To the editor: Visitor contributors Dana Cuff and Christopher Hawthorne point out the “Small Heaps, Huge Impacts” jury they sat on (“Let’s Los Angelize L.A.,” July 9). That venture title appears notably apt while you have a look at the photographs of the 2 successful designs: tall, cumbersome, outsized packing containers squeezed onto small tons in established single-family neighborhoods. The writers keep away from any sensitive particulars resembling already crowded streets, lack of parking, worsening drought and water provide points, and growing old, failing infrastructure already careworn by our present inhabitants.
They point out comparisons to Manhattan, a 23-square-mile island. Town of L.A. is an space of greater than 500 sq. miles with no sensible hope of a adequate mass transit system in sight. We’ve got woefully insufficient public park area even for our present inhabitants and inadequate funds assets to completely right-size and adequately equip our hearth and police departments and even repair our harmful, crumbling sidewalks.
Politically incorrect as this can be, in what universe does it make sense to cram much more automobiles and folks into this already overcrowded metropolis?
Kathy Reims, Los Angeles
