Potential Shutdown of METRO WATER Pumping Plant & ZUMA DOGG -- WEEK IN REVIEW (5/31/07) :

From: Office of the General Manager
Sent: Thu 5/31/2007 10:43 AM
Subject: Potential Shutdown of Banks Pumping Plant

MWD: METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Date: May 31, 2007
To: All Metropolitan Employees
From: Jeffrey Kightlinger, General Manager
Subject: Potential Shutdown of Banks Pumping Plant

Metropolitan has learned that because of recent take and entrainment of delta smelt at the Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant, the state Department of Water Resources is considering temporarily shutting down the State Water Project pumps. DWR is expected to announce a decision regarding a potential pump shutdown within the next 24 hours.

We will be actively working with DWR and the other State Water Contractors on contingency plans to meet local water demands. We will keep you posted as events unfold.

More at ITOLDYOURASS.com

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EVERY ZUMA DOGG PUBLIC COMMENT ON EVERY AGENDA ITEM FROM CITY TV 35: Click here -- keyword search "zuma dogg"

ZUMA DOGG HITS THE MOVIE SCREEN IN LOS ANGELES: If you saw the camera crew in chambers this week covering "ZD at City Hall" (and Venice Beach), it will be part of pixelodeonfest.com at American Film Institute in Downtown Los Angeles next weekend.

Of course, being a "Special Event" it will be free and open to the public, unlike CM Parks BET Awards "Special Event" that I guarantee is not open to the public. Stop by and see Big ZD, really Big -- on the movie screen. And I am glad to be able to be a part of a City event, in Downtown Los Angeles as a way of giving back a little something to our community. And, if you do come Downtown for the movie...just ignore the aggressive skid row panhandlers who may encroach you. Downtown is vital, otherwise. It just needs some more high end development projects.

THESE TOP STORIES ON THE LINKS BELOW:
* CM Staffers infiltrate Neighborhood Councils/Corrupt System/Glassell Park
* Villaraigosa has so much free time, he can campaign for Clinton as Co-Chair
* Zahnister's LA Weekly article on "Density"
* Jack Weiss Re-call is HUGE
* EMINENT DOMAIN ordinance being drafted
* YouTube Video: Villar goes "ZD" on Zev at MTA meeting
* Kevin James on KRLA AM 870 9p-11p (Plus, Mr. K on 1150 AM 3p-7p)
* DWP ALERT: Water Wells Threatened, at least one well shut down
* LA RIVER is just a bad excuse for high density housing (Condorodo River)
* Southwest Muesum/Griffith Park/Elephant Hill/Hazard Park concerns
* Semilla Del Pueblo: It's about the real estate and grant money bamboozle
* Allegations of fraud over City's Methane Mitigation Policy

Zuma's NATIONAL Clinton/Villaraigosa/Nunez Blog Stories
Zuma's Mayor Sam Stories
ZD YouTube search
Zuma's Blogspot
ZD's Neighborhood Council Blog

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YouTube COMEDY CLASSIC: Antonio Villaraigosa Gets "A Little Heated" And Goes "Zuma Dogg" On Zev at MTA Meeting

***** UPDATE *****
YouTube: Click here for ZD camcorder shot of radio call on AM 1150. Mr. K aks ZD about homeless and gets waaaaaaay too personal with ZD on his own lack of affordable housing. (Only MY audio, but you'll figure it out.

HILLARY CLINTON APPOINTS LOS ANGELES MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA CO-CHAIR
From Clinton For President Blogspot

TO EVERYONE READING AROUND THE NATION WHO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT LOS ANGELES MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA HERE IS A POPULAR LA CITY HALL "INSIDERS" BLOG Mayor Sam's Sister City Blog

ANTONIO GOES GANSTA ON ZEV AND RIPS A NEW ONE!!! (FIVE STAR!)

[Antonio...You GO, Girl! PEOPLE...stick with it...ABSOULTELY HILARIOUS...LOVE IT TONY! You're a clean-shave version of ZD!]

AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political courtship of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa landed her an early, influential endorsement this week that highlights the intense competition among presidential candidates for support within the growing Hispanic population.

Candidates in both major parties are reaching out to Hispanic voters with an intensity that speaks to the importance of the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group in the 2008 campaign.

Immigration reform is a touchstone issue for many Hispanics, particularly in cities like Los Angeles, which has strong cultural and economic ties to Mexico. California has as many as 3 million illegal immigrants, the most of any state.

Villaraigosa's support for Clinton rested in part on their agreement on the need for a federal law that would include a pathway to citizenship for many of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country, among other provisions.

The senator earlier hired Villaraigosa political adviser (and blog spin doctor to combat anti-Villaraigosa political activist Zuma Dogg) Michael Trujillo to run her California campaign and named state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a close friend of the mayor and another prominent Hispanic politician, a national co-chair of her campaign.

***** She also appointed Villaraigosa a national co-chair. *****

Villaraigosa's endorsement "is proof that the Clinton campaign's focus and strategy to win the Latino vote continues to grow stronger," the statement said.
Zuma Dogg Blog Stories of Past Week, Zuma Dogg "Public Comment" on City TV 35 [search "zuma dogg"]

***** BONUS STORY: LA WEEKLY DAVID ZAHNISTER STORY ON WAY MORE DENSITY READY TO STEAMROLL THE CITY. (Grass Beware) Click Here

COUNCIL'S EMINENT DOMAIN REFERED TO COMMITTEE FOR DRAFT AND MAGIC BULLET TRAINS

***** BONUS STORY: LA WEEKLY DAVID ZAHNISTER STORY ON WAY MORE DENSITY READY TO STEAMROLL THE CITY. (Grass Beware) Click Here
BONUS THREAD: NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL DISENFRANCHISEMENT OVER "NO QUORUM" LAST NIGHT

PROGRAM TO ACQUIRE REAL PROPERTY BY EMINENT DOMAIN (File Number 07-1417)
Initiated by: Your Shady Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)

I checked the lacity website today to research this file number a little more, and it was removed from the website. So I contacted the City Clerk's office and the item has been referred back to the Housing and Economic Committee. So it's not a vote on Friday, looks like they are drafting the ordinance in Committee; then hopefully, it will have to be sent back to be amended; then put before Council; then have to be continued; then sent back to committee for revision/amendments; then put before a vote of Council -- we can only hope.

Otherwise, look for a magic bullet train from San Francisco to San Diego; or LA to Las Vegas, coming to the home or business in YOUR CRA area, soon. Cause the rich real estate investors who are moving out of Los Angeles and into Las Vegas need a fast and easy way to commute back to LA for their business meetings and to visit the properties they own in LA.

But not everyone is a rich property developer who moved to Vegas (I'm told Asian's especially love leaving LA and moving to LV.) So to all the everyday, average types and flat out low income earners, who can now travel to Vegas more conventionally: Now you can hop the train to Vegas after work on Friday, lose all your money and return to LA with even more financial problems before bedtime. So sounds like it's a win-win for everybody!

READ MORE COMMENTARY AND INFO ON THIS PROJECT INCLUDING DAILY NEWS STORY

AND, I heard the San Diego Association of Government (SD SCAG) feels the SF to SD bullet train doesn't go far enough, and they want it to extend right into Mexico. So you can travel back and forth from Mexico to anywhere else in California on the train. (I think that's a good idea, because no immediate concerns national safety comes to mind.)

The SF to SD magic bullet train still has to be put to a vote of the people. The Vegas train people are saying can be built in 2-3 years once they press the start button, cause they will have crews in Vegas and L.A. working simultaneously.

When concerns of Eminent Domain taking people's home for the magic train, that will get you to SF or SD much faster (if that's a priority for you) was brought up to FLY LA project presenters, we were told, "It's not the kind of train that is going to run through neighborhoods. But industry, yes. So we will have to claim eminent domain in business areas. It is not our goal to take your homes."

Great, so you won't lose your home, you'll only lose your job, or business. And of course some homes would have to go as well, too. Just not the "goal".

So I hope they hurry up and draft that Eminent Domain ordinance and vote it in...Because I do not feel this is a good time for the City and State to be focusing on basics. The City is in pretty good shape. I think the time is now to spend billions and billions and billions and billions on multiple magic bullet train projects for the rich to turn the whole region into a daily suburban commute. We can call it Los Vegas, North Mexico. (And forget SCAG, we need a new one from SF to SD, and LA to LV.) That's gonna be the new region for daily commute of rich business people and degenerate gamblers. Better use that Eminent Domain and build some casinos here in LA, so people don't abandon the City entirely. Oh yeah, you're trying. Thanks! Herb Wesson for Mayor. He never met a casino vote he didn't like. (Check the record y'all!)

ZUMA DOGG FOR MAYOR OF LOS VEGAS, NORTH MEXICO! The first thing I'll do is speed up the Eminent Domain process so we can start clearing out the homes and businesses so we can start building all these competing rail projects that have to fight for the rail space, and there is plenty of money to fund all of these projects at the same time. CONSTRUCTION INTERESTS...START YOUR EQUIPMENT ENGINES!!!

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DAILY NEWS STORY ON IMAGINARY TRAIN

Naddering Glassell Park Neighborhood Council Naybobs Ignore Brown Act

This video almost makes me ashamed to be a Neighborhood Council member, even though I belong to a different Council. At least in our Council stakeholders are respected and given the right to speak even if they show up in a construction helmet complaining about blowing tree limbs (true story). Anyway, I digress.

Here a member of the community has freaked out an assortment of seemingly brain dead Council members when she videotapes the meeting. The ensuing debate would be funny if it were not so scary. This stakeholder has every right to video tape the meeting and the members as per the Brown Act.

I know we have fans over at the City Attorney's office who read this blog. Watch this video and let me know, what say you?

It might be time for a Glassell Park visit by the Dogg/Dowd production team who have experience instructing idiots that this is still America.

Home Depot Goes North

Even more reason to open a Home Depot in Sunland-Tujunga.

One of the "arguments" the nutcase NIMBYs who oppose Home Depots anyplace anywhere is that there are "too many" of them.

Soon there will be one less Home Depot. The Glendale store is closing to be replaced by a high-density housing development.

In the meantime, enjoy the following video:

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Thursday

President Herb Wesson? Yup, its entirely possible that the 10th District Councilman may challenge Eric Garcetti for the Council Presidency. Zuma Dogg, what say you?

An internal Clinton campaign memo details the strategy to win Latino votes for the New York Senator's Presidential bid, key to which is the endorsement she won Wednesday from Mayor Villaraigosa.

Click read more to get a little buzz...


Just like the City Council inappropriately getting wrapped up in foreign policy issues, the Palms Neighborhood Council is considering a straw vote on the war in Iraq. However, cooler heads may be prevailing as members of the Council's Outreach and Communications Committee voted 3-0 against the idea of a vote, citing the role of the Council is to weigh in on local issues. I couldn't agree more. There's enough contention with regard to neighborhood matters; the Council doesn't need to get people riled up on an issue as hotly contested as this which the Council has zero jurisdiction over anyway.

The buzz is that "Law and Order" cast member and former US Senator Fred Thompson is running for President; one of his co-stars is playing Presidential politics of his own. Cast member Sam Waterston is amongst those behind Unity 08, an effort to recruit a moderate third party Presidential ticket consisting of one Democrat and one Republican.

An LA Weekly photographer goes hiking in Griffith Park with Councilman Tom LeBong to view the aftermath of the recent fire.

And finally, if you're a foster youth from LA County about to graduate high school what do you get? A new suit of clothes and a front row seat to a speech by Mayor V.

Kevin James Correctly Evaluates Villaraigosa's Vice-Presidential Goals

Kevin James has inferred, as has yours truly in the past, that Villaraigosa hopes to become Hillary's vice-presidential candidate. The goal became apparent almost as soon as Villaraigosa went from his position as pretend Council Member to pretend Mayor. Why else would L.A.'s Mayor go traipsing around the world posing for photo-ops? He needed to build up a collection of nice photos for the collage during the Democratic National Convention.

Does anyone out there think Villaraigosa would survive the Vice-Presidential vetting process? Anyone think Hillary will promise him some other position and, if so, what would it take for him to pass up the chance to become governor? Ambassador to Mexico? To El Salvador?

Anyhow, if you want local politics at night, listen to Kevin on 870 AM at 9:00 a.m. Hey, everything on TV is re-runs anyway.

One slight and ironic problem: there's a Spanish-language station that crowd into the same bandwith! You may need to re-orient your AM antenna.

Home Depot Goes South, Part Deux

The NHDC made a trip downtown today to review all of the documents that have been submitted for the June 7th Hearing for Home Depot's Appeal to the City. Imagine our surprise when we came across a group of petitions, signed by about 20 people, with a logo at the top that said "Stop Racism". Imagine our greater surprise when we saw that all of the petitions were signed by people that do not live in Sunland-Tujunga.
Arleta, Pacoima, Moorpark and LA, were all represented, but not a single signature from any resident of Sunland-Tujunga!
Did these petitions even make it up here to our little foothill community? Now, imagine our even greater surprise when we saw that the handwriting on the majority of the petitions appeared to be the same scribe! The petitions also had a link to their website: http://www.stopracismca.com Go look at their website and follow their few links.
I'll wait for you.

Ok, ya back? Now go look at this website: http://www.friendsofst.com This site is the home of a group that recently appeared, via e-mail, and their acronym is F.I.R.S.T. (Friends Interested in Restoring Sunland-Tujunga). Notice any similarities in their respective web sites, and more importantly their goals? How about a little "Whois" search to try and see if they are connected? This is what we found out:

Domain Name: STOPRACISMCA.COM
Registrar: SCHLUND+PARTNER AG
Whois Server: whois.schlund.info
Referral URL: http://registrar.schlund.info
Name Server: NS57.1AND1.COM
Name Server: NS58.1AND1.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 30-apr-2007
Creation Date: 30-apr-2007
Expiration Date: 30-apr-2008

and

Domain Name: FRIENDSOFST.COM
Registrar: SCHLUND+PARTNER AG
Whois Server: whois.schlund.info
Referral URL: http://registrar.schlund.info
Name Server: NS57.1AND1.COM
Name Server: NS58.1AND1.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 18-apr-2007
Creation Date: 18-apr-2007
Expiration Date: 18-apr-2007


Here is text of their petition:

"Racism is very much a reality in many communities today, and we need your help to fight it!
The proposed Home Depot store in Sunland-Tujunga area has brought out to light the prevalence
of disturbing racist thoughts and beliefs in the community. Such shocking and unsettling comments
as, "Stay out of Sunland-Tujunga [and] keep your illegal Mexicans too", and Open taco stands for the
illegals at your front gates" have been stated and exposed in response to this proposed development.
What is most troubling is the fact that the elected official representing this community is acquiescing to this
group's demands. We cannot let racism dictate what happens in our communities!
We need your help to stop racism in our community! Certain residents of Sunland-Tujunga have
made very clear that they don't want The Home Depot because they "don't want Mexicans" to flood their
community. We will not tolerate this kind of hate."

Is it just me, or is something a little fishy here?
Is Home Depot using manufactured racism as a method to get their store opened, and advance their business goals in L.A.?
Does the Mayor approve of these tactics?
How does Mayor Sam feel about this? Ok with you , Big Guy?
And what about the candidate himself, Walter Moore, Esq.?

"DISCONCERTED" ELECTED CITY OFFICIAL ED REYES DECLARES, "How can WE REGAIN Public Confidence?" [ED, Did I miss the VOTE of that Position?]

LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL MEMBER (and Antonio Villaraigosa ally) -- please stop undermining the credibility and effectiveness of The City of Los Angeles, as you do when you stated in the LA Times that,

"Bratton's report spent too much time discussing "agitators" throwing bottles but not enough on who was responsible for force by officers "that crossed the line. I'm disconcerted. The issue of accountability needs to be addressed more. If we can't show accountability, how can we regain the public's confidence?" [Elected City representative CM Ed Reyes]

EXCUSE ME, COUNCILMEMBER. You are an elected representive. You are not a political activist. Ed, have you made the final conclusion, based on your report that we can't show accountability? You are an elected representative, Ed, not a political activist...so unless you took a vote of the people, do not say "RE-GAIN" public confindence, unless you have election results that show people HAVE lost confidence.

Otherwise, take off your suit, put on a ski cap and glasses, don't shave -- and give a public comment to the other 14 from ZD's side of the rope. OTHERWISE -- SHUT THE F*CK UP!!! You made these comments BEFORE the Bratton presentation today. But more importantly...you have given people the "fuel for further fire", you big dummy.

"Yeah, did you hear what the Los Angeles Councilmember said? Even HE says they couldn't show accountability and has lost confidence in the police." (UNDERMINE AUTHORITY AND RIOT INCITE, Y'ALL.)

ED, you work for the City of Los Angeles. LAPD works for the City of Los Angeles. It is not good PR to bash your team mates. Don't you know in America, elected officials don't say these things to the media?

Did the LAPD say to the LA Times, "Ed Reyes is being sued in FEDERAL COURT by a former employees over civil rights violations -- AND IT'S GONNA COST THE CITY PLENTY IN OUTSIDE COUNSEL"? (You can minimize the suit, but LAPD didn't blab it to LA Times.)

Did LAPD run to the media and say, "Ed Reyes' LA River project is not even a f*cking watershed. It's just a front to funnel a bunch of money into the CRA project from all over the place -- and build skyloads of high density housing, when DWP cannot assure water to these projects. (See Daily News, Zuma Dogg and LAzy Times stories) I say the shadiness on LA River, runs deep. Y'all will be reading about it here, soon.

Zuma Dogg said (in response to LA Mayor Villaraigosa's "justice/peace" comments)...SO, ONCE A FINDING HAS BEEN MADE, THEN YOU WILL BE PEACEFUL. AND EVERYONE WILL BE SATISFIED AND PEACEFUL ONCE THE REPORT IS COMPLETE/JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED? OR WILL YOUR AUDIENCE BE "EVALUATING" THE JUSTICE IN IT'S OWN COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION -- THEN DECIDE WHETHER TO ARRIVE AT PEACE?] ZD thread 5/26/07

So, I guess Ed has decided for the people, as an elected official of the City (without statistics); coming out against the City's findings (before the City presentation); telling people he is "disconcerted" and concerns of "without accountability, trust cannot be re-gained. (As if it is an official city position that it has been lost by the public.)

CITIZEN'S ALERT: The EMINENT City of Los Angeles Claims Rights to Their DOMAIN on FRIDAY

File Number
07-1417

PROGRAM TO ACQUIRE REAL PROPERTY BY EMINENT DOMAIN
Initiated by: Your Shady Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)

Subject: Communication from the Community Redevelopment Agency 5105, dated March 3, 2007, relative to various actions [gotta watch those unspecified "various actions", y'all] related to,

"The Program to Acquire Real Property by Eminent Domain," pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33342.7, Senate Bill 53 (2006). [IT'S A MATTER OF HEALTH AND SAFETY, Y'ALL...SO HAND IT OVER NOW, PLEASE -- NO QUESTIONS AKSED!]
Date Received
05/07/2007

Revised bullsh*t from the Community Robbers Agency (CRA) 5105, dated May 3, 2007, relative to various actions related to "The Program to Acquire Real Property by Eminent Domain," pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33342.7, Senate Bill 53 (2006), is attached to file.

...A draft ordinance adopting The Program to Acquire Real Property by Eminent Domain for all current redevelopment project areas of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, pursuant to SB 53.

HELL NAW, ********?!?! Y'all need to register at a medical marijuana co-op to get the good stuff so y'all won't trip on your eminent greed and corruption.

BETTER HAVE THE FIRE MARSHALL AT CITY HALL ON FRIDAY FOR THIS ONE...NEIGHBORHOOD COUCNCILS -- HOMEOWNER'S (NOT BUSINESS) ASSOCIATIONS -- ACTIVISTS -- I WOULD SAY THIS IS THE DAY OF THE YEAR Y'ALL NEED TO TAKE THE DAY OFF WORK, OR GET A BABYSITTER FO YO KIDZ...AND GET YOUR AZZ DOWN TO COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THOSE COMMUNITY ROBBING, CULTURAL GENTRIFYING, IN CAHOOTS WITH THE SHADIEST OF SHADIEWS, NON-LOAN REPAYING, COMMUNITY ROBBING ASSHOLES (CRA) TAKING YOUR HOMES FOR THEIR UN-NECESSARY, HIGH PROFIT, SCHEMES.

City Hall...Spring Street 9:30am FRIDAY. Bring someone else with you. SEE YOU IN CAHOOTSVILLE CENTRAL!

The bill would require a redevelopment agency to find, based on "substantial
evidence", that "significant" blight remains in the project area and cannot be
eliminated "without" the use of eminent domain before amending a redevelopment plan to extend the time limitation for the commencement of eminent domain proceedings to acquire property within the project area.

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CLICK READ MORE FOR MORE ON CRA EMENENT DOMAIN

Senate Bill No. 53
CHAPTER 591
An act to amend Sections 33333.2 and 33333.4 of, and to add Sections
33342.5 and 33342.7 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to
redevelopment.
[Approved by Governor September 29, 2006. Filed with
Secretary of State September 29, 2006.]
legislative counsel’s digest
SB 53, Kehoe. Redevelopment.
The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of
redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects of
blight, as defined, in those communities and requires those agencies to
prepare, or cause to be prepared, and approve a redevelopment plan for
each project area. Existing law requires that a redevelopment plan contain
certain provisions and authorizes a plan to provide for the agency to
acquire by gift, purchase, lease, or condemnation all or part of the real
property in the project area. Existing law permits an agency to extend the
time limitation for commencement of eminent domain proceedings to
acquire property within the project area only by amending the
redevelopment plan.
This bill would require redevelopment plans to contain a description of
the agency’s program to acquire real property by eminent domain,
including prohibitions, if any, on the use of eminent domain. The bill
would require a redevelopment agency to find, based on substantial
evidence, that significant blight remains in the project area and cannot be
eliminated without the use of eminent domain before amending a
redevelopment plan to extend the time limitation for the commencement of
eminent domain proceedings to acquire property within the project area.
By requiring a redevelopment agency that has adopted a final
redevelopment plan on or before January 1, 2007, to amend that plan, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.
Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory
provisions.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 33333.2 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
33333.2. (a) A redevelopment plan containing the provisions set forth
in Section 33670 shall contain all of the following limitations. A
redevelopment plan that does not contain the provisions set forth in
Section 33670 shall contain the limitations in paragraph (4):
(1) (A) A time limit on the establishing of loans, advances, and
indebtedness to be paid with the proceeds of property taxes received
pursuant to Section 33670 to finance in whole or in part the redevelopment
project, which may not exceed 20 years from the adoption of the
redevelopment plan, except by amendment of the redevelopment plan as
authorized by subparagraph (B). This limit, however, shall not prevent
agencies from incurring debt to be paid from the Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund or establishing more debt in order to fulfill the
agency’s housing obligations under subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8.
The loans, advances, or indebtedness may be repaid over a period of time
longer than this time limit as provided in this section. No loans, advances,
or indebtedness to be repaid from the allocation of taxes shall be
established or incurred by the agency beyond this time limitation. This
limit shall not prevent agencies from refinancing, refunding, or
restructuring indebtedness after the time limit if the indebtedness is not
increased and the time during which the indebtedness is to be repaid is not
extended beyond the time limit to repay indebtedness required by this
section.
(B) The time limitation established by subparagraph (A) may be
extended only by amendment of the redevelopment plan after the agency
finds, based on substantial evidence, that (i) significant blight remains
within the project area; and (ii) this blight cannot be eliminated without the
establishment of additional debt. However, this amended time limitation
may not exceed 30 years from the effective date of the ordinance adopting
the redevelopment plan, except as necessary to comply with subdivision
(a) of Section 33333.8.
(2) A time limit, not to exceed 30 years from the adoption of the
redevelopment plan, on the effectiveness of the redevelopment plan. After
the time limit on the effectiveness of the redevelopment plan, the agency
shall have no authority to act pursuant to the redevelopment plan except to
pay previously incurred indebtedness and to enforce existing covenants or
contracts, unless the agency has not completed its housing obligations
pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8, in which case the agency
shall retain its authority to implement requirements under subdivision (a)
of Section 33333.8, including its ability to incur and pay indebtedness for
this purpose, and shall use this authority to complete these housing
obligations as soon as is reasonably possible.
(3) A time limit, not to exceed 45 years from the adoption of the
redevelopment plan, to repay indebtedness with the proceeds of property
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taxes received pursuant to Section 33670. After the time limit established
pursuant to this paragraph, an agency may not receive property taxes
pursuant to Section 33670, except as necessary to comply with subdivision
(a) of Section 33333.8.
(4) A time limit, not to exceed 12 years from the adoption of the
redevelopment plan, for commencement of eminent domain proceedings to
acquire property within the project area. This time limitation may be
extended only by amendment of the redevelopment plan after the agency
finds, based on substantial evidence, both of the following:
(A) That significant blight remains within the project area.
(B) That this blight cannot be eliminated without the use of eminent
domain.
(b) If a redevelopment plan is amended to add territory, the amendment
shall contain the time limits required by this section.
(c) When an agency is required to make a payment pursuant to Section
33681.9, the legislative body may amend the redevelopment plan to extend
the time limits required pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision
(a) by one year by adoption of an ordinance. In adopting this ordinance,
neither the legislative body nor the agency is required to comply with
Section 33354.6, Article 12 (commencing with Section 33450), or any
other provision of this part relating to the amendment of redevelopment
plans.
(d) When an agency is required pursuant to Section 33681.12 to make a
payment to the county auditor for deposit in the county’s Educational
Revenue Augmentation Fund created pursuant to Article 3 (commencing
with Section 97) of Chapter 6 of Part 0.5 of Division 1 of the Revenue and
Taxation Code, the legislative body may amend the redevelopment plan to
extend the time limits required pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3) of
subdivision (a) by the following:
(1) One year for each year in which a payment is made, if the time limit
for the effectiveness of the redevelopment plan established pursuant to
paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) is 10 years or less from the last day of the
fiscal year in which such a payment is made.
(2) One year for each year in which a payment is made, if both of the
following apply:
(A) The time limit for the effectiveness of the redevelopment plan
established pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) is more than 10
years but less than 20 years from the last day of the fiscal year in which a
payment is made.
(B) The legislative body determines in the ordinance adopting the
amendment that, with respect to the project, all of the following apply:
(i) The agency is in compliance with the requirements of Section
33334.2 or 33334.6, as applicable.
(ii) The agency has adopted an implementation plan in accordance with
the requirements of Section 33490.
(iii) The agency is in compliance with subdivisions (a) and (b) of
Section 33413, to the extent applicable.
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(iv) The agency is not subject to sanctions pursuant to subdivision (e)
of Section 33334.12 for failure to expend, encumber, or disburse an excess
surplus.
(3) This subdivision shall not apply to any redevelopment plan if the
time limits for the effectiveness of the redevelopment plan established
pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) is more than 20 years after the
last day of the fiscal year in which a payment is made.
(4) The legislative body by ordinance may adopt the amendments
provided for under this subdivision following a public hearing. Notice of
the public hearing shall be mailed to the governing body of each of the
affected taxing entities at least 30 days prior to the hearing. Notice shall
also be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the community
at least once, not less than 10 days prior to the date of the public hearing.
The ordinance shall contain a finding of the legislative body that funds
used to make a payment to the county’s Educational Revenue
Augmentation Fund pursuant to Section 33681.12 would otherwise have
been used to pay the costs of projects and activities necessary to carry out
the goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan. In adopting an
ordinance pursuant to this subdivision, neither the legislative body nor the
agency is required to comply with Section 33354.6, Article 12
(commencing with Section 33450), or any other provision of this part.
(e) This section shall apply only to redevelopment projects for which a
final redevelopment plan is adopted pursuant to Article 5 (commencing
with Section 33360) on or after January 1, 1994, and to amendments that
add territory and that are adopted on or after January 1, 1994.
SEC. 2. Section 33333.4 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to
read:
33333.4. (a) Every legislative body that adopted a final redevelopment
plan prior to October 1, 1976, that contains the provisions set forth in
Section 33670 but does not contain all of the limitations required by
Section 33333.2, shall adopt an ordinance on or before December 31,
1986, that contains all of the following:
(1) A limitation on the number of dollars of taxes that may be divided
and allocated to the redevelopment agency pursuant to the plan, including
any amendments to the plan. Taxes shall not be divided and shall not be
allocated to the redevelopment agency beyond that limitation, except as
necessary to comply with subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8.
(2) A time limit on the establishing of loans, advances, and
indebtedness to finance in whole, or in part, the redevelopment project. No
loans, advances, or indebtedness to be repaid from the allocation of taxes
shall be established or incurred by the agency beyond the time limitation,
except as necessary to comply with subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8.
(3) A time limit, not to exceed 12 years, for commencement of eminent
domain proceedings to acquire property within the project area. This time
limitation may be extended only by amendment of the redevelopment plan
after the agency finds, based on substantial evidence, both of the
following:
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(A) That significant blight remains within the project area.
(B) That this blight cannot be eliminated without the use of eminent
domain.
(b) The limitations established in the ordinance adopted pursuant to this
section shall apply to the redevelopment plan as if the redevelopment plan
had been amended to include those limitations. However, in adopting the
ordinance, neither the legislative body nor the agency is required to
comply with Article 12 (commencing with Section 33450) or any other
provision of this part relating to the amendment of redevelopment plans.
(c) The limitations established in the ordinance adopted pursuant to this
section shall not be applied to limit allocation of taxes to an agency to the
extent required to eliminate project deficits created under subdivision (g)
of Section 33334.6 in accordance with the plan adopted pursuant thereto
for the purpose of eliminating the deficit or to comply with subdivision (a)
of Section 33333.8. In the event of a conflict between these limitations and
the obligations under Section 33334.6 or subdivision (a) of Section
33333.8, the legislative body shall amend the ordinance adopted pursuant
to this section to modify the limitations to the extent necessary to permit
compliance with the plan adopted pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section
33334.6, to permit compliance with subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8,
and to allow full expenditure of moneys in the agency’s Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund in accordance with Section 33334.3. The
procedure for amending the ordinance pursuant to this subdivision shall be
the same as for adopting the ordinance under subdivision (b).
(d) This section shall not be construed to allow the impairment of any
obligation or indebtedness incurred by the legislative body or the agency
pursuant to this part.
(e) In any litigation to challenge or attack any ordinance adopted
pursuant to this section, the court shall sustain the actions of the legislative
body and the agency unless the court finds those actions were arbitrary or
capricious. The Legislature finds and declares that this is necessary
because redevelopment agencies with project areas established prior to
October 1, 1976, have incurred existing obligations and indebtedness and
have adopted projects, programs, and activities with the authority to
receive and pledge the entire allocation of taxes authorized by Section
33670 and that it is necessary to protect against the possible impairment of
existing obligations and indebtedness and to allow the completion of
adopted projects and programs.
(f) The ordinance adopted by the legislative body in compliance with
this section does not relieve any agency of its obligations under Section
33333.8, 33334.2, 33334.3, Article 9 (commencing with Section 33410),
or any other requirement contained in this part.
(g) A redevelopment plan adopted on or after October 1, 1976, and
prior to January 1, 1994, containing the provisions set forth in Section
33670, shall also contain:
(1) A limitation on the number of dollars of taxes that may be divided
and allocated to the agency pursuant to the plan, including any
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amendments to the plan. Taxes shall not be divided and shall not be
allocated to the agency beyond this limitation, except pursuant to
amendment of the redevelopment plan, or as necessary to comply with
subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8.
(2) A time limit, not to exceed 12 years, for commencement of eminent
domain proceedings to acquire property within the project area. This time
limitation may be extended only by amendment of the redevelopment plan
after the agency finds, based on substantial evidence, both of the
following:
(A) That significant blight remains within the project area.
(B) That this blight cannot be eliminated without the use of eminent
domain.
SEC. 3. Section 33342.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
33342.5. (a) A redevelopment plan adopted on or after January 1,
2007, shall describe the agency’s program to acquire real property by
eminent domain.
(b) The plan may prohibit the agency from acquiring by eminent
domain specified types of real property, including, but not limited to,
owner-occupied residences, single-family residences, or any residential
property. The plan may prohibit the agency from acquiring by eminent
domain real property in specified locations within the project area.
(c) An agency’s program to acquire real property by eminent domain
may be changed only by amending the redevelopment plan pursuant to
Article 12 (commencing with Section 33450).
SEC. 4. Section 33342.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
33342.7. (a) A legislative body that adopted a final redevelopment
plan before January 1, 2007, shall adopt an ordinance on or before July 1,
2007, that contains a description of the agency’s program to acquire real
property by eminent domain. The plan may prohibit the agency from
acquiring by eminent domain specified types of real property, including,
but not limited to, owner-occupied residences, single-family residences, or
any residential property. The plan may prohibit the agency from acquiring
by eminent domain real property in specified locations within the project
area.
(b) An agency’s program to acquire real property by eminent domain
may be changed only by amending the redevelopment plan, pursuant to
Article 12 (commencing with Section 33450).
SEC. 5. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act
contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and
school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7
(commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the
Government Code.
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New High Tech Parking Meters Coming?

The City of LA's parking meters for the most part operate on 1930s technology and the Department of Transportation is looking to replace them. And of course, lobbyists for parking meter companies are chomping at the bit and are in a bit of lather about the Department's plan to follow a process to allow them to procure meters in a more streamlined and cost efficient way as opposed to the usual bid process.

One type of system under consideration is one that allows the parker to use cash or a debit or credit card to purchase a parking pass as opposed to dropping a coin in a meter. That makes a lot more sense.

Though the Clowncil members are addicted to the additional revenue the meters bring in, this old, dead Republican mayor is of the mind that most meters should be pulled out. Many cities such as Burbank have found that the meters deter commerce and collection of sales taxes. Remember, most shopping centers do not have parking meters - street side merchants should not have to compete with this.

Mayor Sam's Hot Sheet for Wednesday

Following his stint as a wingman for her husband, cock-blocking Rush Limbaugh, Mayor Villaraigosa is going to officially endorse Hilary Rodham Clinton at a Wednesday ceremony at UCLA. Yes Barack Obama and Bill Richardson are breathing a huge sigh of relief.

Click read more for some stuff...

Some political candidates from the May 15th election are removing their campaign yard signs but one has not in a big way. Yes, you guessed it! School Board Member (and rumored President) elect Tamar Galatzan has a legion of her tattered signs littering up chunks of Sherman Oaks, indeed some of them are posted in front of an apartment building that's about 70% demolished (yes Zuma for high density housing). Perhaps Michael Trujillo needs to take care of this before he heads to UCLA Wednesday with Mayor V to endorse Clinton.

Only in San Francisco: Apparently Mayor Gavin Newsom is considered too conservative for his city. The Democrat Newsom who illegally allowed gay marriage in Bagdad by the Bay (don't get your panties in a bunch - Mayor Sam is 100% in favor of marriage rights for homosexuals but it has to be done through the proper legal channels and not shoved down the throats of folks who still have an issue with it or you'll set the cause back 100 years as Newsom did) is just too right wing. Local leftists are holding a "progressive convention" in order to find the right liberal candidate to oppose Newsom.

And finally the Valley is getting upscale theatres in two of this old, dead Republican mayor's favorite places. First off plans have been in the works for the last several months to build a new Laemmle Theatres cineplex at NoHo Commons near the Metro Red Line station in the NoHo Arts District. The latest news is that the Pacific Theatres at the Sherman Oaks Galleria is converting to the Arclight Theatres flag.

the Pacific Theatres at the Sherman Oaks Galleria is converting to

VILLARAIGOSA SETS UP PHONE BANKS TO SPIN AGAINST JACK WEISS RECALL UNDER GUISE OF "SURVEY"

***** UPDATE *****

MAYOR SAM BLOGGER WEIGHS IN ON HUIZAR STAFFER CONFLICT WITH GOOD TAKE!

JACKASS WEISS ALERT...

FIRST HE JAMS UP THE AREA WITH TOO MUCH DEVELOPMENT, THEN HE JAMS UP THE ROADS AS A RESULT...NOW HE'S GOTTA TRY AND DECEIVE YOU, AND BOTHER YOU ON THE PHONE.

[THOUGHT THE RE-CALL EFFORT WAS NO BIG DEAL AND ISN'T GONNA MATTER?]

Jack, it's over pal. Just go away, let Tony cut his losses, and do the City, and mankind a favor. No one likes you. (Including your fellow Councilmembers.) So you have ONE supporter. A weak mayor, with an eroding power-base, because he wasted all his political capital on failed, unconstitutional and illegal initiatives -- and hasn't accomplished a thing, except push investing pension funds in speculative, alternative technologies; fail to deliver on campaign promises; lost the AB 1381 attempt; turn his back on his base of supporters; fly all over the country and world; put Prop H on the ballot at the worst time possible, air rights shot out of the sky by a judge, LAX wage increase NOT delivered, while MTA increase IS delivered; he condems LAPD before the investigation even started and incites a riot mentality by telling a crowd, "Until there is justice, there can be no peace". And WOW, he endorses Hillary Clinton. AND he endorses Jack Weiss. (But his phone bank reminds you, the recall is not his fault.)

So who says Antonio isn't willing to go out on a limb and fight for what he believes in the face of all opposition. Good for you Antonio. Back Jackass for City Attorney, be his campaign manager, and try and tell everyone the REAL reason everyone hates him.

By doing this, you're just giving the recall campaign more publicity. (I know, I know...we only probe if they are already aware of the re-call.) Except now, someone sent this letter to ZD, and I am posting it on this and other blogs. So keep making calls. And everyone can tell their friends about the call they got about the Ass recall.

CLICK READ MORE FOR READERS DESCRIPTION OF JACK WEISS' SPIN-BANK (UNDER GUISE OF "SURVEY").

Dear Editor:

I have co-owned a home in the mid-Wilshire area for almost 15 years. During that time, I have seen a lot of changes in my neighborhood, some of them for better and many for worse.

Regardless, I have never served on a neighborhood committee or taken any political action either for or against any council member or developer or than voting in local elections.

Today, I received a phone call from a woman who claimed she was taking a survey for an independent company concerning quality of life issues affecting my neighborhood.

Although reluctantly, I agreed to take a few minutes to participate in her survey as I thought it might benefit my neighborhood.

Although her initial questions were indeed about the quality of life in our neighborhood, she began asking questions relating to the recall effort against Jack Weiss. Since I have observed Weiss sell out our area to developers over the past years, I did not mind expressing my support for the recall.

However, I soon noticed that the survey-taker kept asking the same questions about Weiss's recall but simply phrased differently. I assumed then this was a survey being taken to determine the popularity of this recall effort.

However, the surveyor suddenly started to ask if I would still support the Weiss recall effort if I knew that... and then she began making statements discrediting the purpose and intent behind the recall. Among the allegations were the claims that it was disgruntled developers behind the recall and as well as neighborhood association leaders on the take by those developers and these same neighborhood leaders were now punishing Jack Weiss for not paying them off 50 million dollars they had demanded to go away.

I immediately realized this "independent survey" was obviously being funded by people in Jack Weiss' camp and not a legitimate survey at all. More importantly, I knew her allegations were simply ridiculous.

I told this alleged survey-taker that, given her obviously loaded "questions," it was apparent to me she was not an independent survey but was offering further evidence of Weiss's political corruption by her transparent disinformation tactic. I thanked her for removing any doubt in my mind as to his dishonesty and desperation.

I asked her to please tell her employers that she has done a great service in removing any doubt in my mind to Weiss's culpability and that, thanks to her, I would not only ensure my recall vote is counted but inform everyone in my neighborhood how low Weiss will go to save his greedy, guilty ass.

The survey-taker hung up on me and yet I had not finished taking her survey.

I am guessing others will be contacted by the same "survey-taker" and hope they will be likewise inspired.

Most sincerely yours,
Reader

FOR THE RECORD, I COVERED THIS ANGLE ON MAYOR SAM, LAST WEEK. Article that refers to the subject of phone bank spin SO I RECOGNIZE THE WORK OF ANTONIO'S FAVORITE "MARKETING WARFARE" SOLDIER. I HOPE THE RE-CALL PEOPLE HAVE A HIGHLY ORGANIZED PHONE BANK, TOO.

contact: zumadogg@gmail.com

KEVIN JAMES IS BAAAAACK ON KRLA 870 (9pm)

Heeeeeeeeeeel yeeeeeeeeeeeah! KEVIN JAMES is back on KRLA 870 and hasn't missed a beat. ONLY difference is 9pm time slot, instead of 1am. So if you have never heard Kevin, check out his show. No one hammers Villagrosa harder! And ZD just had a great call with him to congratulate him, and introduce myself to the KRLA 870 crowd!

AND...

BAM...A Mayor Sam, double-bamboozle on shady fraud, waste and abuse -- as Mayor Sam himself makes his prime-time, 9pm debut on Kevin's show today, too, with a killer call! Oh no...way earlier slots for Mr. K at 6p; Kevin James at 9p...and now, two separate stations -- two separate audiences...I don't know if I can handle the added fame, and if City Hall can handle the extra prime-time publicity. (I know...no one listen and no one cares...and it makes no impact.)

AND THANKS TO KEVIN FOR MENTIONING ON-THE-AIR THAT MAYOR SAM'S PETITION FOR KEVIN WAS ACTUALLY HELPFUL IN HELPING HIM GET SOME ATTENTION OF THE RADIO PROGRAMMERS IN LOS ANGELES! ZD's calls to Kevin on his old KABC show. KEVIN JAMES -- 9pm on News Talk 870 - KRLA!

Oh no...Huizar's Planning Deputy, who is NC Boardmember, Is Also on "912 Review Commission" (Forgot to tell me THAT, Joe before you hung up on me.)

***** UPDATE *****
PUBLIC COMMENT:
MAYOR SAM BLOGGER WEIGHS IN ON HUIZAR STAFFER CONFLICT WITH GOOD TAKE!

ZUMA DOGG DISCUSSES NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND DELIVERS "RENTER" AND "DENSITY" ALERT ON KTALK 1150 AM (Mark "Mr. K" Germain)


AND REMEMBER --

THE GREAT KEVIN JAMES, Mr. K's former air-mate at KABC is BAAAAACK on-the-air at 9pm on 870 KRLA. TUNE IN TONIGHT, I'm gonna try and call in. Couldn't get through last night, gonna try tonight to talk about this, and catch up with Kevin on all the "fraud, waste and abuse" the past seven weeks, since he has been off-the-air.

AND KEVIN -- Check this out: Today during my public comment I mentioned, "City Council, I would like to inform you that KEVIN JAMES is back on the air on 870 KRLA, and he talks about the mayor and city council a lot, so you should tune in.

Meanwhile, Garcetti was smiling, nodding his head up and down in acknowledgement, as if he knew and was happy about it to. So, I'll try and remember to say hello to Eric on-the-air and re-cap the story for Kevin.

Meanwhile, looks like CM Jose Huizar's Chief of Staff Joe Avila wasn't too happy about Zuma Dogg disclosing that Huizar's Eagle Rock Planning Deputy also sits on the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council BOARD -- BUT THIS JUST IN...

ALSO

SITS

ON THE 912 NC REVIEW COMMISSION. JOSE! You make it hard for a pueblo to adore you...you see -- Big ZD, from the 213, has also heard THAT HIGH LEVEL CITY HALL INSIDERS ALONG WITH LEADERS OF THE COMMUNITY EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER THIS CONFILCT OF INTEREST -- AND TOLD YOU IF YOU HIRED JESSICA MCLEAN AS YOUR PLANNING DEPUTY -- SHE SHOULD STEP DOWN FROM THE NC REVIEW COMMISSION.

But why would Huizar have her do that? After all, the whole point is to have the system stacked in the houses favor. So Joe A, is that why you were so defensive when I called you today? You see people, someone told ZD that Jessica stepped down from the NC Govt Relations Committee when she went to work for Weezy. (That's cool, right?) So, I wanted to go out of my way to verify to see if this were true, because it would have reflected more positively on the situation, in my opinion.

But Joe wasn't interested in clarifying that, because he was very defensive of the fact that there was nothing illegal about it, so what is my problem with it? And that she recuses herself on issues there is a conflict of interest over.

Then I said, "Yeah, why do we have to go to these measures?" (You lose out on leadership when you do that. Just get someone who doesn't have a conflict of interest because they are not a paid City Council staffer.)

Cause here is another problem, this time as Eagle Rock NC Boardmember:

As Huizar's Planning Deputy, she has priviliged "inside" information, that is not released to the public. As NC Boardmember, she can use the information against the City, if against a City project. Or more likely, help be good PR for the City's position on a project, based on that inside info. And other NC memebers are going to be looking to her for her inside info, and that creates conflict of interest.

City Hall can defend it, and say it's legal all they want. Were talking the "perception" of impropriety. It's gonna:

* piss off the community
* create constant suspicion of all councilmembers
* undermine the credibility of the NC system
* disenfranchise the pueblos
* create outrage

PARTIAL RE-CAP OF ZD'S CONVERSATION WITH HUIZAR CHIEF AVILA:


ZD called Huizar's office, because I heard that McLean may have stepped down from NC, when she was hired by Huizar. And if so, that would seem a lot more ethical, and I think it would look a lot better. And I told him that was why I was calling.

He immediatley went into, "It's legal. What's your problem with it", mode.

I started to explain NC was created as a way for the public to provide input...

He cuts me off and says he knows what NC was created for but, "Why is this on your radar?"

I explained my concern as to the confilct of interest. His response was, "I know, I know, but why is this on your radar now?"

He defended the point as to how it was perfectly o.k., and she recuses herself over conflicts of interest and he couldn't figure out my concern, and kept asking me why it was on my radar.

I asked if he knew if she stepped down, and he told me that he did not know if she had stepped down, or not (as Govt Relations/Boardmember).

So I dug a little deeper, to find out on my own, because I didn't want to be making the claim, if she had stepped down from the Govt Relations Committee. She did indeed step down from that, but is still an Eagle Rock NC Boardmember, and has not stepped down. AND THEN, DURING THIS FOLLOW-UP (BECAUSE JOE AVILA WASN'T WILLING TO TELL ME WHETHER SHE STEPPED DOWN, OR NOT, SO I HAD TO SPEND MORE TIME AND CELL PHONE MINUTES (MONEY) TO FIND OUT SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE MADE HUIZAR LOOK MORE ETHICAL:

I FIND OUT SHE SITS ON THE NC REVIEW COMMISSION, AND YOU WERE WARNED BY CITY HALL PEOPLE SHE NEEDED TO STEP DOWN BEFORE YOU HIRED HER AS PLANNING DEPUTY. HA!

(It's this defensive, mean-spirited, combative, in-flexible nature that is why everyone in your district is doing so much research and hollerin at they Boy, Zuma Dogg.

I felt so bad that it was another CD 14 mess, so I told him, "I'm sorry this fell in YOUR lap. You know people in CD 14 sit there and research this stuff all day, but I'll be looking into this, city wide in all districts. I'm sorry yours was the first one brought to my attention; and now I will be looking at all districts citywide, this is a citywide issue. It's not like I'm targeting you guys.

JOE AVILA: Well you targeted us today, Mr. Dogg, so have a nice day. (click)

AND...THIS JUST IN...ONE OF ZUMA DOGG'S CITY HALL INSIDERS SAYS THEY ARE "CONFIDENT" THIS IS HAPPENING IN OTHER COUNCIL DISTRICTS AS WELL!!! COUNCILMEMBERS: I WILL BE ASSIGNING MY BATCOMPUTER TO THE TASK OF MATCHING YOUR STAFFER'S NAMES TO NC LISTS. (So Avila, I hope you at least apprecitate that I spent my time and cell phone minutes trying to see if this is just a Huizar problem, or a Citywide problem. Again, sorry someone from CD 14 figured it out first...BUT BRO...ON THE REALEST...YOU ARE JUST WAAAAAAAAAAY TOO DEFENSIVE ON THIS. You should at least say, "Yeah, ZD...I can understand your concern. Unfortunatley, for better, or worse, it's legal to do this, so maybe you should see if there is a way to close the loophole.

OR, you could have even said, "It's legal, but yeah, it looks bad, so we are going to have her step down from the 912 NC Review Commission, in an abundance of caution and to avoid the apperance of shadiness, and all that other stuff I mentioned above.

Joe, you're smart as hell, and you know I admire you for your sharpness and legalese...but you're suffering from "Jack Weiss Syndrome". As Sgt. Hulk once said, "Lighten up, Francias." She sits on the review commission, but you accuse me of targeting your office.

Daily News Publishes My Platform's "Walk To Work" Initiatives

By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, MooreIsBetter.com.

Today the Los Angeles Daily News published, with a few revisions (e.g., I would never use the word "incentivize"), an essay I wrote in early March 2007 on my platform's "walk to work" initiatives. Here's the link: "Living close to job would clear traffic."

We can attack the traffic problem by amending laws that make it hard for people to find homes near their jobs.

One reason people can't find a place to live near their jobs is rent control, which effectively makes 550,000 to 620,000 apartments unavailable to commuters at any price. The result is a distorted housing market. Owners of non-rent-controlled units charge higher prices than otherwise, because they don't have to compete with the rent controlled units.

So one of my walk-to-work initiatives is to repeal rent control -- while guaranteeing 100% Section 8 housing assistance at market rates for any qualified person who is adversely affected by the repeal.

Another walk-to-work initiative is to make Proposition 13 "portable" for anyone who is moving to a home within a mile of his or her job. That way, a person who wants to sell one home to buy another, much closer to work, will not have to pay a massive tax penalty. Likewise, we should allow a first-time buyer to keep a home's existing property tax level if the home is within a mile of the buyer's workplace. This would help reduce traffic without reducing the tax revenues the properties generate.

Finally, we should provide for "instant" mixed-use zoning for the upper floors of commerical and office buildings. Owners of those buildings should be allowed to convert the upper floors to residential for people who work within a mile of the buildings.

These walk-to-work initiatives could reduce significantly the number of people stuck in traffic every day, without our having to spend billions and wait decades to build subways.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

The first annual Mayor Sam Memorial Day Barbecue was a huge success with notables in attendance such as publicist extraordinarie Edward Headington, school board candidate/king maker Louis Pugliese (he looks much better in person than in his campaign photo), ST NoHo blogger "Video" Louis Elovitz, LAX activist Robert Acherman, retired Judge Arnold Gold, Universal City-North Hollywood Jaycees President Jack Witt and of course the fabulous Joseph Mailander of Mainbrace and Mayor Sam fame - as well as spouses, significant others, children and friends. Zuma and Walter you were both very much missed.

With respect to the above, thanks to the able bartending of Louis Pugliese's main squeeze Debi, this old dead Republican mayor is not in the condition to blog too much, so, read away dum dums.

Newly re-minted Councilman Richard Alarcon has an ambitious economic development plan for the Northeast San Fernando Valley. He dismisses his opponents' views of him as "anti-business" as "racial" and states that he is both pro-Wal-Mart and anti-war. (Don't tell Joe B.)

Westside White Guy reports that Patrick McGreevy is leaving his LA Times beat at City Hall to go to the state capitol. Good riddance. I never liked him going back to his days at the Daily News when he published whatever press release the NIMBYs gave him and he never bothered to seek out alternative views.

Zuma Dogg's "Summer Jamz" are over at LAist.

Home Depot Goes South

Despite my lack of posts lately, I can assure you that the battle between Sunland-Tujunga and Home Depot is alive and well. If you recall, a hearing was held back in January that resulted in Home Depot having their building permits revoked. Home Depot has filed an Appeal to that decision and the final hearing on this matter will be held before the North Valley Area Planning Commission, on June 7th, 4:30 pm, at the Marvin Braude building in Van Nuys. Since this land use issue is of utmost concern to the residents of Sunland-Tujunga, a huge turn out by the community is anticipated at the hearing. Councilmember Wendy Greuel is also expected to attend and to address the Planning Commission in opposition to the proposed Home Depot.

In preparation for this hearing, Home Depot's attorneys, Latham & Watkins, have submitted a 700 page, 4 inch thick bundle of documents offered as "evidence" that they should get their permits back. As an attorney said to me, "Hey, if it takes 700 pages to make your point then you're just milking your client." In contrast, the 9-11 Commission report was 585 pages.

Home Depot has also seen fit to send a small army of signature gatherers to our little town over the holiday weekend. They were here to seek potential supporters for the proposed Home Depot. They staked themselves out at our various grocery stores and got busy. That's fine with me, but be sure and tell people, the real reason you're there, and who is paying you.

We have received numerous reports that some of these signature gatherers were claiming to be acting on behalf of the North Valley Area Planning Commission, The L.A. Housing Authority (huh?), neglecting to mention Home Depot, by name, in their pitch to passerbys, and instead saying, "Will you sign a petition to bring more jobs to the community?".

The most disturbing, and offensive statement reported made was, " The reason people don't want HD is because they don't want any Mexicans around here." This pitch, of course, was thrown out to Latino residents. Never mind that Sunland-Tujunga is around 40% Hispanic, and the NHDC has a large number of Latino supporters, just say whatever it takes to get the signature of support.

It was astonishing to witness this, to receive the reports of the racist angle, and to actually hear someone say they were contracted by the North Valley Area Planning Commission to conduct a survey. Meanwhile, underneath her "survey" page lay a stack of cards for people to sign in support of Home Depot.

The police were actually called in on several occasions to remove the paid pro Home Depot people from the various private properties they had occupied. Upon, or usually before the arrival of the LAPD , they would leave the premises, wait until the coast was clear, and then return. This scene repeated itself innumerable times over the weekend.


One's opinion on the proposed Home Depot store means nothing. One's opinion on these kind of tactics means everything.


The photo above is of two paid signature gatherers in the parking lot of Von's Market in Tujunga. Here is a link to a short video of them reacting to a cameraman:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6786238753267500119

NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ALERT: DOES CM JOSE HUIZAR'S EAGLE ROCK PAID STAFFER SIT ON EAGLE ROCK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL -- VILLARAIGOSA PLEASE INVESTIGATE

PAPARAZZI CATCHES ZUMA DOGG WALKING DOWN STREET AND TRIGGERS A RANT ON VACANCY RATES, AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND GENTRIFICATION IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES


***** PUBLIC NOTICE *****
NEW SOUTHWEST MUSEUM BLOG

NEW AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER BLOG

NEW NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL BLOG

CAROL BAKER THARP OF DONE (Department of Neighborhood Empowement) PLEASE CALL LOS ANGELES MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA AND WORK THIS OUT. I DON'T THINK IT LOOKS TOO GOOD...(Developer and Real Estate Agent Names To Follow)

I attended a DONE meeting where Carol Baker Tharp told the crowd regarding "reform
eductation programs" and outreach: We don't believe YOU (local NCs) should be doing that yourself. We (DONE) want to assist you in outreach.

BOY I'LL F*CKING SAY!!! CITY COUNCIL IS ALWAYS SAYING THEY WANT TO HELP WITH OUTREACH -- BUT WE DIDN'T WITH YOUR OWN STAFFERS YOU DUMB F*CKS. (Obvious she is stepping down immediatley. RIGHT MAYOR AND CAROL?)



* Jessica Wethington Mclean: Worked for Universal while she was an Eagle Rock NC member. She quit Universal to work for CD 14 CM Jose Huizar as his Eagle Rock Deputy of Planning this past October.

She is ALSO on Eagle Rock NC: Communications and Govt Relations memeber as well as a regular NC member.

I guess it is only unethical, but not illegal for CMs to have their paid staff members sit on NC. MAYOR ANTONIO, I'LL GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT AND SAY THAT YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT AWARE THIS IS HAPPENING, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT SITTING THERE MICRO-MANAGING NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS -- BUT I WILL BE SURE YOU AND YOUR STAFF IS AWARE THIS IS AND CAN HAPPEN. I'M SURE YOU ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF HAVING PAID COUNCIL STAFFERS ALSO SIT ON NC. Real Estate Agents and Developers are sitting in, as well. More on that next.

* Someone just posted that Fifteen's Steve Fink (See Wyvenwood Apts & Huizar contributions and expense reports) SON, Elliott Fink is on Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council? This cannot be true, because it is so obviously corrupt, I don't know how they think it ain't gonna come back to bite 'em in the ass. And I PROMISE YOU...ZAP (Zuma's Action Program) will be ZAPPING yo azz over this. And remember...I got NOTHING to lose...what do y'all have at stake, except Federal inquiries and named as "Defendant" on a Federal Trafficking/Rico/Corrupt organization lawsuit? NOW GO HAVE A FUN NC MEETING!

HAS MAYOR ANTONIO LOSEROSA AND CD 14 CM JOSE WEEZELAR INFILTRATE EAGLE ROCK, MT. WASHINGTON, ARROYO-SECO & GLASSELL PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS (AND VARIOUS OTHER NCs & HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION IN L.A.) WITH TREASONOUS, DEVELOPER MOLES. (This way, they can steamroll the development projects through without NC opposition.)

HEY FOUR TIME FLUNKEE OF THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE OF LAW -- NOW YOU ARE ON THE PEOPLE'S TURF...AND ZUMA DOGG IS GONNA FOCUS ALL EFFORTS ON GIVING YOU THE "JACK WEISS TREATMENT, bro! WE ARE GONNA KICK YOUR ASS BACK INTO THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- AND CLINTON AIN'T GONNA TOUCH YOU, LATHAM AND WATKINS AIN'T GONNA TOUCH YOU, AND THE VOTERS AIN'T GONNA TOUCH YOU. (The FEDS...They might touch you.)

AND SINCE YOU WANNA GO STATEWIDE AND NATIONAL, ******, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO, AS WELL. BECAUSE MY SOLE PURPOSE, FROM HERE ON IN, IS TO MAKE SURE YOU AND YOUR LITTLE PAL WEEZEL ARE NEVER -- EVER -- EVER IN A POSITION WHERE YOU ARE REPRESENTING PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC FUNDS.

AND NOW THAT YOU STEPPED INTO THE PUEBLO'S TURF...I AM GOING TO HAVE TO SHOW THE COUNTRY WHY! Story on ZD's NC blog

***** KEVIN JAMES DEBUTS TONIGHT AT 9PM ON KRLA 870. MAYBE I'LL START THERE! *****

Contact Zuma Dogg of ZAP (Zuma's Activist Program): zumadogg@gmail.com

DID THE MAYOR -- NOT -- GAIN CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL BOARD, AFTER ALL?!?! PLUS -- CITYWIDE IMPORTANCE OF JACKASS WEISS RECALL

Oh no...I hope we don't have a case of, "You lose, Carl Miller!"

* Did Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa just spend around $2 million of privately raised money (that LA Times says may be tied to City projects needing approval) to buy this month's LAUSD school board election, only to have Tamar Galatzan pull an "Antonio" herself -- by betraying supporters who put you in office and deciding NOT to vote current LAUSD President Marlene Kanter out, and vote lead muppet Monica Garcia in?

I hope not. It would be a shame if all those City projects were approved in vain.

ZUMA DOGG SUMMER PREVIEW OF ISSUES & LAUSD STUDENT SHOWDOWN AT THE WEBCAM CAFE.
[WARNING: TURN THE VOLUME WAAAAAAAAAAY DOWN.]


* JACKASS RECALL CITYWIDE SIGINIFICANCE: Everyone in the City of Los Angeles must come together and help give word of mouth to the Jack Weiss re-call campaign. If you know someone in his district, tell them to sign a petition and go to www.RecallJackWeiss.com.

HERE'S WHY THIS IS A CITYWIDE ISSUE:

LOSer Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa currently has 8 muppet, non-independent, non-leader City Councilmembers on his cast. So when the community gentrifyer, and backstabber of his own people wants to steamroll something past the community -- he'll give it to Jackass Weiss and he'll write the legislation and make it happen for the absentee mayor. (Absent not only geographically, but morally and ethically.)

Besides that; if you kick that Jackass out of office (as you should if you care about public safety, since he clearly doesn't based on his development policy -- Mayor Villaraloser will be one vote short when he wants to pull a shady jack-move on the City, State and Nation.

So visit www.RecallJackWeiss.com, think of who you know who lives in his district, and make them sign the petition. Email them this blog, too.

RECALL WEISSASS AND WEAKEN LOSEROSA.

***** UPDATE *****

Thanks to the ZD "ZAP" member who just called to inform me that they are under the understanding that Ass Weiss' Century City developers were the big contributors to Villaraigosa's "private" AB 1381 fund. So looks like these stories link together, after all. Cause wouldn't it be funny if Weissass raised all that private money for the mayor, with his Century City developers to get Tamar into office; only to have Tamar pull a "Villagrosa" and slam the door in his Tony's face, then have Ass get recalled over it. LOL! But we all know, ZD is not meant to be THAT happy. So we'll have to wait and see. Only saving grace, has been my saving grace, since day one at City Hall...THEIR bad karma!

***** KEVIN JAMES DEBUTS TONIGHT AT 9PM ON KRLA 870. MAYBE I'LL START THERE! *****

Contact Zuma Dogg of ZAP (Zuma's Activist Program): zumadogg@gmail.com

DAILY NEWS HEADLINE: WATER WELLS THREATENED -- DWP WANTS ACTION AS CHEMICALS CREEP INTO RESERVOIR

Kerry Kavanaugh scores a HUGE Sunday front page story in ZD's book with her story on how Los Angeles has big problems if they think they can "Manhattanize" Los Angeles with unlimited, new high-density housing projects -- because as u can see, an unlimited water supply is NOT a given.

Maybe Clinton's Villaraigosa needs to take some of that pension money he wants to invest into speculative alternative engery technology and invest it into making "synthetic water" for all high-density, "building UP" projects.)

ZD's High Density Housing Water Supply Alert 1
ZD's High Density Housing Water Supply Alert 2

Water wells threatened -- DWP wants action as chemicals creep into reservoir
BY KERRY CAVANAUGH, Staff Writer
LA Daily News
05/26/2007

More than four years after being warned that a creeping chemical plume was threatening Los Angeles' water supply, the DWP has shut down at least one drinking-water well because of contamination of the San Fernando Valley aquifer.

The North Hollywood well closure means that, for the first time, Los Angeles will be unable to draw its full allotment of groundwater, forcing it to import water at a cost of $7.3 million.

But more troubling than the cost, Department of Water and Power officials say, is the possibility that the contamination will spread and ruin Los Angeles' only local water supply - the gigantic San Fernando Valley underground reservoir that can serve residents in an emergency.

TA DA, *******! READ IT AND WEEP CITY HALL...WE NEED THE WATER!
Daily News WATER SUPPLY ALERT

Zuma Dogg and Daily News...like Snoop and Dre! ZD hears the 411 from the pueblos, and blasts it on a predictive, speculative basis -- then people without A.D.D. (like Daily News reporters) back it up with "the realest, dough!"

So, thank goodness for perfect timing with this vindicating story: Cause last week, in response to Ed Reyes and the City of Los Angeles' LA River (aka: Condorodo River, because of the high density housing projects that they don't really mention when address the project publicly), I was asking how they are going to provide water to all these housing projects when the water supply is not a constant? And it kinda feels like you are going into "Art Bell conspiracy territory" when you speculate on environmental concerns.

Contact Zuma Dogg, ZAP (Zuma's Activist Program): ZumaDogg@gmail.com

How And Why The L.A. Times Is Biased On Illegal Immigration

By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, MooreIsBetter.com.

Today's edition of the L.A. Times illustrates vividly how biased the paper is in favor of illegal aliens, and why. The bias appears in the stories, and the financial motivation for the bias appears in the classified ads. Here's a review:

1. "Immigration debate puts up a wall in the GOP."
This story, on page one, above the fold, is ostensibly about how some Republicans support the immigration legislation before Congress, and others oppose it. Conspicuous by its omission from the story, however, is any mention of how that legislation could affect our nation's finances or culture. Instead, the author implies that anyone who opposes the legislation must be racist and conservative:

-- ". . . it angers the GOP's mostly white base. . ."

-- ". . . provisions that anger many conservatives . . . ."

-- ". . . we will no longer be a national party if we try to define it as a white male, cul-de-sac, gated-community party."

-- "We lost a lot of white males. . . ."

The message is that only racist conservative white males support enforcement of the laws already on the books, the laws passed by the United States Congress.

2. "Cornerstone puts the immigration issue center stage."
This article, which appears on page one of the "Arts & Music" section, reports on a play to be presented at the Armory Northwest in Pasadena, by a man named Garces, called "Los Illegals." You can pretty much guess the slant of the play. Do you think this play, by this small theater group, would get this much coverage if their play was on a different subject, or took the opposite position? Me, neither.

3. "Family crossed the border to success."
The article appears on page one, above the fold, in the "California" section. Written by Steve Lopez, it's yet another apology for illegal immigration: "It's fair to ask questions about the cost of educating illegal immigrants and treating the sick, and about their impact on the legal labor force. But I know that if my family were starving in a country with an incompetent and corrupt government, and my children might have a better future across the border, I'd do what I had to do." Well then, that makes it all right, doesn't it? Indeed, why have immigration laws at all?

4. "The next Americans - Immigrants don't destroy our national identity, they renew it."
This essay covered all of page one of the "Opinion" section, and was written by Tomas Jimenez. He refers to "an estimated 12 million unauthorized immigrants." Unauthorized?! (Is a shoplifter an "unauthorized shopper?") Jimenez also makes the following claim about the language issue:

"The growth of non-English speaking immigrant populations, particularly those that speak Spanish, and the explosive rise in commercial services and media that cater to them have led commentators such as Pat Buchanan to pronounce the coming of a polyglot society. But nothing appears to be further from the truth."

Oh really? Then consider the next item in the paper:

5. "Hoy" Classified Ads
In the "Career Builder" portion of the classified ads, there are six huge ads -- three columns wide and maybe six to ten inches high -- for jobs at Hoy. What is “Hoy?” The L.A. Times describes it thus: “Hoy Newspaper, a Tribune and Los Angeles Times Media Group Company company, is a Spanish language daily providing the Hispanic perspective from front-page news to entertainment updates.” In other words, it’s just like the L.A. Times, but in Spanish.

Hoy needs a Subject Editor, an Assistant Subject Editor, an Internet Manager, a Marketing Assistant, a Supervisor for sales, and a Telephone Sales Representative. Every single position requires, of course, that an applicant "have excellent oral and written English and Spanish language skills." Job-seekers can apply at the L.A. Times website, and, in some cases, can directly e-mail a person with an L.A. Times e-mail account.

How much income do you suppose the Tribune company would lose if all the illegal aliens in the U.S. were deported? According to a report in October 2006, weekend circulation for Hoy in Los Angeles was 300,000. It’s also published in Chicago and, until recently, New York. Oh, but that's so crass of me, isn't it? I'm sure they don't care about money. They only care about what's best for our country.