A Community Voice for Venice
Fight Back, Venice!
Fight Back, Venice! is an group of Venice neighbors committed to informing, engaging, empowering and mobilizing our community to ensure the equal application of the law for all who live, work and play in Venice.
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The Reese-Davidson Community on the Venice CanalsOVERVIEW
Is This Your Venice Vision?
The so-called “Reese-Davidson Community” is a massive mixed-use project (140 units and 420+ residents) that the Venice Community Housing Corporation and the Hollywood Housing Corporation are attempting to develop with no environmental review in a designated tsunami zone and FEMA Special Flood Hazard Zone, a block off the beach on Grand Canal.
As proposed, the Project—which the City’s own architects describe as “a large barge come ashore”--would triple applicable height limits in places, unnecessarily wipe out 4 existing units of very-low-income housing, cost more than $1 million per unit, and replace existing surface beach parking with costly, noisy and unreliable mechanical lift parking in a 45-foot park structure east of Grand Canal.
It would also destroy two-thirds of the historic Short Line Bridge and freeze insufficient parking, 5-foot sidewalks and substandard streets in place forever at what is the Gateway to Venice Beach for most Angelenos … and most of the world.
Venice currently has a dozen new and pending affordable housing projects and already provides 15 times more affordable housing than Brentwood and Pacific Palisades combined.
Venice is a containment zone ... and working families are paying the price.
Venice Community Housing Corporation will stop at nothing to make Venice a permanent homeless hub.
VCHC:
Heard Around Venice
When I first heard about this project I thought it was a joke. The amount of anger Venice residents have towards this project is creating deep wounds in our community.
R. F.
Venice ResidentMr. Bonin ...consider that you are at the apex of a profound failure of civic leadership on the westside, the results of which we are seeing and living daily via assaults, robberies, burglaries, and increasing lawlessness.
R. G.
Venice ResidentAs a Venice resident, taxpayer and voter in all national, state and local elections, I am so deeply disappointed to realize how irrelevant my safety, wellbeing, and voice are to you, Council Member Bonin.
S. F.
Venice ResidentI don't feel safe at night anymore, as they wonder the streets late a night, stealing whatever they can in order to sell it the next day or so on the boardwalk (such as my amazon packages, plants, etc).
S. C.
Venice ResidentThis is just a call for Bonin to further punish Venice for not supporting him. Why should 200+ homeless transients live on the canals for free when I, as a local resident , could not afford the taxes, let alone the purchase price ???
H. G.
Venice ResidentThis project is nothing more than a handout to developers and the expense of the taxpayers and the community at large. It isn't serious about improving the lives of the incompetent...