COUNCIL IS SO SCREWED OVER VACANCY RATE LAW: LOCAL PLANNING COMMITTES ARE ENFORCING IT; CAUSING SHADY DEVELOPERS TO APPEAL TO FULL COUNCIL
LOCAL PLANNING COMMITTEES ENFORCE VACANCY RATES OVER CONDO-CONVERSIONS
Forces Developers To Appeal To Council -- Will Now See Who Is In Whom's Pocket
by Zuma Dogg
It's called 12.95.2 (Vacancy Rates) and it's Villaraigosa, Council and the shady developers worst nightmare. The un-checked steamrolling of the City may be having the brakes slammed down -- but it's probably too late, anyway.
IF YOU ARE A LAND SPECULATOR WHO BUYS AN APARTMENT AND PLANS TO CONVERT TO CONDO; THEN SELL SHORTLY THEREAFTER...NOW YOU ARE SCREWED!!!
Thanks to Noel Weiss, who Zuma Dogg heard talking the "vacancy rate" law (according to City Charter), during public comment, that prevents an apartment owner/land speculator from converting to a condo unless there is more than 5% vacany in the area.
And as Wesson and Garcetti can tell you, I picked up on Noel's comments and ended up going on to believe it was the biggest steamroll bamboozle in town that needed way more attention.
So, we started going to committee meetings and started speaking about it relentlessly in from of Council (which puts it on the record), but more importantly, it was going out on TV 35...and now the City Attorney was forced to inquire as to why vacancy rates were being ignored for so many years (a sidestep of the Charter and therefore sidestepping the law).
AND NOW...local planning committees like Rosendahl's West LA and Garshady's West Hollywood local planning committees and NC's are now paying attention to, and enforcing the vacancy rate issue (and other Ellis Act issues), and are saying "NO" to the high density, bullsh*t projects, because the roads are way too crowded, schools are way too crowded, the mayor cannot hire enough police to keep up with the rising demand, DWP may not be able to supply water to all these high-density environmental killers; and you can expand the 405 all you want -- or run the 90 freeway into Lincoln Blvd in Marina Del Rey...BUT YOU AREN'T EXPANDING THE SIDESTREETS AROUND THEM. YOU AREN'T REDUCING CLASSROOM SIZE...YOU AREN'T HIRING NEW COPS...YOU AREN'T DOING SH*T...EXCEPT IGNORING THE LAW -- AND WORSE, AND NOW THE STATE AND COUNTRY HAS TO SPEND MONEY INVESTIGATING YO AZZEZ...
SO NOW, these shady developers who are getting rejected by the community, because Villaraigosa and Clowncil igorned all that above mentioned stuff, and more,
have to put an "appeal" on the agenda -- and make all 15 Councilmembers sign the conversion permit with their own blood, from their own hands.
The first two, Rosendahl and Garshady's are up on the agenda soon. Basically, the shady, crybaby developers will be aksing Council and the Mayor to not only igonore the City Charter (and therefore the law), but ignore local planning committees, and be like Nike and, "JUST DO IT".
SO WE ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT IF THESE COUNCILMEMBERS MEAN WHAT THEY SAY, WHEN THEY SAY THEY ARE FOR THE RESIDENTS WHO ELECT THEM -- OR JUST A BUNCH OF SPINELESS, GREEDY BASTARDS WHO ARE IN THE BACK POCKET OF THESE DEVELOPERS.
ZD THINKS IT'S GONNA BE VERY HARD FOR COUNCIL TO STAND UP TO SHADINESS, CAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY LEADERSHIP AMONG THE FIFTEEN, CURRNENTLY IN OFFICE. ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE JUST A BUNCH OF LAPDOG LOSERS WHO ROLL OVER FOR THE MONEY. AND TIE UP ANY GOOD SH*T FOR A YEAR IN COMMITTEE.
I WISH Y'ALL WOULD GO JUMP INTO THE LA RIVER...AKA: THE CONDORODO RIVER. Cause that's all it is...a bad, expensive CRA excuse to build a row of high density housing along the river. [ZUMA DOGG SAYS SECTION 8!]. And CM Ed Reyes was forced to admit isn't even a watershed, so it doesn't even actually serve a purpose, except to allow the City/CRA/short list of preferred contractors to spend and make a lot of money, not only on the "river", but on the row of high density housing to follow. Hence, "The CONDORODO RIVER". SEE YOU AT THE HEARINGS, ED!"
zumadogg@netzero.com
How about a Charity softball special event for the kids, this summer. Zuma Dogg's ZAPPERS vs The City Council LAPDOG LOSERS!
Forces Developers To Appeal To Council -- Will Now See Who Is In Whom's Pocket
by Zuma Dogg
It's called 12.95.2 (Vacancy Rates) and it's Villaraigosa, Council and the shady developers worst nightmare. The un-checked steamrolling of the City may be having the brakes slammed down -- but it's probably too late, anyway.
IF YOU ARE A LAND SPECULATOR WHO BUYS AN APARTMENT AND PLANS TO CONVERT TO CONDO; THEN SELL SHORTLY THEREAFTER...NOW YOU ARE SCREWED!!!
Thanks to Noel Weiss, who Zuma Dogg heard talking the "vacancy rate" law (according to City Charter), during public comment, that prevents an apartment owner/land speculator from converting to a condo unless there is more than 5% vacany in the area.
And as Wesson and Garcetti can tell you, I picked up on Noel's comments and ended up going on to believe it was the biggest steamroll bamboozle in town that needed way more attention.
So, we started going to committee meetings and started speaking about it relentlessly in from of Council (which puts it on the record), but more importantly, it was going out on TV 35...and now the City Attorney was forced to inquire as to why vacancy rates were being ignored for so many years (a sidestep of the Charter and therefore sidestepping the law).
AND NOW...local planning committees like Rosendahl's West LA and Garshady's West Hollywood local planning committees and NC's are now paying attention to, and enforcing the vacancy rate issue (and other Ellis Act issues), and are saying "NO" to the high density, bullsh*t projects, because the roads are way too crowded, schools are way too crowded, the mayor cannot hire enough police to keep up with the rising demand, DWP may not be able to supply water to all these high-density environmental killers; and you can expand the 405 all you want -- or run the 90 freeway into Lincoln Blvd in Marina Del Rey...BUT YOU AREN'T EXPANDING THE SIDESTREETS AROUND THEM. YOU AREN'T REDUCING CLASSROOM SIZE...YOU AREN'T HIRING NEW COPS...YOU AREN'T DOING SH*T...EXCEPT IGNORING THE LAW -- AND WORSE, AND NOW THE STATE AND COUNTRY HAS TO SPEND MONEY INVESTIGATING YO AZZEZ...
SO NOW, these shady developers who are getting rejected by the community, because Villaraigosa and Clowncil igorned all that above mentioned stuff, and more,
have to put an "appeal" on the agenda -- and make all 15 Councilmembers sign the conversion permit with their own blood, from their own hands.
The first two, Rosendahl and Garshady's are up on the agenda soon. Basically, the shady, crybaby developers will be aksing Council and the Mayor to not only igonore the City Charter (and therefore the law), but ignore local planning committees, and be like Nike and, "JUST DO IT".
SO WE ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT IF THESE COUNCILMEMBERS MEAN WHAT THEY SAY, WHEN THEY SAY THEY ARE FOR THE RESIDENTS WHO ELECT THEM -- OR JUST A BUNCH OF SPINELESS, GREEDY BASTARDS WHO ARE IN THE BACK POCKET OF THESE DEVELOPERS.
ZD THINKS IT'S GONNA BE VERY HARD FOR COUNCIL TO STAND UP TO SHADINESS, CAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY LEADERSHIP AMONG THE FIFTEEN, CURRNENTLY IN OFFICE. ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE JUST A BUNCH OF LAPDOG LOSERS WHO ROLL OVER FOR THE MONEY. AND TIE UP ANY GOOD SH*T FOR A YEAR IN COMMITTEE.
I WISH Y'ALL WOULD GO JUMP INTO THE LA RIVER...AKA: THE CONDORODO RIVER. Cause that's all it is...a bad, expensive CRA excuse to build a row of high density housing along the river. [ZUMA DOGG SAYS SECTION 8!]. And CM Ed Reyes was forced to admit isn't even a watershed, so it doesn't even actually serve a purpose, except to allow the City/CRA/short list of preferred contractors to spend and make a lot of money, not only on the "river", but on the row of high density housing to follow. Hence, "The CONDORODO RIVER". SEE YOU AT THE HEARINGS, ED!"
zumadogg@netzero.com
How about a Charity softball special event for the kids, this summer. Zuma Dogg's ZAPPERS vs The City Council LAPDOG LOSERS!
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 5/12/2007 09:26:00 AM
2 Comments:
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Yes folks, that's right. We won the appeal. (Well, the first round, at least).
We thought we had a good chance as we did have some solid legal arguments, but to our surprise The East Los Angeles Area Planning Commission voted unanimously in our favor to grant the appeal, thus
overturning the Planning Department's decision to allow the conversion.
The Commission agreed that the application was incorrectly accepted by the Planning Department to begin with, that too few tenants were willing or able
to buy, that the 3.8% vacancy rate was significant, and that the cumulative impact of this conversion and other conversions past present and future in the surrounding area was significant enough that the conversion should not have been approved in the first place.
This was a landmark decision, and an important precedent has now been set for future conversions that come before this Commission.
Slowly but surely the tide is turning and people are finally starting to sit up and listen - and to take note of the gravity of the situation.
Yesterday's decision will have a positive impact for future conversions that come before this
Commission (we especially hope it has an impact in areas hard hit by this conversion trend, like Silver Lake) and ideally it will have an impact at the first stage of the conversion process - when the application is made to the Planning Department.
However, it's not over yet as a second and final appeal can still be placed by the losing party, which we assume the developers will proceed with.
This appeal comes before the entire Los Angeles City Council.
The good news is that we enter this appeal with certain things in our favor already: it is an
advantage having the unanimous support of the ELAAPC behind us, and also the support of Council District 13.
Not only is Eric Garcetti our Council Member, he is also the President of the Los Angeles City Council, and his office have been incredibly supportive of our case.
We still have work ahead of us, who knows how this last appeal will go, but we'll all know soon. The window to place the second appeal is very short, and once it has been applied for the hearing must take place within 70 days,
so either way this will all be settled in the next few months. We will keep everyone up to date as the situation proceeds.
Once again we would like to thank every one of you who came out to support us and who spoke out on our behalf, your contribution and support was invaluable, so we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Clio and John
Apt 11
Edgecliff Dr, Silver Lake.
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