This information that they will be gathering together shows how insulated they are from the business of property ownership and development. It also shows how they think of "solutions" that sometimes avoid the political hurdles of seeing those solutions enacted.

The land at Sunset Junction would have been built into multi-story transit oriented complex IF the parking requirements for the land weren't so high, and IF local parking fees could be raised to calm traffic and improve the streetscape.

The parcels that surround Sunset Junction are small and expensive. Assembling them and building a large enough development to justify the cost would put the development out of scale with the neighborhood. The reason the development would have to be so large is that parking would have to be installed underground - significantly raising the cost of the development and requiring anyone willing to build to add on two extra floors of building space to justify the expense.

As a result of the high cost of building on these sites, they have sat undisturbed for many years. The western side of Sunset Junction has the following happening:

- Dana Hollister's open pit parking lot
- Jiffy Lube where a Prop O funded park should be
- A one story automobile-repair-ready building restricted by code from being an auto-repair building (but stil being used for auto repair)

- the bright spot of retail flush to the curb (Reform School, etc.) and one of Sed Moses' bars, both paying rents in the $3/sq.ft (and up) range (which is pricey for this type of retail area)

Walking across Sunset Junction is a horror, but the LADOT has no inclination to reduce automobile speeds or throughput on these roads. Parking meters are priced cheaply, so there are never any free spots, and parking revenue leaves the area to sit in the Council controlled parking slush fund.

They don't need a "plan" - they need a revenue stream and a political coalition.