PUBLIC FORUM.It's a disaster Re: "It's NoHo's turn" (Editorial, April 17): What is happening in NoHo is a disaster. It will destroy, not enliven en·liv·en tr.v. en·liv·ened, en·liv·en·ing, en·liv·ens To make lively or spirited; animate. en·liv  en·er n. , this neighborhood by bringing hundreds of new people spilling hundreds of cars onto North Hollywood streets. Don't believe the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and "smart-growthers." Residents near transportation hubs still spend most of their travel time in cars. "Hip" doesn't mean "healthy." Poor quality of life is not "family-friendly." Density bonuses don't create a renaissance. The editorial calls this "one of the few areas still affordable to young working couples and families." So why bring in developers to replace interesting historic homes with banal apartments and to see property values "take off," creating even more unaffordable un·af·ford·a·ble adj. Too expensive: medical care that has become unaffordable for many. un housing? - Richard Hilton Richard Howard Hilton (born August 17 1955) is an American heir of the Hilton Hotel chain, a real estate broker and developer specializing in exclusive, high-end property, Chairman of Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, and father of Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Barron Hilton, and Conrad Valley Glen Not the Inquisition In view of Cardinal Mahony's resistance to following the law, I think he should be reminded that the church does not have authority over the laws of the land. This is not the era of the Inquisition, when the church made life and death decisions regarding how people lived and worshipped, and punished them for not obeying. I think that there is a law against obstruction of justice A criminal offense that involves interference, through words or actions, with the proper operations of a court or officers of the court. The integrity of the judicial system depends on the participants' acting honestly and without fear of reprisals. . Does it apply to members of the clergy? - Marilyn Minkle Tarzana Getting deeper Re: "Villaraigosa promises to fix L.A.'s problems while calling for a revolution in education" (April 19): The mayor's "I believe" covered everything except the reformation of the Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. police and Berkeley school system. Parents, teachers, students and business should be the primary voices in seeing goals for the schools. The mayor and his appointees are not the answer. Why is he placing the burden of funding these apple-pie dreams and infrastructure and curing the gang problems directly on the property owners in lieu of a - God forbid - tax on all citizens? All that I see and hear is a man desiring higher political office and making promises, some extending six years down the road. The hole that he is digging is getting deeper. - Ira Kaplan Woodland Hills Dream on, Mayor Mayor Villaraigosa is "committed" to ending deficit spending Deficit spending When government spending overwhelms government revenue resulting in government borrowing. deficit spending Expenditures that are in excess of revenues during a given period of time. while still hiring more police, fixing gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. , housing the homeless, cleaning the air "and more." When he asks us to dream with him, he isn't kidding. - Patrick Weir Chatsworth Retaining officers So our mayor wants to raise trash-collection fees for more police. What about the 1,000 police-officer vacancies we now have that have been previously funded? Will we then have 2,000 funded vacancies for cops but no takers? It seems to me that the problem is retaining Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers. The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. trains them at about $100,000 each; after a year or two, they go to other cities with greener pastures. Why not have potential trainees sign a contract stating they will stay with the LAPD for five to seven years? If they breach the contract, garnish 25 percent of their wages from their new employer to repay the LAPD for their training, as we do to those who do not pay child support. I am willing to bet the grass will not be so green with the new employer. - Richard Doyle Richard Doyle may refer to:
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