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Land use & development / June 2006
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VICTOR ON VENICE APARTMENT BUILDING PLANS A JULY OPENING
By Bobbie St. George, VOV business manager
The Victor is a completely new building from the ground up estimated to open for occupancy this coming July 2006.

Located at 10001 Venice Blvd., The Victor lies a short stroll from Culver City's hip new collection of restaurants, galleries, shops and theaters, while offering convenient access to Westside beaches, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.
 
We have a beautiful and stylish community that includes a lush landscaped courtyard with fountain, heated pool and spa and a fully equipped fitness center with cardio theater equipment, free weights, weight machines and room for your private Pilates session.

The Victor also features a screening room with raised seating, high-definition plasma screen TV and surround sound, and a business center with four computer stations that residents can use at their leisure to keep informed and entertained.
 
Created by the visionaries behind the Viceroy Santa Monica and Avalon Beverly Hills hotels and professionally management by Legacy Partners, the Victor's elegant flats and open lofts combine classic style with modern luxury.

Residence interiors include gourmet kitchens with absolute-black granite counters and vanities, European-style cabinetry with stainless-steel hardware, stainless-steel Frigidaire appliances such as refrigerator, dishwasher, gas range, and washer and dryer.

Select residences feature bamboo wood flooring/ and all come with designer color schemes, sleek finishes and fixtures, and high-speed-data and digital-video connections.

If you like views, our expansive windows create

amazing vistas as well as allowing more sunshine into your home.

Our community offers a range of open-loft floor plans, including spacious live-work lofts, as well as one- and two-bedroom homes.

Residences ranging from 592 to 987 square feet have monthly rents from $1,710 to $2,386 and a deposit of $500, while those from 1,079 to 1,457 square feet have monthly rents from $2,603 to $3,512 and a deposit of $800.

We are also a pet-friendly community allowing two dogs up to 35 lbs (breed restrictions apply), two cats or one each, with a $500 deposit per pet and a $50-per-month per pet fee.

Parking is also included in our controlled-access, subterranean garage.
 
Ready for a preview?  Refer to our Web site at www.victoronvenice.com for pictures of floor plans and amenities. One of our leasing professionals will contact you soon with an update on the project and our leasing process.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Victor on Venice!
Opponents dominate hearing on Motor-Palms development proposal
Apartments, shops and restaurants selling liquor are planned across from Palms Elementary School
The Pacific Television Center, above, would be hidden from this perspective if a six-story building is constructed on the northeast corner of Palms and Motor, as planned. The mixed-use structure would be on a vacant lot (behind the chain-link fence) which for many years was the site of an automobile service station. The drawing below is by the applicant's architect.

Opponents of a proposed apartment-commercial project on the northeast corner of Motor and Palms were out in force Friday morning, May 12, in the West L.A. Municipal Building.

Hearing officer Madhu Kumar took testimony on the planned 65-foot-high building across Palms Blvd. from Palms Elementary School.

She asked that opponents get together with the developer at the office of City Council Member Jack Weiss to go over the plans and attempt to get their questions answered.

The matter will be on the agenda of the West L.A. Planning Commission at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 19, in the Medina Building at Exposition and Sepulveda Blvds.

Most of the opponents were from Rancho Park, the upscale residential area just north of Palms.

Ingeborg Prochazka, Neal James Anderberg and George Garrigues were present from the Palms Representative Assembly.

The Assembly, which is the governing body of the Palms Neighborhood Council, approved the project on Sept. 7 last year.

The application envisions about six floors from ground to roof line. There would be two underground parking levels for 102 cars. Forty apartment units are planned.

The application by Claire Heron of C-R Management Co. envisions a master alcohol permit for on-site sale and consumption in three future restaurants.

Besides the variance that would permit a liquor license, the applicant is asking for a zone change from commercial to a residential zone to allow for mixed use.

Heron also seeks a variance from the city's sign ordinance and a temporary variance in parking requirements.

As well, she wants a variance from a requirement that buildings be set back five feet from the sidewalk along Motor Ave

Much of the opposition centered on a proposed automobile exit from the alley east of Motor onto Palms Blvd. on the south or Woodbine on the north.

But the city Traffic Department has found that there would be some 100 fewer trips

per day from the property than there were when it was an automobile service station (above, photo from Amazon A9), according to John Spohrer, the project architect.
'BEGINNING OF THE END OF MOTOR AVE.,'
PROPERTY OWNER TELLS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL;
NO ACTION TAKEN

A proposed six-story building on the northeast corner of Palms and Motor is the "wrong project at the wrong time in the wrong place," the owner of the Pacific Television Center property just to the north told the Palms Neighborhood Council at its meeting on May 3.

In the public-comment section at the beginning of the meeting, Malibu real estate owner Milton Sidley said the project proposed by Claire Heron (story above) would be the "beginning of the end of Motor Ave. as we see it in Palms."

The Representative Assembly took no action because the matter was not on the agenda. It had approved the project by a show of hands at the council's Sept. 7, 2005, meeting.

Go to the Opinion Page for a statement by Sidley to the city's Planning Department.