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Taking Poetic License With the Dimensions of Entrada Scheme

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[Editor’s Note: After six consecutive days of “Body Parts” poems — from her collection of poetry on aging — Dr. Hoult takes a break. Today she comments on one of the hottest political subjects in Culver City, the much disputed proposed 220-foot tall Entrada Office Tower at the southern edge of the city.]


Towering Concerns


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A thirty-year resident of Culver City
I’m hearing things that aren’t so pretty

Like the plans afoot for a building so tall

To tower over others and make them look small.

A tall, tall building is really dumb

It will stick way out like a big sore thumb.

In other SoCal towns we hear

The moans and groans loud and clear

That when the buildings are built so high

The residents can no longer see the sky.

Our city residents should be concerned

And feel perhaps that they’ve been burned

Especially since our officials agreed

To keep the height limit at 56 feet.

The difference between 56 and 220

Would certainly create problems aplenty

With far more traffic and lots less sky

And more pollution by and by.

We fear that our city may have been bought

By developers who care for naught

But filling their wallets or getting notoriety

In Architectural Digest, maybe even Variety.

We ask, “Have our officials have forgotten their vow

To serve their constituents right here and now?”

Why not take a look at what would be best

To continue with progress as we’ve done in the past

With beautiful buildings like our City Hall

And additional construction to the Fox Hills Mall?

These are not taller than 56 feet

They fit our town and look quite neat.

We need to think this through, my friends,

Or else building tall ones will not end.

Keep your current decision in sight

Don’t allow an increase in height

Or the next developer who comes to you

Will say, “You changed it for him. Why not me, too?”


Ms. Hoult, who lives in Carlson Park with her husband Charlie, may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com

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