Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Rayven Paige Ferguson is 15 years old and was last seen on February 3, 2014 at 6:30 am when she left for school. She never arrived at school and has not been seen since. Rayven requires medication and has not had it since the day she went missing. She is described as a female, Hispanic, 5'4", 160 pounds, brown hair & eyes, blonde bangs with purple streaks in her hair, shaved lines in her right eyebrow & "gages" in her ears. Anyone having information regarding Rayven is asked...
Two Robbery Suspects Caught by Police Two accused of stealing a credit card and other items from a man at knife point were caught by Santa Monica Police. Authorities say Raul Solis and a teenager are accused of taking a cell phone, money and a credit card from their victim on February 23 at about 7:20 at night. They say the incident happened at Cedar Street and 11th Street in Santa Monica. Lawmen report the victim approached them and told them that he had been robbed at knife point by two people. Officers say a description...
It may not exactly be "Jaws", but as many as four leopard sharks have been seen swimming in the canals along Venice Beach. Experts say the sharks – which are believed to have swam through tidal gates into the canals – shouldn't pose any danger to beachgoers. Images of the baby sharks first appeared on Twitter in early February after Venice resident Sheena Duggal spotted them swimming along Grand Canal between Washington and Venice boulevards. Duggal, a volunteer photo document...
Suspect Flushed Out in Palisades Los Angeles SWAT officers fired tear gas into a residence at a mobile home park in Pacific Palisades today and flushed out a suspect, ending a standoff of nearly three hours, authorities said. The suspect had been sought for making criminal threats against a woman at the unit around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, said Los Angeles police Lt. Lonnie Tiano The suspect barricaded himself inside a residence at the mobile home park in the 17000 block of Pacific Coast Highway and was suspected of being armed,...
Suspect Arrested for Hit-And-Run Police arrested a woman accused of hitting a 28-year-old man with her car on Pacific Coast Highway and then driving off. Authorities say it happened on PCH north of Temescal Canyon Road on Valentine’s Day at 7:55 in the afternoon. Lawmen report 74-year-old Anna Soon Ma of Fullerton allegedly hit the man with her Prius who was walking across PCH in a marked, flashing pedestrian crosswalk. They say Ma left the scene without providing any information. Ma has been charged with Hit and Run Felony,...
County Approves New Zoning Plan for Santa Monica Mountains A local zoning plan for the Santa Monica Mountains that would allow the county to issue land use permits directly to applicants was approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors last week. Known as the Santa Monica Mountains Local Coastal Program (LCP), the zoning plan encompasses 80 square miles of the Santa Monica Mountains. Currently, property owners are required to obtain project approval from both the county and California Coastal Commission. The LCP no...
A 73-year-old Fullerton woman has been arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run in connection with a crash that severely injured a pedestrian as he walked across Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. Anna Soon Ma was arrested Monday on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, but was released Tuesday morning after posting $50,000 bail. Police say a 28-year-old man was walking across Pacific Coast Highway, north of Temescal Canyon Road, in a marked, flashing pedestrian crosswalk at about 7:55 p.m. Friday when a silver 2010 Toyota...
A poll commissioned by Wendy Greuel’s congressional campaign reportedly shows that she leads Torrance Democrat Ted Lieu by 8 percentage points in a five-way race to succeed Rep. Henry Waxman in Congress. But the primary election in the 33rd Congressional District is nearly four months away, and representatives for most of Greuel’s opponents either say they believe it is too early to predict how the race will go, or that they’re not concerned with the numbers reported by the opposing campaign. According to a memo circu...
This week, the City hosted a series of workshops to discuss the integration of the Expo Light Rail Transit and Big Blue Bus systems "The service area of Big Blue Bus (BBB) is changing in ways that promise to have significant impact on public transportation," said the Big Blue Bus Co. in a press release. "Further expansion of the Exposition Light Rail Line in 2016 will increase the number of stations served from four to eleven, and bring rail from the fringes of the BBB...
Assault on the Pier Santa Monica police say they arrested a man accused of hitting another man in the face at the Santa Monica Pier early Saturday morning. Lawmen report it happened on the 300 block of the Pier on February 8th shortly after three o'clock in the morning. Lawmen say the victim told them that he was walking on the Pier with his aunt when the suspect, Gonzalo Alberto Sanguin, who asked the victim where he was from, approached him. According to authorities, the...
A federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the City of Santa Monica, on grounds that the City filed it about half a century too late. The City had tried to argue it, and not the Federal Government, owned Cloverfield, the City's airport. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter said city officials said that no only had the City failed to meet any imaginable statue of limitations applicable to Airport ownership, but that the City had not sought relief inthe Court of...
Two chefs who worked at a now-closed Santa Monica sushi restaurant pleaded guilty Tuesday to serving meat from federally protected Sei whales. Kiyoshiro Yamamoto and Susumu Ueda, who worked at the now closed The Hump at Santa Monica Airport, have pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges of conspiracy and offering to, and selling, a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose. Typhoon Restaurant Inc., parent company of The Hump, and the two chefs were charged in 2010....
Santa Monica will become the first city in California to inspect concrete, steel and wood-frame buildings and require seismic retrofitting for those deemed vulnerable during a major earthquake. The city will spend more than $100,000 over the next year identifying potentially dangerous buildings, then property owners must show they are safe or fix them. City officials said they would determine over the next few months how much time the owners have to complete the retrofitting....
Sandra Fluke now has some Democratic competition in the race to fill the South Bay's seat in the state Senate. Ben Allen, a Santa Monica school board member, jumped into the race Monday, while Betsy Butler, a former state Assembly member, has told supporters she plans to run. Allen, who is from Santa Monica, said he enters the race with a strong Westside base, having been elected to the school board in 2008 and 2012. The new 28th Senate District starts in the Palos Verdes Peni...
From: Gleam Davis I believe that the project the Council approved is a superior alternative to the only other option on the table--allowing Hines to reoccupy the existing building and use 300,000 square feet of commercial space without any significant public benefits. As the City attorney made clear on Tuesday night, any significant change to the project would require months (or longer) of additional study and work. After investing years and millions of dollars in a very public process, Hines would have no obligation to...
From:Ted Winterer I believe there’s a good chance the project as approved will succumb to challenges in the courts or at the ballot box, which will leave the applicant with only the option of reoccupying the existing commercial space, the very scenario four of my colleagues sought to avoid. So I would have preferred to explore an alternative with a much greater percentage of housing as that choice would no doubt have much reduced traffic impacts and have been more palatable to many in our community....
From: Kevin McKeown Good public policy demands the ability to be decisive when appropriate, but also to learn from new information. The LUCE approximation on commercial versus residential square footage certainly deserved to be reconsidered in light of the volumes of new information provided by the Hines project Environmental Impact Report. With the adoption of the LUCE, we promised our community ³no net new PM trips.² The Hines EIR showed that their project as proposed generated 7000 new car trips, and would make mobility w...
Burglary At the Pier Santa Monica Police are looking for a man who they say broke into the Arcade on the Santa Monica Pier on January 23 at half past two in the morning. Authorities say the suspect crawled under a rolling door, which was partially closed. They say once inside he allegedly put several pieces of merchandise into three bags. Lawmen believe he set off the alarm and fled the scene leaving the bagged merchandise on the floor, getting away with nothing that belonged...
In its continued attempt to close Santa Monica (Calif.) Airport, the city of Santa Monica is now claiming that the statute of limitations on the FAA's interests in the airfield should be applied with an earlier date. The city's latest court filing, submitted late last week, follows a complaint–a quiet title action–filed against the federal government on October 31 that seeks to force the issue of determining whether or not the city can close the airport without the gov...
Apple has not responded to TheStreet's request for comment on the issue, however last week we reported on a smell that some people, including Apple retail employees, classified as "body odor" or "B.O." And now Apple is drawing air samples to, presumably, determine and remedy the stench at what is not only one of its flagship locations, but most financially lucrative and architecturally significant outlets. The source who tipped me off to this issue originally spoke with a...
On Tuesday, as predicted, the Santa Monica City Council voted, 4-3, to approve a Developer's Agreement allowing the Hines development company to build a 767,000 square foot mixed commercial/residential project. The "Bergamot Transit Village" project requires Council approval because it outstrips current zoning limits for the site, the one-time Papermate factory at 26th and Olympic. The Council vote was delayed a week past its original date so the Council members could make a...
A Water Shortage Advisory calling for voluntary conservation was declared by the City Council in 2009 in response to the drought. The Advisory is still in effect. Today City Officials are asking residents and businesses to voluntarily reduce water use 20% from 2013 usage in an effort for the community to become water self-sufficient and avoid a drought induced water crisis and mandatory water restrictions. "With the driest year in recorded history and the second drought in...
Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square located in Santa Monica, CA, have been named "Frontline Parks" by the national urban park advocacy organization City Parks Alliance. Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes a "Frontline Park" to promote and highlight inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country. The program also seeks to highlight examples of the challenges facing our cities' parks as a result of shrinking municipal budgets,...
The sudden retirement of Rep. Henry A. Waxman set off a land rush Thursday of politicians and other prospects eyeing an exceedingly rare shot at an open congressional seat in one of the most affluent, strongly Democratic redoubts in the country. By the end of the day, amid all the pent-up ambition, there was one declared candidate — former Los Angeles Controller Wendy Greuel — and more than half a dozen others considering a bid to replace Waxman in what could be an expensive, crowded and highly competitive free-for-all. “Th...
The Santa Monica City Council on Tuesday made the predictable move of voting to postpone deciding the fate of the much-opposed Hines mixed-use "Bergamot Transit Village" project at 26th Street and Olympic Boulevard, the site of the old Papermate factory. At 767,000 square feet, more than half of which would be devoted to commercial use, the mammoth development has attracted widespread opposition from Santa Monica citizens. High on the list of concerns is the prospect of a...
