BRIEFLY : COUNCIL BACKS PLAN FOR SHOPPING CENTER.Despite concerns by neighboring residents, a Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. panel Tuesday approved construction of a large shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into on the northeast corner of Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. and Vineland Avenue in
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The council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved a plan and zone change for the 116,000-square-foot shopping center, which will include a Ralphs market, a restaurant and other stores. The project drew opposition from neighbors, including Florence Blecher of the Cahuenga Pass The Cahuenga Pass (IPA: [kə'wɛŋgə]) (from the indigenous Tongva language) (el. 745 ft. / 227 m) is a mountain pass through the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains in the Hollywood district of the City Property Owners Association. ``We feel the project is too big and will generate too much traffic,'' Blecher said. The committee approved the project with conditions to reduce the impact on the area, including a plan to add a turn-in lane on Ventura Boulevard. - Daily News Firefighters blame home blaze on lamp VAN NUYS - An electrical fire gutted much of a house here Tuesday, forcing a Van Nuys family of five to take refuge with relatives, officials said. No one was injured in the 10:05 a.m. blaze that heavily damaged a the house in the 17700 block of Elkwood Street, said Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. spokesman Bob Collis. The blaze apparently started when a hanging lamp ignited some flammable material, he said. The fire burned through several rooms before it was doused by firefighters in about 15 minutes. Fire officials estimated the loss at $100,000 for the structure and $50,000 for contents in the home. - Daily News Rosenthal assails animal control plan State Sen. Herschel Rosenthal has called for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. officials to drop a proposal to water down laws that require the Animal Regulation Department to impound impound v. 1) to collect funds, in addition to installment payments, from a person who owes a debt secured by property, and place them in a special account to pay property taxes and insurance when due. stray and abused animals that are found on private property. In letters to City Attorney James Hahn and council members, Rosenthal, D-Van Nuys, said the city agency should be audited and needs a ``complete overhaul,'' but he said the answer is not to reduce the department's mandate to pick up neglected animals. Rosenthal said proposed changes are a ``bureaucratic-politics leverage ploy designed to silence (agency) detractors and to get city government - and the City Attorney's Office - off the hook for its responsibility to enforce the community's universally held standard of decent behavior to animals.'' Hahn did not return calls for comment, but an attorney in his office has said the proposal is simply meant to reduce the city's liability in the face of threatened suits that charge the city with not enforcing the law. - Daily News City panel pitches park water system Concerned about water quality problems in Griffith Park, the Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department is proposing a $65 million project to replace the large park's water system. In a report sent Tuesday to the Parks Commission, director Jackie Tatum said her agency will step up testing and chlorination chlorination Public health Addition of chlorinated compounds to drinking water as disinfectants. Cf Ozonation. of water in the park's 60-year-old water system while developing a plan for replacing the system over a number of years. - Daily News 3.5 temblor strikes outside of Yucaipa PASADENA - A magnitude 3.5 earthquake hit around 8:45 a.m. Tuesday 9 miles northeast of Yucaipa, a California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. spokeswoman said. The San Bernardino County shaker was not an aftershock af·ter·shock n. 1. A quake of lesser magnitude, usually one of a series, following a large earthquake in the same area. 2. of any earlier earthquakes, Sue McHugh said. There were no reports of damage. - City News Service |
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