David Henry Gottlieb
Carla had a good point about the living units. In the marina there is a development cap in the LCP. There are about 1,000 dwelling units left for development. Changing the name of the dwelling units will permit more development in the Marina. So by changing the name of a dwelling unit to living suite, the County can wipe out density laws based on dwelling units. This is a variation of the Mitigations scam, which is required to fix an important impact. They do not correct the original impact and they create their own impacts.
Anonymous:
The corner of Lincoln and Washington, our neighborhood vagrant/user hangout, is now complete with a ceramic toilet right on Washington Boulevard, in front of Walgreens. I didn’t have the opportunity to take a picture but I really would love to have sent one to illustrate. Lord only knows how long it’s going to sit there.
Probably as long as the people Have been sitting and laying on the bus benches on the Lincoln side and congregating behind RadioShack drinking, using, and selling drugs. Taxis coming straight from the airport to Marina del Rey, with tourists who when booking their vacation, or dreaming of coming here, see nothing but beautiful idyllic pictures of Venice in the marina from afar, will be quite surprised dismayed and likely think shameful thoughts of our city as passengers in a taxi headed to the Jolly Roger, Ramada, JBI, Marriott or even the Ritz with their kids and families, seeing the vagrants, filth, toilet, encampments on bus benches. What’s it going to take to get the city to care about everyone’s quality of life? Both the hard working tax paying people who bust their asses every day to be responsible, and even the quality of life for the people who are vagrants or just homeless?
Get people off the street? First we have to look to our own apathy: Let’s all start by perhaps REMOVING FUTONS FROM BEHIND our houses on the alley between Yale and Thatcher? One blue one has been sitting there for weeks. Often accompanied by dinning drugs and a good night sleep. Why not call the number for free pick up of any bulky item that is right on the front of your trashcan? Do you want people hanging out using drugs behind your house? Sleeping? Pooping? Urinating? How do you not know that it’s there it’s been there for months? Take action get rid of it. It’s free. It has been a number of homeless people sleeping and using The Thatcher Yale alley as a toilet and party place and hotel of late. Another home of the street has all kinds of toilet paper with poop stains all over it right behind our house along with alcohol bottles. Everyone should put lighting up. Especially at the north and south end of this alleyway.
Why invite vagrants to sleep, defecate, use, and drink right behind one’s house with the blue futon? It’s behind many other peoples houses as well because why? Dialing a phone number for Free pickup is too hard? Also other locations in alleys that are poorly lit and have overgrown shrubs/ivy, that offer coverage and a nice toilet (in case the abandoned porcelain one at Washington and Lincoln is too far), take the time to clean up around ones own house. Many maybe never see the alley if they don’t have a garage. But check it every now and then. You may be disgustingly surprised what you find. Why should we expect the city to care, (Well not like we ever TRULY think that will happen) if we can’t clean up our own stuff?
Ilana Marosi
Rehearing at Area Planning Commission for our appeal of 259 Hampton Drive on Wed April 1st. Put this in your calendar now, if you haven’t already. It will be at the same place in West LA. We will car pool if anyone needs. There is an opportunity for us to submit letters of opposition to the Commission in advance. I plan on gathering those from you and submitting them. Please get started writing. Note why it is SO IMPORTANT for this BAD PRECEDENT to be stopped from encroaching our quality of life. Also we will be emailing letters of opposition to the Council office and will need everyone’s support! I will send you more details in the week to come…stay tuned!
A FREE Venice workshop, ‘MY VOICE MATTERS’ is coming up on Wed MARCH 11th, 6.30PM – 8.30PM at Oakwood Rec Centre. It is about the Alcohol Licensing Process, issues, and how we as a community can have a say in that process. It has been tailored specifically for the Venice community and is being presented by Public Strategies who have done much research re the Over-concentration of ABC licenses we are experiencing here in Venice. Should prove a great opportunity for people to get informed. I also believe there will be reps from the City and City Council office, so this may be a good chance to hear them AND HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD. Remember Venice has 3-4 times the ALLOWABLE limit on alcohol outlets already AND it grows every month! Please pass this flyer along to anyone and everyone who may benefit! RSVP to the email on the flyer so they can gauge numbers as there will be an information packet giveaway for us all on the night!
THIS IS A MUST ATTEND FOR US, SEEING AS OUR FIGHT with 259 Hampton, 320 Sunset, 600 Mildred etc. IS ALL BECAUSE OF OVER-CONCENTRATION OF THE LIQUOR LICENSES IN VENICE which just keeps escalating out of control!
Bonnie Barrett
Parking on Stanford has become almost impossible these last few weeks.
One major factor has been the Vet, -Animal Wellness Ctr. on Lincoln has been using Stanford for employee parking. One of their employees left his white Dodge Caravan with a flat tire in front of my house for four days last week. I went over to their office to request that they no longer use Stanford for employee parking, but the white van is back. They are not being good neighbors, and I for one do not patronize businesses that do not respect our community.
Reta Moser
Burrell cul de sac had an incident this morning. One resident took her child to school. While there, someone entered her unlocked side gate and left his bike there. Police were summoned and checked the house out to make sure there was no entry.
The mural artist Never’s first name is Jonas, not Josh.
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Comments–3 March 2015
David Henry Gottlieb
Carla had a good point about the living units. In the marina there is a development cap in the LCP. There are about 1,000 dwelling units left for development. Changing the name of the dwelling units will permit more development in the Marina. So by changing the name of a dwelling unit to living suite, the County can wipe out density laws based on dwelling units. This is a variation of the Mitigations scam, which is required to fix an important impact. They do not correct the original impact and they create their own impacts.
Anonymous:
The corner of Lincoln and Washington, our neighborhood vagrant/user hangout, is now complete with a ceramic toilet right on Washington Boulevard, in front of Walgreens. I didn’t have the opportunity to take a picture but I really would love to have sent one to illustrate. Lord only knows how long it’s going to sit there.
Probably as long as the people Have been sitting and laying on the bus benches on the Lincoln side and congregating behind RadioShack drinking, using, and selling drugs. Taxis coming straight from the airport to Marina del Rey, with tourists who when booking their vacation, or dreaming of coming here, see nothing but beautiful idyllic pictures of Venice in the marina from afar, will be quite surprised dismayed and likely think shameful thoughts of our city as passengers in a taxi headed to the Jolly Roger, Ramada, JBI, Marriott or even the Ritz with their kids and families, seeing the vagrants, filth, toilet, encampments on bus benches. What’s it going to take to get the city to care about everyone’s quality of life? Both the hard working tax paying people who bust their asses every day to be responsible, and even the quality of life for the people who are vagrants or just homeless?
Get people off the street? First we have to look to our own apathy: Let’s all start by perhaps REMOVING FUTONS FROM BEHIND our houses on the alley between Yale and Thatcher? One blue one has been sitting there for weeks. Often accompanied by dinning drugs and a good night sleep. Why not call the number for free pick up of any bulky item that is right on the front of your trashcan? Do you want people hanging out using drugs behind your house? Sleeping? Pooping? Urinating? How do you not know that it’s there it’s been there for months? Take action get rid of it. It’s free. It has been a number of homeless people sleeping and using The Thatcher Yale alley as a toilet and party place and hotel of late. Another home of the street has all kinds of toilet paper with poop stains all over it right behind our house along with alcohol bottles. Everyone should put lighting up. Especially at the north and south end of this alleyway.
Why invite vagrants to sleep, defecate, use, and drink right behind one’s house with the blue futon? It’s behind many other peoples houses as well because why? Dialing a phone number for Free pickup is too hard? Also other locations in alleys that are poorly lit and have overgrown shrubs/ivy, that offer coverage and a nice toilet (in case the abandoned porcelain one at Washington and Lincoln is too far), take the time to clean up around ones own house. Many maybe never see the alley if they don’t have a garage. But check it every now and then. You may be disgustingly surprised what you find. Why should we expect the city to care, (Well not like we ever TRULY think that will happen) if we can’t clean up our own stuff?
Ilana Marosi
Rehearing at Area Planning Commission for our appeal of 259 Hampton Drive on Wed April 1st. Put this in your calendar now, if you haven’t already. It will be at the same place in West LA. We will car pool if anyone needs. There is an opportunity for us to submit letters of opposition to the Commission in advance. I plan on gathering those from you and submitting them. Please get started writing. Note why it is SO IMPORTANT for this BAD PRECEDENT to be stopped from encroaching our quality of life. Also we will be emailing letters of opposition to the Council office and will need everyone’s support! I will send you more details in the week to come…stay tuned!
A FREE Venice workshop, ‘MY VOICE MATTERS’ is coming up on Wed MARCH 11th, 6.30PM – 8.30PM at Oakwood Rec Centre. It is about the Alcohol Licensing Process, issues, and how we as a community can have a say in that process. It has been tailored specifically for the Venice community and is being presented by Public Strategies who have done much research re the Over-concentration of ABC licenses we are experiencing here in Venice. Should prove a great opportunity for people to get informed. I also believe there will be reps from the City and City Council office, so this may be a good chance to hear them AND HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD. Remember Venice has 3-4 times the ALLOWABLE limit on alcohol outlets already AND it grows every month! Please pass this flyer along to anyone and everyone who may benefit! RSVP to the email on the flyer so they can gauge numbers as there will be an information packet giveaway for us all on the night!
THIS IS A MUST ATTEND FOR US, SEEING AS OUR FIGHT with 259 Hampton, 320 Sunset, 600 Mildred etc. IS ALL BECAUSE OF OVER-CONCENTRATION OF THE LIQUOR LICENSES IN VENICE which just keeps escalating out of control!
Bonnie Barrett
Parking on Stanford has become almost impossible these last few weeks.
One major factor has been the Vet, -Animal Wellness Ctr. on Lincoln has been using Stanford for employee parking. One of their employees left his white Dodge Caravan with a flat tire in front of my house for four days last week. I went over to their office to request that they no longer use Stanford for employee parking, but the white van is back. They are not being good neighbors, and I for one do not patronize businesses that do not respect our community.
Reta Moser
Burrell cul de sac had an incident this morning. One resident took her child to school. While there, someone entered her unlocked side gate and left his bike there. Police were summoned and checked the house out to make sure there was no entry.
The mural artist Never’s first name is Jonas, not Josh.
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