Dear Homeless Advocate: The Venice Stakeholders Association is preparing to publish a camping guide for distribution to homeless individuals in Venice, including those living on the sidewalks and parkways along 3rd Avenue between Rose and Sunset Avenues in Venice. The guide will provide Venice homeless with locations of sidewalk/parkway locations where they will be more welcome to camp out than the 3rd Avenue location. The residents and property owners in this area find this encampment, with its related crime, assaults on police officers and residents (one as recent as this past Saturday evening), public drug sales and use, public inebriation, public urination and defecation, and threat to public health, to be intolerable. We will continue to press the City of Los Angeles for the removal of this encampment, including bringing a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles for maintaining a public nuisance if necessary. Our camping guide will provide these Venice homeless individuals with locations of sidewalk/parkway locations where they will be more welcome to camp out than the 3rd Avenue location. In light of your vigorous support for the rights of the homeless to sleep on public pedestrian easements over private property, which is what sidewalks and parkways legally are, we are contacting you to ask if you have any objection to our including a photograph and address of your residence in camping guide. On the following page are the addresses we would like to publish in our guide. We intend to incentivize these individuals to take advantage of your welcoming spirit by offering them $20 per day to relocate. Please advise me at your earliest convenience of whether you object to being included in the guide and if the address listed is correct. Yours truly, Mark Ryavec President
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (Official Residence): 605 S. Irving, Los Angeles CA 90005
Councilman Bill Rosendahl: 3715 Wasatch Ave., Mar Vista (Los Angeles) CA 90066
Deputy Mayor Larry Frank: 2110 Walnut, Venice CA 90291
Carol Sobel: 860 23rd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403, CA
Nicolas Goldberg: 111 S. Norton Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90004
Los Angeles Times: 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Linda Lucks: (address and photo removed at the request of Ms. Lucks)
David Ewing: 1234 Preston Ave., Venice CA 90291
Steve Clare: 733-739 Palms Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Karen Wolfe: (address and photo removed at the request of Ms. Wolfe)
Debra Lashever: (address and photo removed at the request of Ms. Lashever)
Mark's comment regarding Linda Luck's response to her address being posted here:
ReplyDeleteWith Linda Luck's history of sharing my address in public in the midst of the 2010-11 fight over installation of "No Oversize Vehicle 2-6AM" signs in Venice, it is the height of hypocrisy for her to claim it is "below the belt and immoral" for the VSA to post her address.
Here is the link to her tweet of my address:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yovenice/5377103580/
The person that sent it to me blocked out the address; it was visible in the original. (For the record, it's 453 Rialto Avenue and is available to anyone who cares to Google my name.)
If Linda doesn't like the heat, I would suggest she get out of the kitchen.
Mark Ryavec
This is great. About time somebody tested the magnanimous charity of those who would like to burden the rest of us who would to see our streets and public places clean and safe.
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Tossing It Out
As one of those "camping" on third, I find it to be the height of hubris to offer only the notion "NOT IN MY BACKYARD" as the only idea. A real solution to the problem isn't to push us "out sight, out of mind." Where is reality check to the problem? We are willing to clean up after ourselves if given the tools. We would use a real toilet if available. I have steadily attempted to reach out to local businesses who are directly affected to arrange use of a dumpster, only to be told that the person i was talking to couldn't make that kind of decision. We can get everything we need through Operation Clean Sweep at Dept. Of Public Works if the community can pull itself together and support us in supporting our community. As a part of the problem, we can be a pary of the solution. Just ask us. We ARE human too...
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