Comments for Let's Fix Los Al!

Comment on LAUSD District Choral Festival 3/8-3/9/10 by JM Ivler

JM Ivler — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:10:47 +0000

OUTSTANDING performances both nights. Hope other readers of the blog were able to make it.

Comment on Haiti Earthquake Relief: What we can do today by ElMyers Peres

ElMyers Peres — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:03:19 +0000

The Haitian people has my condoloences. The recent earthquake was a tragedy.

Comment on 7 ways to cut local gridlock by JM Ivler

JM Ivler — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:25:12 +0000

Dee,

There are stop signs on Farquar? Could have fooled me. I travel it regularly with the kids and we have a game that we play where we look to see if any of the cars wheels come to a full stop before crossing a limit line (the white strip that runs from the curb to the middle of the street that indicates you should make a full stop). After a week of keeping score we found that only 1 in 26 actually come to a full stop and 1 in 49 do so before they cross the limit line.

If the police won’t police, then maybe the best solution is to just pull the signs out.

And don’t get me started with the people that run straight on Lexington going south past Katella.

Comment on 7 ways to cut local gridlock by Dee

Dee — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:32:15 +0000

Dave, I looked through different posts on where to address this, but couldn’t find one that seemed relevant (I know this really isn’t it).

I’d like to know if the vehicles coming off the base onto Lexington have another law (federal? military?) that supersedes local traffic laws, namely that of coming to a full stop at the stop sign.

Comment on Council Meeting – 3/1/10 – 7PM by "Joker"

"Joker" — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:51:20 +0000

Voice of What Reason?

Comment on Council Meeting – 3/1/10 – 7PM by to: Voice O' Reason (GG)

to: Voice O' Reason (GG) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:22:38 +0000

So you must be on the staff….or previous staff since there are not many left from that administration If so, then you do know that Ken Parker has always been polite to all staff. Even the one’s who were stabbing him in the back.
Edgar and Zarkos have been rude and condecending on camera many times to staff and residents, but this is not about that.

This is about the leadership currently elected to lead Los Alamitos with fiscal responsibility. That doesn’t seem to be happening. If you saw the city council meeting on 3/1/2010 you would know that.

Comment on Council Meeting – 3/1/10 – 7PM by Voice O'Reason

Voice O'Reason — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:37:28 +0000

…..and Ken Parker was less condecending, not rude to the staff, and a better dresser?

I want what your smokin’ Stephanie!

Comment on Council Meeting – 3/1/10 – 7PM by Stephanie (aka "Not Surprised")

Stephanie (aka "Not Surprised") — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:40:42 +0000

This move by the majority council doesn’t surprise me at all. With Edgar and his constant insults to incoming businesses, his lack of respect for the residents and the City staff; Poe and her constant flip flop decisions; Stevens who always looks like he just walked out a pitch black room (dazed and confused); and how can we forget Zarkos who is arrogant and cocky. So I hope that you have all now seen what you get when the dirty trash man pays for the majority council seats. You get trash, “DIRTY” trash and lots of it. You watch when Edgar is done destroying our City he will be quick to move out of our City leaving us with all of his self-centered and egotistical trash. Oh I can’t wait to see Caroline and good ol’ Chuckie (Sylvia’s) faces when our City gets incorporated into Cypress and Seal Beach after all the money they poured into their good ol’ council majority. My feeling, anyone who voted for that majority deserves what they are about to get. Your stupidity and failure to know the truth just lost you this great City. Oh and Troy, can you please stop wearing the pink shirts with the Sergio Valente jeans it is so the 80’s.

Comment on Council Meeting – 3/1/10 – 7PM by to: Ivlar and DeBolt

to: Ivlar and DeBolt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:01:29 +0000

thank you for trying to make sense of the 4-1 city council vote to bring this Meting Pot/DaVita/Zoning on katella item back to the planning commission.
If any residents are reading this blog and wondering what’s going on maybe they should tune into the replays of the city council meeting on March 1 2010.
It’s getting really interesting.

Comment on Council Meeting – 3/1/10 – 7PM by JM Ivler

JM Ivler — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:30:33 +0000

Why does any of this mater?

If you look around the city you will notice an ever increasing vacancy rate on our property. This problem of a business having a hard time finding a tenant is not new, it’s been happening in Los Al for some time, the current economic downturn has just made it worse.

When this happened property owners seek to find whatever business they can to take their property. Their job is to get income for space, and every day they don’t have that they lose money.

So when a prime location finds a way to generate a potential tenant the question in a business friendly city is, how do we help them?

In this case, after years of vacancy a prime location was able to develop a package deal where they would be able to get tenants into the facility. The question for the city is not “Will customers complain about the tenants?” As Art states, that is an issue for the two tenants that have indicated that they want to share common walls. It is not the red herring spewed at the Council Meeting about liquor licenses as it was reported that the tenant interested in that had already worked that out with the potential concerned neighbors (It’s not a gentleman’s club that was opening, or a bar, but a upscale restaurant).

The fact of the matter is that had the restaurant been able to secure funding, we would be looking at an operational location at this time. The economic climate is such that there is NO funding to secure. So the project has been put on hold. If the city was concerned with the loss of tax dollars then they should be doing what they can to help get the establishment in the city.If the city is concerned with shuttered buildings, then they should be focused on a heck of a lot more than one of the few that is bringing new tenants to town.

If the city council members are concerned about “process” (and that is the biggest line of bullcrap of all) then they should have a workshop to discuss the process that this went through and invite all the participants (past, and present) to discuss what they did, why they did it that way, and whether the results were what they anticipated, and then maybe what can be done differently or better next time. This is a standard business process called a “post mortum”. Opening up the can of zoning worms has no real purpose other than something that is NOT transparent.

In other words. The people on the dais couldn’t answer Geri’s questions because they are lying to us about their motives.