News of Venice, CA and Marina del Rey CA
Mayor Eric Garcetti and Councilman Mike Bonin will hold a Town Hall to discuss the planned bridge housing for Venice at the MTA lot 17 October, 6 to 8 pm, Westminster Elementary School, 1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd This will be a moderated Town Hall by Alex Cohen, anchor and host of “inside the Issues with Alex Cohan.”
The hosts ask that you RSVP.
Rick Swinger, resident activist, blew his stack when he saw this trash on Hampton in front of a residence.
He called St. Joseph Center, who is responsible for this area to Rose and the alley. At first they sent a C3 team with a nurse to clean it. It was cleaned by someone.
St. Joseph Center, which is required by law to have two meetings with neighbors each year, said they will have the next meeting in October and the date is not established.
According to Darryl DuFay, it appears the residents of Sherman Oaks have some deep concerns about homeless housing and shelters in their community. Very much like a Venice meeting but louder and more chaotic, if that is possible. Especially disturbing was the homeless person washing his needles in a neighbor’s water fountain. Other examples of unwanted behaviors were voiced by the residents.
https://abc7.com/community-events/sherman-oaks-residents-voice-concern-over-homeless-housing-plan/4299641/
Oops! Homeless man defecating while people protest having homeless in their neighborhoods.
The 718 – 720 Rose Ave Project will go before the LA Planning Department 26 September, 9:30 am, Los Angeles City Hall, 200 North Spring St., Room1020., LA 90012.
The project proposes 35 permanent supportive housing units and 2700 square feet of commercial in four stories and 20 feet higher than the Venice Specific Plan allows.
It passed the Venice Neighborhood Council Land Use and Planning Committee (LUPC) earlier in the month. There was insufficient time to discuss the lack of parking or many of the Venice Specific Plan violations. It was removed from this month’s Venice Neighborhood Council discussion.
The Deputy Advisory Agency will consider
1. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section15332, an Exemption from CEQA (Class 32), and that there is no substantial evidence demonstrating that an exception to a categorical exemption pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section 15300.2 applies, and
2. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) Section 17.15, a Vesting Tentative Tract Map for a merger and re- subdivision of Block A, Lots 5 and 6 of Tract 4372 including land previously quitclaimed/deeded to the City for future street purposes.
The Hearing Officer will consider:
1. Pursuant to LAMC Section 12.24-U,26, a Conditional Use for a Housing Development Project with a Density Bonus in excess of that permitted by LAMC Section 12.22-A,25;
2. Pursuant to LAMC Section 12.22-A,25, a 35% Density Bonus (with 100% affordable rental special needs projects with unobstructed access and/or paratransit service) with parking provided pursuant to AB744, and pursuant to LAMC Section 12.22-A,25(g)(3), three
(3) Off-Menu Waivers as follows:
a. Height Increase of 20’0” in lieu of that otherwise permitted by code;
b. Waiver of the “Stepback” provisions of the Venice Coastal Specific Plan and associated with the increased height, and
c. Waiver of loading space requirements;
3. Pursuant to LAMC Section 11.5.7, a Project Permit Compliance for a project within the Venice Coastal Specific Plan;
4. Pursuant to LAMC Section 12.20.2, a Coastal Development Permit for a project within the Single Permit Jurisdiction of the California Coastal Zone, and
5. Pursuant to Government Code Sections 65590 and 65590.1, and the City of Los Angeles Interim Mello Act Compliance Administrative Procedures, a Mello Act Compliance Review for a project in the California Coastal Zone.
LA Times reported about a report by the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law. The report was written for the Western Regional Advocacy Project, a San Francisco homeless advocacy group.
Western Regional Advocacy Project released the report to the public with this statement: “BIDs are a concerted and growing effort to erase from cities any sign of vast inequality while at the same time perpetuating it,” the group’s executive director, Paul Boden, said in a statement. “BIDs work to manufacture the appearance of prosperity in the city square but that farce comes at the expense of basic human rights for the unhoused poor.”
My personal observation of the Venice BID operation is to clean up the areas that are not cleaned up, look blighted, and are totally unsanitary. Many homeless are within the BID area. But area covered by BID is not a targeted homeless area.
Homeless people, in general, do not clean up after themselves. They create an unsanitary blight in the neighborhood where they reside. Both the safe and the clean teams for the BID have had positive comments from the homeless, not negative, and certainly reports of affecting homeless adversely have not been the case, quite the contrary.
See the Venice BID August report https://veniceupdate.com/2018/09/17/bid-august-report-of-save-and-clean-operations/ Read some of Rick Swinger’s reports of rats, alley defecation. The BID doesn’t even address those problems. They clean up graffiti, pickup trash. Once again see their report for August. LA Times article http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=029721af-5783-4edf-ba07-5ae28d11c634
This document looks like it was slanted for the people paying for it. Shameful.
ReCode LA — the group that plans to rezone Los Angeles is ready to show their recommendations for the Processes and Procedures Ordinance to the LA City Planning Commission.
Staples started a beautification program on the north side of their property and are awaiting funds to do the same on the south side.
Abbot Kinney Festival will be Sunday, 30 September from 10 am to 6 pm on Abbot Kinney Blvd.
