Nate Kaplan Field Deputy for Councilman Bill Rosendahl… Please be advised that the LAX expansion issue will be heard before the full City Council on April 30.  More details to come.

Georgann A of Playa del Rey and former co-chair of VNC OPD committee … When we moved out of Venice, we ended up on a street with OPD.  How ironic after all the years of working to get OPD for Venice!  The point is this.  The permits are easy.  We went to the parking office on Pico in Century City one time.  There is very little wait.  After that, you get the renewal notice, renew on-line, and the permit comes in the mail in 2-3 days.  It works.

Joan W of Silver Triangle …How does Leon exist? Where does he live at night? Does he receive “appreciation donations” for this extraordinary effort, I wonder?

Anonymous resident from Abbot Kinney area …Responding to Deborah Lashever of Abbot Kinney, 19 April Update:

Deborah L of Abbot Kinney …As much as I’d love to see more beauty in Venice—if we are really short of              parking in Venice—if that is REALLY the motivation for the OPDs for example–we can save all the hassle that permits bring and put diagonal spaces on Grand and Rialto and other wide streets and get twice the spaces! Simple. Cheap. Effective.

We should explore ALL options before OPDs which will create a huge hassle for residents and our many visitors, reduce coastal access, and head Venice towards the “gated community” that many people seem to want it to become. Venice was created by Abbot Kinney as “the people’s beach,” so it has been–and gained huge popularity (16 million visitors a year) because of it–and so it should always remain.

My neighbors and I (just off Abbot Kinney) aren’t people who want to live in “gated communities.” We don’t want Venice to become suburbia by the sea. The problem is that businesses have been allowed to wildly abuse residents.

Take Gjelina, for example. They, in continued violation of their conditions of use, seat over 100 people several times a night, and have over 100 staffers, and provide ZERO parking spaces. Not even the one they were mandated to have in their own garage, which they use for storage.

Diagonal parking on a few wide streets far from Gjelina won’t solve that. Nor will it solve the fact that loud drunks leave The Brig at 1am (which charges for parking and then valets cars to the free public lot — as both Reta and I have observed and photographed) and then shout outside our houses and play their car radios with their windows open.

My neighbors and I want permit parking because we have been forced to want it — by businesses that have been allowed to take residential parking instead of paying the freight of bringing in hundreds of customers a night by assuming the cost of parking instead of passing it on to residents.

Thursday night, my boyfriend drove around for 40 minutes looking for a space because G2 “environmental gallery” had an event — on top of all the abuse we already endure from Gjelina. In the past, they had valets out front, not only valeting cars to our neighborhood, but using a movie “no parking” sign to take up what was meant to be free parking for anyone. (Are we not an “environment” worthy of care?)

If this sign was valid, why is part of it taped between ANYTIME and SATURDAY?

Heather K of Triangle …I think our dog has found her calling – foster mother.

These are 3 feral kittens we have been nursing, and after careful introduction, it is true love between my dog Zoe (an 85-lb American Bull Dog) and these three 3- week old kitties.

After a week of crazy human catastrophe in Boston and other states throughout our union, this is certainly a bright spot. If only humans could be so cooperative as these babies and my big dog!

Bridget R of Triangle …

I received the below email from a friend who lives in Westchester and thought I would pass it on to give the people of our community the chance to voice their opinion on this matter too.

Note:  City council discusses the airport 30 April.

Tuesday the LA City Council is going to vote on whether to approve Los Angeles Worldwide Airports plan to expand LAX by moving the airport runway 260 yards north.   This construction would cause the closure of Lincoln Blvd. and possibly Sepulveda Blvd. for a minimum of 2 years, if not forever.  Not to mention the damage that it would do to the Westside, particularly Westchester and Playa del Rey.

I would like to urge you to write an email to City Council members urging them that you are against this expansion.  I’ve provided their address below.  .  LAX needs to be improved.  It just doesn’t need to be expanded, and luckily expansion isn’t necessary for the improvements that LAX needs.

councilmember.reyes@lacity.org ,

councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org ,

councilmember.labonge@lacity.org ,

paul.koretz@lacity.org or councildistrict6@lacity.org ,

councilmember.alarcon@lacity.org ,

councilmember.parks@lacity.org ,

jan.perry@lacity.org ,

councilmember.wesson@lacity.org ,

councilmember.englander@lacity.org ,

councilman.rosendahl@lacity.org ,

councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org ,

councilmember.huizar@lacity.org ,

councildistrict15@lacity.org

Becky and Ryan Wolfe of Triangle … Please let everyone know that it’s time for our monthly neighborhood brunch once again.  And it’s a happy coincidence that it is occurring on Saturday 4/27 because GOOD Magazine has declared that day Neighborday (good.is/neighborday).  It’s nice to see a “national holiday” being created around something that we’re already doing in the Oxford Triangle: loving our neighbors:

Neighborday Brunch

904 Dickson St.

Saturday 4/27 10am to 12pm

Facebook Event to RSVP (optional): www.facebook.com/events/240053669468451

Bring a dish to share.