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News of Venice, CA and Marina del Rey CA

MTA Town Hall Invitation with New Info

Posted by :reta On : October 14, 2018
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Category: Bridge Housing

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This letter was sent to residents of Venice who have been on Councilman Bonin’s email list. Update did not receive a copy of letter.

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Comments regarding letter …

1. IT COMES WITH A COMMITMENT TO CLEAN UP ENCAMPMENTS – The Bridge Home initiative dedicates money in the 2018-19 city budget to pay for additional sanitation resources to clean up the sites of former encampments, and once the inhabitants of an encampment have moved into the nearby, new temporary shelter and the encampment has been cleaned up, the City will repurpose or redesign former encampment areas with art, landscaping, or programming to ensure the encampments do not return.

See the story regarding Mayor Garcetti being sent a letter from Legal Aid Foundation about their cleanup around the only bridge home site — El Pueblo.

2. The City of Los Angeles opened its first “Bridge Home” housing facility in downtown Los Angeles earlier this month, and recently approved a location in Hollywood. Other councilmembers are proposing locations in similar neighborhoods in San Pedro, Wilmington, Sherman Oaks, as well as additional locations throughout Los Angeles. Bridge housing is meant to benefit areas with concentrations of homelessness, and Venice has the largest concentration on the Westside. Additionally, the city is working with the Department of Veterans Affairs to open bridge housing for veterans on the VA campus.

El Pueblo opened 10 September. This week the City started to clean up former encampments and received a letter from Legal Aid Foundation. Supposedly, Hollywood has a location. The Veterans Affairs is supposed to provide a bridge home type shelter for veterans only sometime next year. Other areas are talking and identifying possibilities. But no other areas on the Westside.

3. Neighborhoods through the Westside are stepping up to end homelessness and every community in Council District 11 is home to efforts to offer alternatives to living on the street.

Not really.

4. According to the youtube presentation for Venice, the City is proposing 154 units for the MTA lot.

No comment.

Arnold Springer to Publish “History of Venice 1850 to 1939”

Posted by :reta On : May 6, 2016
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Category: character, Land Use and Planning Projects, Mass, Scale, Venice, Venice Beach

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Longtime Venice activist and Venice office holder Arnold Springer said he would be releasing his “History of Venice 1850 to 1939” in three or four months. Release date will be forthcoming.

Springer was a history teacher at California State University at Long Beach before retiring from “academics and politics … national, regional and local. At CSULB he taught Russian History, European Intellectual History, Methodology and Philosophy of History, and Local History.

KCET did some filming of his Venice history in segments. One can see them at: https://www.kcet.org/shows/departures/dr-arnold-springer-venice-historian They start with Venice was an Estuary.

“In three our four months I should be ready to publish and release my History
of Venice of America 1850-1939. Right now I am proofreading and will let you know when it is available,” he wrote.

“It will be printed in a limited number of copies and distributed in Venice.
Initially. it will be distributed free to family and selected friends.

“After the initial free distribution has been completed, it will become
available at Small World of Books only in Venice, and the terms or price
there will be set by Mary Goodfader, owner of Small World.

“It will not be available online.

Apparently, Arnold has plans for more than just the initial book.

Book #2:
Materials for the Popular History of Venice
New Venice: Amusements: Vice: Curiosities.

Book #3:
Materials for the Ethnic History of Venice
Asians: Blacks: Native Americans: Mexicans: Jews: Russians.

Book #4:
Materials for the Monographic History of Venice
Art: Agriculture: Aviation: Canals: Politics.

Book #5:
Materials for the Monographic History of Venice
Radicals: Workers: Women: World War One:
Water: Sewers: Oil: Police: Individuals.

Additional Materials:
Abbot Kinney: To be released at a later date.

Arnolds said the manuscripts for the above and any additional materials that are not
published will, in the future, be housed/located at: Venice Collection,
Special Collections, Research Library, California State University Long
Beach.