Venice is just a little over three square miles in size and has a population of less than 40,000, yet the City of Los Angeles or Councilman Mike Bonin has designated Venice as the dumping place for the homeless and homeless building projects. Venice was “given” one of the largest (154 beds) bridge housing projects which has turned out to be a disaster and now another bridge home is proposed for property bordering single-family homes. Crime is up and has increased to the triple figures, yet Venice is given fewer police. Councilman Bonin has overwhelmed Venice with his homeless projects for CD 11. To say that Venetians figure this is all unfair is an understatement. The facts are here but the City, the Council office keeps dumping all the homeless and homeless building projects for CD11 in Venice.
Here are some of the articles this week that address what is happening in Venice.
Activists Rick Swinger got his rat-free trash cans for 3rd Ave in Venice. Swinger has championed the cans publicly since he asked for them at the original town hall years ago. They have been in the works somewhere since then.
At one time, the Venice Update offered to pay for them, and then Rick said he would split the cost. That got filed along with the original request. Everyone knows that rat-free trash cans keep the rats hungry. Hungry rats leave the area. Google now has rat traps on their property because of a health department inspection requested by Swinger for 3rd Ave. He has also asked all vendors and service agencies to stop dumping food on 3rd but that request has hit deaf ears.
Soledad Ursua, resident and member of Venice Neighborhood Council, gives factual interview with the Epoch News regarding the homeless in Venice, which can be projected to the City of Los Angeles and the state of California. She delves into the costs, the reasons things are not getting better but worse. She sees no end to the situation because the government/s continue not to stop people from coming. How many states are there where one can use drugs, do as he pleases, live on the beach, and not be harassed? Is that not a draw? She claims 70 percent are from out of state.
Photo taken by Celeste Chada after the storm that happened Sunday, 27 December thru Monday, 28 December 2020. Photo shows the homeless gear at the beach at the end of Rose Avenue.
Hollywood’s Apocalypse NOW: Rich and famous are fleeing in droves as liberal politics and coronavirus turn City of Dreams into cesspit plagued by junkies and violent criminals
By Gale Holland
In an abrupt turnaround, Los Angeles police will resume enforcing a ban on homeless people pitching tents and lean-tos on the beach and grass areas around the Venice boardwalkIn an abrupt turnaround, Los Angeles police will resume enforcing a ban on homeless people pitching tents and lean-tos on the beach and grass areas around the Venice boardwalk.
On Wednesday, LAPD Chief Michael Moore emailed Venice homeowner and activist Mark Ryavec that he and Westside City Councilman Mike Bonin had decided police would not enforce an anti-camping law in Venice in light of concerns from health officials that displacing homeless people could spread the novel coronavirus.
But the next day, Moore said in a follow up email to Ryavec that Bonin had decided to leave the decision to the LAPD. Department officials chose to reverse course, saying officers will begin cracking down on camps on the sand immediately and those on grass areas after the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has had a chance to find spots in shelters for people.
Ryavec, who heads Venice Stakeholders Assn., said the homeless people violated safety guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control by moving in over the last few weeks as the virus continued to spread.
Mark Ryavec, president of the Venice Stakeholders Association.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-21/lapd-resumes-clearing-tents-from-venice-beach (Normally, the story would not be repeated but because it is so important and such a short story, it is repeated with the link.)
All camping restrictions of LAMC 63.44 from the Ocean to and including the Venice Boardwalk will not be enforced by the LAPD, according to Venice Field Deputy Nisa Kove.
This goes along with the City’s agreement ban on no enforcement of the LAMC 41.18, which has similar restrictions for Los Angeles. Apparently, the latter is voluntary by district and one councilman is not enforcing it in his district.
Meanwhile, Kove announced that the Venice Bridge Housing had 88 occupants in the adult section and 43 in the youth section. The full capacity should be 100/54. Based on the Ninth Circuit Court decision of an available bed for people on the street, one asks of the City where does enforcement stand?
“The law is being misapplied as it has been from the start,” according to one Fight Back Venice reader. “No legal reason 41.18 cannot be enforced — like most laws — on a person by person basis in Venice against anyone who is offered but refuses to take Bridge Home beds.”
US District Court Judge David O. Carter has an alliance that is removing homeless from the freeway areas for a start so enforcement of the City laws can start somewhere.
It all becomes confusing for both the homeless and residents. All parking restriction enforcement has been removed also until 1 October.
Homeless encampment fire endangers lives of downwind 188-unit apartment dwellers (32 feet from blaze) plus community in gated Oxford Triangle community (40 feet) Sunday about 1 am.
Had fire been allowed to spread up the street it would have endangered 317 apartment dwellers and Oxford Triangle single-family homes.
Supposedly, the hands of the police are tied because homeless encampment is on the right of way of public land to be developed for senior, low-cost, and psh housing but presently held by the City.
“How much craziness do people have to endure,” one homeowner asked who wanted to remain anonymous. “This is beyond reason. Homeowners have offered to pay for and install the fence that would cover the right of way to protect the homeowners and apartment dwellers. Fence would exclude the homeless encampment which grows each day.
“We are not mentioning the drug dealing that kids and adults both walking to Admiralty park and living adjacent to witness each day. One man has recorded the license plates of two Mercedes cars bringing in bicycles that are then reassembled for the drug runners. Info has been sent to police.
“We want this element out of our neighborhood. This is wrong. Peoples lives and livelihoods are dangling in front of the homeless. The City should send in a crew immediately and remove this element.”
