For the Bored and/or Obsessed: Twittering Industrial Land Use

substitute “brady westwater” for dlanc there. the economic development committee does not have a properly-appointed membership (or any appointed membership, for that matter), so it certainly won’t be passing any motions on the matter. maybe the full dlanc board will take it up at their meeting next week.

Oh great! so instead of re-zoning and expanding industrial areas in the county, they choose to concentrate their efforts on downtown’s cramped quarters for new industrial projects? talk about completely unintelligent uses of urban space!

oh and need the pollutants of more industrial production to the downtown core’s new residents be mentioned???

I’m not so sure this is about protecting jobs as it is revenue to the general fund, something critical to the City right now.

Businesses in the Fashion District and the Warehouse/Industrial area generate retail sales tax revenue (granted wholesales don’t but they pay operating taxes). Whether renting or paying property tax, if those business operators feel the squeeze of development, they may relocate to outside the City proper.

It’s unfortunate that there are not more strategic partnerships to transition people living in CCE with low-skill, return to the workforce employment in the industrial businesses operating nearby. It would give them an incredible political chip to play right now.

I would disagree that Downtown is not historically suited for industry, the central location and freeway access alone make it appropriate for many of the distribution sectors (Coca Cola, the LA Times plant, the wholesale food marts, the flower mart) that support the central node of the region. There’s also large amounts of check clearing and other payment processing in the Financial District.

Not to get too far off topic - but can I say “THANK YOU” to Eric for twittering at the meeting yesterday.

I am a recent convert to Twitter, and it’s been a great way to tell my friends to meet me for coffee, or tell them that Broadway at 7th is closed, or to toss offhand comments about this that and the other thing.

But - also - I knew that I wouldn’t be able to go to the meeting, but yet I wanted to have an idea for the tone of the meeting…without having to wait in suspense.

I will have ton’s of pictures of the meeting up at my blog, http://www.centralcitye.blogpsot.com so you can see who was there and how the meeting was.

You will see how the main stream media stayed as far away from the bloggers as possible. I watched as Steve Hymon - from the LA Times, moved from one side of the room to the other making sure he avoided standing close to the bloggers. Which ,of course, ED Fuentes Dubbed blogger alley. Jan Perry stayed close to the bloggers.

I think there will be a neat surprise on blogdowntown , once Eric Richardson does the story soon. I won’t comment on the event until I hear from all sides , there was more to the presentation , but because of all of the opposition there , the planning people couldn’t get to those issues.

It was great to see Carol Shatz in full form.

I think I know the real reason for the change in policy , because there is a change in policy , don’t think that there isn’t, I can see through the pretexts. Understanding the fight over low income housing and esp, permanent supportive housing for the homeless , from the point of view from inside skid row looking out , I can see what is happening and why I suspect that the planning department want to wait until the skid row plan is adopted, to tackle those areas close to the river. WE are going to need all of the high end developers there who are proposing to continue their developments on the east side of downtown in those rooms. I gave them a hint last night , let’s hope they got the hint…

Eric, I’m trying to get my date and times in order.. was there to be a follow-up meeting on the 8th?? (possibly getting my DLANC things confused).