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Los Feliz Ledger
Vol 12. No. 3
Read by 100,000+ Residents and Business Owners in Los Feliz, Silver Lake,
Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood Hills
Not Vote
Trading
But Definitely
Something
Possible DASH
Changes
Eliminate
Service on
Hillhurst Ave
By Allison B. Cohen
By Allison B. Cohen
and Belen Cahill
LOS FELIZ—Initial findings from an analysis conducted by the city’s Dept. of
Transportation (LADOT)
recommends
eliminating
the DASH bus line north of
Franklin Avenue on Vermont
Avenue and entirely from
Hillhurst Avenue, to provide
service connecting Los Feliz
and Silver Lake.
The elimination would
mean connectivity of Los Feliz Village to Marshall High
and Thomas Starr King Middle schools at the expense of
service north on Vermont
Avenue to Los Feliz Boulevard and all service on Hillhurst Avenue.
see DASH page 3
East Hollywood
BID Has New
Plan for
“Triangle”
By Erin Hickey
Ledger Contributing Writer
LOS FELIZ—For the last several years, the Vermont Triangle, a traffic median-cumpark located at the three-point
intersection of Hollywood
Boulevard and Vermont and
Prospect avenues, has been
host to a constant rotation of
homeless encampments.
Now, four years after taking over upkeep of the area,
the East Hollywood Business
Improvement District (BID)
might actually be able to do
something about it.
According to East Hollywood BID Vice Chair Jeff
see TRIANGLE page 21
Street Level:
Undocumented Immigration,
page 3
September 2016
As part of the Los Feliz Improvement Assoc.’s (LFIA) centennial celebration, the non-profit resident group is collaborating with Los Feliz Village businesses to exhibit, 100 Years: Historic Moments in Los Feliz through Sept. 12. Historic
photos can be seen at Alcove Café, Café Los Feliz, Chase Bank, Co-Op 28, Covell, Desert Rose, Farfalla, Los Feliz Branch
Library, McCall’s Meat & Fish Co., Palermo, Rockwell Table & Stage, Skylight Books, Spitz, Tropicalia Brazilian Grill, Twenty40 Café and Yuca’s on Hollywood. The photographs are available for purchase at lfia.org. The photo above shows the
Shakespeare Bridge from 1928 and can be viewed at the Los Feliz Library. Proceeds support LFIA’s neighborhood programs. Photo Courtesy: LFIA.
Historic
Status Can’t
Save Lytton
By Erin Hickey
Ledger Contributing Writer
Historic designation may
not save the former Lytton
Savings building, with its
Googie accordion roof and
mid-century modern design,
from demolition.
The building, located
at the east end of the Sunset
Strip, is in danger of being
torn down to make way for
a mixed-use apartment complex, designed by Frank Gehry
and approved by the Los Angeles City Planning Commission at a July hearing.
Designed in 1960 by
Swiss-born architect Kurt
Meyer and considered by
many to be an iconic example
see LYTTON page 20
Editorial:
The other side of the “Vermont
Triangle,” page 6
A popular notion amongst
the online blogging community is that the Los Angeles
City Council engages in what
is called “vote trading,” the
illegal activity where a councilmember promises a “yes”
vote on a colleague’s motion,
provided they receive the same
courtesy later on their own.
But according to experts,
such 15-0 unanimous vote
tallies are instead the result
of an increasingly politically
and ideologically aligned city
council and due to a decades
long weakening of political
sway in Sacramento while
Los Angeles city politics has
strengthened.
According to an analysis by the Los Feliz Ledger, in
see VOTE page 7
1st Amendment Group Files Lawsuit over
LaBonge Destroyed Documents
By Allison B. Cohen
The First Amendment
Coalition filed a lawsuit in
Los Angeles Superior Court
August 23rd against the city
of Los Angeles, alleging it has
illegally destroyed public records and therefore has used
taxpayer funds to “implement,
enforce or otherwise carry out
illegal policies and practices,”
in doing so.
The coalition, a non-profit
based out of San Rafael, CA,
last February sent a California Public Records Act request to Los Angeles City
Council President Herb Wesson requesting emails, letters,
memos and notes either written by or sent to former Los
Angeles City Councilmember
Tom LaBonge in 2014 related
the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power, the California
Film Commission and con-
Lifestyles:
You’re the Worst, shows our better
side, page 8
Real Estate:
Echo Park Thriving, page 11
Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge.
cerning a proposed development in Sherman Oaks.
A March 2016 response to
the coalition from Wesson’s as-
sistant Chief Deputy, Edward
Johnson, indicated: “Our office conducted a search and
have concluded that our office
has no documents consistent
with your request.”
It is unclear why the coalition requested the documents from Wesson’s office
rather than the Los Angeles
City Clerk. A request for comment from the attorney filing
the complaint was not immediately returned.
In the 59-page suit, an
attorney for the coalition
claims the city has violated
the California Public Records Act by being unable to
supply the requested documents and for wrongfully desee LAWSUIT page 18
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[street level]
Undocumented Immigration
By Michael Darling , Ledger Contributing Writer
The issue of undocumented immigration has become a hot
topic on both sides of the political aisle in this election year. What
is your opinion on undocumented immigration and have you, or
do you know anyone that has, been affected by it?
“It’s hard to
think about because it gets
into questions
of entitlement.
Like, just because I was born here, does
that mean I deserve it more
than someone who wasn’t?”
– Matt M., outside the Echo
Park Time Travel Mart on
Sunset Boulevard.
“People
who
came to this
country are the
hardest working people in
the country and
people like Donald Trump are
disgusting.” – Erica B., outside Blue Bottle Coffee on
Sunset Boulevard.
“Personally, I’m
not affected by
it, but are my
taxes paying for
their
healthcare? I don’t
know. I’m not really sure I
have an opinion, sorry.”
– Phil B., outside Stories
Books and Cafe on Sunset
Boulevard.
“I think I have
too many opinions because it
does affect me.
I’m first generation, so I know
a lot of undocumented people.
People want to be with their
families and it’s hard, especially when you don’t have the access to resources that legal immigrants and citizens have.”
– Nan S., outside Stories
Books and Cafe on Sunset
Boulevard.
“It doesn’t really affect me. I
feel like they
should be treated
better.
There’s a stigma, they’re stereotyped as
see STREET LEVEL page 7
According to LADOT officials, in reference to the Vermont Avenue route, the weekend “Observatory Shuttle” from
the Sunset/Vermont Metro station will continue to run to the
Griffith Observatory, Griffith
Park and the Greek Theater as
a separate line, and might become daily in the future.
DASH lines are bus routes
intended to serve self-contained neighborhoods, as opposed to other lines that travel
the length and breadth of the
city.
According to a June ridership study by the LADOT,
there were 44 DASH boardings on Hillhurst at four
stops: Los Feliz Boulevard
and Ambrose, Finley and
Franklin avenues, amounting to 18% of the total daily
boardings along the entire
Los Feliz DASH line.
“DASH Los Feliz currently ranks near the bottom
of the list of DASH services
in ridership,” said LADOT’s
Phil Aker. “We’ve come up
with a revised route that extends eastward into...Silver
Lake in an effort to improve
its performance.”
The possible changes
confounded both the Los Feliz Village Business Improve-
changes has been
extended
until
Sept. 30th.
“From
my
perspective,” said
LFNC councilmember Linda
Demmers when
she finally learned
of the plan, “it is a
mistake to eliminate
Hillhurst
north of Franklin
from the route....
The vitality of
the businesses on
A map of the proposed changes to the Dash Los Feliz. Hillhurst are priThe area indicated with a blue line would be the new mary to the ecoroute. The gray line shows the areas the DASH would be nomic well-being
eliminated, including all of Hillhurst Avenue.
of Los Feliz.”
Some busiment District and the Los
nesses
on
Hillhurst
Avenue
Feliz Neighborhood Council
had
mixed
reactions
to the
(LFNC).
possible
elimination
of
the
old
According to representaDASH route.
tives from both organizations,
The manager of Little
neither was provided any adDom’s
was surprised by the
vance notice of the possible
news
and
noted that businesschanges or information on
es were not made aware of this
eight associated August public
development, while the owner
hearings.
of Café Los Feliz said he susAccording to Aker, about
pected the shift would affect
1/3 of the city’s 96 neighborhis employee base more than
hood councils were inadveranything.
tently left off the list notifying
But the owner of Hillhurst
them of the possible changes
Liquors,
Kamy Azizi, said he
and public meetings.
expects the possible changes
As a result, Aker said, the
would diminish his customer
deadline for public comment
see DASH page 16
on any of the recommended
HYBRIDS
September 2016
COMMUNITY NEWS
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Los Feliz Ledger
“Sci-Fi” Square
Beloved Local, Ackerman, Up for Honor
By Erin Hickey, Ledger Contributing Writer
Forrest J Ackerman in 1972. Photo by Rob Mieremet, courtesy the Dutch National Archives.
The intersection of Franklin and Vermont avenues may
soon be known as “Forrest J
Ackerman Square,” thanks
to an August motion by Los
Angeles City Councilmember
David Ryu (CD 4).
The square would honor
Ackerman, a lifetime Angeleno best known for coining the
term “sci-fi.”
Ackerman, referred to affectionately as “Uncle Forry”
by friends and fans, founded
and edited Famous Monsters
of Filmland, a magazine that
reportedly inspired such greats
as Guillermo del Toro, Steven
Spielberg and Peter Jackson to
become filmmakers.
According to Ackerman’s
long time friend and business
advisor Sean Fernald, del Toro
was so inspired by the magazine as a child that he once visited Ackerman at his home to
ask if he would adopt him.
Famous Monsters was “a
beacon in the dark for horror
and science fiction fans,” said
Fernald. “Before the Internet,
it was the only way for scifi nerds to know that others
shared their interests.”
One such fan was Paul
Davids, who directed The SciFi Boys, a 2006 documentary
about the countless contemporary filmmakers who were
inspired by Ackerman.
Davids first met Ackerman as a teenager, when he
won an amateur filmmaking
contest sponsored by Famous
Monsters. According to Davids, that encounter solidified
his interest in filmmaking and
spawned a 50-year friendship.
“Forry had a large hand
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in inspiring and molding all
the kids who became our great
filmmakers. As one of Los Angeles’s native sons, we should be
honoring him,” said Davids.
According to Joe Moe,
Ackerman’s best friend—and
during his later years, his caregiver—Ackerman was the
“Johnny Appleseed” of science
fiction, sowing the seeds of sci-
“
Ackerman possessed a
massive movie memorabilia
collection, and would open
his Glendower Avenue home
to the public each Saturday
as an unofficial science fiction
museum. He continued the
tradition, albeit with a smaller
collection when he moved to
Russell Avenue in 2002.
Although the commission ruled the bungalow did
not represent a strong enough
connection with Ackerman
to qualify for historic status,
they suggested the city instead
designate the corner of Hillhurst and Russell avenues as a
square in his honor.
According to Concerned
Citizens of Los Feliz member
Alexandra Kondracke, representatives for Ryu approached
the group immediately following the commission hearing to
discuss next steps for designating the square.
“We’re totally thrilled
about Ackerman Square,”
said Kondracke. “We feel like
we’ve got a great councilman
who’s really listening to us.”
Although the intersection
at Hillhurst and Russell avenues was initially suggested as
the site for the square, the corner of Franklin and Vermont
avenues was deemed more appropriate, both for its higher
foot-traffic and its proximity to
Ackerman’s favorite restaurant.
“Forry could always be
found there at the House of
Pies,” said Davids, who said
Ackerman ate at the restaurant
several times a week, often
dining with such science fic-
Forry had a large hand in inspiring and molding
all the kids who became our great filmmakers.
As one of Los Angeles’s native sons, we should
be honoring him. — Director Paul Davids
fi fandom in young filmmakers, and encouraging them to
pursue their craft.
“Forry was that rare figure in show business that truly
was about other people,” said
Moe. “His spirit of generosity…continues to inspire others to throw their hats in the
ring.”
The notion of honoring
Ackerman with a city square
was first brought up at a
March meeting of the city’s
Cultural Heritage Commission, where a group called
“Concerned Citizens of Los
Feliz” tried and failed to gain
historic status for a bungalow on Russell Avenue, which
Ackerman called home for the
final six years of his life.
Ackerman referred to the
bungalow as his “Acker-MiniMansion,” in reference to the
“Ackermansion,” his former
home on Glendower Avenue
in the Hollywood Hills.
”
tion luminaries as Ray Bradbury.
Fernald, too, mentioned
Ackerman’s affinity for the
diner, and said a key factor in
his decision to move to Russell
Avenue was being able to walk
to House of Pies.
“There’s no better place to
honor him,” said Fernald.
If the motion is passed,
the designation of the square,
along with a public ceremony,
is planned for November 24th,
to coincide with what would
have been Ackerman’s 100th
birthday, according to Ryu
spokesperson Estevan Montemayor.
Additionally, Ackerman’s
hand and foot prints can be
seen in front of the Vista Theater on Hillhurst Avenue and
Sunset Drive, where he had a
lifetime free movie pass.
For more on city squares,
read “Hip To Be Square” online
at losfelizledger.com.
[silver lake neighborhood
council]
Community Outreach
andParticipation
By Co-Chair Anne-Marie Johnson
It’s been another busy month
for the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council (SLNC). On
July 27, the executive committee hosted a Town Hall meeting so residents and stakeholders could learn more about
Frost/Chaddock’s Draft Environmental Impact Report for
the proposed Sunset-Gateway
development.
It was standing room only
in the community room of the
Holy Mary Virgin Cathedral
as key members of the Frost/
Chaddock development team
presented aspects of their proposals, answered questions
and heard comments from
over 100 people. (The official
public comment period con-
cluded on August 15th.)
It was also standing room
only at the Ivanhoe Elementary auditorium at our August
3rd board meeting. Not only
was the board asked to provide
its opinion on Frost/Chaddock’s proposed development,
we also heard a motion to support Botanica Restaurant and
Market on Silver Lake Boulevard. After serious consideration, the board voted to support Botanica’s proposal, with
conditions. And with regard
to Frost/Chaddock, the board
voted to refer the proposed development back to the SLNC’s
Urban Design and Preservation Advisory Committee for
see SLNC page 5
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[los feliz neighborhood council]
Good Vibrations
Making Moves
By California Assemblymember Mike Gatto By Luke H. Klipp, President and
District E Representative
Los Feliz Neighborhood Council
I still get
stopped on the
street by people who ask what happened to
the idea of using our roads to
generate electricity. Shortly after being elected, I had a conversation with
a friend who had just returned
from Israel. Expecting to hear
emotional descriptions of religious sites, I was surprised to
hear my friend rave instead
about a road that produced
energy. mission (CEC) to study the
issue. After years of research,
the CEC announced it would
be funding multiple piezoelectric pilot projects throughout
California. Piezoelectric technology
has been used for years in sonar and electric guitars. In
2009, the East Japan Railway
Company installed piezoelectric flooring in their Tokyo
railway station, using the energy generated by passing pedestrians to power all displays in
California is the car capital of the world,
and we recycle just about everything. So why not capture the energy from road
vibrations and put it to good use?
After researching the issue, I found that engineers in
Israel, Italy and Japan had successfully installed piezoelectric
sensors underneath roadways
and railways. The technique
uses tiny devices that look like
watch batteries, embedded in
pavement, to recapture energy
that would be otherwise lost as
vehicles rumble along. The energy from the tiny vibrations
can be converted into electricity to power roadside lights,
call boxes and neighboring
communities. In 2011, Governor Jerry
Brown vetoed my bill AB
306, which would have implemented two piezoelectricpilot projects on California
freeways. Undeterred, I asked
the California Energy Com-
the station. Israel has already
placed this technology under
some highways, and Italy has
signed a contract to place the
technology under a stretch of
the Venice-to-Trieste Autostrada. Even a dance club in San
Francisco has piloted the technology under their dance floor
to run their lighting. Scientists
estimate, for example, the energy generated from a 10-mile
stretch of four-lane roadway
can power the entire city of
Burbank. California is the car capital
of the world and we recycle just
about everything. So why not
capture the energy from road
vibrations and put it to good
use? Thanks to your support,
we will be seeing this technology on our roads very soon.
SLNC from page 4
the game and the SLNC will
continue to do our best to
keep Silver Lake engaged and
involved. If you’d like to know
more about the SLNC and
what’s going on in our vibrant
community, you can sign up
to receive our terrific email
newsletters at silverlakenc.org.
Have a safe and happy Labor Day Weekend!
further vetting.
It is very exciting that the
SLNC board received over
150 emails, expressing a wide
variety of opinions, regarding
Frost/Chaddock and Botanica. This kind of participation
is so important and appreciated by all involved.
Outreach is the name of
September 2016
As the new Los Feliz
Neighborhood Council governing board settles into their
roles, we have restarted stakeholder committees on everything from environmental
affairs, to public safety, to outreach. Every one of our council committees addresses key
issues in our community, and
every Los Feliz stakeholder is
welcome to attend any and all
meetings.
Additionally, we have a
new location: the Founders
Metropolitan
Community
Church, on Prospect Avenue
at Rodney Drive. The staff at
the church have been incredibly gracious as we make what
is a significant transition for
the council. While Founders
MCC will only be the home
for future board meetings, all
of our committees are also
working to identify their own
meeting locations that are as
accessible and convenient to
you as possible.
Through all of this transition, we want to hear from
you. Our updated website
includes information on the
committees mentioned above
and offers the ability to provide feedback on other items,
such as requesting streetlights
or sharing locations that may
need more or less red-curbing.
Furthermore, we encourage
you to sign up for our newsletter and to stay abreast of our
work.
One item that recently
came up is a new effort by the
council to address issues along
Hillhurst Avenue. Hillhurst
is one of our busiest—and as
such, one of our least safe—
streets, having been identified
by the city as part of its “high
injury network.” This impacts
all of us, and to address the
issues—from business to traffic to parking to cleanliness
to public safety—the council
has created a new committee
to initiate a conversation with
stakeholders and local leaders
to identify bettering strategies
for Hillhurst.
Additionally, the council
now has a vacancy for a seat
representing District B, which
is the area west of Vermont Avenue, east of Western Avenue,
north of Hollywood Boulevard and south of Los Feliz
Boulevard. We are accepting
applications for residents or
property owners in that district, which will be considered
and voted upon at our September 20th board meeting.
Look for our
annual
school guide
next month
[REPRESENTATIVE
SCHIFF]
Climate Change
Impacts on
Southern
California
Wildfires
By Rep. Adam Schiff
The
summer months
in
California
bring
with them a
devastating
but familiar
threat—fire. This season is unfortunately no different, as six
active fires continue to burn
across the state. That number
would be even higher, were
it not for the swift and effective response from firefighters
throughout California working to protect people, their
homes and our natural resources.
With nearly 100 homes
destroyed, in addition to historic landmarks in the area,
the Blue Cut fire was a particularly fierce and devastating
blaze in Southern California
this season.
The number, severity and
size of these fires in our state
have increased considerably—
presenting a critical threat to
our residents, our homes and
infrastructure and to the environment. According to the
California Dept. of Forestry
and Fire Protection, this year
California experienced 300
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Cove Tenants Allowed to Stay
[editorial]
The Other Side of the “Triangle”
By Jordan Rachel
Blanketed in the strong
smell of coffee and an air
conditioner amped up high, I
experience instant relief from
the California heat just inside
Starbucks’ doors. I wonder
how this must be for the person I am meeting for coffee,
Shama, who lives at the homeless encampment right across
the street at the Vermont Triangle, a median at the intersection of Vermont and Prospect avenues and Hollywood
Boulevard.
She comes back from the
restroom and informs me that
seeing her messy-haired reflection in the mirror explains
why everyone in Starbucks is
looking at her strangely. Her
embarrassment demonstrates
the significance this editorial:
the story of an individual who
wants the Los Feliz community to do nothing more than
recognize her humanity.
I have appreciated the
consistent updates from the
Los Feliz Ledger on the Triangle. I have read the perspectives of local business owners,
politicians and organizations,
all of which demonstrate a
commitment to improving
Los Feliz and finding a solution to homelessness here. I
am saddened, however, by
some comments about making
the homeless uncomfortable
and pushing them to another
location as a means of solving
“our” situation. Here is another perspective.
Shama has lived at the
Triangle, which she calls the
“Island,” for 1½ years. She
feels fortunate to have found
this location. Although the
Los Feliz Ledger reported that
Jeff Zarrinman, the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council’s treasurer, believes that the
homeless “like it dark,” which
is meant to account for the
rocks thrown at the Triangle
streetlights, Shama says she
prefers the light.
As a woman of color in
particular, the constant stress
over her safety, she says, has
been alleviated by the visibility
of the Island. Perhaps one aspect of this perspective derives
from the fact that the homeless
are not a homogenous group
or identity, but a collection of
individuals who have a shared
experience.
Although some other
streets and cities may have
room for her, Shama has stayed
in Los Feliz because the Island has become a home full
of people she considers friends
and family, offering warmth in
comparison to other encampments where she has lived. This
does not mean that Shama
wants to be here. She does not.
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However, given her options
and life history, Shama considers the Island a blessing.
When Shama learned that
a 2013 Los Feliz Improvement
Assoc. article published on
their website referred to those
experiencing homelessness as
“vagrants,” she expressed a
state of despondence that often plagues her because she
is not a vagrant—no one is—
and no one person can represent an entire group of people
that have been stereotyped
and pigeon-holed with such
as opposed to equality, meaning that investment should
be allocated according to the
unique nature and extent of
a person’s or group’s disadvantage. I realize the story is
oftentimes framed differently,
but I hope that hearing about
Shama can help bring a different narrative to the table.
Back at Starbucks, I ask
Shama what she wishes Los
Feliz residents could do for
her. She responds with such a
simple, yet powerful plea.
“I just want to be seen
Perhaps one aspect of this perspective
derives from the fact that the homeless
are not a homogenous group or identity,
but a collection of individuals who
have a shared experience.
blatant negativity.
In contrast, I can say with
certainty that Shama is brave
and strong, always holding on
to herself despite situations
outside of her control that
keep her on the streets. She
speaks poetically, although
she laughs at me when I point
this out. She was also open to
talking to me, a stranger, with
candor and patience. I admire
her for that.
Shama is a survivor,
weathering the heat, hunger,
danger and harassment that
comes with homelessness, all
of which I can never understand as someone who has not
experienced it. I know, however, that I am one unexpected circumstance away from
homelessness. We all are.
I would hope that all Los
Feliz residents would see people like Shama as members of
our community that are currently at a disadvantage, rather
than a problem of which we
need to rid ourselves. Shama
invests in Los Feliz by trying
to keep the Island as clean
as possible. In fact, cleaning
the surrounding area with a
broom is the task I see her performing the most. I have also
watched her step up to care for
others that live on the Island
who might be in immediate
need or crisis.
Shama has also comforted friends that were discriminated against during job
interviews because they are
homeless. She has endured harassment by residents of Los
Feliz who are not homeless and
has been judged to the point
that she feels self-conscious
when drinking coffee with me
at Starbucks, as though she is
an outsider.
Although
investment
should go both ways, Los Feliz
can prosper most from equity
EDITORIAL / OPEN MIKE
without judgment,” she says.
The next time you pass by
the Vermont Triangle, please
remember Shama’s simple request. With this in mind, try
not to think only about how
the homeless may negatively
affect Los Feliz, but also how
our interactions and biases can
impact the wellbeing of people
like Shama.
A more humane community is always a better community.
Rachel is a graduate student
at the University of Southern
California and has lived in
Los Feliz for five years.
LOS FELIZ—Just over a year
after receiving false notice
that they would have to move,
residents of Los Feliz’s Cove
apartment complex can finally
rest at ease.
After a hard-won battle
with developers, which forced
some tenants out, those that
remain continue to pay between $1,000 and $1,900 a
month for their rent-stabilized
apartments, while the building’s new tenants pay $3,000
per month for the same, albeit
renovated, units.
“What’s unfortunate in
this situation,” said Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu Field Deputy Catherine Landers, “is that it took a
number of months” to enforce
tenants’ rights laws, “and in
that time, a number of tenants
moved out.”
Trouble at the Cove began in May of 2015, when the
three-story, 43-unit apartment
complex on Commonwealth
Avenue was purchased by Ness
Property Management.
According to tenants,
Ness left notices on tenants’
doors, informing them the
building would be converted
to condos in 90 days, and
advising them to contact the
on-site manager to negotiate a
relocation fee.
These notices led tenants
to believe that Ness was invoking the Ellis Act—a 1985
California law originally intended to allow landlords to
retire from the rental business,
but one increasingly exploited
by investors and developers as
rents rise—to evict them.
But further investigation
revealed Ness had not filed
any of the necessary paperwork for such a conversion,
leading residents to speculate
that the developer was instead
attempting to frighten them
into moving so they could
raise rents, the Ledger reported
last August.
According to Cove resident J.P. Lavin, the false condo conversion notices were
just one of several “bullying
tactics” used by Ness to get
tenants to take a buyout, sign
away their legal rights and
move.
Among other practices,
the developer conducted
short-notice unit inspections,
ignored maintenance requests
and had two tenants cited for
hoarding, said Lavin.
It was around that time
when Ryu stepped in.
In a strongly worded letter, Ryu informed the management company that their practices violated both state law
and city code, and amounted
to “tenant intimidation.”
Additionally, Ryu assigned Landers to assist tenants and monitor the situation.
“Ness did a complete
180 when Ryu’s office got involved,” said Lavin.
But according to Landers, while tenant relations improved, the developer’s pracsee COVE page 20
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By Kimberly Gomez, Ledger Columnist
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[STARGAZING]
[OUR BREAD AND BUTTER]
September Brings
New Seasons
Anthony Cook, Ledger Columnist
Kurt Wisner and Courtney Smith of Courtney + Kurt Real estate are top in national sales volume, by serving the neighborhoods of Northeast Los Angeles,
first. Photo: Kimberly Gomez.
ATWATER VILLAGE—A brick
and mortar approach to real
estate in today’s Internet world
may not sound cutting edge,
but Courtney Smith and Kurt
Wisner of Courtney and Kurt
Real Estate wouldn’t have it
any other way.
Friendliness is ample and
genuine in the Courtney +
Kurt office at 3169 Glendale
Blvd., where a neighborhood
fruit exchange bin—take
some, leave some—sits at the
entrance. Beyond the plate
munity, but need more space,”
said Smith. “Northeast Los
Angeles neighborhoods are interconnected, so a family with
a small two-bedroom house in
Echo Park can move to a larger
home in Eagle Rock, but still
stay within the...community.”
According to Smith, a
real estate transaction can be
a complicated puzzle, requiring not just one experienced
advocate in your corner, but
instead, a team of specialists
to share the load.
Their “We Heart NELA” program, which
has donated $20,000 to local charities
of their clients’ choice, is just one
testament to their commitment
to all things local.
glass windows, Smith and
Wisner keep their desks at
barely an arm’s length from
each other so as to stay in
constant
communication.
And they converted the location’s back parking lot into a
community space where local
groups often hold meetings
and where art is displayed.
But they offer clients cutting edge technological resources, too, and are now able
to do so even more due to their
recent partnership with Compass, which positions itself as a
real estate company “powered
by data [and] technology.”
Over the last 13 years,
have held a legitimate claim
in the Northeast Los Angeles
(NELA) market, from Los Feliz and Silver Lake to up-andcoming Highland Park, and
all neighborhoods in between.
Their “We Heart NELA”
program, which has donated
$20,000 to local charities of
their clients’ choice, is just one
testament to their commitment to all things local.
“One of the things we specialize in is helping families
who want to stay in the comSeptember 2016
“We came to the conclusion that the best service we
could provide to our clients
was not spreading ourselves
too thin,” said Smith, the business strategist of the operation.
Because of their team approach, a dozen specialists are
on hand to do the work at
which they individually excel.
“That’s the way we add
value to each other and for our
clients,” Smith said.
Smith and Wisner seem
to be on to something. Real
Trends, a real estate website,
and the Wall Street Journal
have both recognized Courtney and Kurt Real Estate as
one of the top agencies in nationwide sales volume.
It’s that kind of performance, said Wisner, which
gives them the freedom to
make a real difference in the
lives of their clients.
“Our
priorities
are
straight. It’s not about the
money. It’s about doing what’s
right for folks,” said Wisner.
“It’s a 95% feel-good business
and it’s all very rewarding, but
you feel the best when you help
people achieve their goals.”
Autumn begins in the northern hemisphere when the sun crosses
the celestial equator, heading
south, at 7:21 a.m., Pacific
Daylight Time on September
22nd. This is the autumnal
equinox.
At the same time, spring
begins in the southern hemisphere. Autumn will end with
the start of winter, the winter
solstice, on December 22nd.
The moon is new on the
1st, first quarter on the 9th,
full on the 16th, and last quarter on the 23rd.
Because the full moon
happens near the autumnal
equinox, it is called the harvest
moon due to the extra light it
provides starting immediately
after sunset.
Also, because
of the season, moonrise happens close to sunset for several
consecutive nights at this time
of year.
Before modern artificial
lighting, the moonlight allowed farmers extra hours to
continue a harvest into the
night as the growing season
came to a close.
The brightest planet, Ve-
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criminals, but all the undocumented immigrants I’ve met
have been great people.” –
Zach R., outside Blue Bottle
Coffee on Sunset Boulevard.
“I just moved
from Portland
and I worked
with
people
that were undo c u me nt e d .
Unfortunately, many of them
got deported.” – Morgan T.,
outside Stories Books and
Cafe on Sunset Boulevard.
nus, is briefly visible low in the
west-southwest after sunset.
The golden planet Saturn,
in the constellation Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer, appears in the southwest sky as
darkness falls.
Orange Mars appears to
the upper left of Saturn by
an angular distance that increases from six degrees to
21 degrees over the course of
the month.
Mars moves
from the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion to Ophiuchus on the 2nd, then enters
the imaginary boundary of
Sagittarius the Archer on the
21st. The moon appears close
to Saturn on the 8th and
Mars on the 9th.
The innermost planet can
be seen 30 minutes before sunrise in the eastern sky starting
on the 19th. The slender crescent moon poses below Mercury on the 28th.
2015 the city council, under the leadership of current
President Herb Wesson voted
unanimously 99.99032% of
the time. In all, over 5,600
council votes were analyzed.
Of that amount, 55 were not
unanimous.
A similar study was conducted for 2010, when current Los Angeles Mayor, Eric
Garcetti, served as president.
In that analysis, there
were more incidences of vote
disparity by the council, but it
was still rare. In 2010, the city
council voted on 5,466 motions. Of those, 99.96% were
unanimous.
“Back in the 1970s, people
would have laughed at the notion of unanimous votes then,”
said Raphael Sonenshein, executive director, Pat Brown
Institute. According to Sonenshein, the relatively recent phenomenon is due to the influx
of Los Angeles City Councilmembers from the California
State Assembly.
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Los Feliz Ledger
You’re the Worst Makes the Best
of Los Feliz-Silver Lake
By Michael Darling, Ledger Contributing Writer
You’re the Worst creator Stephen Falk (standing, left) and crew with stars Aya
Cash and Chris Geere filming in Los Feliz. Credit Byron Cohen/FX.
The FXX comedy You’re
The Worst begins its third season Wednesday, August 31st.
Set largely in the Los FelizSilver Lake-Echo Park area,
this smart romantic-comedy
focuses on the relationship
between writer Jimmy ShiveOverly (Chris Geere) and music publicist Gretchen Cutler
(Aya Cash), two cynical Angelenos who embark on a relationship after hooking-up at
Jimmy’s ex-girlfriend’s wedding. The show has received
critical acclaim for its depiction of modern romance, depression and contemporary
Los Angeles life.
The Ledger sat down with
You’re The Worst creator Stephen Falk to discuss the show
and its use of real life eastside
locations.
First, where did the idea for
the show come from?
It came from a couple of
places, one my frustration with
network television. I had just
Adios Annexation:
Franklin Hills Boundary Line
Stays As-Is
After much controversy,
an application to extend the
boundaries of Franklin Hills
has expired once and for all.
In July, Los Angeles City
Councilmember David Ryu
(CD4) moved to reactivate the
application, initially filed by
the Franklin Hills Residents
Assoc. (FHRA) during Ryu’s
predecessor Tom LaBonge’s
tenure, which had expired per
city policy, the Ledger reported
last month.
The motion reignited tensions between those for and
against the boundary change,
which would have incorporated an area of Los Feliz near
Marshall high school into
Franklin Hills.
The issue came to a head at
a July Los Feliz Neighborhood
Council meeting, when some
members of the council, who
had heard and voted on the
issue once before, questioned
why it was being revived.
At that meeting, several
members of the public spoke out
against the boundary change,
citing concerns about property
values and crime rates.
Others claimed stakeholders were misled as to the nature
of the boundary change petiPage 8
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tion, which would rename a
portion of Los Feliz as Franklin Hills, and said some of the
96 signatures for the change
were ill-gotten, while members of the FHRA were adamant that all signatures were
above board.
At the meeting, Ryu Deputy Adam Miller said anyone
who no longer wanted their
name on the petition could request that it be removed.
According to public records, 11 such requests were
submitted to the city clerk’s
office following the meeting.
Ultimately, the motion
to reactivate was never voted
on, but was instead “received
and filed” at Ryu’s request,
and the application remains
expired.
“Received and filed means
the motion is pretty much
dead,” said an employee at the
Los Angeles City Clerk’s office.
According to the City
Clerk staffer, “If [the FHRA]
wanted to try again, they’d
have to start all over again…
including collecting new signatures.”
FHRA President Tim
Cowell did not return a request for comment.
created a network show that
got canceled before it could air.
At the same time I really love
rom-coms and I thought there
hadn’t been a good one on TV
in a while, and I felt that the
20-year run of romantic comedy movies had gone stale and
that the genre itself was in need
of a little updating and a sort of
complicating. I thought television was the place to do it and
the TV landscape was ready for
characters who didn’t behave,
quote unquote, well, thanks to
cable and the influx of British
sitcoms where characters could
be flawed, but still serve as actual protagonists. I thought FX
was a good place to do that and
to my luck they agreed.
Why did you set You’re The
Worst in L. A., specifically
in the Los Feliz-Silver LakeEcho Park area?
I had to move to New
York to film the network show
and having to uproot my life
was a big inconvenience, especially when I had to uproot
it back six months later, so a
big part of it was selfishness
and laziness. I live in Los Feliz and just wanted to shoot
things in my neighborhood,
jump on my bike or Vespa
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By Pat Saperstein
When French chef Ludo
Lefebvre first started doing innovative popups around
town
and
then opened
the tasting
menu-focused Trois Mec and its little
sister Petit Trois, he probably
wasn’t thinking MexicanFrench fusion.
But
the
perpetually
forward-thinking
Lefebvre
doesn’t slow down for long,
and so when the former Alegria
location in a Silver Lake minimall came up for lease, he
decided to honor the space’s
roots in his own European
way, with help from partners
Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook
of Animal.
Trois Familia serves only
breakfast, brunch and lunch
in a much more casual atmosphere than Lefebvre’s other
restaurants, with colorfully
painted walls, picnic table
seating and no reservations.
These are Mexican dishes
filtered through Lefebvre’s
lens of French technique, and
they’re unlikely to be like any
you’ve seen before.
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Fountain Theater Presents “Baby Doll”
By Marilyn Tower Oliver, Ledger Theater Critic
Salacious,
vulgar, lewd
and provocative are a few of the words used
to describe the 1955 movie
Baby Doll written by Tennessee
Williams directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Karl Malden,
Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach.
The play onstage at the Fountain Theatre is the first adaptation of the screenplay approved
by the Williams estate and
written for the stage by Pierre
Laville and Emily Mann.
This is the story of 19-yearold married virgin, Baby Doll
Meighan (Lindsay LaVanchy),
who at 20 must consummate
her marriage to middle aged
Archie Lee Meighan (John
Prosky), provided he keeps his
promise to her father to provide
her with a comfortable life.
As the play opens, he is
ogling her through a hole in
the wall of their decrepit Mississippi plantation house. Her
room is furnished with a large
baby crib and she is provocatively dressed as a young girl.
Archie Lee has fallen on
hard times as his cotton gin
can’t compete with the newer
version owned by his Sicilian ri-
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val, Silva Vacarro (Daniel Bess).
When men arrive to repossess
all the furniture due to Archie
Lee’s failure to make payments,
he decides to burn down Vacarro’s gin. When Vacarro comes
to get revenge, he uses Baby
Doll as a pawn who implicates
her husband in the arson.
Although adapted from
the screenplay, Williams’
original dialog remains intact.
The play crackles with sexuality, innuendo, desperation and
humanity.
Williams has created
characters that are caught in
the webs created by the backwater world in which they
live. Vacarro, a foreigner, is an
outsider whose very presence
creates suspicion. Archie Lee
is the product of his environment, in which a white man,
regardless of his ignorance,
feels a sense of superiority.
Williams is a master at
creating memorable female
characters who are caught in
situations over which they
have little control. Baby Doll
is stuck in a relationship and
wishes to escape. When Vaccaro attempts to seduce her
in order to get her to impli-
Baby Doll (Lindsay La Vanchy) and Vacarro (Daniel Bess) flirtingly manipulate
one another in Tenessee Williams’ play, Baby Doll, at the Fountain Theater. Photo
credit: Ed Krieger.
cate her husband in arson, she
uses her nascent sexuality to
advance her own cause. Baby
Doll’s elderly Aunt Rose Comfort (Karen Kondazian), who
tends to the house, is a character who must depend on others for her very existence.
John Prosky captures perfectly the crude Archie Lee, a
near stereotype of an uncouth
Southerner who manhandles
his wife in order to force her
to do his dirty work. Daniel
Bess’s Vacarro is seductive and
wily. LaVanchy’s interpretation of the central character is
moving, although I had some
problems with her diction.
The play is ably directed
by Simon Levy, a long time
award-winning director of the
Fountain Theatre.
Baby Doll runs through
September 25. Fridays &
Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays,
2 p.m. & Mondays September 5, 12, 19 at 8 p.m. $15
to $35. Pay-what-you-can
Mondays. 5060 Fountain
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A beet “tartare” tostada
is only nominally Mexican,
though it rests on a perfectly
crunchy and tender tortilla
round and is topped with a
delicate avocado crema that
could be the snooty cousin to
guacamole.
If there’s a signature dish,
it’s the hash brown chilaquiles.
Crispy potatoes stand in for
the traditional tortilla chips,
while “salsa macho” gives the
dish an acid jolt. There’s very
little resemblance to the dish
it’s named for, but it has its
own terrific flavor.
The only issue is that you’ll
really want two, and at $9.95 a
pop, you’ve spent $20 for two
eggs—before even ordering the
$5 cup of Heart coffee.
I’ve never made it as far as
the churro French toast, because as much as I love Salt &
Straw ice cream, who needs it
for breakfast?
Fans of homey desserts
will go wild for the tres leches
birthday cake. There’s no alcohol, but there are a few decadent drinks like the housemade horchata and the Nutella
malted “iced hot chocolate.”
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Los Feliz Ledger
The True Cost of that Pothole
Poor road conditions in
the Los Angeles area cost the
average motorist about $3,000
a year due to higher vehicle
costs, traffic crashes and congestion-related delays, according to a report released August
17th by a national transportation group called TRIP.
According to TRIP’s report, 83% of roadways in the
Los Angeles-Long BeachSanta Ana urban area are in
poor or mediocre condition,
costing the average motorist an additional $892 each
year in extra vehicle operating costs, including accelerated vehicle depreciation,
additional repair costs and
increased fuel consumption
and tire wear.
“This is a problem that
will not fix itself,” said Michel
Martinez, a Santa Ana City
Councilmember and president
of the Southern California
Assoc. of Governments. “The
only real solution is to make
investing in our transporta-
tion infrastructure the urgent
priority it needs to be. As a region, and as a state, we need
to speak with a unified voice
to ensure that this message is
being heard.”
The survey—released at a
news conference in downtown
Los Angeles—also found that
traffic congestion in the Los
Angeles area is worsening,
causing 80 hours of delay per
year for the average motorist
and costing each driver $1,711
annually in lost time and
wasted fuel.
To make matters worse,
8% of bridges in the area are
structurally deficient and 23%
are functionally obsolete, according to the Washington,
D.C. based organization.
“These conditions are only
going to get worse if greater
funding is not made available
at the state and local levels,”
said Will Wilkins, TRIP’s
executive director. “Without
adequate investment, California’s transportation system
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clean energy and reducing our
environmental impact. California’s Dept. of Fire Protection does not solely respond to
incidents of wildfire; the department also takes preventative measures. These measures
include vegetation management programs, clearing brush
in areas particularly prone to
wildfire as well as constructing
firebreaks to slow the spread of
fires when they are already in
progress.
Prevention is also crucial
at an individual level, and it is
important to educate ourselves
about what we can do to directly reduce the possibility of
man-made wildfires. Whenever we plan outdoor activity, it is important to remain
highly vigilant of potential fire
hazards.
These proactive steps can
contribute to mitigating the
threat of wildfires, but they are
no substitute for taking even
stronger action against climate
change.
We are extremely fortunate as Southern Californians
to have an exceptional amount
of open space in our region.
Protecting that environment
must remain a priority both
in Congress and as a state,
a responsibility that begins
with understanding the contribution that climate change
makes to the problem. With
another fire season in full
swing, we are again reminded
that the challenge posed by
climate change is no distant
prospect, but as real and vivid
as the danger that burns just
over the next hillside. point in 2015, and the numbers of acres burned is 50%
greater than the five-year average.
With fires continually endangering large populations in
Southern California, the cost
of fighting these fires has put
a strain on our state’s financial
resources. A number of factors have
contributed to the steady rise
in number and intensity of
wildfires in our state. Last
year, researchers from the
University of California collaborated with the U.S. Forest Service and Pasadena’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory to understand what has driven this
steady growth of wildfires in
our region. They found that
temperature rise and longer
dry periods coupled with lack
of precipitation have contributed significantly to the
increase of these devastating
fires—all direct consequences
of climate change.
This era of intense fires
is a new reality for our state
and one that we must learn
to address in our drier, hotter climate. According to a
report published last year by
the U.S. government, the fire
season now lasts an additional
78 days longer than it did in
1970.
Significant investments
have been made by government at both the federal and
state level to address the wildfire threat in California and
our state has led the way in its
commitment to combat climate change by investing in
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will become increasingly deteriorated and congested, hampering economic growth and
the quality of life of the state’s
residents.”
The report found that
throughout the state, 37%
of major locally and statemaintained roads are in poor
condition and one quarter of
California’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
The state’s major urban
roads are becoming increasingly congested, with drivers
wasting significant amounts
of time and fuel each year, and
more than 14,000 people were
killed in crashes on California’s roadways from 2010 to
2014.
“The TRIP report confirms what everyone in California knows: the transportation system in this state is in
bad shape,” said Will Kempton, executive director of
Transportation California.
It is past time for our elected
officials in Sacramento to
step up and deal with this
problem.”
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Echo Park Prices Still Thriving Despite July Dip
Southern California real
estate sales in July 2016 were
down slightly more than 11%
from June and down just over
10% from the same time last
year, according to Core Logic,
a real estate analysis firm out
of La Jolla, CA.
July’s year-over-year drop
“marked the largest annual
decline for any month in almost two years, while the 11
percent June-to-July sales decrease was the largest in five
years,” said Andrew LePage,
a research analyst with CoreLogic, in a released statement.
According to LePage,
this is likely due to a “quirk
of the calendar,” as there were
only 20 business days for
home sales to be recorded this
July—as opposed to the usual
22—which was the result of
there being five weekends in
July 2016.
“The last time sales
dropped
sharply…between
June and July was in 2011,
which was also the last time
the month of July had only 20
business days,” said LePage.
But while the number of
homes sold this July was down
from 2015, prices were up. The
median price paid for a home
in Southern California this
July was $465,000—the same
median as the month prior,
but up over 6% from the previous year.
According to LePage, this
continues a “nine-year high”
for median home prices in
Southern California.
Locally, there were 58 single-family homes and 27 condos sold in our coverage area
this July, according to Core
Logic data.
Echo Park’s 90026 zip
code had the most homes
sold, 31, at a median price of
$710,000—down 9% from
July 2015.
The same area saw only
five condo sales this July, at
a median price of $560,000,
down more than 30% from
July 2015’s median.
But according to Tracy
Do, a local realtor with Compass, month-over-month data
can be misleading, and in her
experience, Echo Park prices
are still going up.
“What I usually look at is
the daily market activity,” said
Do. “From my day-to-day survey, we’re still in an appreciating market.”
Meanwhile, 18 homes
sold in Silver Lake’s 90039
zip code, at a median price of
$802,000, down about half a
percent from July of last year.
However, July condo
1639 Scott Avenue, a 4br, 2ba bungalow in Echo Park recently sold for $936,569.
Tracy Do of Compass was the listing agent, and Mica Campbell of Keller Williams Los Feliz represented the buyer.
prices for the zip code were
up nearly 20% from the previous year, to a median price of
$691,000 for the two sold.
Los Feliz’s 90027 zip code
saw 17 homes sell, for a median price of $1.25 million, up
slightly more than 11% from
July of last year.
The median condo price
in the area went up as well,
more than 25% to $744,000
for the five condos sold.
In the Hollywood Hills’
90068 zip code, 16 single
family homes sold this July at
a median price of $1.54 million, up more than 6% from
last July.
Additionally, seven condos sold in 90068 for a median price of $525,000, an increase of more than 25% over
last July.
The Oaks of Los Feliz | $14,950,000
5743 Spring Oak Drive | $2,849,000
9743 Elderidge Drive | $2,169,000
12065 Laurel Terrace | $1,299,000
1618 Fairfax Avenue | $11,000/Mo.
2051 Outpost Drive | $8,000/Mo.
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Steve Frankel (310) 281-3981
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Claudia Hipolito (323) 906-2425
Just Reduced! Lincoln Heights Duplex, close to
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John Anthony Christopher (323) 906-2468
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[house and holmes]
Man in the Mirror
By Rob Loos, Ledger Columnist
1920s
era
bathrooms
are half the
size of contemporary lavatories—they have fewer electrical
outlets, the lighting is either
“torches” or a single overhead
light and it’s impossible to store
the neighborhood-size toilet
paper that the drone delivers
from the big discount store.
Our bathroom drives me
crazy. It has a mirror over the
sink, but it’s just a mirror.
There is no magic medicine
cabinet concealed in the wall
behind it. Where am I supposed to put all of my manly
supplies?
Currently, I use a “dopp”
kit that swings from the back
of the door and makes me feel
like I am on my way to summer camp.
But recently, I came up
with the perfect plan to solve
my crisis. I’ll remove the inferior mirror, break through the
nearly 100-year-old old tile
and replace it with a beautiful,
recessed mirrored cabinet.
I discovered the cabinet
of my dreams could be delivered within 48-hours, but my
wife subtly suggested I should
check with my contractor buddy, Dave, first.
I didn’t get Dave on my
first, my second, or even my
third call. But, just as I was
preparing to attack the bathroom wall with a sledgehammer, I did.
After listening carefully,
there was a long pause, and
then Dave asked, “Why do you
always try to make things so
difficult? Buy a medicine cabinet that hangs on the outside
of the wall....You don’t have
to destroy the wall, match old
tile, or make a huge mess.”
Dave was right. I found a
3-inch deep medicine cabinet
with plenty of room for my
virile accouterments and installation was simple with just
two screws.
All of which goes to show,
once again, that if I can’t figure it out—and I know I
can’t—Dave always can.
[KEEN TO BE GREEN]
Environmental Training for
the Next Generation
River House Grand Opening
Marks 1st New Homes for Sale Along
Revitalized LA River
The grand opening of River
House is a historic moment
for the Los Angeles real estate
market, marking the first new
residences for sale along the
revitalized LA River. Located
on the river next to Marsh
Park and in the hip, emerging neighborhood of Elysian
Valley (aka Frogtown), the
community comprised of 56
townhomes and flats is now
available for prospective buyers to tour Saturdays and Sundays, 11 am to 5 pm.
“The key to buying real estate in Los Angeles is identifying the next hot spot and getting in on the ground floor. River House provides that very opportunity for new homeowners, or those looking to upgrade,” stated Sales Manager Pamela Gillett.
“Come in, take a tour, and become a homeowner in a community undergoing a true
renaissance.”
The community surrounding River House provides residents an array of activities at
their doorstep, including kayaking, bicycling, and jogging.
Southern California television
station KCET.org dubbed Marsh
Park as “one of Elysian Valley’s LA
River-adjacent gems.”
Priced from the $500,000’s, River
House features 56 stylish townhomes and flats ranging from 833
sq. ft. to 2,123 sq. ft. A variety of
thoughtfully designed floorplans
offer 1-5 bedroom homes at affordable prices.
By Meher McArthur, Ledger Columnist
It’s a hot
August afternoon and Kim
Jones is getting her classroom
ready for her students enrolled
in the environmental sciences
magnet program at Thomas
Starr King Middle School.
The six-year-old program
was recently granted a new
name—the
Environmental
STEAM Magnet. STEAM is
an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and
Mathematics.
As one of the Silver Lake
school’s three magnet programs, the Environmental
STEAM Magnet trains students to engage with their environment and solve problems
relating to food, energy, water
and waste.
Students take field trips
to the Los Angeles River, the
zoo and recycling centers.
They learn to grow vegetables,
conserve water and energy and
write letters to government
representatives.
But why teach children
these skills so young?
“They are inheriting a
planet that is crowded,” explained Jones with passion
and conviction. “Our children
need to learn how to use their
limited resources.”
To this end, she and her
fellow teachers in the program
help students understand and
strengthen connections between themselves, their community and the natural world.
“Kids today often don’t
know where their food comes
from,” said Jones. “In supermarkets, they don’t see the raw
materials.”
Jones, who grew up in
Tennessee on a farm with no
running water, appreciates the
value of resources and is dedicated to sharing her insight
with her students—while
also listening to their unique,
hopeful voices.
“As we get older, we lose
the magical way of thinking
that children have,” says Jones.
“Sometimes they can find solutions that adults don’t see.
We want to encourage them to
look at all the possibilities and
find their own solutions.”
Residences include high ceilings; environmentally conscious appliances, lighting, and
air conditioning; luxury bathrooms; designer selected wood, tile, and carpet flooring;
walk-in closets; quartz countertops; European cabinetry; and gourmet kitchens.
Designed to invoke the tight-knit community encompassing River House, the gated
residences surround an inviting courtyard, which is highlighted by an outdoor doublesided fireplace, barbeques, comfortable lounge seating, shade sails, and water-conscious California landscaping.
For more information
about River House, visit
www.RiverHouseLA.com.
Contact us: 323-664-1990 or
[email protected]
River House is located
at 2970 Ripple Place
Los Angeles 90039
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September 2016
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Los Feliz Ledger
VOTE from page 7
In the 1990s, restrictions
were imposed on the California Legislature, including
term limits, the reduction of
assemblymembers’
salaries
and a cutting of their staff.
As a result, being a politician
in the state’s capitol lost a bit
of its luster. Los Angeles, Sonenshein said, started looking
more attractive.
“Then [those politicians’]
eyes settled on the Los Angeles City Council. They used to
look down on it,” Sonenshein
said. “They thought [Los Angeles] was a hick town.”
Back then, some Sacramento politicians did migrate
to Los Angeles, but without
local name recognition, lost
out on early city council races
to others more local.
“So, it took a while,” Sonenshein said, for the shift to
fully root.
According to an analysis from 1990 to date, almost
25% of Los Angeles City
Councilmembers first served
in the state Legislature.
But none more so than today. Of the current 15-member Los Angeles City Council, almost half first served in
Sacramento—including Gil
Cedillo, Paul Krekorian, Bob
Blumenfield, Paul Koretz, Fe-
lipe Fuentes, Curren D. Price,
Jr. and Wesson—and often in
key roles or committees.
While Sacramento was
getting weaker, the Los Angeles City Council, meanwhile,
was getting stronger after
charter reforms of the 1990s.
“You could become a
front-bencher” on the City
tive director of the Los Angeles
Charter Reform Commission,
said he’s not sure how he feels
about it.
“It has pros and cons,” he
said. “The council as a body
is much more effective...and
they get things done in a cohesive manner that could not
be done before. It’s vastly less
While Sacramento was getting weaker,
the Los Angeles City Council, meanwhile,
was getting stronger after charter reforms
of the 1990s.
Council, Sonenshein said.
While some scoff at the
City Council’s often hard to
follow quick voting process,
Sonenshein said, it mostly occurs because of the strength
of President Wesson, who was
Speaker of the California Assembly from 2002 to 2004.
“He has turned out to be a
phenomenally successful legislative leader with considerable
discipline,” Sonenshein said.
“He’s funny, charming, tough
and skilled.”
Still, Sonenshein, who has
authored three books about
Los Angeles politics and government and served as execu-
entertaining, but that does not
mean it’s not effective.”
Recent dissentions in city
council have, by far, been on
ideological lines.
Mitchell Englander, in
the 2015 analysis, was often
the sole dissenting vote on
such items as gun control and
whether a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame should be
erected for filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after he staged
police brutality protests in
New York in 2015.
Englander is the current
council’s sole Republican
and a volunteer reserve police
officer. Leasing…
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Atwater Village
3 bed 2 bath, $4,000
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2413 1/2 Hidalgo Ave.
Silver Lake
1 bed 1 bath, $2,295
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1701 Clinton St. #402
Echo Park
2 bed 1 bath, $2,800
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1831 Redcliff St.
Silver Lake
3 bed 2 bath, $5,900
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2949 Partridge Ave.
Elysian Valley
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Silver Lake
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foot traffic.
Azizi added that he wished
business owners had been consulted in the decision-making
process and believes that the
move would be a mistake.
For Los Feliz, the recommended new bus line would
go from Franklin Avenue
to St. George Street, Rowena, Hyperion and Fountain avenues, and then back
to Vermont Avenue near the
Vermont/Sunset Metro Red
Line station.
The recommendation for
the changes was the result of
an analysis started in 2015 by
the LADOT.
According to Aker, the
city received over 1,600 suggestions on citywide changes
and 167 requests for new
routes or the modification of
existing ones.
To comment on the recommended changes by September 30th, visit: ladottransit.
com/movingforwardtogether.
According to LADOT
officials, after all input is received, the agency will make
a final presentation on their
findings and recommendations to a sub-committee of
the Los Angeles City Council,
which ultimately will vote on
the changes.
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Silver Lake
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Los Feliz
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3176 LA CLEDE AVE. › ATWATER VILLAGE
2 BED/1 BATH › 1156 SQ/FT
SOLD: $680,000 › REPRESENTED BUYER
1419 CONRAD ST. › EAGLE ROCK
SOLD: $825,000 › REPRESENTED BUYER
ALISON GILBERT
ALISON GILBERT
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LISTED: $699,000 › REPRESENTED SELLER
3608-3610 GRIFFIN AVE. › MONTECITO HEIGHTS
(3) 2 BED/1 BATH › 1368 SQ/FT › TRIPLEX
LISTED: $689,000 › REPRESENTED BUYER
MONA GHOSSEIN
MONA GHOSSEIN
[email protected]
(P) 323.243.0550 › BRE LIC. # 01342592
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BRITA KLEINGARTNER
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2895 Sunnynook Ave.
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(cell) 323.470.4635
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LEASED
But others fear the mostly
homogenous council leads to
a lack of public debate, and
that, they say, is not good for
an electorate.
“The council is more ideologically aligned,” said Frank
V. Zerunyan, J.D.,
a professor and director at
the USC Sol Price School of
Public Policy. “There is a problem,” he said, “when you have
a political system that is too
much of the same.”
Zerunyan dismissed conspiracy theories that the council is trading votes, due to the
Brown Act, a state law enacted
in 1953, which prevents elected officials from discussing issues out of public view.
“Brown Act violations can
be quite severe,” he said. “To
talk ahead and trade votes...
would be a violation of the
law, big time.”
Ryu, campaigned in 2015,
in part, on a promise of transparency. During the campaign, he, along with other
candidates, signed a pledge,
authored by the Miracle Mile
Residential Assoc., that he
would not look the other way
when voting on real estate development issues in Council
District 4. “Time and time
again,” the pledge read, [con-
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Atwater Village
2 bed 1 bath, $2,495
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944 E. HOWARD ST. › PASADENA
LISTED: $799,000 › REPRESENTING SELLER
822 SANBORN AVE. #822 1/2 › SILVER LAKE
LISTED: $450,000 › REPRESENTING SELLER
CRISTINA BROW
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Gina Isaac
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Levi Freeman
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Travis Bayles
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Chris Furstenberg
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LAWSUIT from page 1
stroying public records.
It has been widely reported, and city documents
reveal, that at least 113 boxes
of documents from LaBonge’s
office were ordered for destruction in the weeks prior to
LaBonge’s last day in office in
July of 2015. Some of the boxes, however, were salvaged before they could be destroyed
and were turned over to LaBonge’s replacement Los Angeles City Councilmember
David Ryu.
The lawsuit additionally
claims the city used taxpayer
funds to violate state law, specifically that it “used taxpayer
funds to implement, enforce or
otherwise carry out illegal policies and practices,” regarding
the destruction of LaBonge’s
documents.
As a result, the lawsuit is
seeking an injunction against
the city from “destroying any
public records less than two
years old...and from spending
the money of the [c]ity and the
State of California in furtherance of its illegal policies and
practices which further the
destruction of records that are
less than two years old.”
The lawsuit is the second
known filing seeking remedies
related to the destruction of
LaBonge documents.
In the first, a Hollywood
Hills homeowner had requested an approval of a land-use
issue as a punitive measure
against the city for allegedly
allowing documents related to
his case be destroyed. A judge
this summer ruled against the
homeowner.
The latest lawsuit, however, may not be the last regarding the issue.
Los Feliz residents Michael Miller and Stephanie
Scher, two former city attorneys for multiple cities in
Southern California, said they
are continuing to seek their
own remedy related to what
has been confirmed as the
wholesale destruction of public records by the city.
The couple said they plan
to submit a request to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti this
week demanding he perform
his duty to ensure California
and city law are “complied
with in view of the fact they’ve
not been in the past,” especially concerning transitioning
councilmembers.
Scher and Miller claim
Garcetti has failed in his duties overseeing the Los Angeles
City Clerk’s office, which has,
according to City Clerk Holly
Wolcott, allowed the destruc-
tion of not just LaBonge’s public records, but other public officials’ records for years.
“We have a record here of
serious violations of these duties,” said Miller. “The mayor
needs to correct this now and
show us how it has been corrected.”
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of post-war architecture, the
building may soon become a
historic cultural monument,
thanks to the efforts of two
non-profit
organizations,
Friends of Lytton and the Los
Angeles Conservancy.
The Cultural Heritage
Commission voted unanimously in August to consider
Lytton for landmark status,
with two commissioners referring to the decision as a
“no-brainer.” The issue will go
back in front of the heritage
commission for a second vote
September 15th, but regardless
of the outcome, their vote may
be for naught.
According to Ken Bernstein with the Los Angeles
Office of Historic Resources,
historic designation would delay the process, but not necessarily save the bank from demolition.
“Historic cultural monuments can still be demolished
in the city of L.A.,” said Bernstein.
According to Bernstein, if
a building is designated a historic cultural monument, the
Cultural Heritage Commission may object to its demolition for a period of 180 days,
while the developer conducts a
“fuller exploration of preservation options.”
Additionally, he said, the
Los Angeles City Council may
vote to extend the delay by another 180 days.
However, according to
Bernstein, the developer can
still choose to demolish the
building at the end of those
360 days, and developer
Townscape Partners has indicated they will do just that.
“We explored ways to incorporate the structure into
our plans but could not find
a way to do so feasibly and
still realize Frank Gehry’s vision for the site,” said Townscape Partners in a statement
to the Ledger. “The Frank
Gehry design for 8150 Sunset Boulevard received unan-
imous approval from the Los
Angeles City Planning Commission…and we continue
to move forward with these
plans.”
But while the developer
calls preservation unfeasible, others have said the decision to demolish the bank
is more a matter of taste
than necessity.
“That [Gehry] would prefer to start from a clean slate at
this site and not integrate the
historic Lytton Savings building is not a relevant factor in
determining the feasibility of
the [p]reservation [a]lternatives,” wrote attorneys for the
Los Angeles Conservancy in a
July letter to the City Planning
Commission.
According to the conservancy’s Adrian Scott Fine,
Townscape Partners consulted
with the organization during
the project’s early stages, and
were initially open to saving
the Lytton building.
Previous versions of the
334,000 square-foot, mixeduse complex included two
“preservation
alternatives,”
said Fine, which would incorporate the Lytton building
into the new project’s design,
rather than demolishing it.
However, according to
Fine, Townscape abandoned
that concept once Gehry came
on board.
“We were having really
fruitful conversations with the
developers,” said Fine. “When
they pursued Mr. Gehry, that
changed.”
Fine said he knows that
historic status won’t necessarily save Lytton, but hopes it
will “raise the flag of awareness” about the demolishing of
historic resources for new development, which he said has
become all too common.
At a City Planning Commission meeting in July,
members of the public spent
five hours commenting on
the proposed development,
with some decrying the project as “egregious overdevel-
opment” and “celebrity architecture overreach,” while
others praised it as an iconic
piece of art, likening Gehry
to Michelangelo. Others
took no issue with Gehry’s
vision, but demanded that
Lytton be saved if the project
were approved.
When the Cultural Heritage Commission heard the
case for Lytton’s preservation
in August, Commissioner
Richard Barron warned speakers not to let Gehry’s prestige
color the issue.
“We’re all aware of a project that’s being planned for
this site by a famous architect,
and I don’t want to go into
that,” said Barron. “That’s not
what we do here. We’ll only
talk about the merits of [the
Lytton] building.”
According to several
speakers at the hearing, those
merits include the building’s unique zigzag folded
plate roof, a floating staircase
and a stained glass partition
designed by the pioneering
French glass muralist Roger
Darricarrere.
“It’s a rare type of architecture,” said area resident
Tony Villanueva. “I travel a lot
for work, and in other parts of
the world, you don’t see things
like this.”
Additionally, according
to Friends of Lytton CoFounder Steven Lufftman,
the building was Meyer’s first
major commission and likely
altered the course of the architect’s career.
“Kurt Meyer was a very
important architect in L.A.’s
history,” said Lufftman. “You
shouldn’t destroy one masterpiece to create another.”
Gehry has said he took
inspiration for the new development’s design from the Garden of Allah Hotel, a fixture of
Hollywood’s golden age, once
frequented by the likes of F.
Scott Fitzgerald and Marlene
Dietrich. That hotel was demolished in 1959 and replaced
by Lytton Savings.
COVE from page 6
tices were still not entirely
above-board.
At one point, said Landers, after the developer was denied a construction permit by
the Dept. of Building Safety,
they simply returned to the
ply with city regulations, and
according to Lavin, renovations on the building are now
complete.
While tenant fears did not
play out at the Cove, according
to posts on the neighborhood
forum Nextdoor, last month
the residents of two eight-unit
According to city officials, Ness’s tactics
were not entirely above-board.
same department and re-filed
their request at a different, “express” window, where it was
approved.
Additionally, she said,
the developer lied to the city,
falsely claiming there were no
tenants living in the building
to avoid submitting what is
known as a “tenant habitability report.”
Eventually, Ness did com-
apartment buildings, both on
Rodney Drive, were served
Ellis Act notices by an investment group who had recently
purchased the building.
“We’re losing more
affordable rent-stabilized units
every year,” said Landers. “We
need to be doing more, not
just to make tenants aware of
their rights, but knowing how
to enforce their rights.”
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Zarrinnam, the BID has
maintained the Triangle since
2012, when they discovered it
was included on their boundary map, not the Los Feliz
BID’s.
The Los Feliz BID, constrained by budget, eagerly
handed over Triangle upkeep
when the error was discovered,
but the East Hollywood BID
has thus far been limited in their
efforts to mitigate homeless encampments at the location.
“We could manage, water
and prune [the Triangle], but
we couldn’t technically do anything with it,” said Zarrinnam.
At issue is what is known
as a revocable permit, required
for any obstruction of a public right-of-way—putting up a
temporary construction fence,
for example.
According to Zarrinnam,
when the East Hollywood
BID tried to get that permit,
they were surprised to discover
the Los Feliz BID’s permit had
never been revoked, which
prohibited East Hollywood
from applying for a new one.
“It was a mistake,” said
Zarrinnam. “The permit
should never have been given
“
would remove all of the Triangle’s existing walkways, it
would also require the four
crosswalks to the median be
removed, which he said will
likely be the plan’s biggest
hurdle in gaining community
support.
But other members of the
East Hollywood BID seemed
amenable to that aspect of the
plan when Zarrinnam presented it at an August meeting.
“[Removing the crosswalks] is totally reasonable,”
said Treasurer Susanna Furios.
“People can walk a bit.”
the plan is just a starting point,
and the East Hollywood BID
intends to get feedback from
the Los Feliz Neighborhood
Council, the Los Feliz Improvement Assoc., the Los Feliz BID and other stakeholders
before moving forward.
“Everybody has to have a
voice in this,” he said. “That’s
what’s important to me.”
Up next, said Zarrinnam,
is figuring out how to pay for
the redesign.
“Until we find out what
we’re going to do, we don’t
know what kind of funding
we’ll need,” he said.
The coalition is currently raising funds
to renew a $150,000 homeless outreach
contract, which Zarrinnam said would
play an important role in ridding the
Triangle of homeless encampments.
to the Los Feliz BID to begin
with.”
This July, the Los Feliz
BID’s permit was finally revoked, opening the door for
the East Hollywood BID to
apply for their own. According
to Zarrinam, the organization
is still waiting for that permit,
and it is unclear when the paperwork will be finalized.
In the meantime, Zarrinnam has prepared a preliminary plan for the Triangle that
he hopes will prevent future
encampments.
Central to that plan, which
would fully landscape the Triangle and remove the existing
seating areas and sidewalks, is
changing public perception of
what the Triangle is.
“The Triangle is a median,” said Zarrinnam. “It’s
not a park. It never has been
a park. People were trying to
turn it into a park, but it’s a
traffic median.”
In 2008, Los Angeles City
Councilmember Tom LaBonge transformed the Triangle into a micro-park, installing landscaping, seating and
lighting at a cost of $800,000.
Because Zarrinnam’s plan
September 2016
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one contributor will be OSH
Hardware who, at Los Angeles
City Councilmember David
Ryu’s request, agreed to contribute an unspecified amount
between $5,000 and $75,000
to the Triangle redesign in
conjunction with a new location they are building adjacent
to it on Hollywood Boulevard.
Additionally, OSH will
give $25,000 to the East Hollywood Los Feliz Homeless
Coalition, of which Zarrinnam is also a member.
The coalition is currently raising funds to renew a
$150,000 homeless outreach
contract, which Zarrinnam
said would play an important
role in ridding the Triangle of
homeless encampments.
“We’re trying to find permanent supportive housing”
for people living in the triangle through the coalition,
he said. “We’re not trying to
displace anyone.”
pending community input, he
expects to present an updated
redesign plan to the East Hollywood BID within the next
couple of months.
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and roll up to set, since we
shoot only on location. I like
television where the location
is meaningful to the tone of
the show. I wanted this to be
a case of this couldn’t just exist
anywhere. I didn’t want you
to watch my show and say “Is
this set in Milwaukee? New
York? Austin? I don’t know
and I don’t care.” I think for
a lot of shows, that’s fine as it’s
not central to the show, but I
wanted the environment to be
a part of the show and to say
something about this specific
neighborhood in which our
characters live.
On that note, was it important
the show use real locations?
The eastside of Los Angeles was underexplored on
screen at the time I conceived
of the show. There’s been a giant wave of creative types to
the eastside in the last 15 years.
For so long, comedy writers
lived on the westside of L.A.,
so a lot of shows had that Beverly Hills, Brentwood kind of
feel. I wanted to explore something a little different.
I had a lot of fun figuring
out what parts of the eastside
to shoot for the pilot. It’s really gratifying being able to say
“I’m going to set this scene in a
record store. Well, I’ll put it in
this record store on Sunset.” It’s
also nice because it gives these
establishments, which aren’t
big retail chains, a few bucks.
It’s actually putting money
back in the community.
What’s the writing process like when it comes to
working real locations into
the story? For instance,
Gretchen and Lindsay doing
brunch at Brite Spot. Did
you have Brite Spot in mind
when the scene was written
or did you say: “We need a
diner. They’d probably live
near Brite Spot?”
I’d say it’s 70/30. Usually
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then we go to our location
team who have a vast knowledge of what businesses are
out there open to shooting
and fun to shoot at. They show
me photos and I say “Yes, that
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Then we look at it and try to
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In the show, Jimmy, Gretchen and Edgar live in a house
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It’s an actual house in the
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not friendly for crew people,
but it’s a beautiful house.
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you got into Gretchen’s depression arc in season 2.
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stituents] have been forced to
defend our neighborhoods
through legal actions when the
[c]ity disregards these plans to
our detriment.”
While many feel Ryu is
holding true to that pledge
regarding issues in his district, in a recent email thread
forwarded to the Ledger, one
Ryu constituent who lives in
the Beachwood Canyon area,
where managing tourism to
the Hollywood Sign has become a rallying cry for some,
indicated she no longer had
faith in Ryu after he voted yes
on a controversial real estate
project in neighboring Council District 13.
“Ryu’s ‘yes’ vote on the
Palladium Towers was the last
straw for me,” the constituent wrote. “He and his staff
person said it was because
the developers promised him
a viewing center that would
draw tourists out of our community. This is pie in the sky
and doesn’t he know that developers lie?”
But according to Ryu, it’s
not about vote trading, but instead trusting his fellow city
councilmembers’ judgment on
issues they know better firsthand.
“For someone to come
in at the tail end and to dis-
September 2016
agree with my recommendation after meetings with the
community on dozens of occasions and with other city
departments and after I have
involved stakeholders,” doesn’t
make sense, he said. “I make
a decision...and my colleagues
respect it. Even if they might
disagree with my decision,
they abide by it because they
were not there during those
community meetings.”
On controversial issues,
especially regarding development, Ryu said he has to pick
his battles.
“I could vote no on [on a
project],” he said. “But would
that make a difference? Sometimes it’s just better to vote
[with the council]. It’s better
to work with them and get
some concessions” later, Ryu
said.
Similar patterns in unanimity exhibit themselves in
the vote results of San Diego’s
city council, but are less consistent than those of Los Angeles.
According to the results
of all votes taken by the San
Diego City Council in 2015,
the highest percentage of dissenting votes occurred in February (21.54%) and the lowest
occurred in June (1.14%). The
mean percentage of not unanimous voting was 5.41%.
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Absolutely. This year
however, since the reservoir
was going to be drained, the
neighborhood didn’t love having filming constantly happening. [So], we’ve recreated
the house on a stage. So for the
third season we won’t be in the
actual house, but you won’t be
able to tell the difference.
This will be the first time the
show will film on set?
Yes, this is the first time
we’ve done setwork. We’re still
about 70% of the time on lo-
cation, but this is the only set
we’ve built for the show.
What new locations will we
see in season 3 and how do
they play a role in the plot?
We just shot at Jeni’s Ice
Cream on Hillhurst Avenue.
That’s a scene where Gretchen
is trying to woo a new client,
Ben Folds, and the meeting is
at Jeni’s. I thought it would be
more interesting to have them
meet over ice cream than over
breakfast. We’ve shot big sequences at the L.A. River and
outside the “Happy Foot/Sad
Foot” sign at the Sunset Foot
Clinic. There’s nothing like
filming at a real location, even
if you recreate it. There’s something about the fabric of real
places, and showing the real
Los Angeles, at least through
my very specific eyes, is very
gratifying and adds to the reality of the show.
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The Genius of the 5-Hour Rule
By Rita Mauceri, Ledger Columnist
terestingly, however, young
Franklin began to establish a
pattern of self-directed exploration and learning in his life.
He set aside one hour every
day to learn, reflect and read.
Essentially, he created “empty
space” that he used to explore
and grow—and he was religious about it.
The “slack” that Franklin
created in his day generated
huge results. It produced his
famous 13 Virtues and led to
the formation of a think tank
of like-minded philosophers
and learners called the Junto.
Franklin, the school dropout,
went on to become one of the
greatest minds in American
history.
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other manic school year, I find
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hours and wondering how I
can get some of the slowness
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Along those lines: I recently came across an article
on Inc.com by Michael Simmons entitled Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule.
The piece begins with the life
of Benjamin Franklin, who
dropped out of school at age
10. Franklin became at apprentice to his father, briefly,
and then his older brother
who was a printer. Most in-
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[OUR MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL]
[FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY]
Fifth-Grade Fun With the Service Club
Setting Goals for the School Year
By Amalia Mauceri, 5th Grade
By Emma Haag, 7th grade
where we sign up to help out
with various things around
the school. On the first day of
classes, I found out my Service
Club assignment.
My job is super cool. I help
manage the bathroom breaks
for the kindergarten girls. It’s
awesome because it gives me
responsibility, and also I love
being around all the cute little
kindergartners.
There are a lot of options for
Service Club jobs. For example,
there is stair monitor, a person
who helps keep everything quiet
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Reflection is becoming almost standard practice among
forward-thinking companies,
especially in the tech sphere.
The senior team at AOL is
required to spend four hours
a week “just thinking” and
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner
schedules “two hours of thinking time per day.”
Simmons goes on to profile other famous and wildly
successful people who have
embraced a similar philosophy
of “deliberate” or “constant”
learning. Among them: Mark
Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Oprah
Winfrey and Elon Musk. In
a society that focuses on constantly squeezing every ounce of
productivity out of every single
day, these people consciously
carve out time to stop down.
Simmons dubs this the
“5-Hour Rule,” saying that
every workday should have an
hour of free time in it. With
that time, you should do several key things: Read. Reflect.
Experiment.
Reading is a common denominator among so many visionaries and iconic entrepreneurs from Nike founder Phil
Knight—who had a library
behind his main office and required visitors to remove their
shoes and bow before entering—to Steve Jobs, who had
an “inexhaustible interest” in
the books of William Blake.
As for experimentation,
it is essential in order to test
ideas—large and small—
make mistakes, have failures
and ultimately have that one
great success.
Simmons makes a good
case for why the 5-Hour Rule
should be part of daily life, the
same way exercise or taking vitamins is. For more, check out
his entire piece, which is well
worth the read.
For busy moms who can
barely squeeze in that 30-minute hike while the kids are in
school, it may not sound doable. Then again, doesn’t an
hour of “empty space” sound
like a welcome break from all
the chaos?
on the stairs. Some people get
assigned as room helpers and
volunteer in classrooms at recess
and lunch. Others get placed in
the office where they help do
sorting, filing, and other tasks.
I’m looking forward to
the rest of Service Club and
the awesome fifth grade year
ahead of me. I try to remember
what it was like to be a kindergartner or a first grader and
how cool it was to have older
kids helping me out. Now I’m
one of the helpers and I hope
I can do the best job possible!
Welcome back to school,
Dolphins!
Julius
Erving once said,
“Goals determine
what
you are going
to be.”
It’s a new year and a new
you, so set goals and work
hard to achieve them. Goals
are hard to achieve alone, so
we always have some help.
This year to help us, we
have a new Student Council,
two new teachers, Mrs. Hel-
ton and Ms. Karagezyan, and
our new returning principal,
Ms. Essman.
After the first weeks of
school have ended, and the hard
work has begun, it is good to
have fun once in a while!
Our Mother of Good
Counsel School has many
activities for fun, such as the
yearly chocolate sale, the Fall
Festival, the Talent Show, and
so many more! I know this
will be the year that all of us
students, parents, and teachers
will remember forever.
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fifth graders at Franklin. We
know it is our last year at this
school, which is exciting but
also a little bit sad.
As fifth graders, one of
the things we can participate
in this year is Service Club,
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A New Lexicon for a Livable Community
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By Stephanie Vendig, Ledger Columnist
With
the
Mayor’s Executive Directive No. 17 and the proclamation that Los Angeles is
part of the American Assoc. of
Retired Persons (AARP) Network of Age-Friendly Communities, you might be wondering what features would
help L.A. become a livable
city. How will the city’s structures and services be adapted
to make them more accessible
and inclusive for older people?
Here are some of the specific terms or policies now being used by planners, policy
makers, politicians and others
working to achieve age-friendly goals. Transportation planners and engineers are using
the term “Complete Streets”
to describe designs enabling
safe access for all users—pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists
and transit riders of all ages
and abilities. The streets are
now no longer thought of just
in terms of cars.
Traditional zoning promotes a separation of land
uses. By using what’s called
“Form-Based Codes,” more attention will be paid to the re-
lationships between buildings
and the street, pedestrians and
vehicles, public and private
spaces and the size and types
of roads and blocks. FormBased Codes would therefore
be customized to fit the community.
will encourage walkable communities, mixed-use and the
availability of public transit.
With “Universal Design,”
homes, offices and public places are created or renovated so
that they can accommodate all
ages and physical abilities. For
How will the city’s structures and services
be adapted to make them more accessible
and inclusive for older people?
“Health Impact Assessments” would be a consideration when designing transportation policy and land-use
planning. In that way, one
could see a reduction of air
pollution, traffic injuries and
deaths and lower rates of
chronic disease.
By creating public spaces, known as “Placemaking,”
sidewalks, buildings, streets
and parks would be designed
to attract people, inviting
greater interaction and creating local identity.
“Smart Growth” is a concept to support existing communities in growth, but not
continuing sprawl. Mainly, it
example, there could be a zero-step entrance into a building, or doorways and hallways
would be wide enough for access by a wheelchair user.
Using the term “Vision
Zero,” the responsibility for
safety is shifted to system design, rather than the goal of no
deaths or serious injuries being
connected to users.
Laura Trejo, General
Manager, of the city’s Dept.
of Aging will discuss all these
terms and new thinking at the
Griffith Park Adult Community Center’s general meeting
September 21st, 1:00 p.m. at
Friendship Auditorium Riverside Drive in Los Feliz.
Programs for
free-thinking older
adults (323) 660-5277
Conversational
Spanish at GPACC on
Thursdays at 3:00-4:30
Griffith Park Adult Community Center Calendar
Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 12:00 – 2:30 pm,
Lunch, General Meeting at Friendship Auditorium.
Program: “Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Age-Friendly City
Initiative: Purposeful Aging LA”
a presentation by Laura Trejo, General Manager, Department of Aging
You can sign up for lunch at GPACC between 10:30 and 11:30 am
or call (323) 644-5579
Our Art Gallery in September and October will feature the
photographic work of former Council Member Tom LaBonge highlighting
local neighborhood images
Classes resuming in September: Beginning Jewelry taught by Reiko Nakono
starting Sept. 9th and Ukulele taught by Kate Friedricks starting Sept. 15th
The Lunch Program: Lunch is served 5 days a week at the Center.
$2 is the donation for those over 60 years. $4 for less than 60 years.
Daily lunch is served at 12 pm. Come in for coffee and sign in at 10:30.
For Information on the Griffith Park Adult Community
Club and getting a newsletter, call Stephanie Vendig at
(323) 667-3043, or e-mail at [email protected]
GPACC is located at 3203 Riverside Dr., just south of Los Feliz Bl.
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LOS FELIZ | web: 0308735 | 2340 North Vermont | Listed at $4,495,000 | New Listing
Gated Mediterranean Estate Circa 1935. Gorgeous pool and completely separate guest house.
Jeffrey Young 213.819.9630
LOS FELIZ | 2656 Aberdeen Avenue
web: 0286642 | $6,195,000
Captivating and elegant English Norman estate
in its purest architectural form in prime Los Feliz.
Konstantine V. | Charlie Clark 323.252.9451
LOS FELIZ | Wallace Neff Villa
web: 0286641 | $4,397,000
Circa 1924 gated Spanish Colonial Masterpiece
restored to perfection. 5bd/6ba, pool, view.
Konstantine V. | Rick Yohon 323.270.1725
LOS FELIZ | 4115 Dundee Drive | SOLD
Listed at $3,988,000
Quintessential 1927 Spanish Estate. Elevator.
Nestled on top of a hill with panoramic views.
Rosemary Low 323.660.5885
LOS FELIZ | 2763 Glendower Avenue | SOLD
1st time on the market in over 50 years. Amazing
courtyard Spanish has stunning 320 views.
LOS FELIZ | 11566 Morrison Street | In Escrow
web: 0286718 | $1,795,000
This celebrity-owned home, located on a Magnolialined street, is a stunningly elegant newer 5 Bed
and 4.5 Bath Contemporary Mediterranean
Manvel Tabakian | Nadia de Winter 376.2222
SILVER LAKE | 2317 Micheltorena St. | In Escrow
web: 0286690 | $1,599,000
Stunning mid-century modern c. 1952 in the Ivanhoe School District of Silver Lake. incredible views
out to the city and ocean, tri-level.
Rob Kallick 323.775.6305
LOS FELIZ | 1961 N Normandie Avenue
web: 0286740 | $1,350,000
Unlimited possibilities abound with this mostly
original condition 1920’s Mediterranean home.
Views of Downtown and west to the ocean.
Brad Lawrence 323.481.4700
LOS FELIZ | 3777 Effingham Place | SOLD
First time on the market in over 40 years! This very
special Los Feliz Spanish home c. 1929 is a perfect
restoration project for creating your dream home.
MORENO HIGHLANDS | 2049 Balmer Drive
web: 0286729 | $1,000,000
Peaceful Spanish Fixer located in one of the hottest, areas in America. This Moreno Highlands
whimsical retreat is decked out in custom wood.
Gail Crosby 323.428.2864
GLASSELL PARK | 1474 W Avenue 43 | In Escrow
web: 0286711 | $925,000
Incredible value in the hills of hot Glassell Park.
5bd/5ba modern home on a quiet & centrally located cul-de-sac street. Over 3,100 sq.ft. (app).
PASADENA | 1588 Corson Street | SOLD
Listed at $798,000
Originally built in 1926, this lovingly redone California contemporary bungalow. 4bd/2ba, high
ceilings, FDR, breakfast area, pool, spa & yard.
ECHO PARK | 2375 N Alvarado Street
web: 0286727 | $695,000
Drive on to your own private gated circa 1921
rustic mini compound in a great area of Echo
Park! 2+1 main house with 1+1 guest.
Rick Yohon 323.270.1725
SILVER LAKE | 2018 Griffith Park Blvd #318 | In Escrow
web: 0286721 | $535,000
A community turquoise blue pool perfect for
summer fun isn’t the only positive feature that
this Silver Lake condo-home has to offer!
SILVER LAKE | 2291 Edendale Place
web: 0286725 | $3,800/month
Sweet home with plenty of natural light. Views.
Beamed ceilings. Shiny, clean floors. 2bd/1ba on
main floor with 1bd/1ba downstairs.
ATWATER | 4112 Baywood Street | LEASED
Listed at $2,500/month
Impeccably maintained craftsman bungalow in
sought-after Atwater Village! 2 + 2 with huge
gorgeous gated yard. Just steps to the river.
Rick Yohon 323.270.1725
LOS FELIZ | 3279 Lowry Road
web: 0286583 | $1,800/month
Guest House. Private single home perched atop
garages large single room, w/decorative fireplace
& mantle, kitchen, stove & refrigerator. 3/4 bath,
Judy Dionzon 323.394.2330
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A very stylish 2 + 1 Mid-Century condominium in the heart of
Los Feliz Village. A great vibe in this spacious unit with nice
natural light, large bedrooms, spacious living room. Large
private balcony, lovely hillside and some downtown city views
too! Charming vintage kitchen and dining area. Security
building with underground parking. Great location in walking
distance to great shopping, restaurants and more! Low H.O.A!
In Escrow
2509 Silver Ridge Avenue
Silver Lake
$1,495,000
Gorgeous 4 bedrooms + 4.5 bath home with picturesque views
from the Los Feliz Observatory to the San Gabriel mountains.
LR w/ patio & views, large family room w/high pitched ceiling,
hardwood floors, Cook’s kitchen, wonderful master suite with
views & sumptuous bath, home office too. Bedrooms all have
en-suite baths. a wonderful spacious yard, (possibly room for a
pool!) fruit trees and patio too! 3400+ sqft. A definite winner!
Just Sold In Hollywood Hills
946 Nordica Drive
Mt. Washington
$878,000
Mt. Washington Hills 3+2.5 home w/great downtown and
canyon vu’s. Sunlit open floor plan, w/high ceilings, maple
wood floors & fireplace. Spacious living & dining areas open
to great kitchen w/new countertops, stainless appliances,
breakfast bar. Cozy den. Great view balcony. Large master
suite w/high ceilings, gorgeous bath and huge walk-in closet.
2167 Sq Ft. Award winning Mt Washington school district.
Silver Lake
2092 Mound Street
Hollywood Hills
$2,500,000
Magical 4 + 4.5 Spanish Hacienda is tucked away in the hills &
was adored by many of Hollywood royalty. Enter through a
enchanting courtyard surrounded by greenery. Large living rm,
expansive use of windows, beamed ceiling and offers a light
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2621 Glendale Boulevard
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A very sweet 3 bd + 2 ba 1922 built Spanish bungalow. Living
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kitchen with Shaker style cabinets, granite tops and stainless
appliances. Master suite with private bath and walk-in closet.
Large patio plus potential for garden. Two car garage. A great
location to many local Silver Lake hot spots, including coffee
shops, restaurants and the new Whole Foods 365 market!
3510 Greensward Road
Atwater
4442 Farmdale Avenue
Studio City
$1,149,000
Charming 3+2 Spanish on a nice residential street with great
curb appeal & charm. Spacious living room with wood burning
fireplace. Bright & sunny kitchen opens to a large dining room
or possible family room. Great master suite w/large walk-in
closet & sumptuous bath. Lovely archways and hardwood flrs.
Master suite & dining room opens out to the lovely backyard
and patio. AC & heat. 1,901 sq ft. 2 car detached garage.
Just Sold In Hollywood Hills
1767 Orange Grove Avenue
Hollywood Hills
$1,565,000
A very chic 2 + 2.5 hillside villa plus romantic guest house with
additional bathroom. Great original charm mixed with all of the
modern amenities desired for today. Spacious open living room
with fireplace and downtown city views. Kitchen with all Miele
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Just Leased In Silver Lake
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Very charming 3+2 1930’s Spanish in a prime Atwater area.
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Light filled living room & great dining room. Spacious kitchen.
Master suite w/private bath. French drs to lovely backyard and
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3205 Berkeley Avenue
Silver Lake
$4,350
Stylish 3 + 2 home with great city vu’s. Wonderful Silver Lake
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with gas fireplace & built-in bookshelves. Large dining rm.
Cook’s kitchen. Gorgeous baths. Nice patio off kitchen. Two
bedrooms up and one bedroom down. A/C. Large basement rm
with 2 sets of washer & dryers and built-in desk for possible
home office. 2 car garage. A short distance to Sunset hot spots!

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