader actually cares to make the city better. No one votes because their voices fall on deaf ears. The mayor is disgracefully disrespecting the hard working tax paying citizens of out city. Let’s pack up a bus of vagrants and their belongings and let them live in, shoot up, defecate, pee, sleep, run raging and looney on his neighborhood streets if he is so against putting ordinances into law. No one is helped by being allowed and enabled to a street lifestyle. I drove past a coroner truck and a dead vagrant body in an alcove who likely slept there and died there. This enabling of street life needs to stop. No one wins. Vagrants are not safe, nor are working tax paying homeowners and other residents. Kids certainly are not. The mayor should be embarrassed. The police should be embarrassed as they certainly allow far more than they enforce. And treat residents like we are not paying their salaries with our tax dollars. Development and bigger shinier more of everything else won’t cover up the filth and sad state, unsafe environment perpetuated by our leaders. It doesn’t matter how many homes have blood all over their front door from a lunatic hobo, or even blood inside their house by he gallon after a lunatic hobo smashes a sliding door and rips out wall sinks while a mother and child run from their home in terror. Hypodermic heroine needles in a car seat of a toddler left after a break in, crack pipe discovered by an eight year old, people mowed down by a vagrant meth head at Venice beach…no. Let’s just build a fancy fisherman’s village and god knows what else is on the city agenda for covering up real problems behind shiny new buildings developments and maybe no one will notice! No. They do. We do. We will. But tourists will keep coming. Houses will still cost 2 million for 1000 square feet with vagrants shooting up in the alley behind. And so the leaders won’t care. They don’t care. Thanks mayor.
I do hope Mark Shockley’s letter was sent to the deaf mayor, city council and LAPD. Especially the slow officer. They may be deaf but we still have to inform on every incident. And then speak louder come the next election and get rid of this mayor who cares nothing for his constituents.
Angela McGregor
Just a heads up — I was walking down Thatcher on Thursday morning, and noticed a Sanitation and Engineering truck in front of the maintenance yard. A guy in uniform was standing in front of the Engineering truck, so I chatted him up and asked him about the status of the demolition. He told me work would likely start next month, and I told him the sooner the better — the whole neighborhood would probably have a party to celebrate once the walls came down! I also mentioned that, since the Yard was an old WPA project, the bricks for the wall are possibly 80 years old and therefore possibly valuable. I recommended that they try to sell them.
On my way back up Thatcher a few minutes later, the gate to the yard was open and police in protective gear were breaking down the entrance to one of the out buildings, yelling at whoever was inside to get out. Another reminder of why the yard is being demolished, I guess.
I saw the letter from Douglas Fay in the latest newsletter, and while I’m sure he means well by trying to save money, the chain link fence he describes clearly wouldn’t be adequate. For starters, that type of fence can’t be seen through and is nowhere near as resilient as the fence approved by Triangle residents. Furthermore, I did receive a flyer with three fencing options to vote on, and chose the “Enterprise” option. I’m also hoping for solar powered lighting, which would be both theft-proof and would help keep the area free from intruders until we can all decide on the best use for the property (something tells me that will take quite some time).
Highway Patrol
The 2015 Independence Day Holiday Maximum Enforcement Period began at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 3rd, 2015, and continued through 11:59 p.m., on Sunday, July 5th, 2015.
During last year’s Independence Day MEP, 32 people were killed in collisions statewide. In addition, CHP officers arrested 1, 343 people for driving under the influence throughout the 78-hour traffic safety effort. Within Los Angeles County six people were killed and 290 DUI arrests were made.
This year’s MEP, 26 people were killed in collisions statewide and 930 DUI arrests were made. In Los Angeles County, two people were killed and 229 DUI arrests were made.
We would like to note that 2014’s MEP contained one more 24 hour period compared to 2015.
Keep Neighborhoods First
Yesterday SharebetterSF (San Francisco) filed an initiative petition with nearly 16,000 signatures to restrict the proliferation of illegal AirBnB rentals of our scarce housing stock to tourists and provide stricter enforcement and prosecution of repeated violators and hosting platforms like AirBnB who refuse to comply with SF laws. The initiative will be on the November 2015 ballot. A copy of our press release announcing the filing is attached below.
Nick Antonicello
Here’s a question: Why is crime increasing in Venice with all of this gentrification taking place at exactly the same time? If more rich people are moving and relocating to Venice, shouldn’t crime be tumbling downward?
Stephanie Biatsos
Here is a synopsis of the two recent incidents in our neighborhood:
Thursday evening, July 9th. Apparently there was a young woman in an extremely agitated state that was running through our neighborhood. I understand that she may have entered a home on Berkeley Street. She was also able to enter our secured parking lot. The police were called and they eventually were able to subdue here and take her away.
On Friday, July 10th, I was walking my dog in the park on Admiralty Way (at approximately 9:00 am). I saw a car pull into one of the access areas and noticed that the car door opened and the person inside the car (I do believe it was a man) eject a young woman from the car and she landed on the sidewalk. I did not have my cellphone with me so I approached two young woman and asked if they would please call the police. I was able to tell the police exactly what happened and where the young woman was located. (Directly across the street from the Warehouse Restaurant.) A few minutes later the police, fire department, and EMT vehicles arrived. The woman was non-responsive and was placed in the emergency vehicle and taken to a nearby hospital.
At this time this is all of the info that I have.
Roxanne Brown
Attend the TRAFFIC APPEAL hearing for Gjelina’s Gjusta at 320 Sunset. Gjusta’s traffic consultant reports no significant increase.
Yet, Venetians are experiencing a significant traffic increase and nuisance since the arrival of this “bakery/take out.”
Gjusta proposes to expand into a late night restaurant/bar with alcohol. Many Venetians believe that will attract even more people from distant locations; the traffic increase, nuisance and impact will be even greater.
GJUSTA – 320 SUNSET – TRAFFIC APPEAL HEARING
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2015
4:30 P.M. (this case is first on the agenda)
WEST LA PLANNING COMMISSION
HENRY MEDINA WEST LA PARKING ENFORCEMENT FACILITY
11214 EXPOSITION BOULEVARD – 2ND FLOOR – ROLL CALL ROOM
LOS ANGELES, CA90064
Ryan Wolfe
What: Neighborhood Brunch
Who: Oxford Triangle Neighbors
When: Sat. 7/18/15 10am to Noon
Where: The Wolfe’s – 904 Dickson St.
Why: We love our neighbors and want to get everyone together to enjoy delicious food.
Bring a dish to share or just bring yourself. Kids welcome.
We’ll have another brunch Sat 8/15, so mark your calendar.
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Comments–14 July 2015
Michael Lipson
Huntington Beach voted against rezoning commercial area for residential. Would have rezoned Don the Beachcomer and Peter’s Landing area.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/beach-670510-beachcomber-huntington.html
Peter Griswold
How many homes cannot reach 311.
Anonymous
A = Government chooses which laws to enforce……those that draw revenue.
B = Government chooses which laws to ignore……those that don’t draw revenue.
A= Zoning Code violations from onsite parking requirements do not draw revenue.
B= Parking Code violations in the street do cause citations that do draw revenue.
C= Revenue would actually reduce if onsite parking requirements were enforced.
D= Parking problems will actually reduce if offsite parking congestion were reduced.
Many projects built to Code no longer have that required parking that is now inbuilt.
Many projects today show an apparent plan to convert parking to be inbuilt.
Heather Kahler
Mark Shockly’s comments could have been my own, just swap out needle in car seat for crack pipe nearly stepped on when my 8-year-old son got into the car in front of my house. Change the bathroom incident and the insolent and apathetic cops for my incident after being chased down the center of Lincoln Blvd. (on foot) by a lunatic meth or pcp vagrant chasing me on his bike threatening to kill me. Same cops likely, at least the same attitude certainly. Why do some of these officers become police? Steady income? OT hours? Does anyone become a cop due to the dire need to ” protect and serve”? We marina and Venice residents are not protected and not served but ignored, laughed at, made to wait endlessly for help if it ever even arrives. Apathetic. That is a virus running through law enforcement. And the Mayor not signing the new ordinances is a slap in the face to every hard working tax paying citizen raising kids and working in his district. Shame on him. Regret ever voting for him. It’s politics like this that create a low voter turn out. I vote nearly every time, BUT I do it because I legally can and out of respect for people in other countries who cannot. I certainly don’t do it because I think ANY leader actually cares to make the city better. No one votes because their voices fall on deaf ears. The mayor is disgracefully disrespecting the hard working tax paying citizens of out city. Let’s pack up a bus of vagrants and their belongings and let them live in, shoot up, defecate, pee, sleep, run raging and looney on his neighborhood streets if he is so against putting ordinances into law. No one is helped by being allowed and enabled to a street lifestyle. I drove past a coroner truck and a dead vagrant body in an alcove who likely slept there and died there. This enabling of street life needs to stop. No one wins. Vagrants are not safe, nor are working tax paying homeowners and other residents. Kids certainly are not. The mayor should be embarrassed. The police should be embarrassed as they certainly allow far more than they enforce. And treat residents like we are not paying their salaries with our tax dollars. Development and bigger shinier more of everything else won’t cover up the filth and sad state, unsafe environment perpetuated by our leaders. It doesn’t matter how many homes have blood all over their front door from a lunatic hobo, or even blood inside their house by he gallon after a lunatic hobo smashes a sliding door and rips out wall sinks while a mother and child run from their home in terror. Hypodermic heroine needles in a car seat of a toddler left after a break in, crack pipe discovered by an eight year old, people mowed down by a vagrant meth head at Venice beach…no. Let’s just build a fancy fisherman’s village and god knows what else is on the city agenda for covering up real problems behind shiny new buildings developments and maybe no one will notice! No. They do. We do. We will. But tourists will keep coming. Houses will still cost 2 million for 1000 square feet with vagrants shooting up in the alley behind. And so the leaders won’t care. They don’t care. Thanks mayor.
I do hope Mark Shockley’s letter was sent to the deaf mayor, city council and LAPD. Especially the slow officer. They may be deaf but we still have to inform on every incident. And then speak louder come the next election and get rid of this mayor who cares nothing for his constituents.
Angela McGregor
Just a heads up — I was walking down Thatcher on Thursday morning, and noticed a Sanitation and Engineering truck in front of the maintenance yard. A guy in uniform was standing in front of the Engineering truck, so I chatted him up and asked him about the status of the demolition. He told me work would likely start next month, and I told him the sooner the better — the whole neighborhood would probably have a party to celebrate once the walls came down! I also mentioned that, since the Yard was an old WPA project, the bricks for the wall are possibly 80 years old and therefore possibly valuable. I recommended that they try to sell them.
On my way back up Thatcher a few minutes later, the gate to the yard was open and police in protective gear were breaking down the entrance to one of the out buildings, yelling at whoever was inside to get out. Another reminder of why the yard is being demolished, I guess.
I saw the letter from Douglas Fay in the latest newsletter, and while I’m sure he means well by trying to save money, the chain link fence he describes clearly wouldn’t be adequate. For starters, that type of fence can’t be seen through and is nowhere near as resilient as the fence approved by Triangle residents. Furthermore, I did receive a flyer with three fencing options to vote on, and chose the “Enterprise” option. I’m also hoping for solar powered lighting, which would be both theft-proof and would help keep the area free from intruders until we can all decide on the best use for the property (something tells me that will take quite some time).
Highway Patrol
The 2015 Independence Day Holiday Maximum Enforcement Period began at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 3rd, 2015, and continued through 11:59 p.m., on Sunday, July 5th, 2015.
During last year’s Independence Day MEP, 32 people were killed in collisions statewide. In addition, CHP officers arrested 1, 343 people for driving under the influence throughout the 78-hour traffic safety effort. Within Los Angeles County six people were killed and 290 DUI arrests were made.
This year’s MEP, 26 people were killed in collisions statewide and 930 DUI arrests were made. In Los Angeles County, two people were killed and 229 DUI arrests were made.
We would like to note that 2014’s MEP contained one more 24 hour period compared to 2015.
Keep Neighborhoods First
Yesterday SharebetterSF (San Francisco) filed an initiative petition with nearly 16,000 signatures to restrict the proliferation of illegal AirBnB rentals of our scarce housing stock to tourists and provide stricter enforcement and prosecution of repeated violators and hosting platforms like AirBnB who refuse to comply with SF laws. The initiative will be on the November 2015 ballot. A copy of our press release announcing the filing is attached below.
Nick Antonicello
Here’s a question: Why is crime increasing in Venice with all of this gentrification taking place at exactly the same time? If more rich people are moving and relocating to Venice, shouldn’t crime be tumbling downward?
Stephanie Biatsos
Here is a synopsis of the two recent incidents in our neighborhood:
Thursday evening, July 9th. Apparently there was a young woman in an extremely agitated state that was running through our neighborhood. I understand that she may have entered a home on Berkeley Street. She was also able to enter our secured parking lot. The police were called and they eventually were able to subdue here and take her away.
On Friday, July 10th, I was walking my dog in the park on Admiralty Way (at approximately 9:00 am). I saw a car pull into one of the access areas and noticed that the car door opened and the person inside the car (I do believe it was a man) eject a young woman from the car and she landed on the sidewalk. I did not have my cellphone with me so I approached two young woman and asked if they would please call the police. I was able to tell the police exactly what happened and where the young woman was located. (Directly across the street from the Warehouse Restaurant.) A few minutes later the police, fire department, and EMT vehicles arrived. The woman was non-responsive and was placed in the emergency vehicle and taken to a nearby hospital.
At this time this is all of the info that I have.
Roxanne Brown
Attend the TRAFFIC APPEAL hearing for Gjelina’s Gjusta at 320 Sunset. Gjusta’s traffic consultant reports no significant increase.
Yet, Venetians are experiencing a significant traffic increase and nuisance since the arrival of this “bakery/take out.”
Gjusta proposes to expand into a late night restaurant/bar with alcohol. Many Venetians believe that will attract even more people from distant locations; the traffic increase, nuisance and impact will be even greater.
GJUSTA – 320 SUNSET – TRAFFIC APPEAL HEARING
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2015
4:30 P.M. (this case is first on the agenda)
WEST LA PLANNING COMMISSION
HENRY MEDINA WEST LA PARKING ENFORCEMENT FACILITY
11214 EXPOSITION BOULEVARD – 2ND FLOOR – ROLL CALL ROOM
LOS ANGELES, CA90064
Ryan Wolfe
What: Neighborhood Brunch
Who: Oxford Triangle Neighbors
When: Sat. 7/18/15 10am to Noon
Where: The Wolfe’s – 904 Dickson St.
Why: We love our neighbors and want to get everyone together to enjoy delicious food.
Bring a dish to share or just bring yourself. Kids welcome.
We’ll have another brunch Sat 8/15, so mark your calendar.
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