LC Real Estate 07 2019 by Larchmont Chronicle

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HOME GROUND

MOVIE NEWS

Los Angeles Conservancy award winners to be honored at luncheon.

Fantasy and reality mix at country’s largest reservoir and glittering city of light.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finishes its glass dome ceiling.

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HANCOCK PARK • WINDSOR SQUARE • FREMONT PLACE • GREATER WILSHIRE • MIRACLE MILE • PARK LA BREA • LARCHMONT

COLDWELL BANKER Hancock Park | $5,250,000 Grand Scale Mediterranean! 6Bed/5.5Bas, luxury finishes throughout, deep private yard. 684June.com

Hancock Park | $4,799,000 Spectacular English w/Exquisite Detail! 4+3.5+1bd/1ba gym, gourmet kit, pool. 401Lucerne.com

Hancock Park | $4,099,000 Highly desirable location 5bds + 4.5bas + GH + 3rd floor upper level. Lrg garden w/pool. In Escrow

Hancock Park | $2,995,000 Enchanting English, 4BR & 3 full baths. Beautifully landscaped yard with pool. Private grounds.

Lisa Hutchins 323.460.7626

Shar Penfold 323.356.1311

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P Bartenetti | K Gless | R Llanos 323.810.0828 CalRE #01240652, 00626174, 01123101

Hancock Park | $2,379,000 Stunning 3+3 w/ lovely architectural details. Larchmont Village locale. 236SLarchmont.com

Hancock Park | $1,920,000 Updated 4+2.5+pool hse,bath,kit & 2 rms up. backyard,pool,spa. 3rd St Sch. 100Lucerne.com

Hancock Park | $1,799,000 Windsor Sq. Dream Location Home. 3bed/2ba. Hiceilings, French doors & spacious lot.

Hancock Park | $1,799,000 1920’s Spanish close to Larchmont w/3bdrms, den, 2.5bas & pool. Needs work but good bones. SOLD

Loveland Carr Properties 323.460.7606

Lisa Hutchins 323.460.7626

Barbara Allen 323.610.1781

Rick Llanos 323.460.7617

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Hancock Park | $1,769,000 Warm Windsor Square Traditional. 3 bed + 2 bath, office/gym & garage. 341SVanNess.com

Hancock Park | $1,659,000 Original architectural looking for TLC. 3 + 2 w/ sweet front courtyard. 634NLasPalmas.com

Hancock Park | $1,025,000 Updated 3+2.5 condo w/ 2,200 sf of living space, 24 hr guard, pool, spa, rec rm, more. SOLD

Miracle Mile | $499,000 1 + 1, Unit 311, Probate, Close to Grove & LACMA. Balcony. Roof top pool, gated parking.

Loveland Carr Properties 323.460.7606

Shar Penfold 323.356.1311

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Cecille Cohen 213.810.9949 CalRE #00884530

Miracle Mile | $449,000 1 + 1, Unit 121, Probate, Close to the Grove & LACMA. Balcony. Roof Top pool, gated parking.

Hancock Park | $4,800 / MO Bright 3 + 1.25 house w/ new windows, washer, dryer, kitchen appliances.

Hancock Park | $4,750 / MO Country Club Manor, 24/hr doorman & valet, 2+1 w/ hardwood floors & French windows.

Hancock Park | Price Upon Request Golf Course. 2 Sty French Normandie, FDR, kosher kit, den, central air, elevator, GH, 3+3.

Cecille Cohen 213.810.9949 CalRE #00884530

Loveland Carr Properties 323.460.7606

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COLDWELLBANKERHOMES.COM Hancock Park 323.464.9272 | 251 N Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90004 Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor agents and are not employees of the Company. The property information herein is derived from various sources that may include, but not be limited to, county records and the Multiple Listing Service, and it may include approximations. Although the information is believed to be accurate, it is not warranted and you should not rely upon it without personal verification. ©2019 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker Logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. CalBRE# 00616212

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It’s summertime and leisure and preservation efforts continue It’s summer, a time when we try to slow down, read a good book, travel a bit. In the historic preservation world, the work of preserving individual buildings never seems to stop, whether it’s by continuous advocacy or repairing the roof. Here are just a few items to note as you pursue your (hopefully) leisure activities: Take an armchair vacation to view the current most threatened places in the country. The website savingplaces. org takes you to the 2019 Eleven Most Endangered list published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. They are a diverse group, from Nashville’s Music Row and the Excelsior Club in Charlotte, N.C. (a Green Book entry) to the National Mall Tidal Basin in Washington D.C. and ancestral places of southeast Utah. Threatened by climate change, development and neglect, the stories are varied and fascinating. The good news: of over 300 places which have made the list over 32 years, less than five percent have been lost. Closer to home, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has a new (and very appropriate) home in Highland Park. Much as we will miss the original location and the

master himself, the company has found a new (yet historic) venue at 4949 York Blvd. in the midst of a burgeoning community arts district. The York Theatre, built in 1923, has been a silent film venue and a church, hosted various community organizations, and is now a puppet theater. The simple Art Deco building retains its marquee, lobby and auditorium space with a stage. All of our favorite puppets delighted an audience of over 100 at a recent opening performance. The adaptability of this space to the antics of the cast was a reminder that historic buildings are flexible and enduring when they end up in the right hands. Sue Mossman has literally counted the days she’s spent in historic preservation: 9,136 of them as executive director of Pasadena Heritage to be exact (more if you count her time in other roles). This productive career as the head of one of the region’s most industrious and innovative preservation organizations is certainly something to celebrate, and friends will do just that this month at the Castle Green, one of the city’s most historic treasures. Sue’s quiet yet tenacious advocacy has provided a model for aspir-

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Christy McAvoy ing community activists for decades. Sue is just one example of the importance of staff to nonprofit service and advocacy organizations. Yet, staff expenses are the hardest budget item to fund. Without people, there are no programs, no one to organize attendance at hearings, no one to continue the mission. Recently, many organizations have had to reorganize (and cut) staff as donor and membership dollars go elsewhere. The preservation community, of course, works extremely hard to keep historic places standing, and it promotes other worthwhile causes as well. For example, thousands of members of the Ebell Club have maintained facilities at various locations throughout the club’s 125year history. Money for staff, maintenance and repair projects (including a recently refurbished elevator at the Wilshire facility) may not be glamorous, but they are nec-

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See the local Museum of Victoriana dressed up for Independence Day with decorative flags, streamers and table dressings when Grier Musser Museum, 403 S. Bonnie Brae St., exhibits its collection of blue and red glassware for the holiday from Wed., July 3 through Sat., July 27. Also on display at the turnof-the-century Queen Anne house will be Statue of Liberty memorabilia, from miniature

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BRIAN CURRAN, shown at the O’Melveny House in Windsor Square, volunteers for numerous preservation causes.

he’d be happy to have you join him in his efforts to preserve the community.

Celebrate independence, view Statue of Liberty memorabilia at Grier Musser

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essary components of making things work. And I have to give a “shout out” to a specific member of the Windsor Square / Hancock Park community who has brought his skills as an architectural historian and advocate back home after a sojourn with his family abroad. The current steward of the historic O’Melveny house in Windsor Square, Brian Curran has multiple new volunteer roles — with the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society, and Hollywood Heritage. Brian’s energy and talent are much needed and welcome! I’m sure

statuettes to coins, spoons, plates and stamps, and a collection of dolls. A movie exhibit celebrating summer features action figures and film posters and postcards. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and students and $5 for children. Call 213-413-1814 or visit griermussermuseum.org.

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Luxury 42-story tower planned for the Miracle Mile

413 North McCadden Place Listed for $2,995,000 Charming and elegant English home on a wonderful tree lined street on a spacious 10,000 sq.ft. lot with a pool. This wonderful well-kept home features a 2-story entry, elegant living room, formal dining room, den, updated kitchen and maids with bath. Upstairs there is a very spacious master suite with sitting area, updated bath and large walk-in closet. 2 additional bedrooms and another remodeled bath finish off the upstairs. Wonderful private yard with a pool, covered patio and 2 car garage. This is the first time on the market in 48 years.

Sold for $2,180,000 ($381,000 over asking price)

157 South Arden Blvd. Charming fixer just 2 blocks from Larchmont. This 2 story home features 3 well sized bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, den, living room with a fireplace and a pool out back. Bring your ideas to make this your dream home.

RENDERINGS of the planned $400 million mixed-use project on Wilshire Boulevard.

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Plans from developer Walter N. Marks will further change the Miracle Mile skyline with a 42-story mixed-use project that, if approved, also will replace the Staples store at 5407 Wilshire Blvd. The proposed 475,000-squarefoot building will contain 371 apartments and include amenities such as a bowling alley, golf simulator and a fifth-floor park. Developers envision that the tower, which takes a curvilinear shape, and was designed by one-time Fremont Place resident Richard Keating, FAIA, will open in 2023, about the same time as the first portion of Metro’s Purple Line Extension. “We are generally supportive of the project but it is early in the process and we are still reviewing it,” said Miracle Mile Residential Association president James O’Sullivan. “There is an environmental process to go through, and ultimately the project will be presented to the full MMRA board.”

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The property information herein is derived from various sources that may include, but not be limited to, county records and the Multiple Listing Service, and it may include approximations. Although the information is believed to be accurate, it is not warranted and you should not rely upon it without personal verification. Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor agents and are not employees of the Company. ©2018 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. Owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker, the Coldwell Banker Logo, Coldwell Banker Global Luxury and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo service marks are registered or pending registrations owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.

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The Sevens: large homes fill small lots at Wilshire, Rimpau By Suzan Filipek The Sevens, a small-lot subdivision in Hancock Park, is officially open and on the market. Set at the corner of Wilshire and Rimpau boulevards, the contemporary-style homes feature 10-foot ceilings and three or four bedrooms up

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homes last month. Two of the seven homes have sold (a third is in escrow), one to a Chinese-born, U.S.-educated lawyer with offices downtown; another occupant is a Hancock Parknative developer and his New York-born wife and their two children. “I think a developer buying one of the units speaks well of the building,” Knox said. Similar to a row house and evoking 19th-century New York brownstones, the homes offer 21st-century touches and sound construction throughout, she added. There are Viking appliances and two-car garages with electric vehicle outlets. Rooftops are set up for solar, and, inside, rooms are wired for sound and have automatic AC and heating, security and lighting. Double pane windows, white oak floors, clean Italian countertops and stone mantel fireplaces, as well as free-standing bath tubs, are features. Also free-standing, the homes range from 2,100 to 2,400 square feet each on a third of an acre lot and share gardening and trash collection fees. The Art Deco former Farmer’s Insurance property is across Wilshire.

CONTEMPORARY design and modern touches are throughout.

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500 North Bronson Avenue, Larchmont Village Just Listed 4 TIC Units Starting at $549,000 1 Bed | 1 Bath

2015 North Oxford Ave, Los Feliz Just Sold — Negotiated $60k Under Asking $3,035,000 Represented Buyer

501 N Stanley Avenue, Beverly Grove Just Sold with Multiple Offers $2,430,000 — $181,000 Over Asking Represented Seller

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Compass is a licensed real estate broker (01991628) in the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdraw without notice.

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Finding the real in Las Vegas: Formaldehyde, glitter and dead pool I fell for the mirage at the Mirage. This was in Las Vegas, a place I said I would never visit because — well, because. But I accompanied my explorer-companion (and architect) Doug to the 2019 AIA Conference on Architecture, mind open — mostly. (Suspend judgment, said a friend.) We were at the Mirage to see a show, “Beatles Love” or something, produced by Cirque du Soleil. All those handsome athletic children, hanging from ropes — terrifying. But back to the Mirage. Above the lobby-casino is a dome-canopy 90 feet overhead. And an enormous tropical rain-foresty garden (tall trees!) with a perpetual stream — and here is where I was split-second snookered, perhaps along with the zillion other people zinging around. What a maintenance budget and nightmare, I thought. But this was Las Vegas. The trees are mummified. Steel rods stuck in their poor trunks, and formaldehyde injected. But as this “experience economy” (as the giant engine of commodities and desire has been called) churns along day and night here in the middle of the desert, corporate-branded

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Paula Panich Las Vegas has become one of the most visited cities in the world. Few will be surprised that 10 million more tourists, in 2015, experienced the flash and noise of the Las Vegas Strip than the original City of Light, Paris. Las Vegas as ever-changing theme park originated around 1941, with the first gambling resorts based on Hollywood ideas of the Old West, and the pairing of the two fantasyproducing places has yet to abate. Fantasy is one thing, but the reality of sustaining the glittering architecture of desire is another. Fly into Las Vegas from the east and one sees beautifully designed (by natural forces) cinnamon-colored fissures in the Earth — and then that great blue eye blinking at the sky — Lake Mead, impounded Colorado River water, the largest reservoir in the country, feeding hotels and casinos and restaurants and ever-hungry tourists

seeking glamor and fortune. Formaldehyde-saturated trees, attempts at xeriscape, and suggestions to reuse hotel towels seem unlikely to shrink the great straw of the city sucking up water from the Colorado River, a truly limited resource. Hoover Dam then sends it downriver through high canyon walls into the Imperial Valley of California and into Arizona and Mexico. The elevation of Lake Mead fell 140 feet in the 2000-2018 drought. (The past winter’s rains restored about three feet.) Las Vegas receives 90 per cent of its municipal water from the Colorado River. The Southern Nevada Water Authority has taken on a multi-year, $1.3 billion project to secure a water supply for Las Vegas in the event of ecological disaster — a condition known, chillingly, as “dead pool.” Dead pool is the unthinkable, the point at which, as a Nevada journalist puts it, it would be physically impossible to release water from the dam into the river. No water would make it past Lake Mead. Contractors are working now on a new pumping station in Lake Mead, part of a new infrastructure that would change Las Vegas from one of

THE GREAT BLUE EYE of Lake Mead in the Nevada desert, the country’s largest reservoir. Photo: Paula Panich

the least water-secure cities to one of the most secure. Construction is slated to finish in 2020, and that will make Las Vegas the only water user in the lower Colorado Basin able to get water under dead pool conditions, according to Daniel Rothberg of the “Nevada Independent.” Last winter was only the

fifth year in the last 20 wherein the snowpack in the Sierra was above average. It would take three or four consecutive years of good inflow, (that is, above average snowpack), to refill Lake Mead. The good news, according to reporter Rothberg, is that there is no bad news up there in that great blue eye.

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Gil Saraf & Mark Priceman have navigated to Compass. Gil Saraf and Mark Priceman strengthen our Compass team with their combined experience of 30 years in real estate, guiding home buyers and sellers in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market. Saraf and Priceman will work from our flagship Hancock Park office located in the 1920s Keystone Building at 156 No. Larchmont Boulevard, known as L.A.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Community-and Architecture-Centric Real Estate Office. The innovative space is more community outpost than a traditional office and is the headquarters to a team of real estate professionals who embrace marketing a wide array of properties including architecturally significant estates across Greater Wilshire/Hancock Park and beyond.

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Do you rebid 1 no trump, or do you make a support double? Here’s your hand sitting west as dealer: ♠ KJ5 ♥ AK2 ♦ Q8632 ♣ 74

Here’s the bidding: West North East South 1D P 1H 1S ? Many players play a convention called “support dou-

bles.” This means that if you open and partner bids a suit and your right-hand opponent (RHO) overcalls, if you double you are promising three cards in the suit your partner bid. Since partner may have only four cards in the suit, you should not raise with only three cards in her suit, so this gives you the opportunity to tell her that you have exactly three cards in her suit. This is a nice conventional bid, but it can cause problems. Without a support double, you would have to decide whether to raise her suit with only three cards, or to bid 1NT over South’s 1S. This 1NT call limits your hand to not more than 14 high card points (HCP) but promises a stopper in your RHO’s suit. So what do you do here? You have two possibilities, the support double or 1NT. The answer is that you should bid 1NT. Why? Two reasons; the first is that if you bid 1NT, your partner may use New Minor Forcing to show that she has five cards in her suit and 10 HCP, if she does. The second is that it limits your hand to not more than 14 HCP. If you make a support double, it has two negatives; first is that it does not limit your hand, so your partner

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Grand Slam doesn’t know if you are minimum or huge. Second, it does not tell her that you have a stopper in your RHO’s suit. Here’s the four-hand layout: North ♠ T83 ♥ 764 ♦ AJT ♣ AT85 West ♠ KJ5 ♥ AK2 ♦ Q8632 ♣ 74

East ♠ Q4 ♥ Q953 ♦ 4 ♣ KQJ632

South ♠ A9762 ♥ JT8 ♦ K975 ♣9 If West bids 1NT, the bidding will probably end there, although with a pretty good six-card suit, East might raise to 2NT, which West will pass. That’s the way it should be bid. Alas, in the actual hand,

West chose to make a support double. That really screwed things up because North then raised partner’s 1S overcall to 2S (something he probably would not do with his meager three little spades knowing West has a stopper in spades, although he might still bid on since he has two Aces), and East bid 3C! The bidding got out of hand, and West bid 3NT, which went down one. The hand was played 12 times. Five were in 1NT making two. Four were in 3NT, down one. One was in 2H, making two, and one was in 4H, down one. One was in 2NT, down two, which is incomprehensible; right contract, but how in the world was it played to go down two? This hand also shows the way aggressive bidders can mess up opponents’ bidding. South’s 1S overcall was precarious with only 8 HCP. But if South doesn’t overcall, West will bid 1N and the auction will end. South’s overcall enabled North to enter the bidding and get West and East to bid to an unmakeable contract. Good bid, South! Grand Slam is the nom de plume for an author of a bestselling book on bridge, an ACBL accredited director and a Silver Life Master.

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John Ruskin continues to inspire and promote on his 200th birthday Walk through Windsor Village, and you can’t help but notice the lovely revival house on Plymouth Blvd. and 8th St. For nearly a century that property (Historic Cultural Monument #639) was home to the Ruskin Art Club. Like The Ebell, the Ruskin was founded by women in Los Angeles who cared about numerous matters that a new and rapidly growing city could too easily disregard: culture, history, art and education. The Ruskin Art Club moved out of the neighborhood in 2014, but it hasn’t disappeared. Perhaps now, in the bicentennial year of John Ruskin’s birth, it’s time to reflect on the small club’s grand mission, which is nothing less than to promote Ruskin’s “vision of the unity of art and life and the arts as a catalyst for social transformation of the 21st century.” The last part of that mission statement strikes what might seem an anachronistic note. Ruskin, after all, died in 1900. It was the “storm cloud” of the 20th century that commanded his attention in the last years of a long life. And in those last years, the great champion of J. M. W. Turner’s early 19th century paintings found himself out of sympathy and out of synch with stunning new movements

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Bruce Beiderwell — impressionism among them. Add to this the fact that Ruskin can’t be pinned down in 21st century terms: was this man of great inherited wealth a socialist, a paternalist, a reactionary, a visionary, an economist, an elitist? Was he a crank or a sage? Foremost an artist Perhaps the answer is that Ruskin was all and none of the above because he was foremost an artist. Ruskin’s essays operate like much great poetry: they express contradictions that prompt new ways of seeing. They don’t so much tell us what to think as they help us to think and feel. So the mission of the Los Angeles Ruskin Art Club quite appropriately says more about how we can use Ruskin than any narrow interpretation of what he wrote. In the spirit of their mission statement, I suggest we use him to inspire and provoke. Much of the inspiration relates to our increasingly urgent environmental crisis. Ruskin

understood that how we build and grow impacts the world we collectively inhabit. And while he usually expresses environmental degradation in aesthetic terms, he always links things he describes to broader values. To his mind, an ugly school, for example, would be a public health problem; a beautiful school, on the other hand, would help nurture a vibrant community. Encampments as failures As to provocation, Ruskin wasn’t one to give a free pass to prettiness. He was a stern, some say shrill, prophet. A homeless encampment near the most composed of residential neighborhoods would be more than an eyesore to him; it would be a civic failure — a moral blight on all our houses. And for all his love of beauty, architecture wasn’t mainly about the finished product; it was about the skilled, patient and coordinated labor that buildings occasioned. So when work disappears or the dignity of work is compromised, the social fabric wears thin and tears. The Ruskin Art Club’s administrative office is now in a non-descript Highland Park apartment building — the sort of mass-produced building Ruskin would have hated (the club schedules its events

THE RUSKIN ART CLUB moved into this Spanish Colonial Revival residence at 800 S. Plymouth Boulevard in the mid1920s. Designed by architect Frank Meline, the building was originally constructed by the Congregational Church Extension Society as a Sunday School Room and Parish House for the nearby church (now Wilshire United Methodist). Photo courtesy of windsorvillage.net

throughout the city). The move was no doubt a sacrifice, but sacrifice was another thing Ruskin valued. In fact, it was one of his “seven lamps of architecture.” He knew that beauty was also about use. As

he put it, sometimes we must submit to the most basic — not elegant designs but sufficient “walls and roofs.” On this point, Ruskin identified a tension between beauty and need that challenges us still.

‘Murder in Bel-Air’

The murder is not in our BelAir, 90077, but in the one in Paris. The author is Cara Black, who discussed her 19th Aimeé LeDuc detective novel June 14 at Chevalier’s Books. MURDER MYSTERY author Cara Black discusses private eye Aimeé LeDuc at Chevalier’s Books on Larchmont.

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Cathedral, Fairfax District and library among winners scholars today. Period-revival homes make up much of honoree, the Beverly Fairfax Historic District, which was recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also being honored are Los Angeles Union Station, Bradbury House in Pacific Palisades,

the A.V. Walberg Residence & Adjoining Properties, and Asian Americans in Los Angeles Historic Context Statements. The awards luncheon will take place on Thurs., July 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles. Visit laconservancy.org.

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Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Los Angeles Conservancy’s 38th annual Preservation Awards. They include a Jewish American historic district, a late 19th-century cathedral and a World War II airplane hangar that has found new life in the 21st century. Vibiana and its former rectory-turned-restaurant, Redbird, won the Conservancy’s highest recognition, the Chair’s Award. Opened in 1876 as the Cathedral of St. Vibiana, the cathedral designed by architect Ezra F. Kysor stood out in the backdrop of the then-small pueblo. The cathedral was enlarged in 1924 by another renowned architect, John C. Austin. After suffering what turned out to be minor and reparable damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, it became part of the centerpiece of downtown’s revival under the tutelage of developer Tom Gilmore. It reopened in 2006 as an event venue. (A new cathedral, designed by architect José Rafael Moneo, was built a few blocks away on Temple Street.) St. Vibiana’s former rectory was transformed into the 140seat restaurant Redbird, so named because of the building’s former life as a home for a cardinal.

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The 25th Annual Gilmore Heritage Auto Show at the Original Farmers Market had a huge turnout June 1, including both car exhibitors with their trophy vehicles and spectators ogling the cars. Among the more than 100 cars on display were two Cadillacs parked next to each other, one a 1955 Coupe De Ville, and the other a 1953 El Dorado. Their proud owners, Willie Wallace and Norman Ash, WILLIE WALLACE had crowds checking respectively, beamed out his 1955 Cadillac Coupe De Ville at the with pride while annual Gilmore Heritage Auto Show at the answering questions Original Farmers Market in June. about their collecting, restoring, and maintaining Fairfax will be the 11th annual the beautiful classic cars. Taste of Farmers Market on The next big event at the July 23 from 5 to 9 p.m. See historic property at Third and farmersmarketla.com.

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Real Estate Editorial By John Welborne Senate Bills 330 and 592 eviscerate local planning

A NEW OAKWOOD AVE. APARTMENT BUILDING adjacent to a single-family home.

Wiener’s SB 592: A WIMBY* ‘Snake in the Grass’ The following article first appeared in a much longer form in “The Planning Report” (TPR) on June 17. See tinyurl.com/y2qku8el The Larchmont Chronicle thanks the author and TPR for permission to abbreviate the article here. Following the failure of his controversial up-zoning bill SB 50, San Francisco’s state senator Scott Wiener has introduced — via two “gut and amend” processes — new legislation again designed to wrest control over planning and zoning from cities in the name of supply-side economics. The senator took one of his numerous 2019 bills, this one relating to cosmetology and barbers — that already had passed successfully through Senate committees — and completely revised that bill to be a housing bill that now is being considered by the State Assembly. In this article, Hydee Feldstein — who correctly predicted the back-door introduction of SB 592 — now unpacks the new bill’s key provisions to reveal the sweeping impacts obscured in what was originally a minor bureaucratic exercise. The bill strips nearly all zoning and land-use requirements from any type of housing, removes measures targeting housing affordability, and Hydee Feldstein prevents the regulation of disruptive business models such as short-term rentals, communal living, or corporate housing. Feldstein is a retired attorney who lives in Los Angeles and is active as vice president and co-chair of the Land Use Committee of the nearby P.I.C.O. Neighborhood Council. Please send any comments addressed to her to hydeefeldstein@yahoo.com. By Hydee Feldstein State Senator from San Francisco Scott Wiener’s land-use legislation has never been a debate or a conversation about policy, affordability, or homelessness. He ducks out of town halls or only takes friendly softball questions. He does not take serious questions or legitimate debate about the substance of his real estate industry-drafted bills. But even substance aside, the tactics, tricks, and sneakiness of SB 592 (as well as SB 330 and several other industry-drafted bills this legislative season) are reprehensible, usually incomprehensible to the average legislator and the average citizen, and increasingly shameless in their grasp.

2017’s housing bills

In 2017, the California Legislature passed a comprehensive package of 15 housing bills that became effective January 1, 2018. While not perfect from anyone’s (Please turn to page 14)

“The 2019 legislative package is an effort to roll back the requirements for inclusionary affordable housing and to trample all over local control, safety, habitat, conservation, historic preservation, and other elements of good planning that were taken into account in the 2017 housing package.”

In a comment posted on our website and printed below, Chris McKee opines about SB 50, saying he is “generally in favor of SB 50.” However, the rest of Mr. McKee‘s comment shows a basic misunderstanding of SB 50 and its replacement California Senate bills — which are grave threats to local neighborhoods and which still are in the Legislature — SB 330 and SB 592. The issue critical for Los Angelenos is, paraphrasing Mr. McKee, our solving the housing problem locally. And that actually is what Los Angeles has been doing in recent years (as evidenced by the city having permitted substantial construction of new residential units, although an insufficient number of those new units are “affordable”). Active construction now underway along many of our major streets, of which Mr. McKee writes, demonstrates that the Los Angeles Department of City Planning (DCP) and the City Council are successfully encouraging developers to build more housing in those places. Such devel-

opment is part of our adopted local plans that go back to 1972 — to our governing “Centers Concept.” And what is that concept? It is to: (1) build density in centers and along major boulevards and (2) leave low density, single-family neighborhoods intact. This long-successful Los Angeles planning approach offers residents a variety of choices — living high or low. By contrast, the Bay Areabased politicians want to dictate to us from Sacramento and to eviscerate our local control so that moneyed real estate interests can do whatever they want, wherever they want. SB 330 and SB 592 offer no protection for our diverse and healthy local neighborhoods. The Larchmont Chronicle agrees with our own DCP and local elected officials (and partly with Mr. McKee) — we need to have rigorous development in the appropriate areas in Los Angeles. The state senators’ confiscatory proposals offer just the opposite and take no heed of what is appropriate for Los Angeles.

REAL ESTATE COMMENTS TO THE CHRONICLE SB 50 delayed, not deceased

“SB 592 upends all zoning and conditions for ALL proposed ‘housing development projects’ with very limited exceptions.”

* “WIMBY” stands for “Wall Street In My Back Yard.” See Hydee Feldstein’s “Open Letter to Senator Wiener” on Page 3 of Section 1 of the June issue of the Larchmont Chronicle, in the article titled “SB 50 empowers Wall Street to commoditize housing by right.”

SB 50 will return if not supplanted by other bills. SB 50 is the work of special interest groups including giant corporations that will PROFIT from more housing for their employees. Any “affordable” housing will be incidental. Gary Wesley I am generally in favor of SB 50. I agree there are many local neighborhoods that are lovely and should not be ruined, but I don’t understand why streets like Fairfax, Wilshire, Western, Pico, La Cienaga, Melrose, Beverly and all the other multi-lane boulevards in Los Angeles still have single-story businesses or two-story apartment buildings on them. The apartment buildings with ground floor retail developments in Culver City, Santa Monica, Playa Vista and Hollywood are creating vibrant walking neighborhoods. Los Angeles businesses and residents could enjoy a much better quality of life with four-to-five story structures like these. I urge you to explore and advance rigorous developments in these appropriate areas as an alternative to SB 50. Perhaps it will seem unnecessary statewide if we solve the problem locally. Chris McKee Above comments are from the Larchmont Chronicle’s website and Facebook page.

Organizations opposed to the overreaching ‘housing’ bills: Livable California: livablecalifornia.org Stop SB 50: stopsb50.net 2PreserveLA: 2preservela.org Windsor Square Association: windsorsquare.org

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REAL ESTATE OPINION (Continued from page 13) perspective, that package balanced the different policies and alternatives and was determined to be the best way forward to create affordable housing and address the housing needs in our state. Not even one construction cycle has elapsed since those bills came into effect, yet the real estate industry has already come back — through its lobbyists and certain legislators — to try to undo all that was accomplished in 2017. The 2019 legislative package is an effort to roll back the requirements for inclusionary affordable housing (by way of retroactive application in SB 330 and other bills) and to trample all over local control, safety, habitat, conservation, historic preservation, and other elements of good planning that were taken into account, though weakened, in the 2017 compromise legislation. Neither our Legislature nor our Governor should allow this important of a set of policies to be passed through public deception or determined by industry legislation apparently fueled by the desire to prevail at all cost. SB 592 and its companion bills completely fail to meet the standards of transparency, candor, and accountability

SB 330 is now in the State Assembly, where it encountered opposition on June 19. See: tinyurl.com/ y558xlms SB 592 also is in the Assembly, and opposition needs to be directed to our elected state representatives.

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to which we should hold our elected representatives.

The Gut and Amend

A “gut and amend” legislative bill-writing approach may technically be legal in California, but that does not make it moral or good SCOTT WIENER, a governance. state senator from The “gut and San Francisco. amend” of SB 592 bespeaks a legislator unable to accept consensus and all too willing to prepare and initiate bills that later can serve as vehicles for these kinds of legislative maneuvers. SB 592 is such a bill. …

Affordability components

SB 592 aligns with the first part of SB 50 and the first part of SB 330 pretty closely, though not exactly, in amending Government Code Section 65589.5. … [T]hese provisions that do include affordability elements are too sweeping an intrusion into good planning and local control, since they permit the placement of a structure anywhere without regard to city services, infrastructure, or other legitimate concerns. Other than sections (d) and (i), the rest of SB 592 has nothing to do with affordable housing or shelters. It accomplishes the same relief from zoning and density restrictions as proposed in SB 50, but in an even more underhanded manner.

Market rate housing

SB 592’s section (j) upends all zoning and conditions for ALL proposed “housing development projects,” with very limited exceptions.

… Subdivision (j)(1)A(i) does not permit consideration of the health or safety of the occupants (eg. fire exits, overcrowding, insufficient sanitation or cooking facilities, etc.) or the cumulative effect of housing development projects in a neighborhood on public health or safety (eg. evacuation routes, city services requirements for police, fire, paramedics, impact on trash collection, load on infrastructure and utilities, etc.). …

Elimination of use and density restrictions in SB 592

SB 592, like SB 330, defines “housing development project” to include “mixed-use developments consisting of residential and nonresidential uses” and “transitional housing or supportive housing,” all without any reference to underlying zoning or use restrictions. SB 592 then expands the definition of “housing development project” … to add two new elements to the mix that no other bill has addressed, and includes “a single unit” and “the addition of one or more bedrooms to an existing residential unit.” … Section (j), coupled with the revised definition of “housing development project,” validates the co-housing, communal living, corporate housing, extended stay, and private clubs cropping up in residential neighborhoods where zoning otherwise would prohibit such arrangements. These are not residential uses consistent with neighborhood zoning, but rather businesses that chop up interior space to maximize beds and provide shared kitchen, bath, and common living areas, renting out each bed in a shared space and often filling empty beds on a short-term basis with business travelers and tourists. SB 592 makes it impossible for a city or county to

regulate these arrangements, no matter how much they may disrupt current zoning, require additional services, burden infrastructure, or disrupt neighborhoods. At the opposite end of the spectrum, by including “a single unit” in the definition of a housing development project, the provisions of SB 592 (like those of SB 50) permit McMansions and luxury compounds, albeit in a more subtle (or, some might say, sneaky) manner. By permitting the “flex density” on a statewide basis on every parcel and making all zoning provisions that can be varied on application and public hearing not “applicable,” SB 592 requires the approval of a McMansion, condo, or rental apartment building with a hotel and restaurant or any number of commercial, retail, or other nonresidential uses anywhere in California, even within a single-family residential zone. … So, all of the following is gone under SB 592: Residential zoning. Any “nonresidential” use is permitted up to one-third of the space of a project, including the running of a hotel, extended stay, corporate, boarding or rooming house, dorm or other business renting out a bed or other “residential” space. Low-density zoning of any kind, particularly single-family or twofamily zoned residences. Architectural, design, historic and aesthetic standards. All areas now are open to Soviet-style grey cinderblock construction or Robert Moses-style overcrowded projects. All “objective” zoning criteria if a project “could be approved” on a variance or conditional use or any other discretionary request.

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New Xavier Center to open in 2020 at Loyola High School By Talia Abrahamson Loyola High School, the oldest high school in Southern California, broke ground on a new building this month. Through their construction initiative, “The Campaign for 1901 Venice Boulevard,” Loyola is reimagining Xavier Center as a 26,000-square-foot contemporary special events space, expected to open in late 2020. Loyola Board Chairman Rick Caruso led the groundbreaking celebration June 11 with more than 100 guests attending. Administrators have been planning the $34 million reconstruction for years as part of their Facilities Master Plan. Built in 1964, the current Xavier Center lacks the efficiency and space needed in the modern age to support school functions. “To inspire our students to become future leaders, we must be able to provide them with state-of-the-art facilities that contribute to a thriving educational and spiritual community,” President Rev. Gregory Goethals said. The Center was not ADA compliant, and its kitchen could not support large-scale dinners, which often had as many as 800 guests. Together with fundraising and student events, the Center hosts more than 200 gatherings a year including the school prom, academic testing and baccalaureate services. With about three functions occurring each day within the Center, it is the most-used building on campus. Loyola is preserving the functions of the former Xavier Center, but new additions are designed to improve the ease

entrance, known as Hayden Circle, and a new gate will be added to better secure the campus. “This is the historic architectural core of our campus, so we really want a building that is significant enough to fit well within that setting — something that’s going to be a beautiful addition to campus and looks like it was meant

to always be here,” Vice President for Advancement Lela Diaz said. Behind the new Xavier Center, Loyola will landscape a Veterans’ Courtyard to honor alumni, past and present, who served in the military. A Veterans’ Wall of Honor will be installed on the backside of the Center. While the Center is undergo-

ing renovations for the 20192020 school year, a makeshift events space will be set up in one of the school’s parking lots. The temporary structure will mirror the footprint of the Center, and it will have air conditioning and heating. This construction follows other smaller improvement projects on Loyola’s campus, (Please turn to page 23)

LOYOLA PRESIDENT Rev. Gregory M. Goethals, Vice President for Advancement Lela Diaz and Loyola Board Chairman Rick Caruso. Photo by Brandon Bibbins

and quality of these events. The enlarged Xavier Center will include a full-service banquet kitchen, student kitchen, dedicated sacristy, moveable walls, ADA-compliant restrooms and audio-visual equipment. “Working alongside Loyola’s administration, sharing its vision for the 1901 Venice Boulevard project and helping to shepherd it in its continued path of excellence, Loyola’s Board enthusiastically endorses this immensely important initiative,” Caruso said. Xavier Center sits next to near-century-old Ruppert Hall and Loyola Hall, which collectively represent the main entrance to campus. Therefore, Loyola’s architecture firm, KFA Architecture, is balancing a modern interior with the traditional Gothic-style exterior architecture of the school. Loyola will also be redesigning the landscape of this front

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Larchmont Animal Clinic still purring after 42 years on Boulevard After graduating from the University of Minnesota, he came to Los Angeles to visit a friend, and the sunny weather lured him to stay. He remembers when Larchmont Blvd. had plenty of parking and zero parking meter cops, he says. As the boulevard got busier and parking became more scarce, he purchased a property two lots up the street and opened a pet shop. “We call it the BarkDR. CIGANEK with Keeper, one of his ing Lot. It’s our parking many rescue pets. lot,” he smiles at his rhyme, with traces of says of his dog and cat patients. “They get old… kidneys fail, his Mid-West Milwaukee drawl livers fail, they get cancer,” still intact. Dr. Jessica Coote he says, as his dog Keeper, 16, His practice has grown to insleeps nearby. He brings the dapple-colored mutt to work clude a full- and part-time staff of 20. Newest to the group is with him every day. Dr. Jessica Coote, who specialOffice expansion Ciganek opened his lo- izes in preventative medicine cal clinic out of a then-small as well as pet travel requests. Ciganek shares his Hancock home on the site. The home has been renovated and ex- Park home with several dog panded to a spacious 3,800 and cat rescues. Keeper was square feet; scented candles found as a puppy in South belie the dog and cat patients Central Los Angeles, skinny and with mange. visiting. Another of his dogs, a goldCiganek found his calling in college while working part- en retriever mix, was left as a time for a vet and going on puppy in a paper bag on the farm calls to treat cows and clinic’s doorstep. Also suffering from mange and having a horses.

NEW VET Dr. Jessica Coote at the Clinic’s X-ray machine (above) and treating a cat (right).

bad eye, her prospects looked slim, but living with a vet has had its pluses, as she has had a full recovery. “Sometimes you never know what you’re going to find,” Ciganek said of his work day. When not at the clinic, which is most of the time, he enjoys working on his classic cars: a ’57 Chevy convertible and ’69 Volkswagen. And he helps his wife, Robyn, work a cattle ranch in Redlands that she inherited from her grandfather. The cattle are gone, but there’s still plenty to do; he purchased a tracked loader, a bulldozer-type piece of equipment, to work the land. He tried to persuade his son into the family veterinary

business, but the younger Ciganek opted for law school. Retirement has crossed the elder Ciganek’s mind. But not for long. “I’m still enjoying myself. How do you separate work and pleasure when work is pleasure?” he said, as one of his patients, a dog, howled in the background.

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Meet the royal, triumphant, and fashionable Pets of Larchmont Residents sent us photos of their dogs and cats, and one very well-dressed hen, for our annual Pets of Larchmont issue.

JULIUS lives in Windsor Square with Lynn Chen.

CODY, seen here on his birthday, lives on Gower St. with Ronald Alix.

JACKSON, Walter and Betty (left to right), “are all good friends!” says Cynthia Markus, N. Citrus Ave.

SWEETIE, 6, a pit mix, lives with Marie Clarey on N. Arden.

PEARL, 12, and Magnus, 13, share a home with Tim Kasher and Gwynedd Stuart on N. Norton Ave.

CINDERELLA (front) and her daughter, Dolly, are off to Larchmont for a fun field trip! Both dogs are Sealyham terriers, a breed that was at one time popular with Hollywood stars and British Royals. Alfred Hitchcock loved Sealyhams, and several of his dogs were featured in his movies. Julia Dalton, Fremont Place, tells us that Cinderella appeared in the 2012 movie, “Hitchcock,” which starred Anthony Hopkins.

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HEIDI AND JOSIE, of S. Lucerne, are in a patriotic mood, says Robin Jameson. Heidi, 16, could be “the most senior of all Larchmont doggies,” James told us.

CHIP-DOGGIE. “Everyone knows my dog,” says Barry Cynowiec. The 14-year-old Lhasa Apso has been visiting Larchmont Blvd. and the bench by Chase Bank since he was three months old.

POOCHIE, Steven Steinman and Doris Berger’s sweet dog, on N. Las Palmas Ave.

SOBA is a new puppy of the Boylston family on N. Van Ness Ave. BUSTER AND BELLA enjoy life with Art and Mary Fruchtenbaum on Manhattan Place after being adopted from shelters more than 10 years ago.

GINGER, 20, lives on Norton Ave. with Marsha Goodman and Dan Einstein. “He’s handsome for an old boy,” Marsha says.

FRIDA was saved off the streets of Bangkok by friends Tara Austin, Larchmont Blvd., and Dr. Lisa Chong, an OBGYN. The pair set up a gofundme site to help pay for the one-year-old dog’s medical and rehabilitation bills; she’s at a rehabilitation site, above. “We will not give up on Frida, and she is a fighter,” Austin told us.

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MUSE recently moved to Hancock Park on Lillian Way and is excited to meet her neighbors, say Tiffany Easton and Alden Oreck.

JADE (left), a Japanese Silky hen in her sixth birthday party dress, lives with Joan Kors, Wilcox Ave. Jade’s “sister” Lavendar, a Tonkinese cat, looks on (above).

MILLI prowls about on S. Orange Dr., says Jill Brown.

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Tasty treats and friendly service at ‘Larchmont Village Vet’

By Suzan Filipek Dog treats that fill jars atop a mantel in the lobby at Larchmont Village Vet, 428 N. Larchmont Blvd., are for four-legged patients and passersby alike. “We have a lot of dogs in the neighborhood that just pop in,” says Dr. Jessica Fishman. These drop-in visits for a tasty biscuit or two makes a doctor visit easier down the road, she explains. Opening her full-service dog and cat animal hospital in February has been the realization of a lifelong dream of Fishman’s. “I initially fell in love with this neighborhood growing up near Hancock Park on Tremaine Avenue,” said Fishman. She attended Immaculate Heart High School and went to Western University College of Veterinary Medicine. She has worked at various animal hospitals in Los Angeles as well as owned a veteri-

DR. JESSICA FISHMAN grew up in the neighborhood and is glad to be back.

nary house-call business. She is glad to be back. “Part of why I wanted to have an animal hospital is the joy I get from being in the neighborhood,” she said. “I get to treat pets for their lifetime and develop a relationship with owners based

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Learn about making jams, jellies and marmalades at the Wilshire branch library, 149 N. Saint Andrews Pl., Sat., July 20 at 3 p.m. An overview of food safety, recipes with a tasting will be included. Call 323-957-4550.

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Meet author and illustrator Tao Nyeu when she reads from her book “Squid and Octopus: Friends for Always” at John C. Fremont branch library, 6121 Melrose Ave., Mon., July 15 from 3 to 4 p.m. Call 323-9623521, or visit lapl.org.

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dental cleanings, elective surgeries and acupuncture. The hospital is equipped with digital X-ray, an in-house laboratory and a pharmacy. Fishman also studied at the Chi Institute of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine and practices acupuncture, especially for arthritic patients, she tells us. Grooming services range from the “Nothin’ Fancy” bath to spa packages which include a massage and acupuncture treatment for senior dogs. The Pampered Pup treatment’s blueberry facial helps with tearstains and includes aromatherapy and nail polish. Fishman met her groomer and tech at previous veterinary job sites, and she was so impressed with their expertise and care with animals that she invited them to join her. She often brings her infant daughter to work with her,

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and husband, Domenico Bianco, is also a vet. “It’s been an exciting year,” Fishman tell us. Look for an open house in August; date to be determined. Larchmont Village Vet, 428 N. Larchmont Blvd., 323-3786676; Larchmontvillagevet. com.

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Hundreds of people, including many families with children, turned up on the lawns of Hancock Park (the county park, not the subdivision) to celebrate the halfway point of construction for the first phase of the Purple Line subway extension from Western Avenue to La Cienega Blvd. Community leaders from Miracle Mile and Sycamore Square, as well as the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, had booths, as did Metro vendors. The next Metro community meeting on this phase of the extension project is Thurs., July 18, at the SAG-AFTRA building at Curson and Wilshire. Learn more at: metro.net/projects/notices/ events_purpleline

Above: NEIGHBORHOOD representatives with councilmember David Ryu (second from right) at the Metro celebration are, from left: Tammy Rosato (La-Brea Hancock), Conrad Starr (Sycamore Square) and Kari Garcia (Miracle Mile).

GREATER WILSHIRE board members and volunteers with Councilmember Ryu are, from left: Hayden Conner Ashworth, Max Kirkham and Kiersten Stanley.

Sacramento Continues Threats to Neighborhoods

You may have breathed a sigh of relief last month when state Sen. Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50, the bill that would eliminate local control of zoning, was held up in a state Senate committee. That bill would have imposed a one-size-fits-all, statewide mandate to create denser housing near transit lines. Single-family neighborhoods near bus or subway lines (and other areas as well) could be destroyed in favor of multi-story apartment buildings, with no consideration to be given to issues of increased traffic, livability, or historic preservation. But the essence of that anti-neighborhood bill is back, in disguise, as SB 592. For more details on Sen. Wiener’s new approach, please see: Palo Alto Daily Post: tinyurl.com/y5ztbmt7 The Planning Report: planningreport.com/2019/06/17/wienerssb-592-wimby-snake-grass SB 330: 2preservela.org/anti-neighborhood-sb-330-takes-a-hit

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Garden party honors parks supporters

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Dr. Henry H. Takei will be honored by the Government of Japan with The Order of the Rising Sun. The ceremony and reception will be held at the official residence of the Consul General of Japan in Hancock Park. Takei has helped promote academic exchange between Japan and the United States in the field of periodontics, and he has been a leader in developing the field in Japan. A Los Angeles native, Takei received his dental and specialty degrees from Marquette University. UCLA professor He has been on the UCLA School of Dentistry faculty since 1967 and is co-editor of the textbook “Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology.” He has also been honored with the “Master Clinician Award” by the American Academy of Periodontology, and he also is a consultant for both the Veterans Administration Hospital and the Japan Academy of Clinical Dentistry. Takei and his wife, June, are longtime residents of Windsor Square, and he is a former Larchmont Chronicle “Man of Larchmont” (1987).

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