DEAR WEHO: 8 solutions for the mess we’re in

 

As we learned from the John Duran debacle, the cult which has divided and ruined our once-united / once-great city doesn’t know their collective ass from a hole in the ground. 

 

Examples:

 

1. Overdevelopment is one thing. But allowing contractors to tear up WeHo streets like Sunset, Fairfax and La Cienega without returning them to the same or better condition is asinine negligence. 

Solution: require contractors to return WeHo streets to the same of better condition. 

 

2. It’s just plain stupid to allow developers to build 110 unit monstrosities, with 115 parking spaces – in our already over-developed city. Solution: Permits should not be granted without a commitment for at least 1.5 spaces per unit. 

 

3. The decades long stupidity of reducing Fountain to one lane between La Cienega and La Brea is an easy fix: parking should be prohibited wherever there is not enough room for six lanes (4 for traffic and 2 for parking). Best example is Fountain and Fairfax where 6 parking spaces for a former church / now a synagogue, create bottlenecks when parking is allowed. 

Solution: prohibit parking at all times on Fountain where there is not enough space for six lanes. 

 

4. Ripping off tourists (and residents) with Gestapo-like tactics (meters automatically set to two hours and street sweeping insta-ticketing / towing as just two examples).

Solution: WeHo “reminder” text system for those who sign up, meters reprogrammed to 15 minutes as default, and revisions to the intentionally confusing regulations and signage. 

 

5. Wasting millions of taxpayer funds on ridiculous homeless initiatives like the Holloway Motel boondoggle. The shameless crony capitalism and epic stupidity would be hilarious if it wasn’t so damaging. Spoiler Alert: the problem is not the “homeless.” The problem is the mentally ill homeless. These often dangerous criminals belong in mental institutions (if they hadn’t been nonsensically closed). The mentally ill-homeless cannot and will not last in WeHo’s multi-million-dollar homeless “solution” frauds. So a real solution which doesn’t transfer tax dollars into the hands of the council’s developer donors must be implemented. For reference, the attached video documents one of the well known homeless criminals who run rampant in WeHo because of LASD negligence caused in large part by the cult’s “defund the police” stupidity.

Solution: Respect and fully fund LASD until the long overdue WeHo Police Department is created. #Duh 

 

6. Wasting tax dollars on moronic traffic initiatives which anyone with half a brain knew were destined to fail (plastic “guides” and nonsensical curves in the middle of traffic lanes, metal signs in the middle of busy streets like Laurel). 

Solution: hire city manager and traffic engineers with common sense. 

 

7. Failure to install a safety signal at Santa Monica Blvd. and Hayworth similar to the ones near Trader Joe’s and Shake Shack. 

Solution: immediately install effective pedestrian traffic signal (current flashing lights are NOT effective). 

 

8. Supporting intentionally divisive stupidity like the gang rape of the Gay flag, transapalooza, and presidential politics. 

* The rainbow flag was literally created to represent everyone under the rainbow (gay, lesbian, bi, trans). We were united under the gay flag and the “Gay” community branding. Then the lesbians whined, got their “L” (and got it first!). At that point, we were still relatively united under the rainbow flag as the Gay & Lesbian community. Then the divisive and destructive alphabet soup stupidity divided us to the point that we can’t say “Gay Pride” and the once-perfect rainbow flag was raped with black, brown, pink, nonsense and one hideous redesign after another. 

* For equality, gay marriage, trans rights, etc., I’ve marched on Washington, marched in Atlanta, marched in Sacramento, marched in downtown Los Angeles, and marched in West Hollywood too many times to count. But allowing our community to be hijacked by the intentionally divisive trans nonsense was a huge mistake. 

* WeHo leaders should hyper-focus on local issues in our local community.  Skyrocketing crime (if apples-to apples reporting wasn’t eliminated), taxes, mentally ill homeless plague, crumbling infrastructure, over-development / developer abuses, parks, tourism, etc.  The primary focus should not be Biden v. Trump. 

Solution: reunite our community under the rainbow flag and “Gay Pride” – leading the world with effective, common sense branding which unites, without pandering to the whiny provocateurs from every splintered group and/or every cause under the rainbow. 

 

All-of-the-above shine the spotlight on your failed leadership. Sadly, by shifting the focus away from real issues to one man in Florida – you manipulate ignorant WeHo residents into submission. 

 

Enough is enough. 

 

It’s never too late to do the right things. A good start would be fixing the mistakes of the past.

 

Now, more than ever, WeHo needs real leaders capable of adopting and delivering the common sense solutions outlined above.