Remarks by Lana Negrete
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Okay, mudslide on PCH. Are you guys, I know there's those K rails I think that are up already. Is there anything else being done?
All right. Well, near Station 3, this is maybe specific to MidCity, but we have, like, the Palm From issue with all the businesses there. I just want to know if, because I've had to ask you guys in the past, for help, we have to get on the roof of our business and do it ourselves, and we have issues. What about business owners like myself that are under 5'5", that need help to safely get up? Is there services? I'm genuinely asking. I mean, I know people are willing to help oftentimes. Like, A. Are there services to help people when those palm fronds are stuck? And B. Maybe this is a city…
I mean, we're lucky because we're up the street from a firehouse, but outside of that, like, we've had issues where they pile up, and in that area specifically, we have those long strips. I just, hopefully, the city's identifying where those streets are that have, like, four blocks straight of palm trees. All right, thank you.
Talk to Nina October 18th-ish and exchange text messages between the 17th and the 18th.
Okay. Well, it's extremely late, and I know everyone's tired, so I'm not going to repeat, I believe, the other comments. I just want to say that... These these homes often tell a story and once they're gone they're gone and we can't get that back and then the next generation doesn't have that story when they're walking along the street to tell I do just want to make note that there was mention of there only being one bathroom and that the inside living quarters don't match modern day needs but there's nothing stopping from the remodeling to to you know come to terms with modern day needs…
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So October is nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we have Kaylee Malloy here from American Cancer Society. So I'm going to have her come up. Obviously, this is personal for me. And before I read this, I want to remind everyone that this October, we will be doing the Making Strides Walk at the pier in Santa Monica, where roughly 10,000 people show up to raise much needed funds for breast cancer survivors, thrivers, and current patients and research. All right, so October is recognized nationally as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness…
Mayor, I just want to say that I don't know if everybody's screen is working, but I can't put myself in the queue.
I can't. I would like. Oh, there we go. Now I can.
Are we voting and then I can make my comment? Oh, I'm sure if you want to make myself and I just want to make sure whatever parking issues were concerned that. Is staff going to because that that whole area has that problem is that something that if there's a possibility of adjusting whatever permitting.
I just had a question about the competitive process for this, because it didn't seem like there was one.
And this is part of this new sort of one SEMO approach to look at how we are operating in a myriad of ways, or?
I can appreciate that and having going through it right now. I think just something that I want to be clear about for the residents of who have emailed and asked a lot of questions myself included. We hear a lot of municipalities spending money to hire outside consulting firms to assess how we're better working. And I think the common question is, can we just do that work ourselves internally? And second, just to be clear where that money is coming from, because residents here were in a deficit. I understand it's important in order to serve the community better and all the stakeholders. We…
Is that going to be on our website or anything, too, or no?
Oh, sorry, sorry, Council Member Garcetti. I just wanted to know if staff went through, you know, HCDs like the Affirmatively Fair Housing. When we look at that, does staff also discuss with HCD and look at this historical impacts to the Pico neighborhood as well? Because I know we talk about displacement, but there are broad brushes and strokes around just historical harm in a specific neighborhood.
I was just curious if we've, I was just reading some of the stuff and they're like, if we've, if PICO qualifies as, I don't know if it qualifies as a low resource area or.
Yeah. And what does qualify you to be a resource? Well, what does that mean? Low resource?
So they don't take it within the eight square miles and say this area specifically is near all the things you just mentioned?
But in this case, we're not able to protect the Pico neighborhood and it's not applying. It's not applicable. Those same standards.
It's interesting because it's one of the, we talk a lot about homeownership and social justice and the opportunity to own and then we're taking away And in some regard, it feels like in a specific area, but I'll save that for my no vote.
Okay, I'm thoroughly confused. We have spent many nights talking about this. The whole goal is to minimize displacement. The whole talk is to minimize the parcels to get to the fine moment. Now we're at this moment, and I just don't want to trick the community into what's happening. We're moving forward with what was already presented to upzone the Pico neighborhood and not choose R2, R3. But then we're saying, but also while we do that, let's please continue to try to upzone the least amount of parcels. Didn't we already say that to begin with that? That's always the goal. Yes So I just…
And those fewer parcels would have no continuity?
I voted no because I voted no the whole time for reasons I've previously discussed. I think the Pico neighborhood and the assessment that we're taking and the ability we have as policymakers up here means that we have to look at things just beyond a map and we're not looking at the historical harms in the way that we should be. And I still think there was a lot more information and work that could have, should have been done. And now we're here. So that's why I voted no. Okay.
Well, these conversations are not new because I know when I went on that trip these were things that have been talked about so it's Nice to hear them coming bubbling up. My question is a couple of things Selling water back. Is that a possibility? Where we could do something like that if in fact we were to utilize the airport and have recreation on top The water back to a local jurisdiction
And then as far as desal, I would presume that that would have a ratepayer impact.