833 Westbourne Drive

Longtime Tri-West resident and business owner says this is the first of five builder's remedy projects hitting his neighborhood and urges the commission to immediately codify existing design guidelines into an emergency ordinance using SB 2 grant funds.

Returns to identify the project owner as designer Benjamin Solomonni and to put on record that Solomonni, who owns many Melrose Avenue blocks, reportedly didn't want his name attached to the project.

Owns the property across the street; says street parking is already packed — only two empty spaces between Melrose and Santa Monica at midnight — and asks the commission to consider neighborhood solutions before adding 25-40 more cars.

Calls the project a manufactured crisis, regrets the design-review improvements weren't incorporated, and argues waivers and lost parking permits are 'takings' from existing residents that should be explicit in the record.

Questions whether the project meets real affordable housing needs, criticizes citing a nonexistent 2040 transit stop, and urges the city to stop saying 'our hands are tied' and fight for residents.