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Van Nuys: 2030
In 2030, Van Nuys is expected to complete perhaps as much as $3 billion dollars in new construction. Offices, apartments, multi-family dwellings, parks, schools, health care facilities, all of it is going into that area between Oxnard and Sherman Way along Van Nuys Boulevard. A light rail line, carrying 50,000 passengers a day, travels down…
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“She Doesn’t LIKE Quinoa”
A friend suggested we meet for lunch at Blu Jam Café in Sherman Oaks. I never ate there so I looked it up on Yelp. I found some good reviews, but quite a bit of one-star reviews about Blu Jam. They were written by people who may have studied English in school but are definitely afflicted…
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Some Upcoming Ballot Initiatives
Here is a rundown of some upcoming ballot initiatives Los Angeles voters will decide in 2020. MEASURE RLR In recent years there has been an epidemic of red light running in Los Angeles. To understand the problem, which is not solvable by law enforcement or red light shaming, a $6 million study was conducted by…
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Valley Feed and Fuel
On the NE corner of Bessemer and Vesper, here in Van Nuys, there is a steel walled storage warehouse with three pitched roofs. Unmarked with any signs, it seems to have been there many years, and is characteristic of structures that once stood alongside rail lines to receive and to send out produce, grains, and…
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Van Nuys: City of Parking Lots
Between Oxnard and Vanowen, on either side of Van Nuys Bl. fully 75% of the land is taken up, not by buildings, but parking lots. Near Oxnard, on both sides of the Busway, parking lots are used mostly for storage of unsold, new cars from nearby Keyes dealerships. Along the civic center, there are enormously…
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Our Lost Vitality
Housing, it seems, is everything these days, the foremost topic on the minds of Angelenos. Those who can afford it fear those who cannot. Fearsome, it seems, is our ragtag army of many thousands of un-housed vagrants who have established anti-communities out of shopping carts and tents, and made bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms out…
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