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Surprised at all the love Highland Park is receiving. Ever seen the "Avenues" graffiti on nearly every corner? If you havent, I can show you. And Koreatown? really? that place is a dump and a half. Have you seen the "MS 13" graffiti on nearly every building. My point is, neighborhoods dominated by a certain gang should be left off this list for obvious reasons. Night-life/family-life = putting yourself in shady situations. Trust me, I work in these areas, see the crap on a daily basis. Besides, any neighborhood with more illegal dumping than Koreatown? Most densely populated part of the city. I nominate Glendale due, mostly due to all the new development revitalizing the city and providing a breath of fresh air. Parking when visiting local businesses is cheap and easy. Rated one of the safest large citiies in America. Traffic and congestion is bad, home prices are too pricey. Wonder why? People are flocking there, ever heard of the supply and demand concept?

@MMEAD: If the Ordinance doesn’t produce a reasonable building design, that means the design guidelines need to be rewritten. That could either be through "conventional" design guidelines or a form based codes. Review board members come and go, but the guidelines will stay.
Protecting light and air doesn’t necessarily require short buildings. Protecting light and air was one of the original purposes of zoning in the first US location it was implemented—Manhattan. It means controlling the bbulk of the building (ratio of built space to lot size) and quite possibly requiring setbacks and smaller floors on upper stories.

@zb:
Any company over 50 employees in CA in an air quality district that can’t achieve federal air quality standards (pretty much all of SoCal) is required to offer the value of the parking space as a cash payment to employees that do not use the spaces. It is a state law. SM does require companies to submit a report every year as to how their employees do get to work.

Ditto to the comment about the not one but two ugly air conditioning units in plain view right above the main entrance to the house. The entrance is already compromised by having to get there though an alley way past several other houses’ car ports and trash bins. Once you get in, the view is very impressive, but the workmanship is a bit shoddy with unfinished railing and deck that would be beat up on a rainy day like today. For the price in HP, I expected better execution than cheap plywood barn doors for the master bath. Is the local school that bad? I see an elementary school just down the block.

This place is gorgeous. The views. The light. The air. The character. The neighborhood. The street. The neighbors. The detailing. Everything here is to die for. It can use some freshening, but what place can’t

And the price is completely correct. The negative comments here – especially those that claim the place is $2 Million overpriced – are beyond ignorant and stupid, and those commenters should be more concerned with the details of how the city leash law applies to them than with multimillion dollar properties. Hello? A house way down Nottingham from this one, with far more modest views but more land, sold for over Nine Million Dollars more than a year ago. The comps are endless. This place is very well priced.

Looks like we’ve found the only person on Earth who thinks that Bel Air represents a human ideal. Eureka.

The hypocrisy of the first quote is that Bel Air, heavily populated by people whose business depends on inconveniencing others with location filming throughout the city turn into little drama queens when they’re asked to taste a little bit of their own medicine. My neighborhood periodically has to surrender half its street parking to movie logistics, and I don’t suppose anybody is too happy about it, but we don’t go around whining about the death of our "community." Would that Bel Air’s self-knowledge were equal to its sense of entitlement.

@Anonymous Greybox: it’s $207k of taxable income. completely meaningless in a place like bel air, the only w2 wage earners in the area are the landscaping/catering/maintenance/etc. employees.

Wow, these comment and this article really run the gamut from liberal apologist for the poor to strange social darwinism and my favorite – grumbling about how this generation is so much worse than the ones before it.

Face it. America is still the world’s greatest meritocracy. Really spectacular people can succeed here without much luck no matter where they come from… But everyone wealthy is certainly not spectacular and for most of the poor the odds are stacked against them and it’s really really hard to change your station in life and take a a bit more than "wanting to."

As far as the actual article. Bel Airs overreaction is certainly comical… but why does the article just take the side that opposition to a new well is logical or justified? And why does an article written for a non-scientific audience use such manipulative statements such as "acid and other hazardous chemicals"? The site certainly holds acid but is it hazardous? Are levels significant? This is scientifically irresponsible to paraphrase like this. That the neighbors are worried about environmental impact is enough… These neighbors concerns could be just as overblown as the Beverly Hills neighbors who thought as subway would cause a gas explosion. Sure, they are poor. TheY have been marginalized in the past. BUT that doesn’t make them scientific experts and their concerns over oil drilling shouldn’t be given any more credence than other cases where laypeople fear an environmental impact of something they don’t really understand.

It also used to cost a small fortune to travel by air. Remember Laker Air as a no frills airline to Britain?

@justanotherreader: no. more people are attending college than ever before. education truly is the great equalizer, sharp men with their act together go ridiculously far on this planet. unfortunately, there’s not too many around these days.

what’s changed is america has turned into a nation of sissies with zero drive or ambition. a country of feminized fatbodies who would rather play video games and beat off to internet porn than go out into the real world and make things happen.

i know quite a few people in bel air, holmbly hills, etc. all of them have created an insane amount of value and rightfully deserve everything they have.

if the average crybaby shut up for two minutes and invested the time/energy/etc. to improve his lot, collectively, the world would be a better place. when the tide rises, so do all the ships.