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Local News & Culture Marina del Rey
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Parking, traffic concerns lead committee to table Legado project Rendering courtesy of Legado Co.
By Gary Walker Citing disappointment with a traffic study and a string of missed opportunities to demonstrate how the developer was willing to work with Playa del Rey residents, the Neighborhood Council of Westchester-Playa’s Planning and Land Use Committee tabled a vote on a proposed project by the Legado Co. July 16. Legado, a development and real estate firm owned by the family of Edward Czuker, was seeking approval to construct a 72-apartment mixed-use project with 16,000 square feet of retail space that the company calls Legado Del Mar at 138 Culver Blvd., a triangular shaped parcel known to locals as “Jake’s Lot.” There are plans to have a two-story subterranean parking structure at the mixed-use development. Legado owns several parcels in downtown Playa del Rey, including two potential development sites within close proximity to 138 Culver Blvd. Committee member David Voss announced he would not be voting in favor of the project after two of his committee colleagues had spoken, due largely in part to a traffic study that he soundly criticized. The plan calls for adding an additional left-turn signal to Nicholson Street that would
(Continued on page 11) A RENDERING OF LEGADO’s proposed mixed-used development at 138 Culver Blvd. in Playa del Rey.
LAX Photo courtesy of Lucafiaccavento.net
•This Week•
Page 12 Stan Ridgway, formerly of L.A. New Wave band Wall of Voodoo, will perform at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 27.
Proposed airport sign district would require over 80,000 square feet By Gary Walker Los Angeles World Airports is moving ahead with a planned sign district at Los Angeles International Airport and residents who live near the airport had an opportunity to learn more about the proposal at a July 16 public hearing in Westchester. LAWA is proposing development and implementation of a sign district at LAX to permit new off-site or non-airport-related signage, within two distinctive sub-areas: landside and airside. On the landside sub-area, airport officials are requesting approximately 80,722 square feet of proposed new off-site signage throughout the Central Terminal Area. That includes 8,131 square feet of supergraphics, 10,368 square feet of wall signs and digital display signs. On the airside sub-area, approximately 289,600 square feet of new off-site signage is proposed on 153 passenger boarding bridges. Those numbers reflect the maximum amount of new locations and signage requested by LAWA
in its environmental impact report. Currently, LAX is permitted to and has routinely installed airportrelated or on-site signage on passenger boarding bridges, parking garages, columns, sky bridges, and terminal facilities, airport offical say. These signs are already permitted and utilized at LAX, including tenant signage on the terminals and on passenger boarding bridges, on-site related wall signs and supergraphics on sky bridges, as well as the existing billboard signs at the Park One Property in Westchester. LAWA representatives say no signs are expected on or near the new Tom Bradley International Terminal or the Theme Building. Airport officials say given the current signage that already exists at LAX, they anticipate no real change or very little change to the visual environment. New off-site signage in the landside subarea would be contained within the Central Terminal Area and the new off-site signage on the airside sub-area would be limited to the passenger boarding bridges, according to LAWA (Continued on page 9)