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Membrane structures have been installed at two bridge housing centers, which will house over 200 individuals combined including homeless veterans, in Brentwood and Venice. In Brentwood, a membrane structure that Photo: Councilmember Mike Bonin/Facebook. By Sam Catanzaro will house up to 100 homeless veterans at the The membrane structure that will house adults at the Venice bridge housing center set to open in the new year. West Los Angeles VA Campus was recently inLast weekend two hikers were air-lifted stalled as the shelter nears completion followfrom a Pacific Palisades trail and transported The facility was expected to open in early cility, which will provide 100 beds for adults ing a series of delays. to safety by firefighters. Once complete, the site will include two 40’ 2019, but crews experienced a delay on the site and 54 beds for youth. According to the Los Angeles Fire DepartOn December 13, a Venice Stakeholder’s Asx 120’ tension membrane structures and modu- when they uncovered old pipes that needed spement (LAFD), ground and air crews respondlar trailers, which will be located within the VA cial attention as the site was prepared for the sociation (VSA) petition to halt the construction ed to two hikers in distress Saturday, Detemporary structures. of the shelter was denied by Los Angeles Sucampus near existing buildings and services. cember 28 at 9:39 p.m. The hikers were not In addition, mud from a rainy winter and as- perior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff. VSA arThe site will offer roughly 100 beds for curinjured when they called in, says the LAFD. rently homeless veterans, as well as storage for bestos that was discovered hindered the project. gued that AB 1197 – a new Los Angeles-specifLAFD helicopters located the hikers and Also nearing completion on the Westside ic state law providing California Environmental residents, personal hygiene and laundry facillowered a paramedic down to assess the sitities, supportive and community engagement is a 154-bed bridge housing shelter in Venice, Quality Act (CEQA) exemptions for emergenuation. Due to the terrain and location, a hoist a project that has been the center of a debate cy shelters and permanent supportive housing services, and 24-hour security. Curtain operation was carried out and the hikers were & Upholstery Cleaning Done In Your Home “As the sites prepare to open, outreach work- between supporters and opponents since its in- – should not apply retroactively on the bridge transported safely back to their vehicles. housing shelter since lawmakers approved the ers will begin building trust with people experi- ception. No further details are available. Earlier this month, the installation of trailers project before AB 1197 went into effect. encing homelessness, so people currently living “AB 1197 on its face does not apply retroacin encampments in Venice, as well as veterans and a membrane structure began at the bridge experiencing homelessness on the Westside, housing shelter in Venice that will provide 154 tively and California courts do not apply new will be ready to move in when the facilities beds for homeless individuals at the old MTA laws retroactively absent clear direction from the Legislature to do so,” wrote Jeffrey Lewis, both open,” said Councilmember Mike Bonin, lot on Main Street. Trailers for youth housing have also been counsel for VSA in a letter to Los Angeles City referring to a bridge housing center set to open installed and the membrane structure that will Council last month. “The City would be better in Venice as well. This bridge housing facility will be tempo- provide housing for adults arrived at the prop- served by conceding this point, following the law and going through the CEQA process to rary — and not to be visible from the exterior of erty as well. PATH will be the lead operator of the site and serve the residents surrounding the Project locathe campus — as the VA constructs out its Draft Master Plan, which will provide 1200 units of will work with the Venice-based SPY, which tion. The faster that the City initiates the CEQA Photo: City of LA Parks. Sullivan Canyon park will also provide services at the temporary fa- process, the sooner it can begin serving.” permanent supportive housing on the campus.
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