At tonight's Land Use Committee meeting representatives from Classic Auto Body will present their latest plans.
History: The former body shop at the corner of Plainview and Apperson had been closed for approximately three years. Classic Auto Body has recently reopened the body shop and remodeled the existing sheet metal building, installed new equipment and signage on Apperson. In addition they have purchased the adjacent single family residence properties on Plainview and demolished two of them. Another one is fenced and I understand it too will be demolished so as to expand this business. At the site of the demolished homes exists a temporary office trailer and parking lot now. The Classic Auto Body has been in operation posting sandwich board signage and open for business for several months. The improvements to the old sheet metal building have been a welcome improvement to what it use to be. When Classic Auto Body reps presented at the Land Use Committee in the past they presented that cars would be brought from their other locations (Pasadena) to be worked on. They presented a proposal for a two story office/auto body shop.
Classic Auto Body is now applying for a Conditional Use for the site and this process requires a thorough review and public hearing. The application as presented to City Planning is linked to the front page of the STNC web site at www.stnc.org
A gallery of photos of the site since before the improvements to the current time can be viewed at: http://gallery.me.com/cindycleghorn#100264 -- Please note that the photos are a history and include photos of the surrounding intersections and uses (residential and commercial).
Please attend STNC Land Use Committee meetings for updates. Visit the STNC calendar at http://stnc.org/calendar.html
Monday, April 06, 2009
60' Cell Tower at Canyon Market (proposed)
A public hearing will be held today at Marvin Braude San Fernando, Valley Constituent Service Center, 6262 Van Nuys Boulevard
Van Nuys, CA 91401
TIME: MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2009 AT 1:00 P.M.
regarding a TMobile cell tower at the Canyon Market on Tujunga Canyon and Hillrose. To see a copy of the public hearing notice, please go to the City Planning website at http://cityplanning.lacity.org/ -- Click on Meetings and Hearings, North Valley and find the April 6 hearing notice.
The Land Use Committee took the following position on this matter and forwarded same to the Office of Zoning Administration:
• Whenever a major telecom decides they need a cell tower or monopine installation to benefit their customers, the community always takes an aesthetic "hit" that can't be mitigated. The visual effects are long-lasting and there is NO guarantee that the final installation will be visually appealing much less benign.
• A precedent is being established with the approval of this tall monopine at the proposed location. Once approved, other carriers will be more likely to want to do the same types of installations for their local customer base. Sunland-Tujunga then becomes a convenient "dumping ground" for these types of installations.
• What ordinances does the City have that effectively prevents a proliferation of these types of towers in local communities?
• Finally, many cell phone customers in Sunland-Tujunga are required to roam off their network to make cell phone calls from their homes. This is because the terrain here is hilly. Most major cell providers do not charge extra for roaming calls. So, are such tower installations really all that necessary for each individual provider?
Photos of the site can be seen at http://gallery.me.com/cindycleghorn#100187
Van Nuys, CA 91401
TIME: MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2009 AT 1:00 P.M.
regarding a TMobile cell tower at the Canyon Market on Tujunga Canyon and Hillrose. To see a copy of the public hearing notice, please go to the City Planning website at http://cityplanning.lacity.org/ -- Click on Meetings and Hearings, North Valley and find the April 6 hearing notice.
The Land Use Committee took the following position on this matter and forwarded same to the Office of Zoning Administration:
• Whenever a major telecom decides they need a cell tower or monopine installation to benefit their customers, the community always takes an aesthetic "hit" that can't be mitigated. The visual effects are long-lasting and there is NO guarantee that the final installation will be visually appealing much less benign.
• A precedent is being established with the approval of this tall monopine at the proposed location. Once approved, other carriers will be more likely to want to do the same types of installations for their local customer base. Sunland-Tujunga then becomes a convenient "dumping ground" for these types of installations.
• What ordinances does the City have that effectively prevents a proliferation of these types of towers in local communities?
• Finally, many cell phone customers in Sunland-Tujunga are required to roam off their network to make cell phone calls from their homes. This is because the terrain here is hilly. Most major cell providers do not charge extra for roaming calls. So, are such tower installations really all that necessary for each individual provider?
Photos of the site can be seen at http://gallery.me.com/cindycleghorn#100187
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