Meetings with Developer: Fiery Meal to Tell Or Not to Tell? Council Disagrees in Person
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FREE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2002 Volume 1, Issue 79 FREE Santa Monica Daily Press Serving Santa Monica for the past 93 days Meetings with developer: Fiery meal To tell or not to tell? Council disagrees in person. Feinstein said he discussed the Council members Pam changes Jacobs has made in the over whether public O’Connor, Ken Genser, Bob plans since it was reviewed and Holbrook and Katz said they denied by the planning commis- should know didn’t intend to tell the public sion Dec. 5. They discussed the they met with Jacobs. Council “trade offs” of doing some things BY CAROLYN members Richard Bloom, Kevin SACKARIASON different and possible “nips and McKeown and Mayor Mike Daily Press Staff Writer tucks” in the development plans, Feinstein said they planned to he said. All seven Santa Monica City disclose their private conversa- “I need to understand why Council members have met pri- tions with Jacobs during people have done what they’ve tonight’s city council meeting. vately with the developer of a done,” Feinstein said, adding that With the exception of multi-million dollar Main Street it benefits the community if he project, but only three of them Holbrook and Feinstein, council members said they only listened understands the project fully want the public to know about it. before it’s reviewed in public. “It’s nobody’s business who I to Jacobs’ plans and were care- “I’m pretty confident that the meet with,” said Councilman ful not to discuss the project at Herb Katz. “I don’t think (disclo- any length. See COUNCIL, page 4 sure) is important. What differ- ence does it make?” Developer Howard Jacobs Jacobs wants council wants to build the largest housing and retail development Main Street has seen in years. Elected to consider altered plan officials met with him so he could better describe the details BY CAROLYN ed just south of Pico Boulevard of the architecture and schemat- SACKARIASON on Main Street. ics of the plan. Daily Press Staff Writer Nearly all of the commission members said the development, All council members say Developer Howard Jacobs meeting with a developer before- which is about 170,000 square plans to appeal the Santa feet and covers more than a city hand helps them understand the Monica Planning Commission’s project better and gives them the block, would overwhelm the denial of his Main Street project Andrew H. Fixmer/Daily Press ability to do their homework neighborhood and would aes- before the city council tonight. Last night’s crew at the Santa Monica Fire Department without taking up too much of thetically ruin the north end of chowed down on cold seafood salad but there was plenty the public’s time during hearings. On Dec. 5, the planning com- Main Street. of hot ribbing to go around. Nobody was spared from the They also said they have not been mission denied Jacobs’ applica- However, the plans the city taunts -- not even the reporter invited to stay for the grub. influenced one way or another tion to build a 133-unit housing council will review tonight are about the proposal, and have dis- and retail development at the different than those that were cussed the project with many of former Pioneer Boulangerie denied. their constituents through tele- Bakery site and across the street. Divorce highlights phone conversations, e-mails and Jacobs owns both parcels, locat- See APPEAL, page 4 Hijacker says he’s not guilty cultural differences BY ANDREW H. FIXMER Jack Alex, White’s defense attorney. “Our view is BY DAVE DANFORTH and tried inappropriately to win Daily Press Staff Writer back a Mercedes he never Daily Press Staff Writer that he is guilty of nothing but defending himself.” drove. White was arrested Feb. 5 at the pair’s two-bed- For many defendants, it’s a A Santa Monica man who 32 years ago helped room apartment on 21st Street, between California It will be of little solace to hijack a Soviet commercial jetliner to escape cold pipe dream to strike back in Bahram Anav, 42, the suitor in a and Washington Avenues. He is being held in the court and win. war-era Lithuania, pleaded not guilty Monday to Santa Monica Jail on $1 million bail. His prelimi- marriage that lasted two weeks charges of allegedly beating his elderly father to But that dream came up in 1996, to learn that one of the nary trial date is March 15. smoking for Afsaneh Mobasser death last week. Friends of the family said White had been threat- 12 jurors wasn’t convinced he’d Albert Victor White, 46, was acting in self , 36, on Friday, when a Santa infected her, or that only nine of ening to separate from his father for some time, but Monica jury found her counter- defense Feb 5, when during a struggle at the pair’s the argument became violent last Tuesday. the 12 were certain the car and Santa Monica apartment he allegedly killed his suit more believeable than her some $19,000-plus in cash he Brazinskas pulled a gun and shot at his son, they former husband’s initial legal father, Pranas “Frank” Brazinskas, 77, defense said. White grabbed the nearest heavy object and gave her were gifts. attorneys said. salvo and lifted her to victory. The case provided a rare struck his father across the head with it, according Jurors decided her ex-husband “Hopefully, when the prosecutors hear his case to friends. 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