Two skyscrapers are proposed to be built on Vine Street just south of the Capitol Records Building, one of them 585 high. The towers will be "among the highest buildings in Los Angeles," according to the LA Times. Planned are hundreds of new apartments, condos, stores, and offices.
We have a May 31 deadline(!) to give the city our input as to what we want studied in the all-important Environmental Impact Report that will help shape the "Hollywood Millennium Project" including "entitlements" to exceed current height, density, and code limits.
The City Planning Dept. says the project may have "major impacts" on air quality, noise, views, police, fire, church services, esthetics, parking, parks, street maintenance, and traffic.
Please sign the petition below right away. Add your own concerns on billboards, traffic, emergency services, etc and also, send an email to: Srimal.Hewawitharana@lacity.org:
(Link to petition:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ourhollywood/)
We, the undersigned ask for a 90-day extension of the May 31 deadline to study this massive, billion-dollar 4.5-acre project.
We also ask for other other simple and sane measures:
The developer must prove to the City how the project will help meet the needs of 100,000 existing Hollywood residents before it qualifies for any "entitlements" that exceed existing codes. And the City, in turn, must prove that to us.
This area is already subject to existing gridlock, and the proposed traffic study is far, far too limited. Hollywood is a commercial district, a commuter pass through, and a residential neighborhood. The proposed EIR needs to be expanded to include north-south traffic from Hancock Park to Hollywood Hills residential areas and the Cahuenga Pass (the "HOLLYWOOD" Freeway), and east-west traffic from Los Feliz to La Brea. We believe this project presents an opportunity to provide a creative solution through a mix of private and public transportation. But, common sense dictates that no major new development should be approved, nor increased density of Hollywood permitted, until we have a public transportation plan in place capable of moving people through and across Hollywood until at least 2020. What, exactly, is our plan now?
Because of its sheer size and location, we, the people of Hollywood, expect the City of Los Angeles to meticulously analyze and ultimately judge this project under "XVIII Mandatory Findings of Significance (b)," which asks,
"Does the project have impacts which are individually limited, but cumulatively considerable?" This means that this project and its various impacts must be taken in the context of other projects, past, present, and future.
Read more about this project:
http://cityplanning.lacity.org/eir/nops/ENV-2011-675-EIR.pdf Contact City Councilman/City Council President Eric Garcetti:
garcetti@council.lacity.org 213.473.7013
Contact City Councilman Tom LaBonge
tlabonge@council.lacity.org 213.473.7004
