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Pacific Palisades, California $1.50 Palisadian-Post Serving the Community Since 1928 20 Pages Thursday, January 25, 2018 ◆ Pacific Palisades, California $1.50 Mayors Line up to Play it for Laughs Spelling Bee Buzz Sign ups are open for the 2018 Pali Bee! Students who live or go to school in Pacific Palisades in first through fifth grade can en- ter this year’s Pacific Palisades Spelling Bee, which will take place at Palisades Charter High School on Sunday, Feb. 25. For more information or to sign up, visit palipost.com/palibee2018. Pictured, from left: The most exclusive club: Steve Guttenberg, Billy Crystal, Janice Goldfinger, Jake Steinfeld, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Kevin Nealon with son Gable Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer Secret Tunnels, $7 Apples and Renaming Sunset City Poised to Approve Past and Future Mayors Reimagine the Palisades Highlands Project By JOHN HARLOW Caruso in the audience she said, Editor-in-Chief “You are not going to have a pot Without Changes shop in Village Palisades? Are you n one of the more raucous nights high? It should go next to McCon- By JOHN HARLOW in Palisadian history, the town’s nell’s ice cream shop.” Editor-in-Chief Imost exclusive club—the former Crystal unveiled his cunning honorary mayors—gathered to anti-noise pollution plan. ity planners have “indicated” inaugurate our first joint honor- “I have all the names and ad- they are preparing to approve ary mayors, actress/producer Jan- dresses of the Ruthless Ryderz so Cthe deeply controversial senior ice Goldfinger and her husband, at 4:30 a.m. on Thursday morning, living facility in The Highlands a popular comedian named Billy we meet up and drive past their over the next few days. Crystal. houses—who is with me?” This could prompt a flurry of Developer Rony Shram And they, in return, publicly He also wants his own nail appeals that may consume the rest Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer committed themselves to a list of salon—until now, he has gotten of the year. mayoral priorities that could turn clipped at Paws and Claws. Although there are many con- locals when it said there was little Pacific Palisades upside down ... In a solemn oath administered cerns expressed by local denizens, it could do to block the plans. If they had been serious, which by Nealon at the sold-out Pacific from traffic and parking issues to The committee, apologizing the evening of Saturday, Jan. 20, Palisades Chamber of Commerce light pollution and noise to the for its “mushy” response to com- was certainly not. event at the Pacific Palisades Wom- safety of the potential occupants munity concerns, listed them in a As they took over the official an’s Club, the town’s new golden in this relatively rural pocket of letter to city engineers but con- gavel from their predecessor, ac- couple—“Bjanice,” or maybe the town, the Palisadian-Post cluded that the plan to build a 39- tor Kevin Nealon, they declared, “Crysfinger”—pledged to carry has been told that the blueprints, foot high building in a zone ruled “This is why many nations around on digging Nealon’s secret tunnel created by Brentwood developer as LAC1 (commercial) is permis- the world are jealous of Pacific Pal- between Palisades Village and The Rony Shram, are regarded by city sible under city codes. isades and our peaceful transition Grove. officials as up “to code.” Barring last minute chang- of power.” But probably not a wall around “The planners have heard es, or a Highlands uprising, city Goldfinger laid down their first the town, they said, even if they concerns, but have no legal re- planners will probably make their demand: “We don’t just want to were banning people from “[exple- course to block the project,” a announcement very soon. The fa- ride the ’57 Chevy in the Fourth of tive] hole” towns, such as Malibu source close to City Hall said. cility is not expected to fully open July Parade—we want it!” and Brentwood. Plans for the pocket of land before 2020. Pointing at developer Rick “In the name of diversity, Sun- near the Casa Nostra restaurant In the meantime, Shram is set will be renamed Irving R. Feltz on Palisades Drive have been in expected to meet with senior cit- Way,” Crystal declared. development since Shram’s 2014 izens in the community to find out The Alphabet Streets will be fi- proposal to build housing there what they need in the center. nally arranged in the correct order, was scorched by neighbors who Nealon’s oath mandated. described it as “condomania.” THIS WEEK iN And, he urged, they must find Kevin Nealon swears in the town’s first co-mayors, Billy Crystal and Jan- City guidelines allow him to a permanent home for the Pacific ice Goldfinger, on a copy of “Palisadian-like” novel “Big Little Lies.” build an array of light industrial Palisades Farmers Market so peo- Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer projects there, including a meat pali life ple don’t have to guess its location market or late-night stores, but he every week. to switch out Gelson’s for Ralphs, ing—are there any Realtors in the decided there was demand in the TWO FOR THE SHOW: Crystal and Goldfinger, who Pharmaca for CVS. audience?” Palisades and beyond for full-time A Look Back at Theatre moved from Hancock Park to the Actor Steve Guttenberg (No. (Big laugh, followed by many eldercare. Palisades’ Storied Past Palisades in 1979, said they had 25) revealed he took the job only business cards.) The Palisades is one of the (Page 13) been considering taking on the role after his mother confronted his The ebullient emcee Jake fastest-graying cities in the state for a long time. immediate predecessor Anthony Steinfeld (No. 28), alongside and if older people are unable “We knew it was the best place Hopkins (No. 24) in a restaurant. Rams announcer Sam Lagana and to “age in place” at home, they to raise kids, but it was not until I “Excuse me, Mr. Hannibal,” City Councilmember Mike Bonin, at least want to stay in the same was cornered by [Chamber mem- Guttenberg’s mother said, before praised Arnie Wishnick, who cele- neighborhood. ber] Brett Bjornson in Gelson’s—I asking whether her son should take brated his 25th year at the Chamber The perceived threat of a was looking at the $7 apples—that the job: The comic actor went on with a witty speech that aroused four-story senior center prompted I realized that, with so many things to serve an exceptional two terms some of the loudest applause of the creation of an ad hoc group happening, like the Caruso devel- over four years. the night. called Highlanders United for DINING REVIEW: opment, it was time to take it on,” Retired champion boxer “Sug- They said there was not a nicer, Good (HUG), which has suggest- Il Piccolo Ritrovo (Page 14) Crystal said. ar” Ray Leonard (also known as saner person in town than “the real ed, among alternative uses for Will the power go to his head? No. 27) said when he took over in Mr. Palisades.” Shram’s land, a pocket park or Nealon (mayor No. 29) admitted he 2011, he walked around the town Which is impressive, consider- nature reserve abutting Topanga abused the title—staying out until feeling like “The Man.” ing, as Wishnick revealed, the most Canyon. 1:30 a.m. on unexpected “parades.” “I was asked by a lady in the common question he gets at the There have been at least two “Arnie started by calling me street to fix a parking meter—‘Do- Chamber, year after year, is “When lively public meetings debat- Mr. Mayor, which sounded silly— ne,’ I said. It was only when I got is the Fourth of July Parade?” ing the prospect, at The Summit and then I started demanding it,” home I got a different perspective meeting place in The Highlands Nealon joked, adding that stepping from my wife [Bernadette Robi], More photographs of the night followed by the Pacific Palisades down “after attending three out of who I love very, very much. by Staff Photographer Rich Schmitt Community Council’s Land Use four parades,” he would now have “By the way, we are downsiz- on Page 16. Committee, which disappointed Page 2 Palisadian-Post January 25, 2018 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Palisadian-Post Dire Housing Threat Following up on the Post’s reporting in the Jan. 11 edition, “2018 OUT OF THE PAST State Laws that Could Shake Up Home Building—and the New Hous- ing Bill that Could Reshape the Palisades,” I want to alert the communi- ty to the dangerous bill SB-827 (Wiener-San Francisco), sponsored by a June 26, 1969 22¢¢ Your Two Cents’ Worth YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) organization (cayimby.org). Gather lemons: Mrs. Richard Boje gains assistance from her daughters, Kim and It is ostensibly to address the state’s housing deficit. Lisa, as they climb a ladder to pick fruit that will be squeezed into lemonade. Got something to say? Call The stated goal of the YIMBY movement is to “reverse” long-stand- (310) 454-1321 or email 2cents@ ing zoning distinctions (particularly single-family/R1 and other palipost.com and get those kudos low-density zones, which it regards as exclusionary, antiquated relics) or concerns off your chest. Names in order to achieve denser housing statewide. will not be used. SB-827 is the nose in the camel’s tent. It would completely override local land use controls in areas near major transit hubs in all California cities.
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