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November 18, 2015 Palisades News Page 15<br />
Security App<br />
(Continued from Page 1)<br />
overhead, or a traffic accident causes road<br />
closures, residents call Palisades P<strong>at</strong>rol,<br />
which is based in the Village, to ask wh<strong>at</strong><br />
is happening.<br />
“With our 24-hour monitoring and p<strong>at</strong>rol<br />
oper<strong>at</strong>ions in our various p<strong>at</strong>rol communities,<br />
this app will help provide community<br />
awareness,” said G<strong>at</strong>es Security CEO<br />
Scott Wagenseller (Palisades News owner).<br />
“It will also lessen calls to our office for inform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
in emergency situ<strong>at</strong>ions.”<br />
“The app goes out directly to everyone<br />
who has signed up and they will get inform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
immedi<strong>at</strong>ely,” said G<strong>at</strong>es Oper<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Manager Denise Montelongo.<br />
Park said the app will send out an initial<br />
alert st<strong>at</strong>ement, “G<strong>at</strong>es Security Community<br />
Alert,” and inform<strong>at</strong>ion will include<br />
time of occurrence, type of incident and<br />
loc<strong>at</strong>ion. For example, one posting might<br />
read: “11:07 am, traffic accident, 300 blk of<br />
Toyopa Drive.”<br />
Additional inform<strong>at</strong>ion may also be<br />
available such as photos and video, estim<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
time th<strong>at</strong> the incident will affect the<br />
area and a narr<strong>at</strong>ive: “2 car t/c, firefighters<br />
on scene, dur<strong>at</strong>ion 2 hours.”<br />
Park and Montelongo said the app will<br />
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be used only for serious breaking news th<strong>at</strong><br />
affects the quality of life.<br />
“The fire department is constantly rescuing<br />
people from our local mountains from<br />
hiking and biking accidents. These incidents<br />
do not impact our commute or whether an<br />
evacu<strong>at</strong>ion is necessary and will not be included<br />
in our alerts,” Wagenseller said.<br />
To add the app, go to the Apple Store and<br />
search for G<strong>at</strong>es Security, cre<strong>at</strong>e a user name<br />
and profile and choose an area (G<strong>at</strong>es Security<br />
covers Brentwood, Pacific Palisades,<br />
Malibu and Conejo Valley (Agoura Hills to<br />
Thousand Oaks).<br />
Users can select one or all areas to receive<br />
notific<strong>at</strong>ions and must press “select notific<strong>at</strong>ion”<br />
to receive notific<strong>at</strong>ions on the phone<br />
or tablet device.<br />
Asked how many alerts residents should<br />
expect, Park said: “One weekend was busy<br />
and there were three alerts in the Palisades<br />
alone. Some weekends there are none.”<br />
If you have trouble setting up your<br />
iPhone or Android, Montelongo can help.<br />
Call: (310) 454-7741.<br />
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A Problem for Owner<br />
A.C. Chaudhry, owner of St<strong>at</strong>e Beach<br />
Liquors <strong>at</strong> Pacific Coast Highway and Entrada,<br />
and a member of the Santa Monica<br />
Canyon Board, reported th<strong>at</strong> he is having<br />
issues with under-age youth <strong>at</strong>tempting<br />
to obtain alcohol.<br />
Several teenagers have <strong>at</strong>tempted purchases<br />
using fake identific<strong>at</strong>ion from other<br />
st<strong>at</strong>es.They were turned away when they were<br />
unable to show a California driver’s license.<br />
Additionally, under-aged youth are asking<br />
transients to purchase alcohol for them. One<br />
transient who <strong>at</strong>tempted to buy beer, was<br />
turned away. Th<strong>at</strong> same transient was listed<br />
in the crime report on November 7, <strong>at</strong> 12:05<br />
a.m., because he entered the business, pulled<br />
out a knife and thre<strong>at</strong>ened “I will get you.”<br />
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Caruso<br />
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to form an organiz<strong>at</strong>ion (named PaliTown)<br />
th<strong>at</strong> can focus on the common concerns,<br />
research each issue and then try to reach<br />
consensus on solutions “th<strong>at</strong> work for our<br />
community and Caruso.”<br />
“Caruso has been very good <strong>at</strong> reaching<br />
out to the community and sitting down<br />
with people,” Kamer said. “But everybody<br />
has a different perspective, so when people<br />
raise an issue, his usual response is, ‘We’ll<br />
look <strong>at</strong> it.’ Our answer should be, ‘We have<br />
looked <strong>at</strong> it and we have some ideas. Let’s<br />
see how we can work together.’”<br />
Kamer’s initial survey found th<strong>at</strong> more<br />
than 70 percent of the respondents were<br />
concerned about traffic—specifically its<br />
impact on Sunset and the Alphabet Streets<br />
neighborhood. They believe th<strong>at</strong> Caruso’s<br />
argument doesn’t ring true when he st<strong>at</strong>es<br />
th<strong>at</strong> because gas st<strong>at</strong>ions are the numberone<br />
gener<strong>at</strong>or of traffic, removing the<br />
Mobil st<strong>at</strong>ion on Swarthmore will balance<br />
out the traffic gener<strong>at</strong>ed by 54 businesses<br />
in his development.<br />
Several audience members expressed<br />
skepticism about Caruso Affili<strong>at</strong>ed’s required<br />
traffic study, which has been conducted<br />
by an independent contractor and<br />
should soon be available to the public.<br />
One person asked, “If the traffic study<br />
concerns us, and doesn’t go far enough,<br />
wh<strong>at</strong> do we do?” Another person asked, “If<br />
we don’t believe this d<strong>at</strong>a, we need to get<br />
d<strong>at</strong>a from another source. Can the community<br />
fund a second report?”<br />
Kamer asked for volunteers who can<br />
analyze Caruso’s traffic study and explore<br />
hiring a traffic consultant. Local architect<br />
Randy Jefferson will head this committee,<br />
joined by Linda Andrews.<br />
Parking is also seen as a major problem,<br />
according to almost 70 percent of the people<br />
who took the survey.<br />
Members of the audience said they feared<br />
th<strong>at</strong> despite Caruso’s insistence th<strong>at</strong> his<br />
project is “overparked” (going beyond the<br />
code requirement), his underground, twolevel<br />
parking structure will prove insufficient<br />
if Palisades Village is successful, and<br />
this will cause shoppers and employees to<br />
park on various Alphabet streets.<br />
“[Parking projections] have to be based<br />
on use,” one person said. “Restaurants require<br />
a higher number of parking spaces.”<br />
Another person noted th<strong>at</strong> the proposed<br />
specialty grocery store “will gener<strong>at</strong>e heavy<br />
traffic <strong>at</strong> busy times of day.”<br />
Attorney Ted Weitz volunteered to head<br />
a committee on parking issues, assisted by<br />
Reed Saxon and Ron Dean.<br />
The next issue for discussion focused on<br />
defending the community’s Specific Plan,<br />
crafted by a committee of residents and approved<br />
by the City of L.A. in 1985. The plan<br />
establishes criteria regarding building<br />
heights, building mass, setbacks, signage<br />
and landscaping. Caruso is seeking a subarea<br />
applic<strong>at</strong>ion, which allows for variances<br />
from specific plans.<br />
“He’s asking for exceptions to our Specific<br />
Plan,” said <strong>at</strong>torney Ron Dean, who<br />
served on the original committee. “We need<br />
to see exactly wh<strong>at</strong> his plan looks like, when<br />
compared to the Specific Plan. Get the<br />
facts, then we can deb<strong>at</strong>e the exceptions.”<br />
Dean will lead the Specific Plan committee,<br />
joined by Joan Graves, another member<br />
of the original committee.<br />
A fourth group, the CUP/alcohol license<br />
committee (consisting of Robin<br />
Weitz, P<strong>at</strong>ty Detroit and Lisa Hay Morrin),<br />
will seek more specifics regarding Caruso’s<br />
effort to obtain 10 alcohol licenses with one<br />
blanket applic<strong>at</strong>ion. This would include<br />
three existing licenses, one license for the<br />
movie the<strong>at</strong>er, one for the grocery store and<br />
five for e<strong>at</strong>ing establishments.<br />
The fifth and final committee, focused<br />
on aesthetics, will be chaired by Rick Leslie.<br />
During the evening’s discussion, when<br />
Kamer asked for a show of hands, audience<br />
members clearly opposed Caruso’s proposal<br />
to make Swarthmore a one-way street. And<br />
nearly everyone raised a hand when Kamer<br />
asked, “How many feel we should get rid of<br />
the market?” This reflected the group’s belief<br />
th<strong>at</strong> concerns about traffic and parking<br />
would ease if Caruso could scale back the<br />
overall size of his project and have far fewer<br />
storefronts than the current 54.<br />
The fact-g<strong>at</strong>hering process will continue<br />
tonight (November 18) <strong>at</strong> 6:30 <strong>at</strong> the Pali -<br />
sades Recre<strong>at</strong>ion Center when the Commu -<br />
nity Council hears a report about Palisades<br />
Village from its Land-Use Committee.<br />
The public is invited.<br />
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