Petite 1904 Craftsman Cottage in Echo Park Asking $499,000
I’m going to take this opportunity. "West" Sunset Blvd? There is no East Sunset…anymore. Not since the name changed to Cesar Chavez. LA’s standard is to only differentiate E & W when both exist. Can we get rid of the "West?" I mucks-up a classic name, is inconsistent, and can cause confusion if people think there is a distinction.
LA Metro Could Switch Rail Line Names From Colors to Letters
This was bound to happen at some point, but they should really do a better job of grouping together similar services with adjacent letters. Here’s how they should do it:
A: Existing Red line.
B: Existing Purple line.
C: Crenshaw line.
D: Blue line + northern Gold line
E: Expo line + southern Gold line
F: Green line spur to LAX
G: Existing Green line
1: Orange Line
2: Silver Line
Beverly Hills Schools Could Collapse and the School Board Just Voted Not to Fix Them
@nbluth:
No, I am not completely wrong, or even wrong. To requote what I said above, " First, money for construction and modernization for schools can not be spent on legal fees unless it is directly related to the construction or modernization, not to fight subway lines." According to the ballotpedia entry you linked to, " The rationale of the school for using Measure E funds to pay these legal fees is that if the subway tunnel gets built, it will have to re-do its reconstruction plans for the high school."
So it is directly related to reconstruction, or that is the advice of district counsel.
Secondly, the article above says $8M of bond money was used to fight the the legal battle. Your ballotpedia entry said $319,975. $319K vs $8M.
I stand by my comments that there are lots of issues with this reporting. school boards do not raise property taxes. Voters decide to do this or not.
Beverly Hills Schools Could Collapse and the School Board Just Voted Not to Fix Them
Wally West</a>: <a href='#comment-1774386'>Board Member not in BH: "First, money for construction and modernization for schools can not be spent on legal fees unless it is directly related to the construction or modernization, not to fight subway lines. You would be frogmarched quickly to jail for doing this according to Prop 39."
A two-second google search could have told you that you’re completely wrong:
"In 2012, the Beverly Hills Unified School District paid $319,975 to the law firm of Hill, Farrer & Burrel from Measure E funds. Hill, Farrer is representing the district in its lawsuit against the Metro subway system’s plan to place a subway tunnel under Beverly Hills High School. The rationale of the school for using Measure E funds to pay these legal fees is that if the subway tunnel gets built, it will have to re-do its reconstruction plans for the high school."
Beverly Hills Schools Could Collapse and the School Board Just Voted Not to Fix Them
@Board Member not in BH:
"can not be spent on legal fees unless it is directly related to the construction or modernization, not to fight subway lines."
"The rationale of the school for using Measure E funds to pay these legal fees"
Those statements are 100% contradictory. You clearly said in your first comment that it would be illegal for the board to use Measure E funds on subway-fighting legal fees. Now you’re trying to lie and say that you agreed all along that it’s perfectly legal for the board to use those funds to fight the subway (which would make your criticism about curbed’s reporting irrelevant).
Beverly Hills is Driving Tourists Off Rodeo and Into The Grove
@enter ranting:
with e-com there is no reason to even shop on vacation. Unless it’s a extremely rare clothing boutique or some niche sentimental nick-nak 99% of what you want can be bought online now.
Los Angeles's Big Plan For Pulling Out of Its Housing Crisis
@SpitShineTommy: Creating more and more potential traffic on LaBrea. And I pass by the one at LaBrea and Wilshire almost every day, and it looks empty. Maybe people don’t want to pay huge amounts of money to live cheek by jowl with a lot of other people, or live with the constant smell of pizza or Chipotle or whatever fast food they are putting on the first floor….in your worship of high rises, multi-residence development, you are overlooking the obvious: privacy. It is a drag to share an elevator, to share common walls, to e able to hear your neighbor’s TV or their arguments, their flushing toilets, etc, just as it is a horrible experience to take public transportation and deal with their loud obnoxious music (even through an iPod!), lous obnoxious cell phone conversations (and why do people speaking foreign languages feel compelled to shriek into their phones?), smell their body odor or endure their meltdowns when their court-appointed meds run out? Even the most smoke-belching, bumper-dragging POS mobile is preferable. The phrase "the great unwashed" has never been more accurate. Granted in an 2000 dollar a month apartment you’d have a better class of neighbor, but they will still be too close for comfort. Population control and more decent jobs: invest in the creative infrastructure.
Meet John Portman, the Architect Behind the Dystopian Backdrops of The Walking Dead and The Hunger Games
… depends on your age. I was as interested to see Portman’s Hyatt Regency Atlanta and it’s atrium as much as Richard Meir’s High Museum at the time. Portman had broken so much more ice than the paper architects of the period, so if you were hungry to see something new and substantial…. this was not a forbidden thing. He also reminded me of Morris Lapidus who was being resurrected by the post-mods at the time…