Lincoln Place: TENT CITY REPORTBy C.V.
Beck
Tent City is once a week, on Saturdays, from 10 am to 5 pm, California and Frederick Streets, southwest corner. We are located behind the Ross/Ralphs parking lot in what we call the free speech area, or Squirrel Square. We have delicious, unhealthful snax and chat all day long and have a few yuks, if at all possible in our situation. In litigation this month at 8:30 a.m., June 5, in Malibu Courthouse, Civic Center Way, Judge Cesar Sarmiento’s courtroom W, AIMCO v. Group E, the Lincoln Place Tenant’s Association attorneys’ Jan Book and Amanda Seward, and AIMCO’s attorneys, Greguar Ozhekim and Linda Hollenbeck, will be having a status conference to determine next steps and dates thereof, leading to a long-awaited trial. The CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) matter is not expected to be heard prior to August or September, 2006. This month, one of our tenants who had moved, has returned to help us set up Tent City regularly. Thank you, Tom Torres, for your help. Tom has described our situation as that of “corporate avarice.” At the beginning of the month of May, Bill Rosendahl and Mark Antonio Grant stopped by to see us. Bill said that the Lincoln Place situation is “an albatross around AIMCO’s neck”...I was so glad to hear this, I went home and looked up the poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the internet. (Cheered me up, considerable, it did.) Also this month, AIMCO has “reappeared” to certain “selected” members of the Venice Community in what is going to be a series of semi-private/semi-public (?) meetings at chic watering holes. (I decline to say “up-scale,” lest I blow chunks). In the course of which meeting, the new AIMCO guy, Charles McPhee (formerly of Catellus, now known as Prologis, even bigger than what was called “the Octopus”) wants to take the pulse of the neighborhoods of Venice, (or perhaps give us a reverse blood transfusion), to see what should be done with/to Lincoln Place. Oddly enough, no one from Lincoln Place seemed to have been invited. I finally ran into the guy from the Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures, who has been putting out the fruit fly traps in the trees forever. He was so surprised to see someone here, and I was equally surprised to see him, too, after fifteen years of not seeing him. He asked me if I was the owner? I said no, and I gave him a Beachhead to read, to clarify his mind and set it at ease. The roses in the backyard are better than they have ever been! I have been feeding them banana peels. In case you didn’t know, roses love banana peels and now, you know what to do with your leftover ones. See you next month. Posted: Fri - June 1, 2007 at 08:00 PM Free Venice Beachhead June 2007 #308 Previous Next Feedback | |
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