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Hollywood-Gower
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There were a few
new faces in the meeting – Neighbors from Tamarind and Carlos: Shawna
Kenney, Mytch Parks and Eva Lohse. Our Senior Lead
Officer was not able to attend tonight and sends her apologies. Bill Kysella,
City Attorney’s Neighborhood Prosecutor we there to help us find
solutions to neighborhood issues. Shawna shared how
her neighborhood is crowded with parked cars from Florentine Gardens
patrons. There was an agreement that Florentine Gardens made with the city
in 1999 to have the security guards steer patrons away from the
neighborhood streets. They were to have patrons show stickers proving that
they paid to park in the Florentine Gardens parking lot. A conversation
with the security guards reveals that they don’t know about this 1999
agreement. The greeting on their machine no longer mentions the
requirement for the parking sticker verification requirement. Several solutions
and approaches were discussed. Shawna’s landlord has written a letter to
Florentine Gardens. Jordan suggested that we do our best to communicate
with them directly before going to the city with the problem. The
Hollywood-Gower Neighborhood Association will write a letter
asking them to be more considerate of the community and to comply with the
requirements of the Conditional Use Permit ZA-96-0122.This letter will
request a response within two weeks with a promise to report the CUP
violations to the city if no response is received. Letter will be
cc’d to Bill Kysella & Eric Garcetti’s office. Florentine
Gardens owners/managers will also be invited to come to the next meeting
of the Hollywood-Gower Neighborhood Association to discuss possible ways
of us working together and creative solutions. Letter to be sent
certified return receipt requested. Tamarind
Issues: Cal Trans
doesn’t clean up the area on the west side of Bronson, north side of
Carlos between the apartment buildings and the freeway. The church
hasn’t been having their maintenance people prune or clean the growth on
the northeast side of their parking lot that abuts Tamarind. The mess is
going over onto Tamarind and the neighbors are constantly cleaning it. Jessica
will contact Gina or Bob Brown at the church asking them to instruct their
gardeners to extend their work to that area. Jessica will report the
results at the October meeting. People party at
the end of Tamarind on Friday and Saturday nights after partying at the
clubs. Mytch says that
in the past, people would come to the back gate of his apartment building
between lights and do drugs and hang out. He suggests that when you see
people doing that kind of loitering to call 888 ASK-LAPD and report it. Since
he started doing that, the situation has calmed down near that gate but
still exists at the end of the cul-de-sac. Bill Kysella suggested that
Mytch contact his Senior Lead Officer when she is working late so she can
come by and cruise Tamarind as well as check on that area behind Mytch’s
building. Fran will
write to Mytch with Maria’s (Senior Lead Officer) phone number. Steve suggested
that Mytch go to the Wilcox station and get a Trespassers Arrest
Authorization. Bill Kysella
says that if one is afraid to report conditions in their neighborhood,
they should still call 213-485-4310 (Hollywood Police Community Relations)
and whisper the details – even anonymously to someone there so that the
police know to take a look at the situation. Recently,
a squatter encampment was raided after existing in a neighborhood for
months with all manner of criminal activity centering right there. Now the
owner knows about it and has leveled the building. Neighborhood
Issues: There is a big
bus on private property across from Tommy’s. There is a homeless woman
living in a car on Bronson (north of Hollywood on the west side of the
street – brown car – she has a wheel chair and moves the car on street
cleaning day only – the people in the bus may be helping her survive). Traffic
Letter needs
to be written to DOT asking for a left arrow for the southbound Vine
Street traffic going east onto Hollywood Blvd. and a left turn arrow for
the traffic going north on Western Ave. and turning left (westbound) onto
Franklin. Steve will help Fran write this letter. Neighborhood
Council Report
Steve Whiddon
reported that Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood Council is making
progress towards certification with boundaries of Western on the east,
Melrose on the south, Hollywood Blvd. on the north and El Centro on the
west. He invited anyone living in those boundaries to sign the petition. They
will be doing outreach on October 12th with a booth at the
Latino Heritage Festival that will take place on Hollywood Blvd. between
Highland and Vine Street. Steve has applications for outreach booths
for this event. They will have
their “big meeting” on October 30th at 6:30pm at Q-Topia.
LAUSD Superintendent will be there to discuss the new high school planned
for Hollywood in his area. Halloween safety will be discussed and there
may be a CRA rep there to discuss coming developments. Bill
Kysella’s Action Plan
Lighting
– he will refer the situation to Street Lighting for them to come take a
look and tell us what we can and can’t have on Tamarind. Florentine
Gardens – Bill will have
a copy of the CUP faxed to him so that he can become familiar with the
original agreements and requirements. Homeless woman
– he will refer this to the homeless committee and to the officers who
do the homeless outreach. There are many agencies that are involved in
this outreach program (P.A.T.H. People Assisting The Homeless). Bus
– he will speak to the legal division to see how much information can be
gathered about that vehicle and what, if anything, can be done about or to
it to make it not such an eye-sore. Bill will need more detailed
information about the goings-on in that alley between the bus and the
liquor store before surveillance can be meaningful. CalTrans –
he will contact his people at CHP and CalTrans to see if clean up
operations can be conducted. Hollywood-Gower
Action Plan
Fran
will send a letter to Florentine Gardens sharing the situation and
inviting them to the October meeting. Shawna will report next month
whether there has been any improvements on her street. Jessica will talk
to contacts at First Presbyterian. She will report next month on how that
conversation goes and if it results in any clean up efforts. Steve and Fran
will write a letter to the DOT asking for those two left turn arrows. Meeting adjourned. |
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