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Let’s make sure that Councilmembers Bill Rosendahl and Paul Koretz are surrounded by neighbors with 10 dogs and cats each, and let’s go ahead and get started now so they can see how lovely their idea is even before they get a chance to vote on it.

Wow is this stupid. I can see it now, my needy brain dead neighbor living in an apartment leaves for his/her full time job – 16 hour work days, and leaves the 10 pets at home all day. He/she has them because he or she is needy and believes in saving them from the streets or death. So I listen to barking, and barking and smell shit and piss and I’m the asshole for complaining about the problem because my peace is not as valuable as the animals life.

Better yet, I’ll see him or her at my local coffee shop demanding bowls for all ten animals. don’t they realize that middle class educated sane people don’t get 10 animals, only unbalanced, poor (cannot afford the food and vet bills) are the ones who do? This is just so fucking stupid as to be beyond belief.

Paul and Bill should be forced to go live in an animal shelter for a week, then live with some cat people for a week. Then come back and talk about this.

The garage is much needed for the tenants who will be moving into to the Spring Arcade, Chester Williams Building and Jewlry Trade buildings. This will reactivate 3 more Broadway buildings.

There also must be loading and unloading facilities for the retail tenants, residents, and theatres that are included in this project. Roxy, Cameo and Arcade are adjacent to the garage. Talk of a grocery store or any other larger commercial use requires off street facilities of a loading area, trash collection, tenant move in area. Money making opportunity should also accomodate the film crews that use downtown as its back lot.

Not sure how anyone is opposing a project that has never been presented to the public or the neighborhood? Sounds more like a personal grudge match than a real disagreement over the garage.

Has Rudy ever been involved in any of the Broadway revitilization issues for the last 3 years? Now he is the sole champion?

Glad the owners are moving forward with a new vision for the neighborhood. The old vision is really not working very well.

Someone has overdone with unsharpen mask in PS. And still way too much money.

@guest #12: uh "no" (to answer your question). regarding your defense of these "incentives" – thats not the point!
The gubment’s job is not to make money, and repeat after me "the ends don’t justify the means". when you rob Peter to pay Paul you can always count on the support of Paul right?
re: "jobs that otherwise would depart" – says who? The guy on the other side of the table thats who. Don’t you find it a bit ironic that the self proclaimed number 1 industry in the city cries that they need help? WTF?

I’m waiting for shuffleboard to come back.

Sad but true. It happens all the time because there is no real network of conservancies linking LA to Santa Monica. West Hollywood is a mere facade and Beverly Hills is non-existent. I had dinner with a 2 term former mayor of BH the other night and we discussed why BH had virtually turned its back on preservation. You guessed it $$$$$ for the city with very little constraint. My Father’s lifelong client and friend owned one of the most magnificent Wallace Neff’s atop Angelo Drive which Paul Allen reduced to dust. Why? Because he could. It sits vacant an empty 23 acre plateau surrounded by another 150. "No body gets it until it is on their neighbor’s doorstep" and then it jumps onto yours. HP is not about NIMBY’S…..it’s about a respect and relevance to a community and the land. Ownership is not one of those "no strings attached concepts". Call Michael Goven and ask him if he would like to enter the fray……. have him select a piece of land and move it…after all one of the Lautner’s is in the LACMA Collection and this just might be his style after he exits Hancock Park corprorate housing.

Kim Jong-il Happy, Realtors Not, Over New Neighborhood Designations
LAT
August 23, 2010

Speaking from a dais, beneath a background photo of a gleaming Solair, North Korea President, Kim Jong-il, said today in a rambling, nationally televised address, "the new neighborhood designations approved by the Los Angeles City Council, conclusively prove that the northern area of Koreatown is indeed more economically prosperous than the south." Relying on imagery, previously banned by his regime, from Google "street view", Kim Jong-il employed graphic evidence, as well as sales comp data from Trulia, to validate his claim that, "affluent Koreans are flocking to new condominiums north of Wilshire boulevard", while, "the imperialists living south of Wilshire are mired by graffiti, crumbling housing stock and gang members dropping out of wastefully, expensive, new high schools." However, at the same time that Kim Jong-il was gloating about, "proximity to Larchmont Village", a group of L.A. real estate brokers were complaining that, ‘being named after Bangladesh-the poorest, most densely populated nation on earth-is not the lifestyle we’re attempting to sell". Clyde Rawley, an agent for Keller Williams, perhaps summed up the group’s concerns best, by saying, "I’m trying to list properties at higher price points that the entire GDP of Bangladesh. The real estate business is based on subliminal, intangibles. I remain doubtful that prospective buyers will brag to their friends back east, about spending $600k on condo in a neighborhood named after a nation infamous for it’s famines, floods and ethnic, religious divisions."

Wow. Gotta love that Paul Williams.

John’s passing is a profound loss to me as a person and to the professional space many of us occupy.

John possessed a keen intellect, a profound empathy, a deep understanding and a mischievous sense of play. He conceived of and balanced competing ideologies and practices. If he were alive, I would call him and tease him about his death. While this is difficult loss to the architecture and planning community it is an overwhelming loss to the many, many people he has touched.

On a personal level, I would not be who or where I am without him, and on a professional level, I would not conceive of metro-LA as I do without his oral and written insights.