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I know the inside story, and the real corruption (in my humble opinion) is with the BH Courier running these irresponsible articles as well as the misguided Alliance group. The Bel Air Association has been fixing potholes for years – and this work is well documented – so any insinuation that it is somehow impossible to do is easily fact checked (which the Courier absolutely failed to do.) As to the Association’s letter of "support", it was in fact a letter memorializing a number of enhanced "health and safety" agreements that the developer agreed to that was put in place to best protect the community from an inevitable dirt haul route approval. NOTE that the Bel Air Association did NOT support the project at the initial haul route hearing, but instead submitted a list of mitigation measures to best protect the community. Only at the APPEAL hearing (which appeal was filed by the Alliance without a legally sustainable argument – as evidenced by the City Council unanimous 13-0 rejection of the Alliance’s appeal) did the Association file its letter as it is far better to get a long list of additional protections than NOTHING, which would have been the case if all opposition just kept saying "no no no" to everything without offering ideas to help lessen the impact on the community.

The rough timber fireplace mantel seems to belong to the same regrettable fad as the barn door.

And the A/C unit high on the wall is a mini-split. (PTACs, on the other hand — packaged terminal air conditioners — are those big through-the-wall units you usually see under windows, or in countless motels.)

BTW, those big orange, tube-like flood barriers are filled with water, not air. Some are held in place by concrete median barriers on one side to keep the flood waters from pushing or rolling them back.

What a dump…These mega-log palaces are worse than the Persian Palaces that pop up all over LA. The furniture is awful, the knick-nacks are worse, the dishwasher is $300 at Sears and what the hell are you going to do with a 28-car garage? 28 Escalades? 28 H2s? This is just excess and nothing more. I’d rather have this one $22,000,000 compound in Bel Air and stay at the St. Regis in a suite when I felt like skiing, all the while laughing my way to the bank.

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There is money in affordable housing but putting poor people in situations that will run them dry is wrong. Put affordable housing in poor areas where they will find the resources that sustain them like food banks, sociL services and affordable health care. Giving housing to the in these area s raises rents for everyone else. And building new for affordable is also a bad idea when resale costs are much lower. Would you want poor neighbors stealing from you, dogs barking, kids crying and a scent of deep fry in the air. Poor people fry everything. It’s a burden for all. How much affordable is in bel air? Way to ruin something nice. I know. I was once poor too.

Bel Del Devoe, y’all.

@guest #8: For one thing NYC is only really cold for 3 months out of the year… but anyway. I’ve been to LA. Brentwood and Bel-Air surely have nice houses. Are they nice than Riverdale/Fieldston,Todt Hill, Malba, Little Neck, Belle Harbor etc.??? NO I guess though you’d like to bring up the whole LA county… but in NYC we have suburbs like Pelham Manor – Bronxville – Great Neck – Sands Point – Kings Point etc. etc.
Views? An ocean view is an ocean view no matter where you are. The only "special" view in LA are in the hills… but the last time I was there the air wasn’t clean so I couldn’t see too far down.

I do agree though that this is not really an LA house… it’s more Miami – LOLOL

 The Bel Arabs lived there

@alangregg: Sounds right. You have to also look at other levels and types of pollution, different parts of LA have different levels depending how close or far away from a freeway they are. Brentwood and parts of Bel Air near the freeway show average API but when you look at other data they are a hot nasty mess, might as well live in chemical factory, lots of Autism among Brentwood kids is no coincidence. Beverly Hills North vs. South of city also differ, with the North with lower pollution levels vs. the South. Same with WEHO and Hollywood Hills vs. the South parts. It’s all very interesting and quality of life issue as air pollution has been shown to seep into homes at night not during the day.

Billions of people worldwide survive the heat just fine without air conditioners

The people who survive are not the concern. The thousands of people who die every year due to heat are the concern.