Letters to the Editor

Last night, the City Council was presented with a proposal by a private developer to split ONE lot in an R2 cul-de-sac, 4227 Ince, into THREE lots.

Each would still be R2, the result of which would be six condominiums. Each would stand 29.5 feet high.

To our City Council members:

We object to the proposed multi-story development at 4043 Irving Pl., for 26 condos, 3 offices and 68 parking spaces because it would negatively impact the safety of your constituents by:

[Editor’s Note: Ms. Anderson sent this letter of appreciation to Farragut School.]

I am so tou­ched to have been honored at the Farragut Elementary School Art Works event this past Saturday.

This is the first year I was unable to attend. I was speaking in Manhattan Beach.

Having just recently ended my term as Mayor, I thought I would be able to kick back and watch politics from a distance for awhile. The race for our L.A. County Board of Supervisors has drawn me back into the fray.

I am very pleased to endorse Bernard Parks to be our next County Supervisor. Having worked with him closely, I know him to be practical, straight thinking and straight talking.

It is common sense, and it was recently pointed out in another publication that successful developers do not do the work on projects the size of the Entrada Office Tower without certainty that they will be approved with minimal concessions.

­ They go into the process knowing they will be approved.
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As we have seen, they are given every consideration by the city staff.

Re “A Critique of Parks’ No-Show at Last Saturday’s South L.A. Debate,” May 9

­ To rebut the reported “no show” by Councilmember Bernard C. Parks, I would like to point out the following:

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

We may have voted for new City Council members, but Sol Blumenfeld, the the Community Development Director, continues to push pro-developer agendas .

As a former member of the City Council of Culver City, I am excited to join all five current Council members in endorsing Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas for a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

What two things do the following statements have in common? The world is flat. The Entrada Project is three times the size of Westfield Fox Hills. The two things that they have in common are that both are false and neither appeared in my letter to the thefrontpageonline.

­ Re ‘Racial Sparks Are Fired Even When Both Candidates Are Black,’ May 9

It is important for the readers of this newspaper to know the following:

Heartfelt community concerns and the showing of respect to the voters who elected you, not race were at the bottom of the dust-up over Bernard Parks’ no-show last Saturday evening for the County Board of Supervisors candidate debate in his own L.A. City Council district.