Chris Williams
Ref: Shawn Stern
I don’t even know where to begin on Shawn Stern’s comments. Two words come to mind Bankrupt and naïve. Two of the big three entitlements he mentioned I will be partaking of if they are still around in a few years, but all three are completely bankrupt and have been for many years if the government didn’t pump lots of borrowed money into them. Remarkable the Federal Government borrowed from the social security trust fund for decades and then had to go reimburse the trust fund with even more borrowed money with interest attached to it. Medicare continues to be have lower and lower reimbursement rates each year leading to fewer and fewer medical providers willing to accept it while Medicare fraud remains a huge problem. The drug prescription benefit practically will not cover name drugs and is good for generics which work for some of the population while many other people have had adverse reactions often allergic reactions to generics.
Post Office verses FedEx, and UPS who delivers on time and isn’t broke? As for Canada, one MRI machine for hundreds of miles sometimes per province, verses 20 MRI’s west of Fairfax in LA. Had Natasha Richardson been able to have an MRI or CTscan and not wait a month in Canada’s system after her ski accident she would probably be alive today. Shawn perhaps doesn’t realize just how many Canadians who can either afford or hock everything for a chance to live, are here in the U.S., even here in LA getting treatment they would be rationed in Canada and therefore receive a possible death sentence.
Thanks for the info about the trash districts being set up. Discouraging competition and creating protected private businesses in districts screams of the most corrupt city in America, Chicago (that’s what my Chicago relatives tell me) and their long standing history of controlling Mafia’s be it Sicilian, Irish, or political party Mafia’s. Protected business practices have never brought the price down on anything and have always led to the consumer, you and me being the ultimate loser. It is completely counter to the open government reforms LA City reformer Mayors and Councils brought about in the 1930’s in an effort to get away from the corrupt and graft ridden governments that existed in the rest of the country then.
Ref to Robert Aronson
Name one Bob, how about the Norton Simon?
Or how about the…..
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
(626) 405-2100
www.huntington.org
Save to foursquare
How about the many libraries that were private and through private charities were given to the public?
Go Bob with the usual ad hominem attack. So glad you never change.
Ruth Lerner
I agree with the comments of Robert Aronson and Shawn Stern BUT I have come to realize that trying to discuss such divergent political views is fruitless. Politics has already created a sharp split between friends and neighbors throughout the country. I would hate to see that happen in our neighborhood. Let’s keep political views out of the Triangle Update and find ways to come together and make our neighborhood a safe, supportive and close knit one that is politics free!
Jody Eldred
Can you identify one library that’s been built, maintained, and staffed by a private company?
Uh yeah, several thousand libraries operated and owned by private universities (like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, USC…) immediately come to mind.
And I’d ask, “Can you identify one HOSPITAL that was built, maintained and staffed by the government that outperforms privately owned and operated hospitals?
One CHARITY that outperforms private charities? (Don’t even bother getting into government-funded and bureaucratized public education vs. private education.)
What a pile from Robert Aronson. The dude needs to wake up and smell the coffee (and maybe look at actual DATA instead of parroting MSNBC/Bill Maher and ultra-liberal talking points.) People with his myopia and low-information opinions are driving America– and Marina Del Rey and Venice– right into history’s cesspools.
It’s not Tea Party or Libertarian rubbish. It’s the reality you hate.
Live in that denial at your own peril.
Elaine Spierer
The 320 Sunset change-of-use is before LUPC on Wednesday. Claiming credit for 20 ‘virtual’ parking spaces for the old M-1 building they want to change the property into a so-called ‘bakery.’ We know the real plans are to change this property into a full-blown restaurant and bar. It is only because of the outrage from the neighborhood residents that they are now attempting to apply just for a bakery change-of-use and ‘smoke’ the council and the neighborhood. It is totally bogus. This would be the first and only retail operation or bar into this quiet neighborhood.
A late-night bar and restaurant would change this unique neighborhood into an Abbot Kinney annex. Gjelina slammed all the residents around it by expanding without parking and they are trying to do it again in this very unique neighborhood of homes, artisans and creative use studios. Residents woke up late to this stealth encroachment but are pushing back on the Gjelina owner and his high-paid consultants as he attempts to open his latest operation at the side door of the Google operation.
Venice urgently needs an immediate moratorium on all commercial change-of-use- permits now. Only if they meet 2014 parking requirements should a permit be issued. It is only in recent years that permits have been given for commercial change-of-use permits utilizing phantom parking spaces they call ‘credits.’ In past years, Planning required these applicants to add parking.
Venice’s unique neighborhoods are being abandoned by the city in favor of commercial establishments. If this was not true, the city would not permit the commercial intensification without the required parking. They surely know about our parking problems and yet they let these powerful and persistent consultants work their magic and get the applicants what they want. Why? At the last Coast Commission hearing, they woke up to the crisis of development in Venice and the attendant loss of its uniqueness because of all the endless exceptions and bending of the rules for this and that. They will now refuse to approve any future Venice de minimums waivers.
I wrote a draft for the next edition of ImagineVenice.org this morning and it is with Marian for editing. It calls for a moratorium on all commercial change-of-use permits if 2014 parking requirements are exempt. It is an expanded version of my thoughts here.
Deborah LaShever
Ref: This is a letter addressed to Councilman Mike Bonin, with cc to Steve Clare, Carol Sobel, and with copy for Update to print.
Dear Mike,
I am requesting from your office–immediately– the detailed records of exactly how much money it has cost to do one “clean up” sweep on OFW, with each and every city employee’s salary that is involved in the sweep (sanitation department workers, Hazmet, DOT, police and any others) and the cost of chemicals sprayed, the cost of spraying equipment used and the cost of cleaning same, the cost of any and all other equipment used, the disposable hazmet suit costs,gloves and other special equipment, the salary of the people who put up the signs (supposedly) beforehand and the costs of the making the signs (printing costs, paper, employee salary) and tape used to post them. All sundry costs of sanitation workers, DOT and police, including supervisors etc… costs of trucks and fuel, costs of tagging and bagging of items including costs for the bags and the tags, costs of filming the sweeps, costs of storing the items, locating the items, rent for the downtown storage facility and costs for the workers manning that facility, people (supposedly) manning the phones there, costs of returning items including employees’ salaries, truck fuel and administrative and operational charges (have any items actually been returned?) as well as any and all other costs associated with the sweeps. Costs of keeping records of all the items as well as employee salaries, any other administrative costs associated with this program should be included. Also a total of hours your office–and any other city official or office–spends on these sweeps including employee salaries, overtime expenses, administrative costs, legal fees, records keeping etc.
I would also like detailed statistics on exactly what items have been returned since the program started and when and where the items were delivered; what the hours of operation of the phones to call to retrieve confiscated items are and who (supposedly) is in charge of them.
Also a list of items that could not be located that were confiscated in the sweeps and the reasons why they were not found/delivered would be instructive. When we call bag and tag we cannot get through, by the way. We have tried repeatedly. Quite a few people who have had items confiscated could not get through either. There are enormous problems with this unwieldy system, as you are aware. What is being done to immediately remedy them? I will need that information as well.
Any stats on the perceived effectiveness of the program would be appreciated,
Any stats on how much less of a “hazard” OFW and surrounding areas would be with more working public restrooms with longer hours of operation would be great. I personally saw 6 tourists (not unhoused people) pee in the parking lot in only one hour three weeks ago for lack of restrooms–there were lines 20-25 deep at the only two or three restrooms by the paddle ball courts at the time. I cannot even imagine how much tourists use parking lots and alleys in Venice for toilets in the summer! This cannot be seen as a “homeless” problem. Everyone needs a place to urinate and where will everyone “go” if restrooms are not in large enough supply? It does not take a genius to figure this stuff out. 16 million visitors a year and maybe 20 public restrooms that are only open 12 hours a day….you do the math!
Any stats on how many less “issues” there would be around OFW and Venice in general if people were allowed to access a fully functional Free Voluntary Storage facility with hygiene services and assistance with locating other services and finding housing would also be educational.
If we had any kind of a functional transitional housing system, services, or even one emergency bed anywhere on the entire Westside what are the statistics of how many people would sleep on the street at all? Call 211 yourself. Not one bed on the entire Westside of Los Angeles. Seems this is just not a priority for the city–but is blamed on lack of funding. Interesting. It seems we have money enough for these huge sweeps in plenty….
Excellent stats for communities that have a fully functional system of assistance in place are available and have been delivered to you by myself at your office some time ago. Those communities have had amazing success! I would like to know exactly why are we not implementing these proven systems yet? When I had a meeting at the Mayor’s office not long ago, his aide, Daniel Tamm, wanted to know the same thing! Why are we still using barbaric, inhumane, expensive and ineffective methods in Venice? Why are we being held back from real success? Why won’t you even try a proven new model? I will need that information.
Also, if any agency is actually going out before the sweeps to assist unhoused people in learning about housing and service options–as your office has claimed, when told how unfair the sweeps were to the unhoused–we would like to know about them. Both LAHSA and PATH have been contacted, which were the organizations your office directed us to, and neither has any program remotely like this currently, nor has had for some time due to lack of funding. Interesting then that we have so much to spend on these sweeps. I think we need to look at our priorities.
The citizens of Venice have a right to know how you are choosing to use their resources punitively as opposed using obviously available funds to fully utilize the volunteers and free storage program that VCHC has been gracious enough to provide for the city gratis (taking up the city’s slack–using their own money for administration, training, and insurance to do so I might remind you–and they make zero profit off of this and take all the hassle!). And why you are not using these funds to simply create more open public restrooms with the huge amount of money you must be spending monthly on the sweeps.
The citizens of Venice also have a right to know if you will not provide this information immediately, why not. You must have an exact figure of how much a sweep costs as it would be totally irresponsible to create and continue such a huge, punitive and controversial program that spends our hard earned taxpayer dollars with no idea of the actual costs incurred, especially since you have refused to fully provide a very inexpensive, very functional, non punitive program for the people most affected by these city raids as an alternative.
As you are well aware by now, the Free Storage Program on OFW is at twice capacity and has been for any months! We are way over the limitations of the space provided and desperately need more room to help more people. Volunteers are currently risking physical injury for lack of room in the storage facility–currently we must haul and lift many very heavy containers to get to any others–yet your office has not seen fit to even come to view the storage facility since Christmas–even after repeated requests.
If you really want less “hazard” on OFW and not just to harass unhoused people, supporting the Free Storage Program and creating more open restrooms is the most effective, least punitive and least expensive solution. I think the facts and figures I am currently requesting will prove this out.
We need your help, Mike. We need it now.
VCPUCC—Venice Coalition for the Preservation of its Unique Community Character
This letter was written to Jake Kaufman regarding 320 Sunset. It was stated at a meeting that there should be a neighborhood outreach and such should be held prior to LUPC hearing the Case.
Jake Kaufman
On behalf of concerned neighbors, we hereby request that 320 Sunset be withheld from the LUPC Agenda until AFTER it has gone to the scheduled Community Outreach Meeting.
As per the Applicant’s commitment to the Zoning Administrator, Maya Zaitzevsky, at the City Zoning Hearing on March 13, 2014, in response to Ms Zaitzevsky’s dismay regarding the confusion and concern that he caused by splitting the project into two cases, Camaj has confirmed this Outreach meeting for April 26, 2014, at which time we anticipate he will provide the community with full disclosure of the entire proposed project and not just the new component/second case – something which he has not done to date.
The People can’t understand how this has gone through the City Planning process from the beginning, in a piecemeal fashion so that public hearings have not been required, thus allowing the Applicant to start work on the bulk of the project. We wonder how splitting the project is allowed, and even encouraged, instead of the complete project proposal being submitted with the Applicant’s drawn plans, including all required dimensions.
As you know, there are MANY further concerns the community has which have never been taken into consideration i.e. the residential neighbors and families immediately to the rear, who will suffer from having this establishment on their back door steps; as well as impacts on other residents living in close proximity to the location.
Thus, we are writing to ask you to ensure that 320 Sunset is not scheduled on a LUPC agenda until after the outreach meeting has occurred on April 26, 2014.
Furthermore, we are aware that the previous motion re: 320 Sunset from the LUPC March 5, 2014 meeting was inaccurate, and was deemed INVALID by AdCom at their March 10, 2014 meeting, and remanded back to LUPC. At that stage, you as LUPC chair, were directed to take this back to the People, so a NEW and RELEVANT motion could be forged with an accurate and complete disclosure of the project, and the input and concerns of the community taken into account.
The Applicant is extending this opportunity to the community on April 26, and we expect that you will respect wishes of the ZA, the AdCom, the VNC and the People, in following the correct process and sequence of events, so that the community’s voices are heard, and due process is upheld.
DeDe Audet
Your tribute to Bret is excellent. You let us know how you felt about him and his work. But it was a tribute because you let us know what he did for you, one human helping another along the path of communication.
Reta Moser
There was an attempted burglary from vehicle in 900 block of Howard 10 April 2014, 10 pm, according to Spotcrime.com. Knock-knock burglary was reported earlier in the week.
Differing views are a necessity for a healthy nation. Some may not agree with your position while some may agree, but all benefit. Update certainly upholds your right to voice your opinion.
Trash…many of readers have businesses in area or in Los Angeles. This is a local situation as well as Citywide. Business owners do not like trash-hauling system being established by City but will not say anything because they are in business and businesses must remain neutral so as not to alienate City officials or customers. Trashy situation.
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Comments–14 April 2014
Chris Williams
Ref: Shawn Stern
I don’t even know where to begin on Shawn Stern’s comments. Two words come to mind Bankrupt and naïve. Two of the big three entitlements he mentioned I will be partaking of if they are still around in a few years, but all three are completely bankrupt and have been for many years if the government didn’t pump lots of borrowed money into them. Remarkable the Federal Government borrowed from the social security trust fund for decades and then had to go reimburse the trust fund with even more borrowed money with interest attached to it. Medicare continues to be have lower and lower reimbursement rates each year leading to fewer and fewer medical providers willing to accept it while Medicare fraud remains a huge problem. The drug prescription benefit practically will not cover name drugs and is good for generics which work for some of the population while many other people have had adverse reactions often allergic reactions to generics.
Post Office verses FedEx, and UPS who delivers on time and isn’t broke? As for Canada, one MRI machine for hundreds of miles sometimes per province, verses 20 MRI’s west of Fairfax in LA. Had Natasha Richardson been able to have an MRI or CTscan and not wait a month in Canada’s system after her ski accident she would probably be alive today. Shawn perhaps doesn’t realize just how many Canadians who can either afford or hock everything for a chance to live, are here in the U.S., even here in LA getting treatment they would be rationed in Canada and therefore receive a possible death sentence.
Thanks for the info about the trash districts being set up. Discouraging competition and creating protected private businesses in districts screams of the most corrupt city in America, Chicago (that’s what my Chicago relatives tell me) and their long standing history of controlling Mafia’s be it Sicilian, Irish, or political party Mafia’s. Protected business practices have never brought the price down on anything and have always led to the consumer, you and me being the ultimate loser. It is completely counter to the open government reforms LA City reformer Mayors and Councils brought about in the 1930’s in an effort to get away from the corrupt and graft ridden governments that existed in the rest of the country then.
Ref to Robert Aronson
Name one Bob, how about the Norton Simon?
Or how about the…..
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
(626) 405-2100
www.huntington.org
Save to foursquare
How about the many libraries that were private and through private charities were given to the public?
Go Bob with the usual ad hominem attack. So glad you never change.
Ruth Lerner
I agree with the comments of Robert Aronson and Shawn Stern BUT I have come to realize that trying to discuss such divergent political views is fruitless. Politics has already created a sharp split between friends and neighbors throughout the country. I would hate to see that happen in our neighborhood. Let’s keep political views out of the Triangle Update and find ways to come together and make our neighborhood a safe, supportive and close knit one that is politics free!
Jody Eldred
Can you identify one library that’s been built, maintained, and staffed by a private company?
Uh yeah, several thousand libraries operated and owned by private universities (like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, USC…) immediately come to mind.
And I’d ask, “Can you identify one HOSPITAL that was built, maintained and staffed by the government that outperforms privately owned and operated hospitals?
One CHARITY that outperforms private charities? (Don’t even bother getting into government-funded and bureaucratized public education vs. private education.)
What a pile from Robert Aronson. The dude needs to wake up and smell the coffee (and maybe look at actual DATA instead of parroting MSNBC/Bill Maher and ultra-liberal talking points.) People with his myopia and low-information opinions are driving America– and Marina Del Rey and Venice– right into history’s cesspools.
It’s not Tea Party or Libertarian rubbish. It’s the reality you hate.
Live in that denial at your own peril.
Elaine Spierer
The 320 Sunset change-of-use is before LUPC on Wednesday. Claiming credit for 20 ‘virtual’ parking spaces for the old M-1 building they want to change the property into a so-called ‘bakery.’ We know the real plans are to change this property into a full-blown restaurant and bar. It is only because of the outrage from the neighborhood residents that they are now attempting to apply just for a bakery change-of-use and ‘smoke’ the council and the neighborhood. It is totally bogus. This would be the first and only retail operation or bar into this quiet neighborhood.
A late-night bar and restaurant would change this unique neighborhood into an Abbot Kinney annex. Gjelina slammed all the residents around it by expanding without parking and they are trying to do it again in this very unique neighborhood of homes, artisans and creative use studios. Residents woke up late to this stealth encroachment but are pushing back on the Gjelina owner and his high-paid consultants as he attempts to open his latest operation at the side door of the Google operation.
Venice urgently needs an immediate moratorium on all commercial change-of-use- permits now. Only if they meet 2014 parking requirements should a permit be issued. It is only in recent years that permits have been given for commercial change-of-use permits utilizing phantom parking spaces they call ‘credits.’ In past years, Planning required these applicants to add parking.
Venice’s unique neighborhoods are being abandoned by the city in favor of commercial establishments. If this was not true, the city would not permit the commercial intensification without the required parking. They surely know about our parking problems and yet they let these powerful and persistent consultants work their magic and get the applicants what they want. Why? At the last Coast Commission hearing, they woke up to the crisis of development in Venice and the attendant loss of its uniqueness because of all the endless exceptions and bending of the rules for this and that. They will now refuse to approve any future Venice de minimums waivers.
I wrote a draft for the next edition of ImagineVenice.org this morning and it is with Marian for editing. It calls for a moratorium on all commercial change-of-use permits if 2014 parking requirements are exempt. It is an expanded version of my thoughts here.
Deborah LaShever
Ref: This is a letter addressed to Councilman Mike Bonin, with cc to Steve Clare, Carol Sobel, and with copy for Update to print.
Dear Mike,
I am requesting from your office–immediately– the detailed records of exactly how much money it has cost to do one “clean up” sweep on OFW, with each and every city employee’s salary that is involved in the sweep (sanitation department workers, Hazmet, DOT, police and any others) and the cost of chemicals sprayed, the cost of spraying equipment used and the cost of cleaning same, the cost of any and all other equipment used, the disposable hazmet suit costs,gloves and other special equipment, the salary of the people who put up the signs (supposedly) beforehand and the costs of the making the signs (printing costs, paper, employee salary) and tape used to post them. All sundry costs of sanitation workers, DOT and police, including supervisors etc… costs of trucks and fuel, costs of tagging and bagging of items including costs for the bags and the tags, costs of filming the sweeps, costs of storing the items, locating the items, rent for the downtown storage facility and costs for the workers manning that facility, people (supposedly) manning the phones there, costs of returning items including employees’ salaries, truck fuel and administrative and operational charges (have any items actually been returned?) as well as any and all other costs associated with the sweeps. Costs of keeping records of all the items as well as employee salaries, any other administrative costs associated with this program should be included. Also a total of hours your office–and any other city official or office–spends on these sweeps including employee salaries, overtime expenses, administrative costs, legal fees, records keeping etc.
I would also like detailed statistics on exactly what items have been returned since the program started and when and where the items were delivered; what the hours of operation of the phones to call to retrieve confiscated items are and who (supposedly) is in charge of them.
Also a list of items that could not be located that were confiscated in the sweeps and the reasons why they were not found/delivered would be instructive. When we call bag and tag we cannot get through, by the way. We have tried repeatedly. Quite a few people who have had items confiscated could not get through either. There are enormous problems with this unwieldy system, as you are aware. What is being done to immediately remedy them? I will need that information as well.
Any stats on the perceived effectiveness of the program would be appreciated,
Any stats on how much less of a “hazard” OFW and surrounding areas would be with more working public restrooms with longer hours of operation would be great. I personally saw 6 tourists (not unhoused people) pee in the parking lot in only one hour three weeks ago for lack of restrooms–there were lines 20-25 deep at the only two or three restrooms by the paddle ball courts at the time. I cannot even imagine how much tourists use parking lots and alleys in Venice for toilets in the summer! This cannot be seen as a “homeless” problem. Everyone needs a place to urinate and where will everyone “go” if restrooms are not in large enough supply? It does not take a genius to figure this stuff out. 16 million visitors a year and maybe 20 public restrooms that are only open 12 hours a day….you do the math!
Any stats on how many less “issues” there would be around OFW and Venice in general if people were allowed to access a fully functional Free Voluntary Storage facility with hygiene services and assistance with locating other services and finding housing would also be educational.
If we had any kind of a functional transitional housing system, services, or even one emergency bed anywhere on the entire Westside what are the statistics of how many people would sleep on the street at all? Call 211 yourself. Not one bed on the entire Westside of Los Angeles. Seems this is just not a priority for the city–but is blamed on lack of funding. Interesting. It seems we have money enough for these huge sweeps in plenty….
Excellent stats for communities that have a fully functional system of assistance in place are available and have been delivered to you by myself at your office some time ago. Those communities have had amazing success! I would like to know exactly why are we not implementing these proven systems yet? When I had a meeting at the Mayor’s office not long ago, his aide, Daniel Tamm, wanted to know the same thing! Why are we still using barbaric, inhumane, expensive and ineffective methods in Venice? Why are we being held back from real success? Why won’t you even try a proven new model? I will need that information.
Also, if any agency is actually going out before the sweeps to assist unhoused people in learning about housing and service options–as your office has claimed, when told how unfair the sweeps were to the unhoused–we would like to know about them. Both LAHSA and PATH have been contacted, which were the organizations your office directed us to, and neither has any program remotely like this currently, nor has had for some time due to lack of funding. Interesting then that we have so much to spend on these sweeps. I think we need to look at our priorities.
The citizens of Venice have a right to know how you are choosing to use their resources punitively as opposed using obviously available funds to fully utilize the volunteers and free storage program that VCHC has been gracious enough to provide for the city gratis (taking up the city’s slack–using their own money for administration, training, and insurance to do so I might remind you–and they make zero profit off of this and take all the hassle!). And why you are not using these funds to simply create more open public restrooms with the huge amount of money you must be spending monthly on the sweeps.
The citizens of Venice also have a right to know if you will not provide this information immediately, why not. You must have an exact figure of how much a sweep costs as it would be totally irresponsible to create and continue such a huge, punitive and controversial program that spends our hard earned taxpayer dollars with no idea of the actual costs incurred, especially since you have refused to fully provide a very inexpensive, very functional, non punitive program for the people most affected by these city raids as an alternative.
As you are well aware by now, the Free Storage Program on OFW is at twice capacity and has been for any months! We are way over the limitations of the space provided and desperately need more room to help more people. Volunteers are currently risking physical injury for lack of room in the storage facility–currently we must haul and lift many very heavy containers to get to any others–yet your office has not seen fit to even come to view the storage facility since Christmas–even after repeated requests.
If you really want less “hazard” on OFW and not just to harass unhoused people, supporting the Free Storage Program and creating more open restrooms is the most effective, least punitive and least expensive solution. I think the facts and figures I am currently requesting will prove this out.
We need your help, Mike. We need it now.
VCPUCC—Venice Coalition for the Preservation of its Unique Community Character
This letter was written to Jake Kaufman regarding 320 Sunset. It was stated at a meeting that there should be a neighborhood outreach and such should be held prior to LUPC hearing the Case.
Jake Kaufman
On behalf of concerned neighbors, we hereby request that 320 Sunset be withheld from the LUPC Agenda until AFTER it has gone to the scheduled Community Outreach Meeting.
As per the Applicant’s commitment to the Zoning Administrator, Maya Zaitzevsky, at the City Zoning Hearing on March 13, 2014, in response to Ms Zaitzevsky’s dismay regarding the confusion and concern that he caused by splitting the project into two cases, Camaj has confirmed this Outreach meeting for April 26, 2014, at which time we anticipate he will provide the community with full disclosure of the entire proposed project and not just the new component/second case – something which he has not done to date.
The People can’t understand how this has gone through the City Planning process from the beginning, in a piecemeal fashion so that public hearings have not been required, thus allowing the Applicant to start work on the bulk of the project. We wonder how splitting the project is allowed, and even encouraged, instead of the complete project proposal being submitted with the Applicant’s drawn plans, including all required dimensions.
As you know, there are MANY further concerns the community has which have never been taken into consideration i.e. the residential neighbors and families immediately to the rear, who will suffer from having this establishment on their back door steps; as well as impacts on other residents living in close proximity to the location.
Thus, we are writing to ask you to ensure that 320 Sunset is not scheduled on a LUPC agenda until after the outreach meeting has occurred on April 26, 2014.
Furthermore, we are aware that the previous motion re: 320 Sunset from the LUPC March 5, 2014 meeting was inaccurate, and was deemed INVALID by AdCom at their March 10, 2014 meeting, and remanded back to LUPC. At that stage, you as LUPC chair, were directed to take this back to the People, so a NEW and RELEVANT motion could be forged with an accurate and complete disclosure of the project, and the input and concerns of the community taken into account.
The Applicant is extending this opportunity to the community on April 26, and we expect that you will respect wishes of the ZA, the AdCom, the VNC and the People, in following the correct process and sequence of events, so that the community’s voices are heard, and due process is upheld.
DeDe Audet
Your tribute to Bret is excellent. You let us know how you felt about him and his work. But it was a tribute because you let us know what he did for you, one human helping another along the path of communication.
Reta Moser
There was an attempted burglary from vehicle in 900 block of Howard 10 April 2014, 10 pm, according to Spotcrime.com. Knock-knock burglary was reported earlier in the week.
Differing views are a necessity for a healthy nation. Some may not agree with your position while some may agree, but all benefit. Update certainly upholds your right to voice your opinion.
Trash…many of readers have businesses in area or in Los Angeles. This is a local situation as well as Citywide. Business owners do not like trash-hauling system being established by City but will not say anything because they are in business and businesses must remain neutral so as not to alienate City officials or customers. Trashy situation.
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