Plan to attend one or more of the five Zoom meetings planned this week with topics ranging from the local business district to homelessness. Councilman Mike Bonin will answer questions at the Community Council meeting on Thursday. The La Brea Tar Pits staff will host an event on Friday.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22
Caruso Senior VP Rick Lemmo is the new Business Improvement District President
The Palisades Business Improvement District Board meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. on July 22 via Zoom. The meeting ID is 953 9178 9384 and the password is 807231. There will be a report from Chrysalis on street/sidewalk cleaning in the business village area and a BID Renewal update. Rick Lemmo, president, will conduct the meeting. Another item on the agenda is called “masks.”
The Pacific Palisades Design Review Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be conducted entirely telephonically. The agenda includes a final review for new awnings, paint, lighting and a sign program for 15300-15314 Sunset Boulevard and 15301-15315 Antioch Street. The owner is Duesenberg Investment Company. A public comment period is available.
DRB members are Donna Vaccarino (chair), Maryam Zar (vice chair), Leah Cox, Paul Darrall, Sarah Griffin and Barbara Kohn. City planner Nick Vasuthasawat will be in attendance. (nick.vasuthasawat@lacity.org).
To access via computer, visit: https://tinyurl.com/y757g6ez password is 678495. Or by phone 213-338-8477 and the webinar ID is 912 3789 1866 followed by # (pound sign). You will be asked to enter a participant ID, enter # to continue.
THURSDAY, JULY 23
Councilman MIke Bonin will speak at the PPCC Zoom meeting.
On July 23 at 5:30 p.m., the guest speaker at the Pacific Palisades Community Council Zoom meeting will be Councilman Mike Bonin. Bring your questions. “There will be an opportunity for Q&A,” according to the PPCC.
The Zoom long-in for the meeting starts at 5:20 p.m. To join: https://zoom.us/j/9146619026. The meeting ID is 914 661 9026. For Audio Only/Dial-in 669-900-6833. The meeting ID is the same.
FRIDAY, JULY 24
On July 24, the Nature Gardens and staff members at the La Brea Tar Pits will host a 6 p.m. talk titled “The Private Life of Pleistocene Plants.” They will not only present information about the plants that existed at the La Brea Tar Pits 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, but also about the extinct herds of camels, horses, bison and sloths that ate them.
Moderator Steven Mendoza will speak with Dr. Regan Dunn, Dr. Emily Lindsey and doctoral candidate Jessie George on the topic.
At 7 p.m., there will be a DJ set provided by Rani de Leon, a Los Angeles-based DJ/cultural programmer. The at-home event features a botanical signature cocktail — the Hibiscus-Sage Ice Age Cooler, made with fresh sage and tequila. (visit: https://events.kcrw.com/events/summer-nights-at-home/)
MONDAY, JULY 27
The homeless man was smoking in an area that needed brush clearance.
The Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness is hosting a Zoom webinar from 7 to 8 p.m. on Monday, July 27.
The meeting is titled “The Homeless Front: Where Are We Now?” And will feature Heidi Marston, executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority (LAHSA) and John Maceri, CEO of The People Concern.
Although the homeless count in January was down in Pacific Palisades, it rose elsewhere, and officials estimate that 66,433 people were homeless at that time in Los Angeles.
This spring, a federal judge ordered homeless people living along the freeways be moved and housed, but when and where this will happen continues to be a challenging question.
Please register for the meeting and send your questions to: (https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4gJwHKjEQ2iO_7cJ3HYaug) Visit: pptfh.org
The Civic League will look at plans for new home construction.
The Pacific Palisades Civic League will meet electronically, via Zoom, at 7:30 p.m. on because of the current stay-at-home, social distancing edicts. (The meetings are generally held the fourth Monday of each month.)
This is the perfect opportunity for Palisades residents to follow the Civic League process from home, by emailing office.ppcl@gmail.com for Zoom meeting information.
There are five two-story residences to review under New Business: 15313 Earlham, 867 Hartzell, 1018 Fiske, and 16009 and 16011 Miami Way.
Under Old Business, there are eight homes under review: 834 and 1106 Fiske; 15228 De Pauw, 577 and 583 Radcliffe, 1047 Hartzell, 516 Erskine and 1106 Monument.