Illegal signs Sent 12-18-96 no response t date Transit Mix EIR Sent 12-11-96 no response to date Illegal signs Sent 12-18-96 no response t date Transit Mix EIR Sent 12-11-96 no response to dateTo add your illegal sign or zoning report E-Mail: Acton@wgn.net If you want sent us a image -great.
John Calas, Zoning Enforcement The Department of Regional Planning Hall of Records 320 West Temple Street, Room 1341 Los Angeles, California 90012 Voice 213-974-6453 FAX: 213-626-0434 December 18, 1996 Illegal signs in Acton and Agua Dulce.
Mr. Calas
I would like to call your attention to the plethora of illegal signs in Acton and Agua Dulce. I have also included several other trash related complaints.
As you know illegal signs lower property values. Nothing makes a community look worse than this commercial graffiti. The County's refusal to do any pro-active enforcement or community self help as LA City now allows, requires us to deal with them on a complaint basis. If a property owner will give the necessary permission, including LA County and Southern California Edision for signs in road right of ways or on power poles, I will have the sign removed and recycled,
You have my full permission to tell anyone whose sign I have reported that I am the source of the complaint. Some of the complaints have been given to me by others who wish to be protected from threatened reappraisals by the owners and other pro urban groups. I do not believe in anonymous complaining and I have personally verified that the signs do exist. I would like to see specifically the steps you have taken to eliminate these illegal signs. This letter and the results of L A County actions will be posted on the Vanguard's Internet site.
Location |
Type of Illegal Sign |
Action |
| Union 76 Plaza Northwest corner of Sierra Highway and Crown Valley Road | A number of banners tied to the railings and stairwells at the liquor store. Large number of lighted and other signs nearly blocking all of the liquor store windows. | |
| Shell station Southwest corner of Sierra Highway and Crown Valley Road | Various banner signs mounted on poles. Free standing signboard structures at the edges of the building and property. | |
| Arco AM/PM, Southeast corner of Highway 14 and Crown Valley Road | Free standing banner type sign sitting along Crown Valley. Small pennant sign on that edge of the property. Newspaper boxes in sidewalk. | |
| Vacant Lot Northwest corner of Highway 14 and 500' west of Crown Valley Road adjacent to south bound on ramp | Two 8X16 "For Lease signs" Note the property is zoned A1 (2)? It is not commercial as claimed. | Removed signs poles still there |
| Vacant Lot Southwest corner of Highway 14 of Crown Valley Road adjacent to north bound off ramp | Two
off-premises signs advertising Preferred property
Realtors
Fold-up type sign subdivision | Preferred
sign removed 5-15-97 Tapadero Reality converted to land for sale 5-15-97 fold-up sign gone |
| Antelope Valley Freeway northbound Adjacent to call box 14-504, adjacent to the freeway fence | A 4X8 sign "View homes from $89,950 in Acton, next exit, then right". | |
| Antelope Valley freeway northbound at mile post marker 52.00, on a hill | "Lunch $3.75 Malhi's Indian Cuisine in Lancaster" | |
| Antelope Valley Freeway northbound call box 14-566 Adjacent to call box 14-504 | It is a blank sign covered with graffiti on top of a knoll adjacent to the freeway. | |
| California Recreational Vehicles at the Soledad Canyon off ramp | Banners affixed to their light poles | |
| Santiago and Soledad Canyon, Northwest corner. | One on Santiago and the other on Soledad | |
| Aliso and Soledad Canyon Southwest corner | One sign for Sterling Ridge subdivision | |
| Pepper Tree Liquor store 9661 Sierra Hwy. Agua Dulce | Illegal
free standing sign. Attached below is a Camel sign and
below it is a Marlboro sign The entire front of the
building is covered with signs. The windows are covered
with signs and there are signs tacked on the sides of the
building, Behind the building is an abandoned single-wide trailer falling apart in very bad condition. Large amounts of storage including a converted camper bus, a boat, various other things wrapped with black plastic, and other debris. It looks like an urban junk yard |
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| Agua Dulce Canyon Road and Darling Road Northwest corner | Sign advertising a out of town Feed Store on vacant A1 lot | |
| Agua Dulce Hardware 33314 Agua Dulce Canyon Road | Free standing moveable type sign in parking lot |
I am sure while you are driving around you will probably find a number of other illegal signs.
Thank you very much, Charles Brink Jr.
Regional Planning Commission Attn.:
James Hartel Hall of Records 320 West Temple Street Room 150
Los Angeles CA. 900012 VIA FAX 213-974-6384
December 11, 1996 Re: Transit Mix EIR
Dear Mr. Hartel,
There will be a considerable community interest in the EIR for Transit Mix when it becomes public.
May I suggest that you provide us with a copy of the EIR in electronic form and we will post it on our Internet site. http://www.Vanguardnews.com This will reduce the number of copies that need to be distributed throughout the community. It will eliminate problems with people claiming they do not have access to it since many people in the community have Internet access.
The Vanguard is doing the same thing now, interestingly enough, for homeowner's associations in the San Fernando Valley by placing the EIR for the Van Nuys Airport expansion on the Internet for them.
This will provide an excellent method to supplement your already good start at your Internet page. Let me know an approximate time the EIR will be available, and please add my name to the notice list, because I have been asked to respond to this issue by members of the community.
The standard procedure of one copy in a library twenty miles away isn't going to cut it anymore and I believe the Internet is a mechanism to save you cost and provide convenience to the community.
If I can be of any other service to you, please call.
Charles Brink
CC: Armen Minasian, 213-974-6453 Room 1341