Laura Silagi + David Ewing/VeniceCommunityCoalition wrote: Why this is important for all of Venice???!!
The crisis at Lincoln Place is the biggest challenge to our planning process, to principles of fair and open government, and to affordable housing in Venice. AIMCO, the largest Real Estate Investment Trust in the country, is evicting their tenants in the middle of the holiday season. They engaged in closed door negotiation regarding the future of this property. Over six hundred formerly affordable apartments are now vacant, awaiting the bulldozers. AIMCO hopes to build up to 1400 luxury condos in their place. If AIMCO succeeds, we all lose. Below is a letter from Lincoln Place Tenants explaining the current situation at Lincoln Place Apartments. It is imperative that we ask the City Attorney, the Mayor and our Councilman, Bill Rosendahl, to do everything in their power to prevent the evictions of these tenants. If AIMCO Corporation gets its way and builds something new on the site, we will be faced with a much greater density just a block east of an already gridlocked Lincoln Blvd. We also need to demand the public be completely involved in the process of deciding what becomes of this property. Please read the letter below, then use the following contact information to call, fax and email. Laura Silagi David Ewing You can dial 311 to connect to City Hall operator who will connect you to your party or: Rosendahl: 213/473-7011 Phone, 213/473-6926 Fax, Margaret Hasheminejad Executive Assistant to Rosendahl (213) 473-7011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Villaraigosa : 213/978-0600 Phone, 213/978-0750 Fax, E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Degadillo: (213) 978-8100 Phone Fax: (213) 978-8312 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ From LP Tenants: An Open Letter To The Neighborhood about Lincoln Place Apartments In 2002, the Los Angeles City Council reluctantly approved redevelopment plans for Lincoln Place, a large garden apartment complex that received historic designation by the State in August of this year. AIMCO (Apartment Investment and Management Company) would be permitted to redevelop the property so long as certain requirementswere met. The conditions, which were proposed by AIMCO to ensure approval, included the commitment that "no existing tenant would be involuntarily displaced from the site." AIMCO is now evicting all 170 families while still moving forward with the project. The Lincoln Place Tenants Association (LPTA) is a non-profit organization comprised of Tenants and members of the surrounding community seeking, among other things, to compel the City Attorney, Rocky Delgadillo, to enforce the city's laws and seek an injunction to protect these families. Lincoln Place was built in 1949-51 as part of the Garden City Movement to address the urgent need for housing at reasonable rents -- a need never more relevant than it is now. Over the last two decades, LPTA has fought real estate speculators' intent on demolishing our homes and impinging on yours with thousands of new residents in high-density sixty foot tall structures. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go to our Website: www.lincolnplace.net Call our 24-hour hotline: (310) 281-6877 Write: P.O. Box 1312 Venice, CA 90294 Laura Burns (general inquiries) Tel and fax: (310) 392-5079 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amanda Seward (historical preservation) 20th Century Architecture Alliance Tel: (310) 439-2422 Fax:(310) 439-2822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Legal information: Jan Book Tel: (310) 392-1426 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go to AIMCO's website: www.aimco.com <http://www.aimco.com/> . See what they have to say. Call The City Attorney's Office: (213) 485-2352 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. 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