Comments on: Planning Commission Considers Limiting Development in Larchmont Village http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/09/09/planning-commission-considers-limiting-development-in-larchmont-village/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cal Godot http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/09/09/planning-commission-considers-limiting-development-in-larchmont-village/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 Cal Godot Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:26:15 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1126#comment-2228 Everyone in Larchmont should move to an actual small town. Most of them could sell their houses and have castles built; they could pretend to be medieval lords over the nearby smalltown fiefdom. Odds are half of them would hate it but be stuck there, and the other half would die there, so in the end Los Angeles could come out on top. Sane, sensible urbanites could move into their houses. Seriously: how do you get your head so far up your ass that you live in the middle of LA and think you have a "small town feel?" It must take a lot of money to get that delusional. (I grew up in a small town [pop: 1036]; I go to Larchmont a few times an month, and it NEVER feels like a small town.) Larchmont: where idiots fear not being heard. Everyone in Larchmont should move to an actual small town. Most of them could sell their houses and have castles built; they could pretend to be medieval lords over the nearby smalltown fiefdom. Odds are half of them would hate it but be stuck there, and the other half would die there, so in the end Los Angeles could come out on top. Sane, sensible urbanites could move into their houses.

Seriously: how do you get your head so far up your ass that you live in the middle of LA and think you have a “small town feel?” It must take a lot of money to get that delusional. (I grew up in a small town [pop: 1036]; I go to Larchmont a few times an month, and it NEVER feels like a small town.)

Larchmont: where idiots fear not being heard.

]]> By: SoapBoxLA http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/09/09/planning-commission-considers-limiting-development-in-larchmont-village/comment-page-1/#comment-2226 SoapBoxLA Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:58:16 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1126#comment-2226 "If you plan to attend and would like to reserve parking in a city lot, please call Anna Nunez in our office at (213)485-3337." I just called Anna and asked about parking (bike parking) and she said "I don't understand." She put me on hold and then Tom got on the phone. I made the same pitch that I have been making for ages. Stop telling people where to park their cars and start telling people where to catch the Metro, where to park their bikes, how to get to City Hall without bringing another single-occupant vehicle! Tom yelled to whoever was in the office with him to "start putting bike parking directions and metro instructions on all event notices!" "You can take the 91, you can take the 42, you can take the 107, you can park your bike on Main Street." Someday, all City facilities will be pedestrian accessible, public transit accessible, cyclist accessible. That's when we'll know our leadership is serious about multi-modal transportation! “If you plan to attend and would like to reserve parking in a city lot, please call Anna Nunez in our office at (213)485-3337.”

I just called Anna and asked about parking (bike parking) and she said “I don’t understand.”

She put me on hold and then Tom got on the phone.

I made the same pitch that I have been making for ages. Stop telling people where to park their cars and start telling people where to catch the Metro, where to park their bikes, how to get to City Hall without bringing another single-occupant vehicle!

Tom yelled to whoever was in the office with him to “start putting bike parking directions and metro instructions on all event notices!”

“You can take the 91, you can take the 42, you can take the 107, you can park your bike on Main Street.”

Someday, all City facilities will be pedestrian accessible, public transit accessible, cyclist accessible. That’s when we’ll know our leadership is serious about multi-modal transportation!

]]>