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-The 39,000 page Draft EIR for NBC Universal's mind boggling housing/office/studio project has been released and is now open to public comment for the next 60 days. NBC Universal hopes to turn 391 acres along the 101 freeway just north of the Cahuenga pass into almost 3000 residences to be built in low-, mid-, and high-rise buildings. New studios, office space, a hotel, and tourist attractions will also be added. I suspect local residents are squealing with delight over this planned monstrosity coming to town, in part, because Barham, Lankershim, and the Cahuenga pass have so little traffic as it is.
Mayor Sam would also like to extend an invitation to the developer or organized opponents of the project to make your case here on this blog. Just drop us an email at mayorsam@mayorsam.org. Please put UNIVERSAL in the subject line.
- Janice Hahn and other City Council members want to tax medical marijuana. But, medical marijuana is technically non profit and not subject to taxation even though everyone knows that most Med Marijuana clinics are making huge profits. Marijuana itself is still illegal, I think, so can a city tax an illegal substance? This is very confusing. The LA Weekly and Village to Village give it their best at figuring this all out.
- PBS legend and former Lyndon B. Johnson press secretary Bill Moyers says "a plutocracy and a democracy do not mix". What? Get out of town Bill, that's crazy talk.
-Serious question to the MS pundits; How do you reduce a deficit by extending $700 billion in tax cuts to the wealthiest in the country? Stay on topic please.
-Oh boy, Raves are returning to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Where's my damn glow stick?
- Hey, look what's still not open!
-And finally, what the hell is this?
Labels: Bill Moyers, Governor Jerry Brown, medical marijuana, nbc universal, raves
Posted by Unknown @ 11/05/2010 12:01:00 AM
34 Comments:
Regarding the $700 billion in sustained tax cuts, you STOP THE FREAKING SPENDING!
For example, defunding Obamacare will more than do the trick.
Just sit back and watch the incoming Congressional majority do it. Being a liberal Democrat, that is something you can't comprehend, but watch them do it.
Next question.
The Universal project has to be the absolute worse idea to come down the pike in years. This one has to be stopped!
I can't wait for the heroic Congress to be to defund Obamacare, which will deball Obama.
Obama's signature piece of legislation will be unable to get off the ground, and will dismantle what little remaining chance Obama has to get a second term.
In 2012, you'll also see the Republicans take control of the Senate, too, and a deeper control of the House of Representatives.
Ha ha ha
LOL
Good one!
12:32am wrote:
"the absolute worse idea"
This has Red Spot's finger prints all over it!
Regarding that Universal project. Don't we have a water shortage?
I would like DWP and our Council to please explain why I must ration water. Clearly, there's plenty of water to spare.
Maybe the Feds can give Cali a tax break by allowing Cali to keep their Federal tax dollars to pay off the the $12 billion Cali deficit!!!??? Better spent here then in some other nation building project. We were the 5th largest economy, now the 8th,...Whatever happen to "Charity starts at home!"
C'mon wackos, just admit it. You had your chance. Capitalism does not work.
8:40...come on Marxists, just admit it, you had your chance with the "One".....Socialism/Marxism doesn't work. Wake up...the American people rejected it, or are you ignoring the fact you LOST the House?
La Puente and Long Beach just voted for Marijuana Tax on Tuesday. How did dumb LA Weekly miss that? Los Angeles would not be the first city to do this.
The Raves never left. there was one in Sept. and Oct..
However, Caruso , who's against them, wants a revote because the commission voted when he was out of town. So he might get them stopped.
Too bad on his short-sightedness. The kids are much safer there than at private house parties.
Hey, PMSNBC's Keith Olbermann was suspended without pay for contributing to three campaigns.
Major no-no.
If he had better ratings, he'd have gotten a slap on the wrist. But because he has virtually no audience, it's an unpaid suspension.
Ha ha ha
LOL
Good one!
What's you problem with the kiddies' book, Joe B.?
How come when whining liberal pinkos endoctrinate their children (at LAUSD, and most major universities) by providing only one side of major issues, it's called getting a "higher education" -- and that's just hunkey dorie.
But when any other side (except, perhaps Sharia Muslims) tries to keep their kids from becoming the same kind of Kool-aid drinking lemmings that blindly elected the woefully underexperienced Barack Obama to "change" and give "hope" (and nothing else) -- then it's something to laugh at.
That's the problem with this silly "free speech" thing, Joe B.
Sometimes the people doing the speaking are the first ones to see that Emperor Obama has no clothes.
Then, the only way to shut THEM up is to convince people that their kind of "free speech" is really "hate" speech, or a "danger" to society.
Was there ever any doubt, by anyone, that Olbermann was a shill for the liberal autocracy that ruled D.C. the past two years?
Really? The only shock here should be that he up and paid THEM for the privilege (maybe it was a rebate?). What a mar-oon. The kind of stumping he does for far-left Democrats every night, he should have been handed a hefty consulting fee from the DNC, every month.
(Of course, now . . . that's probably the first place he'll send his resume).
pmsNBC isn't fooling anyone into thinking their talking heads are in any way objective, or that their reporting has any balance. So they don't contribute CASH to leftie political campaigns -- what they DO provide, an softball puffery platform, 24X7 is FAR more valuable.
OVERDEVELOPMENT 101 EQUALS BAD PLANNING, TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK , LOSS WILDLIFE, MORE DESTROYED WILDERNESS, MORE TAXES FOR HOMEOWNERS, MORE POLUTION, LESS WATER ,ELECTRICITY,WASTE, MORE WATER PIPE BREAKS, GAS LINE BREAKS, FIRE AND POLICE PROTECTION, MORE UNNECESSARY OFFICE SPACE, ALL SO THE CITY CAN CHARGE MORE FEES AND TAXES TO SURROUNDING BUSINESS OWNERS. LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER BUT AT WHAT COST TO YOU. I BELIEVE IN A BUILDING MORATOREUM IN LA. THE PEOPLE NEED A CITY WIDE ORDINANCE TO ALLOW THEM TO VOTE OUT DEVELOPMENTS THAT DON'T FIT THEIR SPECIFIC PLAN BEFORE TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS. SEEMS TO ME A GREAT WAY TO CUT COURT COSTS AND DEVELOPER LEGAL FEES. WE ALL NEED TO PUSH FOR A MORATOREUM AND FOR LEGAL CONTROL OVER DEVELOPMENT. WE NEED TO FOCUS ON URBAN RENEWAL AND A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM WE ALL WOULD USE. THE SUBWAY IS TOO BROKEN UP AND PEOPLE WITH CARS WON'T USE IT AS A RULE. IF IT TAKES YOU 2 HOURS ON THE SUBWAY AND 1 HOUR WITH TRAFFIC IN YOUR CAR WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE.
We need a Prop U again. You can't keep fighting the City on each development. Let's go for a moratorium unless they produce a Growth & Infrastructure Report pronto.
2:43pm, what do you mean?
The Universal plan is amazing. Have you looked at it? It creates a ton of jobs -- more than 40,000, not to mention the millions of dollars in annual revenues to the City and County. This project not only make cents - it makes sense. Housing near mass transit -- housing that we need in Los Angeles.
Right first poster. Count me in as one who doesn't understand.
12:33 -
I don't think so. We didn't argue that we thought you'd take the house. But for 2012, dream on.
NOT Caruso for mayor.
What? We need housing in LA? Really? Tell me more about that. Every neighborhood I go to has a zillion For Sale signs. Apartments are even available in a decent price range. If we need housing so badly, why all the empty houses?
Because you're full of BS.
8:49, it sucks to be a developer now, huh? Keep trying though. LOL
WHY HASN'T RUDY RELEASED THE DETAILS ABOUT THE TIME HE WAS IN THE LAPD RESERVE?
JUST BECAUSE KALISH GAVE YOU A BADGE OF A DEAD COP, DID YOU REALLY HAVE TO FLASH IT AROUND AND GET FIRED?
YOU DO KNOW COUNCILMEMBERS GET BADGES TOO, RIGHT?
Mornin' LA.
Kamala Harris is going to hold a press conference/photo op with Mayor Villaraigosa to announce the launch of a grief counseling hotline for liberal democrats who may be disturbed to find that Cooley now holds a slender 16,095 lead in the race for Attorney General.
With many of the 311,00 late votes that ceded the lead to Cooley coming from Los Angeles County's liberal democrat stronghold, and over 750,000 votes yet to come from normal counties, the attractive San Francisco DA may be looking at a new bid to carry the Obama brand to a more receptive audience.
Grief stricken progressive liberal democrats can dial
1-800-GET-OVER-IT to hear a recording of Cooley's victory speech, followed by Howard Dean's digitally remastered meltdown scream.
8:36 you also posted this on the GPW blog, and are your own worst enemy.
People like YOU winning by hanging onto the coat-tails of frauds like Cooley and his puppet Carmine the Clown are what finally scared some Democrats out to vote this time, the first time since Obama got elected.
I supported Hillary as the more experience and history proves me right. I'm not a gung-ho Obama fan, but at least he did SOMETHING to help reform the horrible insurance-dominated healthcare system we have where insurers get rich and raise rates sky-high for those who don't work for huge companies.
it's true the current version of the health plan sucks, no one even knows what it does except prevent insurers from excluding kids for pre-existing. It's also supposed to entitle us to go to the nearest emergency room and have whatever insurance plan we have pay for it.
That can mean life or death or going broke. Two good things.
Problem is, nothing prevents the blood-sucking insurance companies from raising rates sky-high, and some have stopped offering insurance to kids. They also may make it difficult for you to collect on the ER provision.
They also still give NO discount or bonus to "older" people who are healthy and perfect weight, etc., who can be prime athletes but rates still go strictly by age.
HOWEVER they penalize fat people (as they should since these people cost more at ANY age), diabetics and anyone who's had the had luck to actually be sick and need insurance.
Healthy, fit middle-aged people pay as much as many house mortgages, I kid u not. Future provisions of the healthplan are supposed to rectify this, somewhat.
The PROBLEM with the current healthcare plan is Republicans! Who left all the power without price controls in the hands of the same insurance companies who have pushed rates sky-high.
10:04am Dial 1-800-GET-OVER-IT before your condition gets worse. You need help.
Better still, why don't you get yourself a medical marijuana recommendation and by some weed from one of those nice caring Russian organized crime guys that ripped Peter Tilden off with low grade "Blockhead."
The problem with you progressive liberals is that you're all too busy finding "innovative solutions" that the real problem continues unabated. Too many criminals in prison? Open the prison gates to a few hundred thousand "non- violent" offenders, and then decriminalize whatever crime they'll commit the moment they hit the streets, so they cannot reoffend. That's a Kamala solution - go shove it.
Anyone else notice how Phil Jennerjahn hasn't said a word since his girl Christine O'Donnell got her ass smacked on Tuesday? He called her the most important women in America and predicted she would win in a landslide. Now nothing. What an idiot.
November 6, 2:56
This sounds like a great story.
Tell us more.
As someone who lives in the area I'm all for the Universal Plan.
I just spent the last five days in Silicon Valley.
They have jobs up there folks. Good jobs and good homes.
If you want to continue to turn LA into Mexico City then keep kicking out the jobs. You will basically have LA funded by the movie stars in the hill with Calcutta in the flat lands.
Dumbases.
Mayor Sam;
Think about this: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and more Jobs. Tax revenue, tax revenue and more tax revenue.
NBC Universal is doing something great for Los Angeles. Dont criticize them, applaud what they are doing.
Apparently all the people commenting here must have jobs. This project is great. Not only does it create 43,000 jobs but it keeps entertainment industry jobs here and not shipped off to another state.
I for one think this is a great project!
Steve Wurtzel
Apparently all the people commenting here must have jobs. This project is great. Not only does it create 43,000 jobs but it keeps entertainment industry jobs here and not shipped off to another state.
I for one think this is a great project!
Steve Wurtzel
I’ve had the pleasure to hear a little bit about the NBC Universal project, and from what I know, it’s a great one. It creates jobs, which, by the way are really needed in this economy. It’s smart growth. Growth that creates housing where housing is needed AND close to mass transit.
I for one think this is a great project!
Jack Witt
UCNH Chamber of Commerce President
Universal Project is a terrible idea. There is no infrastructure to support it and of course a nit wit from the Chamber of Commerce would support it. Stop this boondoggle from happening people!
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