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It's Monday night, May 18, 2009
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  Welcome to Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association
In this bulletin, we're asking for some help - please pick up your pen or open your word processor and write a letter. We're even providing a sample letter to help guide you. This is very important!
Our thanks to the HHA for forwarding the LADWP's new water conservation plan. Please read this and reset your sprinklers, etc. This is information we all need.
And then there's a couple of dogs that truly need adopting. Ignore the date on the flyer and call if you are interested.
Fran
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BCNA & HHA join forces to appeal an approved project - We need your help!
Dear neighbor
We write to ask your support for an appeal of an unusual decision by a City
Zoning Administrator to permit a construction of a house at 6041 Rodgerton Dr.
with 4 retaining walls on site to sustain the builder's design. Code only
allows a maximum of 2 retaining walls. This appeal has been filed by the
Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Assn. and The Hollywoodland Homeowners Assn.
We believe that the Zoning Administrator has acted incorrectly and prematurely.
He failed to refer this case to the Hollywoodland Design Review Board for
revision and compliance with the relevant city and Hollywoodland Specific Plan
provisions.
Please copy the email text below or write your own and send it to
info@beachwoodcanyon.org and we will copy and disseminate to the Area Planning
Commission (APC). The deadline to receive your letters is this Thursday May
21st. Also please attend the APC hearing on Tuesday, June 9th at 4:30 p.m. at
City Hall, 10th Floor. (City Hall is 200 N. Spring St., L.A., CA
90012)
Here's the sample letter or
write one of your very own (but please do this before the end of Thursday):
To Central Area Planning Commission
City Hall, 10th Floor 200 N. Spring St.
Los Angeles CA 90012
Re (ZA 2007-2504 (ZAD)-1A (Appeal)
As a resident of Hollywoodland, I write in support of the Appeal filed by the
Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Assn. and the Hollywoodland Homeowners Assn. of
the above decision, (allowing 4 retaining walls at 6041 Rodgerton Drive in
Hollywoodland. Contrary to the Zoning Administrator (ZA) opinion, the site in
question is not unique in Hollywoodland. Singling this house out for a waiver
of retaining wall limitations has no rational basis and will only add to the
destruction of the remaining hillside character. There are countless other builders
who have managed to find design solutions without augmenting the number of
retaining walls on their sites, as anyone who has gone through the Design
Review Board process can attest.
From our understanding, the standard to be applied
here is whether the owners are deprived of a right afforded to others, or on
the contrary, does their request amount to a special privilege? We believe
that, in this case the ZA would grant the latter. We agree with our community
leaders that this project should be referred to the Hollywoodland DRB for
revision and compliance.
Respectively submitted,
Your name and
address
If you would like to take
your letter to City Hall yourself, you must do so before the end of Friday, May
22nd. Give the Planning Commission Office 19 copies and one original
(total of 20 copies) of your letter. Make sure that the ZA number is on each
page. Take your package to City Hall (see address above), suite number 272 (9
a.m. to 4 p.m.) this week. If this is a bit much, remember that we will be
gathering letters sent to us, duplicating and will take all those packages to
City Hall Friday morning.
Thanks for your help and
support.
Fran
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New Water Rules
The following information is
compliments of longtime HHA member Kris Sullivan. Thanks, Kris!
We would like to pass on
information we have received from the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power.
Starting June 1, the DWP will begin
enforcement of the new rules regarding water usage (listed below).
The Department plans to use employees to drive around the City
and cite violators of the policy. Obviously they might not be on your
street at the exact time you water, but, if they
are, you might be warned or even fined. They will start with a warning
and for the second offense charge you $200. For the 4th offense, they
will actually install a low flow device on your water pipes. In order to
avoid any problems, it should be helpful to know the following new regulations:
It is prohibited to
1. Water using sprinklers on any day other than Monday and Thursday
2.
Water landscaping - including lawns - between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
3. Water
using sprinklers for more than 15 minutes per watering station, 10
minutes for other irrigation systems
4. Use water on any hard surfaces such as
sidewalks, walkways, driveways or parking areas
5. Allow runoff onto streets and gutters from
excessive watering
6. Allow leaks from any pipe or fixture to go
unrepaired
7. Wash vehicles without using a hose with a
shut-off nozzle
You may hand water plants, but before the hours listed above and you
must use a hose with a shut-off nozzle.
If you have any other
questions, please visit the LADWP website at http://www.ladwp.com/
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