News of Venice, CA and Marina del Rey CA
One of the serious problems bikers and car drivers have is bikers cannot be seen at night.
Note: This info is provided by Susan Heins, a biker.
Volvo has come up with a paint called LifePaint that is being tested in the UK. It can be sprayed on anything–clothes, metal. It is invisible during the day but lights up at night in the glare of headlights. Its glow-in-the-dark properties will last approximately 10 days. Product is completely washable.
Los Angeles Municipal Code use to forbid sleeping in one’s vehicle overnight. For a while it wasn’t enforced. Then it was enforced and off it went to the courts. It was decided that people could sleep in their vehicles.
City Attorney Mike Feuer is proposing a new ordinance with a tighter definition of “living in a vehicle.” In addition, Feuer proposes limited permit parking for car camping on nonresidential streets. See LA Times article.
Small Craft Harbor Commission Meet scheduled for 8 April at Burton Chase Park has been cancelled.
By Jon Nahhas
February 25 at 9 am there will be a very important public hearing downtown at the Regional Planning Commission. There are two items that relate to Marina del Rey:
Item 6: The County is continuing to tinker with what constitutes a “dwelling unit” – based on heavy lobbying from developers (many of which are in the Marina). They are trying to skirt protective laws that ensure fair housing practices and responsible development requirements like parking/traffic studies. For example, the Luxury Senior Living Facility that has been scheduled to be developed next to Oxford Basin (parking lot between the Basin & the Hilton Inn across from Killer Shrimp) has bypassed many laws because the County/developers have deemed the living units “non-dwellings” because they do not have full kitchens.
Item 7: The Venice Dual Force Main Project hits another CEQA speed bump at the RPC. This is a two-year project that will close Via Marina down to a single lane in each direction. The microtunneled 54″ pipe proposed to run underneath Via Marina would come dangerously close to 14 leaking gas/oil wells, cost the taxpayers considerably more money than the alternative route, have more environmental impacts, and would hinder access (including emergency first-responders) to 12,000 residents & thousands of recreational users of the harbor. The County & City have spent several years in litigation and millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money for an Appellate Court to rule on a technicality (an old, obsolete law) where thTis e City was allowed to proceed with the path through the Marina because it was considered “the City’s discretion.” The Superior Court held that the Marina was not the best route for the project. The Supreme Court would not take the case.
The hearing will be at:
Room 150 Hall of Records
320 W. Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Time: 9AM
Link to agenda is here: http://planning.lacounty.gov/assets/upl/agenda/rpc_20150225-agenda.pdf
LA County Beaches and Harbors will have a blood drive 24 February at Burton Chase Park from 10 am to 4 pm.
To make an appointment, please contact Naomi Guzman at nguzman@bh.lacounty.gov or visit redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code: LACBH
All participants will receive a discounted ticket offer to an Anaheim Ducks game at the Honda Center & an LA Kings game at the STAPLES Center!*
With a large storm moving in this evening and heavy rain in the forecast, LA residents – especially those living in hillside communities and near the beach – are encouraged to prepare in advance of coming storm to avoid damage from flooding.
As they did during the rain a few weeks ago, the Los Angeles City Fire Department is offering free sand and sandbags to help residents prepare for the rain. Please CLICK HERE for more information about where the free resources are available on the Westside.
Matt Wersinger, Area A Director of Del Rey Neighborhood Council, wants to improve the opening at the City-County fence for bikes travelling on Maxella in Del Rey area to the Marina.
United States Post Office at Marina del Rey, 4766 Admiralty will be moving but has not found proper location as of yet. It is a leased facility and has been given notice.
Plans are to find location as close as possible. Post office assures customers that box numbers and zip code will not change.
Letter on door stated that post office does not receive tax dollars but relys solely on revenue from the sale of its products and services.
County Board of Supervisors approved the Vision Statement for Marina del Rey this week. See LA Times article.