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This NONCOMMERCIAL site is a harmless hobby of George Garrigues, who has lived in the Westside Village district of Palms for 12 years. These pages have no connection with any organization.
Send him e-mail with corrections and comments.
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Jerry Lechich, Michael Murphy and their Rodworks company have been given a green light to convert a building into a repair garage for antique automobiles at the corner of McCune and Overland, across the street from an adult day-care center and within 300 feet of nearby residences.
 Sales of three-wheeled "hot-rod-type" vehicles (left) will also be allowed as a matter of right within the existing commercial zone. These sales were not considered by associate zoning administrator Linn Wyatt.
She issued her decision, replete with all kinds of restrictions, on Oct. 21. If there is no appeal, it will become effective on Nov. 7. The case number is ZA 2005-2981. Wyatt's phone number is 213-978-1473
Some of the stipulations are:
• No auto painting.
• Restricted hours for operation.
• Outdoor video security camera.
• Noise suppression.
• No test drives on McCune, Glendon or Selby or other such streets, only on the big ones like Venice and Overland.
• Shielded lighting.
• Posted 24-hour hot-line telephone number
• Review by the city after one year of operation.
Rodworks says it will do its engine and interior-cab work elsewhere. It will employ from three to five people. On-site parking will be on the second floor of the existing building, formerly used as a Roto Rooter plumbing service, which, according to Wyatt, caused more commotion in the neighborhood than would the Rodworks operation.
The application was the first land-use item considered by the newly formed Representative Assembly of the Palms Neighborhood Council, but, after a public hearing, the Assembly took no action at its meeting on Aug. 3.
 Editor's note: The Sun welcomes a new business to the community and hopes for a productive and profitable future for Rodworks.
Nevertheless, the community should keep a careful eye on the operation when it begins. We recently found the Web site for Rodworks, and if its featured cartoon is indicative of the kind of customer the business is seeking, Palms people should lock their doors and bar their windows. These "antique automobiles" are what used to be called "hot rods" when the editor was a kid.
Lori Donahoo is the Palms Neighborhood Council Business Representative for that corner. She can be reached at this e-mail address.
Billie Silvey is the Palms Neighborhood Council Residential Representative for that corner. She can be reached at this e-mail address.
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| TODAY'S RODDERS ARE TOO OLD TO BE RAISING HELL
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but the kind of folks who are going to be attracted to Rodworks aren't going to be a "bad element" like 1950s hotrodders supposedly were. The hot rods sold by Rodworks will be way too expensive for anyone under the age of 40.
Old-fashioned hot rods don't get raced much anymore. That's now the province of 20-year-old dumb asses with spiked bleach-blond hair and souped-up Hondas (like a guy on my street with a souped-up Accord wagon — ¡ay, caramba!).
Ever watched an episode of American Chopper? Most of the people who are buying those expensive custom bikes are WAY too old to be raising any sort of hell on them. Hot rods these days are the same way.
 There's an old-school hot rod show every Tuesday at the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant (ironically named Culver's) near my folks' house in the Chicago suburbs, and I swear that there isn't anyone exhibiting his car who doesn't have a wife and two kids in tow.
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth [right], the creator of the Rat Fink character and one of the founding fathers of SoCal car culture, "went straight" later in life and became a Mormon.
As long as the new storefront will look presentable to the street, I welcome this addition to Palms. Just be grateful it's not an art gallery or something of that sort that caters to solipsistic "Industry" types.
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 This building at 3546 Clarington Ave.
(north of Tabor) will be converted from rentals to condominiums.
L.A.'s Department of City Planning held a hearing on parcel map No. AA-2005-4905 PMLA Oct. 26, in the downtown City Hall.
Info: Theodore L. Irving at (213) 978-1366.
Ingeborg Prochazka is the Palms Neighborhood Council Representative for that area. She can be reached at this e-mail address.
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