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Santa Monica Daily Press TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

Volume 14 Issue 137

BOUNDED SOCIAL JUSTICE SEE PAGE 4

ZONING ISSUES:

Council aims to nip hedge issues in bud BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer

CITY HALL What were you doing at 1:15 a.m. on Thursday? If you’re a City Council member, engaged citizen, or local reporter, you were listening to a debate about hedges. Deep into council’s seven-hour discussion of the proposed update of the Zoning Ordinance, which will dictate land uses throughout the city for years to come, Mayor Kevin McKeown suggested some changes to the draft as it pertains to the bushes people grow in their yards. A decade ago, the city was deep in what was known as the “Hedge Wars.” Former Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, jumped into

DETOURS Matthew Hall editor@smdp.com

Demolition of the California Incline began on Monday. While drivers seemed to expect detours, pedestrians were surprised to learn sections of Palisades Park will be closed. Walkers cannot cross California at the incline or cross Ocean at that intersection. Pedestrians must use crosswalks at Wilshire and Washington to walk around the construction. The southbound bike lane on Ocean remains open.

politics after City Hall tried to fine him for letting his hedges get too high. “The issue has come up again in the new draft Zoning Ordinance because staff is proposing that even somebody who got a grand-parented hedge approved 10 years ago could now apply for a higher hedge, even if the neighbor objected,” McKeown said, “and having lived through that, and being glad to have lived through it, I’m wondering if we wouldn’t say, instead, that a grand parented hedge adjustment is okay only if it’s okayed by the neighbor.” One exception, he proposed, would be if there’d been a substantive change to the hedge-bordering SEE HEDGE PAGE 9

‘Incremental demolition’ loophole frustrates Landmarks Commission

Holocaust survivor finds purpose as volunteer

BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON

15TH/ARIZONA

Daily Press Staff Writer

Every Thursday, Marianne Klein arrives at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica and receives her list. For about four hours she KLEIN goes from room

CITY HALL In January, 1115 Georgina Ave., a house constructed in the Mediterranean Revival style in 1932, got a new roof, a new door (the French doors were replaced), and new siding. About a month later, the owners SEE LANDMARK PAGE 8

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