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Public Safety and Land Use: On to Real Projects in the Community By Leslie Evans Published: 12/8/2003 At this meeting the Ad Hoc Public Safety Committee, after many months of preparatory discussions on its procedure, presented its first list of chronic crime and blight locations in the council area, to be submitted to the appropriate City Council offices for review and possible intervention. Committee chair Leslie Evans said there were 8 issues in Ed Reyes' Council District 1, and 19 in Bernard Parks' Council District 8 (a much larger part of the neighborhood council area falls in District 8 than in District 1). Evans called particular attention to stakeholder requests for installation of stop signs on Budlong Avenue, at 29th Street northbound and at 30th Street southbound, because of reported speeding. He said that a family had come to his home to report that a car making a speeding left turn onto 29th Street from Budlong Ave. had lost control, run over the curb and demolished their fence, almost running into their home -- and that this was the second time this had happened. A second issue was a deserted house at 3900 S. Wisconsin Street. This partially burned, badly damaged, and heavily graffitied structure is on the national Secretary of the Interior's Register of Historic Places. The CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) last July ordered the current owner to cease from efforts to stucco the house and to either restore it to Secretary of the Interior's standards, with wood siding, or to hire his own historic house expert and make a case to have the house removed from the historic list. Five months later the developer has done neither, but has left the house to the vandals, perhaps hoping that it will become unsalvageable. The Public Safety Committee recommended that the neighborhood council call for having the house fenced and boarded securely, and reported that the Land Use Committee would pursue efforts to get the current owner to follow the CRA recommendations, and that it would ensorse restoring the house. The report called attention to chronic gathering of Rolling 20s Bloods street gang members on the 2600 block of Raymond Avenue. The night before the council meeting, one of the reputed gang members, nicknamed "Evil," had been murdered on the block by a bullet to the head fired at point black range in front of 10 or so of his associates, allegedly by a lone assassin. This was the second murder of one of this group in the last six months. The reporter asked the council to approve efforts to have city agencies work to move the gang members off of this residential street, where none of them live and where they endanger the residents. The Ad Hoc Land Use Committee report was given by its chair Suzanne Lloyd-Simmons. She said that the committee had three priority projects. The first was to try to halt plans to construct a new gas station, car wash, and minimarket on the northwest corner of Adams Blvd. and Vermont Avenue. This intersection is one of the most important in the West Adams historic area. One corner is occupied by St. Agnes Catholic Church, another by a Ralphs market that agreed to important design considerations when it was built a few years ago, including exceptionally fine landscaping for a supermarket. A third corner is a taco stand, which was a disappointment to the community when built but is at least clean, modern, and well kept. The remaining corner, which until recently housed a Shell gas station, is already owned by the developer who is working through the approval process for the new gas station and car wash. Published: 12/8/2003 News Topics | Home | Research | History | Blood Gangs | Crip Gangs | People| Life in a Gang | Gallery | Iraqi Cards | Memorial | Migration | Graffiti | Resume| Injunctions Homicides | Maps | California Prisons | Contact

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