@guest #30: Calling Eagle Rock or Silver Lake "walkable" is a stretch… however, Venice and Santa Monica are both excellent neighborhoods for pedestrians.
Silver Lake, Highland- and Echo Park, Eagle Rock, Atwater. The east side is where you’ll find diversity, culture, progressive thinkers and walkable neighborhoods. I don’t miss living west of the 405.
LA Playing Fast and Loose With Building on the Hollywood Fault
@guest #19: Sinkholes are caused by subsurface shifts in the water table / long-broken water lines eroding soil and rock. Not my first concern in an earthquake. If you mean liquefaction, then that’s something else entirely. More of a Burbank problem (I’m serious).
Sinkholes shouldn’t be your concern. Strike-slip faults triggering localized shearing should be a huge concern.
Put two fists together and shake your arms. That’s the motion you get 50’+ feet from a fault.
Put two fists together, shake your arms and let one hand slip just a bit. That’s what happens to the ground directly on top of a blind thrust fault.
Except in that case, the hand that shot upward represents a tectonic plate hurtling through the middle of a foundation.
One is OK. One is not OK. The distance DOES matter. Building far enough away from a fault is safe. Doesn’t matter if it’s 3 stories or 30 stories.
Likewise, building directly on a fault will do the same thing to a 3 story or 30 story building.
LA Playing Fast and Loose With Building on the Hollywood Fault
@guest #33: What rock did you just crawl out from under? There have been concerned citizens involved since day one.
Your deal is build whatever the fuck wherever the fuck and let someone else take care of any problems or catastrophes? Sounds like you are a selfish fuck who will be first in line with your hand out for a government check for your "pain and suffering".
WeHo is Shrinking But is Still Full of Single White Gay Men
This place should be annexed back into LA. The local government obviously can’t hack it. I also find it funny that WeHo residents move into an area that is between Santa Monica Blvd and the Sunset Strip, two areas densely packed with bars, clubs, and tons of famous rock n roll venues, and then are surprised that there is noise.
Ace Hotel Scrubs the Tower at the Old United Artists Building
Way to go DTLA , the ACE hotel is going to be a hit, there’s also the best the best Chinese restauant I’ve had just around the corner called New Moon, Both places are going to rock in a few months. I’m so excited!
You can quibble with the morningcity comment but it is not entirely wrong. The produce and farmers markets are amazing, better than the limp, tasteless crap you get in NYC, and people do talk about how they got to places, flea markets rock and cool stuff here tneds to be word-of-mouth/who-you-know.
I am also up at 5:45 am to walk my dog, and I am always suprised to see so many people up. And remember, this is a comparison to NYC, so it relative.
West WeHo Streets Getting Major Ped-Friendly Makeover
@Guest #13….WeHo is in your estimate an "urban planning joke" with your proof being that the traffic is so heavy there? Ummm, wouldn’t that suggest WeHo is a place people highly desire to go to?…in part because of their "urban planning" making it so desirable? Housing prices there are through the roof because so many people want to live their. Retail and entertainment rents are eqully expensive because so many people want to go there. Highland Ave in Manhattan Beach, Colorado Blvd in Pasadena, Larchmont Blvd in Hollywood, Main Street in Santa Monica, are all then also "urban planning jokes" because they have very heavy traffic (oh, and like WeHo, lots of streetscape planning) due to the high desireability of their locations? I might suggest taking a drive on Colorado Blvd from Glendale through Eagle Rock and into Pasadena….which are the more vibrant parts? The parts were streetscape improvements (including road slimming) have been enacted. You can speed through Eagle Rock on its 6 lanes pretty easily….and Eagle Rock has suffered for it compared to the same street in Glendale and Pasadena where it is more managed.
The problem with WeHo and tourism is that the city council’s been spending so much time pampering Santa Monica Blvd., which caters only to gay men who like to drink and go to gyms. Meanwhile, they’ve let the Sunset Strip become a wasteland of vacant buildings and shitty restaurants. Tourists stay at the hotels, but don’t spend much time in WeHo itself unless they’re gay.
Want to increase tourism in WeHo? Get some world class restaurants on Sunset, reopen the Strip’s various shuttered parking lots, negotiate with the rock clubs to abandon their pay to play policies and start booking real acts that people want to see, and that’s a good start.
Work Finally Starts on Desmond's Apartments in Miracle Mile
Wow!
First off..everyone deserves to be heard.
I’m commenting on the topic because as a resident of the miracle mile. I’ve lived in the community for 15 years and this will be a big game change along with the expansion of the purple line.
Progress is good and networking is even better. (I will clarify) The prices are not really out of what the market for 2013 full amenities apartments are going for. If you make between 50,000-200,000 go for it! If you have roommates who all make between 30-50 thousand a year, go for it!
My apartment doesn’t have full amenities and I’m paying less.
As a family of three we have a reasonable two bedroom.
Networking is everything along with peace of mind.
I only hope that the change that arrives also provides continued small business opportunities for residents in the miracle mile area. I would prefer more condos with the opportunity to purchase.
(Not that many additional condos being built in the miracle mile area.)
I’m a transplate from NYC.
15 years in this community and change is hard but the reality is upon us.
I remember folks complaining about the Grove. Now everyone enjoys the ability to have a night out with family and friends while shopping and catching a movie. If you want more balanced housing opportunities for working families in the miracle mile area…Fight for it. If not then you are just apart of the problem. Sound without action.
More status quo without action.
Rock the vote. Rock your Voice. Be Heard.
Life is about networking and social engagement. If you focus on the cost you will miss the ability to be apart of the present. ( money isn’t everything.)
15 years ago while walking in LA I was reading the paper. Motorola was planning on introducing Internet for cell phones. People thought it was a horrible idea. Now look at every phone.
Change is good. With checks and balances applied.
My definition of networking?
Social engagement and direct action.
I wish that I had purchased that stock on Internet expansion for cell phones 15 years ago. :)