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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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Affordable housing and the jammed parking lot at Palms Elementary School were on the mind of Nonprofit Organization Representative Alejandro Soschin at the monthly meeting of the Palms Neighborhood Council on Nov. 2.
Both affordable housing and parking problems are related to the continued construction of new apartment buildings in Palms.
"A lot of the new developments — especially because they are condominiums or high-end apartments — it's creating a different dynamic: Can people afford to live in Palms?" Soschin asked.
"In many ways this is the kind of development that people always welcome; it improves property values, makes the community seem more upscale, but it also does present some real issues about equity and what happens to the maybe more disadvantaged people in our community."
It's important, he said, for the Representative Assembly "to think about it and to address it."
"We have influence over . . . some of these decisions, and some of them should be made for the public good," he said.
 His second point was parking, particularly the situation at Palms Elementary School, where teachers are allowed to park on the playground because of the small size of the parking lot [shown at left].
"It's an incredibly unsafe situation," he said.
Soschin suggested that the developer of a new mixed-use commercial-apartment building "right across the street" on the northeast corner of Palms and Motor might be asked to "offer some parking to the school . . . so teachers could park safely without putting the kids at risk."
"Just something for you all to think about," he told the Assembly members.
Stakeholder Richard Leib suggested from the audience that some of the city's grant to Palms might be used to fence off a portion of the playground for the teachers' cars.
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These two residences on Dunn Drive
(between Regent and Tabor) will be torn down and four-unit condominium buildings erected in their places.
L.A.'s Department of City Planning held hearings on both 3647 Dunn Drive (parcel map No. AA-2005-4981 PMLA), left, and 3637 Dunn Drive (parcel map No. AA 2005-4976-PMLA), on Wednesday, Nov. 16, the Downtown City Hall.
Info: Susan Palmas of the Planning Department at (213) 978-1333.
Ingeborg Prochazka is the Palms Neighborhood Council Representative for that area. She can be reached at this e-mail address.
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