AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - May 23, 2013 Inside Honoring our Military This Issue Calendar...............................3 Classifieds ...........................2 Newspaper Fun..................7 Food ......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings......3 The 54th Annual Armed Forces Day Celebration and Parade was held in Torrance last weekend. Each year, the City honors a different military branch; this year highlighted the United States Marine Corps. Grand Marshal, Major General Melvin Spiese, Former Commanding General, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, California, led the Parade on Saturday. (Shown) WWII Veterans; backseat: Jim Harrison US Army, front passenger seat: Art Johnson US Army-Air Corps, Driver/owner Jeffery MacDonald. Photo by Jon Harrison. Legals............................. 4, 6 Council Overturns Denial of Special Use Permit, Gives Business Owner Second Chance Pets.......................................8 By Cristian Vasquez art deco match the zone’s requirement since it are building a storage area. It has nothing to Despite the Planning Commission’s denial was not an expansion of the business’ square do with the hair salon. I have no objection Police Report......................3 of Special Use Permit No. 1166 and Design footage, but an improvement on an existing to the moving forward.” Review No. 74, and staff’s recommendation storage unit. District No. 4 Councilman Ralph The item will come back at a later date for to uphold the Commission’s decision, the L. Franklin was the lone vote of dissention the Council to uphold the new direction of Inglewood City Council voted 3-1 on Tuesday and expressed his reluctance to continue the permits for the storage unit. In addition, Sports...................................4 item is a public hearing to consider an appeal to carry out construction efforts when City as to a fine being imposed.the item will return with clear stipulationsallowing what he called “weekend warriors”to overturn the denial of both permits. “The of the Planning Commission for application Hall is closed (usually the weekends) so that “The problem when we grandfather in for Special Use Permit SUP 1166 to allow they don’t have to file for permits and so that properties is that we tie them into staying the expansion of an existing beauty salon and the City does not find out about the work. exactly the way they are. I have seen it with also an appeal of Design Review 74 because “Our inspectors go out into the district to residents who would like to fix their homes- the property is located in an art deco overlay find these violations in process--now all of -but because they are grandfathered in, they Weekend standards,” Acting Economic and Community we have a uniform obligation to make sure that could be better off otherwise. Here,can’t seem to fix anything up,” Morales said.“We as a city end up inheriting propertiesa sudden they violators want to say, ‘Havemercy on us,’” Franklin said. “In essence,zone and it requires that new construction inthe area be consistent with art deco design Forecast W. Manchester Boulevard, has been licensed the municipal code. When I hear developers gain nothing by enforcing this, but we shouldthe intention of the wording we are tryingto follow does not leave us any better. Wethat we uphold what this council has adoptedand which is enforced by the staff--that isThe business in question, located at 3333Development Director Linda Tatum said. to operate since January 2001 and has existed come to us and say I have been in business impose a fine for the process of getting out before the Inglewood municipal code was 10 years and they are clueless to needing a of line. I would be more open to that.” • changed to require a SUP for modifications permit for a structure, I find that challenging Friday However, the owner never submitted an is that neither one of the gentlemen in EnvironmentalAwareness Tipto accept. The other thing I find challengingon a business in a general commercial zone. Sunny application to obtain an SUP and instead opted this case showed interest in coming to the to begin the construction of an additional Commissioner’s meetings last year. Still, 68˚/59˚ storage unit in the back of the property. The they did not offer a letter of explanation in owner only submitted the application after February of this year.” a field inspection determined there was an For District No. 2 Councilwoman Judy Saturday unpermitted construction effort taking place. Dunlap and District No. 3 Councilman Eloy AM Clouds/ Inglewood police has the records and we should not go unpunished, but denying theMorales, Jr., the violations by the owner“I have been broken into five times. PM Sun need a place for the beauty supplies--not the ability to continue operating his business in salon. There was already unit storage there. the city was not the appropriate solution. “I 66˚/59˚ What we did was reinforce it and make it don’t know the business that they have--it stronger to store supplies,” Business owner is not my district--but I have no interest in Larry Oko said. “I am here asking Council creating another vacancy,” Dunlap said. “I Sunday and Mayor to just give me that opportunity believe that we need be as business-friendly as Partly As he said, it was bad idea not to ask for a here in the city. They are not asking to comewe can to those businesses that are operatingwhere I can store my beauty supply things. Cloudy permit initially and we want to make things in. They are already here. They business 66˚/60˚ All Council members and the Mayor adequate living for their families. I for one in the beach or anywhere else except for the trash can.”sh every day! Do not throw trash“Pick up a piece of traalready have six operators that provide anright.” expressed their displeasure with the owner’s believe that if there is a fine that can be Celeste Almendariz, 5th grade, shared her environmentally decision to engage in construction efforts, even imposed for not filing the proper permits, that friendly tip at Peter Burnett Elementary School’s ongoing if the expansion was not in complete violation is appropriate. I do not believe a special use Earth Day tree. of the municipal code--which requires that the permit would be necessary here because they
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