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 - October 10, 2013 Inside South Bay Architectual Design Leader This Issue Business Briefs..................2 Calendar...............................2 Classifieds ...........................3 Community Briefs ..............3 Food ......................................5 From the Source................4 A well known and characteristic landmark in Lawndale, The Federal building at 150000 Aviation Blvd., houses the Federal Aviation Administration’s West Coast Headquarters. The building was the first-designed Hawthorne Happenings ...3 Southern California building to have a mirrored skin. The mirrored glass skin became ubiquitous on corporate architectural designs of the 1970s and 1980s. Photo by www.christopherbarnesphotography.com. Street and Citywide Improvement, New Legals ................................6,7 Committees Dominate Lawndale Council Police Reports....................2 By Nancy Peters Avenue and 145th, 153rd, 156th and 159th park is closed to the public--in an effort to The Lawndale City Council met Oct. 7 with streets have been approved, as well as deter loitering by juveniles and alleged gang Councilmember Jim Osborne not in attendance. intersection improvements at Condon Avenue members and drug dealers. The suggestion Sports ...................................4 The agenda included requests for approval of and 154th Street. The project costs total more that the park not be opened prior to 10 a.m. the prohibition of smoking on any City-owned than $600,000. In addition, the Council accepted on any given day was considered. property and within 25 feet of any City-owned and approved the completion of the citywide Another homeowner expressed concern that property, including Civic Plaza, all parks, the sidewalk repair project, previously approved code enforcement is citing her property for Lawndale Community Center and all adjacent for $360,000 with a 10-percent contingency, violations that are nonexistent. She provided parking lots. Also includes the prohibition of but now required approval of an additional the City Council with an extensive slide Weekend law could be subject to citation and fines. more extensive. and requested to know if these locations haveareas and intersections throughout Lawndalewhere the same alleged violations do existcomplete the payment for contractor, Karlan,Inc., as the originally estimated repairs wereThe Planning Commission assumption ofdisposal of any tobacco-related products inpresentation of City-owned property and othersum of $9,147 from Proposition C funds tothese same locations. Persons violating this Forecast approval resolution and the membership of the Recognition Program for the Beacon Award, of a form of harassment by code enforcement,also been cited. Council heard her inferenceThe participation in the Local Government’sall Traffic Committee duties was ratified by Traffic Committee will now be the Planning involving solving climate change, was and the situation and her questions were taken Commission, with the assistance of City staff questioned by Councilmember Robert Pullen- under advisement. who are knowledgeable of traffic issues. The Miles, who requested clarification of any costs Councilmember Pullen-Miles advised that trial period of one year, beginning on Nov. involved with the City participating. Staff Lawndale is within the six miles of the affected 11, of the Traffic Committee and the Planning assured the Council that participation does not area for the Environmental Impact Report Friday Commission being the same group will be involve any expenditure from the City treasury, (EIR) being prepared for the AES Power Plant Sunny based on performance in handling traffic be eligible for the Beacon Award. The City Beach. He also requested that City staff reviewthat is applying for construction in Redondobut requires a completion of an application tosubject to review and evaluation by the Council, 68˚/58˚ issues prior to the trial period’s conclusion must demonstrate the reduction of greenhouse possible zoning changes for the area around to determine if the Traffic Committee will be gas emissions and an energy savings plan with and adjacent to the Metro right-of-way railroad permanently determined as part of Planning a climate action plan undertaking best practices property so that residents near the area may be Saturday Commission duties. with State regulations in energy savings and concerning their properties when the Metroeligible for future consideration of programsthroughout the community. ComplianceA new Youth Advisory Committee is approved Sunny with members from grades six through 12 greenhouse gas reductions are also required. begins their projects. who are under the age of 18 and Lawndale Continued problems at Hooper Park, Assemblyman Steve Bradford invited the 69˚/58˚ residents. Appointed members, who will serve including an apparent overdose by a teen “left for public to attend his Town Hall meeting on a one-year term, must complete an application dead” in the park by his cohorts, were brought Saturday, Oct. 12 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. prior to appointment at the mayor’s discretion. up during public communications. The citizen at Inglewood City Hall to learn about the Sunday relating to youth programs and activities. the park requested the park have constant staff Medi-Cal expansion program.Affordable Care Act and the Covered California/who spoke for neighbors who live adjacent toThe group will advise the Council on matters Sunny Members will be encouraged to attend activities supervision or be closed permanently. The The Lawndale McDonald’s site will have a 70˚/59˚ organize such events for the City. The Youth have been added to include Hooper Park and p.m. on Hawthorne Boulevard and 170th Street.planned for youth and will be called upon togrand re-opening on Saturday, October 19 at 1sheriff’s department confirmed extra patrols Advisory Committee will meet a minimum of in the last two weeks several arrests were made The City-sponsored Halloween event will once per month with seven youth members for loitering, drug dealing, drunk in public be held at Civic Plaza on Thursday, Oct. 31, under the aegis of the Parks, Recreation and and public drug use. Patrolling of the park at 3 p.m. Social Services Commission. and the surrounding area will be continue, The Lawndale City Council will meet again Street Improvement projects at Sombra but over the 24-hour day--not just when the on Monday, Oct. 21, at 6:30 p.m. •
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