Los Feliz Ledger Read by 100,000+ Residents and Business Owners in Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Vol 12. No. 3 September 2016 Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood Hills Possible DASH Not Vote Changes Trading Eliminate But Definitely Service on Something Hillhurst Ave By Allison B. Cohen By Allison B. Cohen and Belen Cahill A popular notion amongst the online blogging commu- LOS FELIZ—Initial find- nity is that the Los Angeles ings from an analysis con- City Council engages in what ducted by the city’s Dept. of is called “vote trading,” the Transportation (LADOT) illegal activity where a coun- recommends eliminating cilmember promises a “yes” the DASH bus line north of vote on a colleague’s motion, Franklin Avenue on Vermont provided they receive the same Avenue and entirely from courtesy later on their own. Hillhurst Avenue, to provide But according to experts, service connecting Los Feliz such 15-0 unanimous vote and Silver Lake. tallies are instead the result The elimination would of an increasingly politically mean connectivity of Los Fe- and ideologically aligned city liz Village to Marshall High council and due to a decades and Thomas Starr King Mid- long weakening of political dle schools at the expense of As part of the Los Feliz Improvement Assoc.’s (LFIA) centennial celebration, the non-profit resident group is collabo- sway in Sacramento while service north on Vermont rating with Los Feliz Village businesses to exhibit, 100 Years: Historic Moments in Los Feliz through Sept. 12. Historic Los Angeles city politics has Avenue to Los Feliz Boule- photos can be seen at Alcove Café, Café Los Feliz, Chase Bank, Co-Op 28, Covell, Desert Rose, Farfalla, Los Feliz Branch strengthened. Library, McCall’s Meat & Fish Co., Palermo, Rockwell Table & Stage, Skylight Books, Spitz, Tropicalia Brazilian Grill, Twen- vard and all service on Hill- ty40 Café and Yuca’s on Hollywood. The photographs are available for purchase at lfia.org. The photo above shows the According to an analy- hurst Avenue. Shakespeare Bridge from 1928 and can be viewed at the Los Feliz Library. Proceeds support LFIA’s neighborhood pro- sis by the Los Feliz Ledger, in see DASH page 3 grams. Photo Courtesy: LFIA. see VOTE page 7 East Hollywood Historic 1st Amendment Group Files Lawsuit over BID Has New Status Can’t LaBonge Destroyed Documents Plan for Save Lytton By Allison B. Cohen “Triangle” By Erin Hickey Ledger Contributing Writer The First Amendment the Los Angeles Dept. of Wa- sistant Chief Deputy, Edward By Erin Hickey Coalition filed a lawsuit in ter and Power, the California Johnson, indicated: “Our of- Ledger Contributing Writer Historic designation may Los Angeles Superior Court Film Commission and con- fice conducted a search and not save the former Lytton August 23rd against the city have concluded that our office LOS FELIZ—For the last sev- Savings building, with its of Los Angeles, alleging it has has no documents consistent eral years, the Vermont Tri- Googie accordion roof and illegally destroyed public re- with your request.” angle, a traffic median-cum- mid-century modern design, cords and therefore has used It is unclear why the co- park located at the three-point from demolition. taxpayer funds to “implement, alition requested the docu- intersection of Hollywood The building, located enforce or otherwise carry out ments from Wesson’s office Boulevard and Vermont and at the east end of the Sunset illegal policies and practices,” rather than the Los Angeles Prospect avenues, has been Strip, is in danger of being in doing so. City Clerk. A request for com- host to a constant rotation of torn down to make way for The coalition, a non-profit ment from the attorney filing homeless encampments. a mixed-use apartment com- based out of San Rafael, CA, the complaint was not imme- Now, four years after tak- plex, designed by Frank Gehry last February sent a Califor- diately returned. ing over upkeep of the area, and approved by the Los An- nia Public Records Act re- In the 59-page suit, an the East Hollywood Business geles City Planning Commis- quest to Los Angeles City Former Los Angeles City Council- attorney for the coalition Improvement District (BID) sion at a July hearing. Council President Herb Wes- member Tom LaBonge. claims the city has violated might actually be able to do Designed in 1960 by son requesting emails, letters, the California Public Re- something about it. Swiss-born architect Kurt memos and notes either writ- cerning a proposed develop- cords Act by being unable to According to East Hol- Meyer and considered by ten by or sent to former Los ment in Sherman Oaks. supply the requested docu- lywood BID Vice Chair Jeff many to be an iconic example Angeles City Councilmember A March 2016 response to ments and for wrongfully de- see TRIANGLE page 21 see LYTTON page 20 Tom LaBonge in 2014 related the coalition from Wesson’s as- see LAWSUIT page 18 Street Level: Editorial: Lifestyles: Real Estate: Out & About: Country singer Undocumented Immigration, The other side of the “Vermont You’re the Worst, shows our better Echo Park Thriving, page 11 Kacey Musgraves plays the Greek page 3 Triangle,” page 6 side, page 8 Sept. 14. losfelizledger.com Los Feliz Ledger FOUNDED 2005 Available at these locations: Delivered the last Thursday of Atwater Library each month to 34,500 homes and 3379 Glendale Blvd. businesses in the Los Feliz, Bruce Q’s Barbershop & Salon Silver Lake, Atwater Village, 3013 W. 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What tion will continue to run to the member Linda is your opinion on undocumented immigration and have you, or Griffith Observatory, Griffith Demmers when do you know anyone that has, been affected by it? Park and the Greek Theater as she finally learned a separate line, and might be- of the plan, “it is a “It’s hard to know. I’m not really sure I come daily in the future. mistake to elimi- think about be- have an opinion, sorry.” DASH lines are bus routes nate Hillhurst cause it gets – Phil B., outside Stories intended to serve self-con- north of Franklin into questions Books and Cafe on Sunset tained neighborhoods, as op- from the route.... of entitlement. Boulevard. posed to other lines that travel The vitality of Like, just be- the length and breadth of the the businesses on cause I was born here, does “I think I have city. Hillhurst are pri- that mean I deserve it more too many opin- A map of the proposed changes to the Dash Los Feliz. According to a June rid- The area indicated with a blue line would be the new mary to the eco- than someone who wasn’t?” ions because it ership study by the LADOT, route. The gray line shows the areas the DASH would be nomic well-being – Matt M., outside the Echo does affect me. eliminated, including all of Hillhurst Avenue. there were 44 DASH board- of Los Feliz.” Park Time Travel Mart on I’m first genera- ings on Hillhurst at four Some busi- Sunset Boulevard. tion, so I know ment District and the Los stops: Los Feliz Boulevard nesses on Hillhurst Avenue a lot of undocumented people. Feliz Neighborhood Council and Ambrose, Finley and had mixed reactions to the “People who People want to be with their (LFNC). Franklin avenues, amount- possible elimination of the old came to this families and it’s hard, especial- According to representa- ing to 18% of the total daily DASH route.