Side by side, two garbage collection barrels, one full and one empty, on first block of Washington Blvd.
Venice Update has carried many a story about cleaning up Ocean Front Walk and 3rd and the problems with the homeless. That is all talk or the written word. Video shows man doing something about it.
An appeal for 422 and 424 Grand Blvd will be heard Wednesday (4 March), 4:30 pm by West LA Area Planning Commission at West LA Facility, 11214 Exposition Blvd, LA 90064.
This was a duplex and is being built as a single family residence. There is a Mello Determination problem.
Appellants are Jason Lord, Angelina Meany, David Troy Smith, Kevin Keresey, Terry Keresey, Dickie Goddard, Gretchen Goddard, Robin Rudisill, Judith Goldman, Lydia Ponce, Laddie Williams, Kim Michalowski.
An appeal for 416 and 418 Grand Blvd will be heard Wednesday (4 March), 4:30 pm by West LA Area Planning Commission at the West LA Facility, 11214 Exposition Blvd, LA 90064.
This was a duplex and is being built as a single family residence. There is a Mello Determination problem.
Appellants are Angelina Meany, David Troy Smith, Kevin Keresey, Terry Keresey, Robin Rudisill, Judith Goldman, Lydia Ponce, Laddie Williams, Kim Michalowski.
Police arrested four people using the City Maintenance Yard on Thatcher as a home. Previous week there was an article regarding City Street Services providing a guard for a couple of weeks. As a result, homeless started to get into apartment complexes with faulty fire doors. Guard was removed and back came the homeless to the yard. What the City plans to do with the property is not known at this time.
Josh Svensson of Watershed Management Division of Department of Public Works was notified this morning with photos. It started a few days ago with one marking and now is continuous on Washington and wrapping itself onto the bike path. It spread to one street in Oxford Triangle over weekend.
“I have filed a report using our online graffiti website and I have included the reference number below,” wrote Svensson. “Our goal is to have it cleaned up by Thursday.
“Community ownership, involvement, and partnership with us in keeping graffiti and other vandalism at bay is vital.
“You can file graffiti reports for unincorporated areas (such as Marina del Rey) directly on our website or you can use our iPhone/Android apps to make these reports.
· LA County Graffiti Website: http://dpw.lacounty.gov/go/graffiti
· Graffiti hotline:800-675-HELP (4357)
· LA County Public Works apps: http://ladpw.org/theWorks/ (direct links: iPhone / Android).”
Councilman Mike Bonin asks: What’s your favorite neighborhood small business?
Each week, I will be celebrating local small businesses on social media by profiling them in a “Small Business Spotlight”. I’d love to know what your favorite businesses is, so I can promote it, and let the owners know how much we value what they do.
Your nomination can be for any type of small business: restaurant, bakery, dry cleaners, hardware store, bike repair shop, barber, café, auto body shop, neighborhood grocery, an ice cream store – or any other place that makes your neighborhood great.
Our small businesses, our neighborhood entrepreneurs, our Mom & Pops, are the backbone of our local economy. They drive economic growth, employing 96% of Americans and are creating two thirds of private sector jobs. They help give life and personality to our neighborhoods. We need to celebrate them.
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.
Want to taste a cricket bar, learn how to compost, find out how to make your lawn use 50 percent less water, learn how your plants can flourish with less water, make your electric bill go down instead of up. Top it all off with a drive in a Tesla or purchase an E-bike.
These things and more were presented Saturday at Venice Neighborhood Council’s first “Green” Expo at Mark Twain School. Ed Begley Jr. was going to close the event. Sylvia Aroth, Rob Dew, and Nick Antonicello were chairs of this event.
Green flags hanging out of back pockets indicate that these were people who could answer general questions.
Hall was filled with booths of experts on just about anything sustainable in the green sense from recycling your water to solar and to mulching and making your yard more water sustainable.
The Los Angeles River Restoration project people were there to explain what they planned and how it would benefit Los Angeles.
Tesla automobilies were there to take people on a test drive.
The E-bikes were there.
Here is a VW bug conversion to electric.
Looks like a park ranger, Mr. Green, and Mr. Don’t Toss It!
Food was donated by Superba restaurant and the Venice Ale House
