High Density Mixed Used Commercial Housing vs 1st Time Homebuyers Program
Reprinted from The Voice, serving Northeast Los Angeles, July 2007 issue.
Everyone reading this should email voicepub@gmail.com and aks him to email you the same PDF file of this month's issue that he emailed ZD. TONS, TONS, TONS...TONS OF COMMUNITY INFO, MEETING DATES/LOCATIONS, etc!
[Jose, the GOOD CD 14 "docato", is ZD's fellow "Citywide Shady-Patroller" and takes up a lot of space in the "Bat Computer" data-bank.]
High Density Mixed Used Commercial Housing
By Jose Aguilar
On January 2006, Steve Valenzuela CRA/LA Regional Administrator for the Eastside Regional Area project mentioned on the 2007 CRA/LA Budget Narratives that CRA needs to bring in a first time homebuyers program that has 60,000 subsidy for a first time home buyers to buy in the Adelante Project area.
The reason for this is that Boyle Heights has currently a 75% absentee landlord rate. We are left with only 25% owner occupant rate.
The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) has failed to implement ANY of their own Guidelines starting with EA1010 which provides direct loans to property owners for home improvements, EA1080 Housing Trust funds for first time buyers for assistance in down payments and related costs, EA1990 House Trust funds for new affordable housing within Council District 14. EA2140 provides funds for interest-subsidy programs loans to property owners of commercial buildings and EA2700 is a program for retention and restoration of businesses in priority areas.
Our community wants low density housing that creates home ownership and helps make renters into home owners without creating a huge unsustainable population high density influx into our overly burden city infrastructure system.
This infrastructure which includes parking availability that will lead to, permitted
parking in the surrounding residential area and which will lead to traffic gridlock and draconian traffic mitigation measures that will make our main thoroughfares into one-way Boulevards.
Police coverage is at the lowest levels of population coverage area compared to
any other city in the United States. What will happen when all this high density
development becomes reality without building the infrastructure first.
Due to global warming, the Sierra Snow Pack is at 50% of its snow pack capacity.
The reduced water supply (e.g. Drought) will increase expeditiously the water rates will increase in order to subsidize water to an ever-increasing unsustainable high-density population growth in our region.
Citizen Alert: Boyle Heights is currently having their community plan reviewed.
Please help protect your current low level density zoning laws, by contacting Rogelio Flores at 1-213-978-1478.
Jose Aguilar: Chairman for the Housing Sub-Committee Chair for the Adelante Project Area, 2005-2006. For more reference about high density housing and its affects look up the LA Weekly June 1st 2007 on the article "What Smart About Smart Growth" Also in the February 14th 2007 issue of the newspaper the article named "Planning for Disaster" by Esquire Zuma Dogg". LA WEEKLY website
Everyone reading this should email voicepub@gmail.com and aks him to email you the same PDF file of this month's issue that he emailed ZD. TONS, TONS, TONS...TONS OF COMMUNITY INFO, MEETING DATES/LOCATIONS, etc!
[Jose, the GOOD CD 14 "docato", is ZD's fellow "Citywide Shady-Patroller" and takes up a lot of space in the "Bat Computer" data-bank.]
High Density Mixed Used Commercial Housing
By Jose Aguilar
On January 2006, Steve Valenzuela CRA/LA Regional Administrator for the Eastside Regional Area project mentioned on the 2007 CRA/LA Budget Narratives that CRA needs to bring in a first time homebuyers program that has 60,000 subsidy for a first time home buyers to buy in the Adelante Project area.
The reason for this is that Boyle Heights has currently a 75% absentee landlord rate. We are left with only 25% owner occupant rate.
The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) has failed to implement ANY of their own Guidelines starting with EA1010 which provides direct loans to property owners for home improvements, EA1080 Housing Trust funds for first time buyers for assistance in down payments and related costs, EA1990 House Trust funds for new affordable housing within Council District 14. EA2140 provides funds for interest-subsidy programs loans to property owners of commercial buildings and EA2700 is a program for retention and restoration of businesses in priority areas.
Our community wants low density housing that creates home ownership and helps make renters into home owners without creating a huge unsustainable population high density influx into our overly burden city infrastructure system.
This infrastructure which includes parking availability that will lead to, permitted
parking in the surrounding residential area and which will lead to traffic gridlock and draconian traffic mitigation measures that will make our main thoroughfares into one-way Boulevards.
Police coverage is at the lowest levels of population coverage area compared to
any other city in the United States. What will happen when all this high density
development becomes reality without building the infrastructure first.
Due to global warming, the Sierra Snow Pack is at 50% of its snow pack capacity.
The reduced water supply (e.g. Drought) will increase expeditiously the water rates will increase in order to subsidize water to an ever-increasing unsustainable high-density population growth in our region.
Citizen Alert: Boyle Heights is currently having their community plan reviewed.
Please help protect your current low level density zoning laws, by contacting Rogelio Flores at 1-213-978-1478.
Jose Aguilar: Chairman for the Housing Sub-Committee Chair for the Adelante Project Area, 2005-2006. For more reference about high density housing and its affects look up the LA Weekly June 1st 2007 on the article "What Smart About Smart Growth" Also in the February 14th 2007 issue of the newspaper the article named "Planning for Disaster" by Esquire Zuma Dogg". LA WEEKLY website
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 7/18/2007 08:07:00 PM
4 Comments:
Zuma,
Explain to me what "Operation Y.E.S." is and who benefits and why?
First of all, maybe Jose can reply if he sees this. Isn't "Operation Y.E.S." Juan Jiminez' non-profit?
I know Mr. J, got enough support/signatures from the community to be one of three people to qualify for the last city council race. And ZD LOVED, LOVED, LOVED every word he said when I hosted the candidate forum for Time Warner TV. (I don't know about his non-profit, or his politics...I'm just saying I dug his words, baby! He says all the right community-reppin' things...and he says it good! Would love to see Johnny Jay vs Antonio in a debate or forum. Man, Mr. J. would DEMOLISH HIM like a one-unit residential in CD 14!
And I think Johnny Jay's peeps want Jose Aguilar in as NC board member...SO DOES ZD!
So whoever is backing what agenda for whatever reasons...getting Jose Aguilar on the NC board especially as President, means moving the NC one step closer to becoming a "REAL" voice of the pueblos!
From what I have seen, Jose just seems to represent a certain "voice" of the community (no pun intended), from what I believe is coming from the right place, whether you agree with him, or not.
HIS BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION TO ZD has been tipping me to the water issues (delta/dwp may have a tough time living up to this proposed high-density demand that will be placed on the supply.
AND, about a year ago, Mr. A. was the first person to introduce ZD to the words, "density" and "infrastructure" (and how they are in conflict under city plans).
(And now look what happened, y'all!!! Hey Council, aren't you glad you violated the Constitution and banned tshirts and incense, et al on Venice Beach, only to have it jammed back down your throat by a Federal judge? Alright, let's reconsider:
Pre-April 04, 2006 (the day they voted to ban the stuff they just put back, proving ZD never should have set foot in city hall/tv 35/mayor sam/radio in the first place):
We have before us, 42.15, which will ban the sale of Zuma Dogg shirts, Matt Dowd incense and Michael Hunt natural products.
What do you say, fellow councilmembers...should we violate the constitution, only to be beat down by a federal judge? Let's look a year and three months into the future, then take a vote:
Open the roll...
Steamroll the roll...
Tabulate the votes...
The "No's have it" 0-15...ZD shirts and a bunch of other minor hand made stuff as protected under the constitution will be allowed to stay, as protected by Federal law. And we are voting to NOT break that law...because since we are wrong anyway...that's how shit ends up dumping on our heads, and all over our lap.
How did this thread just sneak in here? HACKERS, HACKERS, ALERT!!!
Not a hack...I accidentally published a blank thread with just the headline...so i "unpublished" it, but it didn't delete, however.
So when I got the copy of the aguilar/voice article, I decided to pop it in here, cause I wanted my LA Weekly thread to stay on top, but meanwhile, it works out perfectly, cause people can see his story at the same time, in case there is any added traffic to this blog over my added promotion and email blasts...
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