To the editor: The Venice Dell venture was first conceived in 2016 (“In Venice Seaside, it’s taken almost a decade to not construct low-income housing,” Feb. 15). The venture would offer 120 items of housing for low-income and homeless folks on a city-owned parking zone. The venture was permitted by the California Coastal Fee and twice by the Los Angeles Metropolis Council.
Many people locally have voiced robust assist quite a few instances. However Metropolis Atty. Hydee Feldstein-Soto and Councilmember Traci Park (beginning earlier than she was even elected) selected to viciously oppose and hinder this much-needed housing.
Because the Venice Household Clinic’s Venice Artwork Stroll chair for 25 years, I’m most appreciative of the brand new everlasting housing items that can be put aside for low-income artists, as a result of Venice artists are an incredible present to our neighborhood and plenty of have been pressured out by gentrification.
For the reason that venture’s proposal, the primary subject decried by some (talked about by columnist Robin Abcarian) was the “look.” A brand new structure agency was engaged to handle their considerations.
As now designed, the Venice Dell venture isn’t larger than adjoining buildings and has a delicate new look with picket siding. The constructing now suits nicely into the Venice panorama.
I wish to know if, with these changes, the actual drawback isn’t actually “the look,” however some neighbors simply don’t need “these folks” to proceed to dwell on this neighborhood.
Sheila Goldberg, Venice
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To the editor: It’s not solely native officers who oppose the Venice Dell venture. Many, many Venice residents oppose it as nicely.
Listed here are the issues: It’s going to price $1 million per unit, with 120 proposed items. It’s in a tsunami zone (no getting round that). It’s going to not less than quickly displace households, with a four-unit complicated needing to be torn down. And though the architect is legendary, the venture, with its brutalist model, doesn’t match into the neighborhood.
Venice, being an epicenter of the homeless drawback, does want housing for the homeless. However this isn’t the reply.
Mindy Taylor-Ross, Venice
