Palisades Mass Tree Death Leaves Street Broken and Bare

Palisadian-Post Serving the Community Since 1928 20 Pages Thursday, June 7, 2018 ◆ Pacific Palisades, California $1.50 GREENING THE PALISADES Summer Giveaway! evolution in creating safe spaces for the disabled—meaning that very week for the next few Palisades Mass Tree Death fallen trees often cannot be re- weeks, the Palisadian-Post placed on the narrow Palisades Etogether with our many friends Drive sidewalks. in the community, shall be giv- Leaves Street Broken and Bare Lisa Cahill, area representative ing away free summer treats. at Councilmember Mike Bonin’s All you have to do is email By JOHN HARLOW back the clock to when Palisades office, is said to be working out us with the words “Summer Editor-in-Chief Drive blossomed with life-giving how to save the drive’s sidewalk Treat” and your contact details, shade trees. canopy. and be prepared to be photo- alisades Drive, once mooted as Some of the trees, especially By contrast, Marinacci said, graphed by our Staff Photogra- a scenic highway to the Valley palms, look healthy but dozens of the drive’s median is blooming be- pher Rich Schmitt for inclusion Pbefore The Highlands sprung out others are still sparsely blooming, cause it is maintained by Rebecca in the Our Town section. The of the earth, is losing its canopy even before the summer heat, said Wade of the Summit Club Home- first lucky Palisadian out of the faster than anywhere else in Pacif- Culhane, who helped count the owners Association at the top of e-bag will enjoy the treat. ic Palisades. trees. The Highlands. This week, with many According to a new count, They were not listed in the The club showed what can be thanks to Silvia Lopez at the there are now 108 dead, dying or 1986 guidebook to local trees by done, homeowners said, if more lo- beloved cantina on Sunset Bou- blighted trees on both sides of the botanist Grace L. Heintz. cal businesses and residents band- levard, we are giving away gift drive within its first few hundred The book, “Trees of Pacific ed together. certificates to eat at the recently Happy eaters yards from the Sunset intersection. Palisades,” published by the gar- Culhane, who has made re- relaunched Kayndaves—it’s fun Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer There are large square ce- dening and green lobbying group greening the drive one of his last for all the family, with its fa- mented holes in the sidewalk like Palisades Beautiful showed the campaigns as PPCC Highlands rep, mously relaxed atmosphere and Don’t miss out—email us at arboreal graves marking where drive as barren, because at that before he stands for the vice-chair great menu. [email protected] for your dogwood and western sycamore time, it was still so architecturally at the community council, against And now there are margari- opportunity to add to the joys of once flowered. Save our trees raw. It could be heading back that another effective area rep, Rick tas! summer in Pacific Palisades. Unlike elsewhere in the Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer way. Mills, said that it would only take a Palisades, where the city, resi- Barbara Marinacci, of Pali- few locals to change the landscape. dents, homeowner associations years, a volunteer task force is sades Beautiful, said she last tried “We could find replacement or businesses protect some of the seeking to work around the legal to rouse public awareness about trees and local landlords could take trees against drought and pest, and bureaucratic issues that have the Highlands issue eight years on some watering duties. It would Moving and Expanding Highlands residents say that the made these trees uniquely vulner- ago, speaking to city agencies such not be too expensive, and it would K Bakery Finds a New Home As Kim half-century-old plantings have able in the Palisades. as the Bureau of Street Services, show how we can work together.” been abandoned by city and local Bruce Schwartz, a Realtor who did not even have them on In The Highlands, still raw and Kedeshian Expands to The Village interests in a wasteland of upturned known for his one-man campaign their map. But the plight has only divided after the planning battle sidewalks and bare or distressed to regrow plants in Sunset medi- grown worse. for developer Ronny Shram’s el- trees. ans, has joined up with the area’s While a recent Palisadi- dercare facility, an issue that could The problem has risen to the departing Pacific Palisades Com- an-Post survey suggested that in be decided by the Coastal Com- top of the agenda because other munity Council representative Pe- some streets, 20 percent of the trees mission later this year, finding a issues—clearing out a blocked ter Culhane to wheedle new trees listed in the Heintz book have van- common task to save and recreate spring and removing homeless- out of the city. ished, on Palisades Drive it’s closer green beauty could prove to be a ness camps—have been resolved, Together with Palisadians Da- to 50 percent. soothing balm. for now. vid Dwyer, Leah Cox and Alan Part of the conundrum, Mar- And an exemplar for the rest of Now, for the first time in many Goldsmith, they are seeking to turn inacci and Culhane said, is legal Pacific Palisades. the Eviction Defense Network, Tenants Renew Protest has been fighting on the tenants behalf in court and leading the negotiations. Popp told the Pal- Against Palisadian Landlord isadian-Post that attorneys for 1979 Ehrlich Investment Trust By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA have been trying to negotiate with and TRILBY BERESFORD tenants on a case-by-case basis, which they have refused to do. Kim: Inside and out Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer lose to 50 protesters returned Since the protests began, out- to the Pacific Palisades Farm- side of Ehrlich’s Highlands home By SARAH SHMERLING bread], my mother’s Christmas Cers Market on Sunday, June 3, in and at the farmers market, she has Managing Editor thumbprint cookies with gum- an ongoing dispute between hun- grown increasingly frustrated, re- drops or Lemon Bundt Cake, or dreds of home renters and Palisa- scinding an offer she had made to untington resident Kim my great-grandmother’s Arme- dian landlord Lisa Ehrlich. the tenants, according to sources HKedeshian, attorney by edu- nian Pilaf, it all brings back amaz- The tenants, who live in apart- Burlington Unidos Photo by Christian Monterrosa close to the situation. cation, considers herself a baker/ ing memories that I have contin- ment complexes owned by Ehrlich “The strike resulted in much chef by heritage. ued to share with my family.” in the largely Hispanic neighbor- gathered outside Ehrlich’s home in its legal representative. improvement at the building,” She shared her skills with Pa- hood of Westlake, erected tents a gated community in The High- “For her to raise the rent and Popp said, adding that her clients cific Palisades through K Bakery, and marched down Bowdoin lands, but as they could not even throw these people because she are “ready, willing, and able to pay which opened seven years ago on Street. see the house, never mind disturb wants more money is just pure the rent withheld” as long as the Sunset Boulevard in the Lower The gathering was part of a the targeted resident, they have re- greed and it’s a lack of recogniz- right measures are put in place to Las Casas neighborhood. wave of Los Angeles rent protests focused their efforts at the farmers ing the humanity in fellow peo- both keep the building up to code Now, by the end of the year, K that have attracted national media market. ple,” said Jacob Woocher, one of and a guarantee that the rent will Bakery will move into The High- attention: The Washington Post Assisted by the Los Angeles the protest organizers from the LA not “dramatically” increase in the lands, replacing Roast, which has compared it to rent strikes of the Tenants Union and joined by some Tenants Union. future. been closed since the beginning of early 1990s. members of the Democratic So- “We think it’s important to At a trial hearing on June 4, 2018, and Kedeshian will open a The Brand Ehrlich did not respond to re- cialists of America, the residents tell her community what’s going the court assigned judges to no second restaurant, Armav, in The quests for comment. have put pressure on Ehrlich to fix on … She needs to know that her more than three cases each and Village, according to her assistant, THIS WEEK iN On two occasions protestors issues with the building after rais- community members are learning will now begin jury selection. Alex Stern. ing their rent prices by hundreds about what she is doing.” The Burlington Unidos have “We are opening a new, big- of dollars. Among residents, the stories promised to continue the protests ger location,” Stern shared of pali life After receiving notices of varied. Some showed video foot- in the Palisades and rent strikes the K Bakery Highlands move. eviction for not paying, the ten- age of yellow water coming from until an agreement is reached. “We’re going to be calling it K Meet the 2018 Teen ants countersued Ehrlich for sub- their sink and insects huddled in- They are motivated by the Bakery and Marketplace.” Talent Contest Winners standard living conditions and side of a lamp fixture. Others told renters in Boyle Heights who chal- The team is hoping to have (Page 13) negligence.

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