By City News Service
Apr 16, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Three owners of dine-in restaurants are suing the state and Los Angeles County, demanding compensation for what they say was the government s use of their property to mitigate an emergency when they were forced to stop indoor dining under coronavirus restrictions.
James P. Trani, Steve Patrick and John Marvoich brought the 250-page suit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging the forced closures amounted to a government taking, and violated their rights of free speech and assembly. The court papers do not name the restaurants they own.
“The government s order being without any connection to the plaintiffs, and each of them, is an irrational and unnecessary order to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus by punishing the irrelevant plaintiffs who are virus-free and pose absolutely no risk of spreading the virus, the suit states. “Plaintiffs allege that the government shutdown order was not rationally related to a o
Melbourne has an energy, a juju that impacts on the music scene: Adalita
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Getting hit by a beer can or three was a rite of passage when you played certain venues in Geelong in the 1990s. Magic Dirt lead singer and solo artist Adalita Srsen recalls fondly what she describes as a quasi-initiation.
Adalita at the Carringbush Hotel.
Credit:Penny Stephens
Growing up in the seaside city, she loved seeing local punk rock bands. âIt was dangerous being in the room watching them â in a good way, in a decadent, bacchanalian way. Everyone just going off.â
san francisco keeps different characters of its neighborhoods just to remind you, how many more people do you think would want to come and live in san francisco if it is not beautiful anymore? the question was where do we put more people. do you think that more people would want to live in such high density neighborhoods? supervisor mar: thank you. could the last couple of speakers please come forward? hello, supervisors. as i mentioned last week, the residential design guidelines approved by the planning commission in 1999, i would just like to focus on one procedural point, and that is that all of the community organizations with which i am familiar and which have opposed the current draft of the housing element all are signed off on the second draft. one hates to see expensive staff time wasted. it seems to me that the logical thing to do, especially in view of what has been done after the fact with the eir, would be simply to go back to the second draft, and that is w
77.7 million gallons a day. we have an available supply of 81 million gallons a day from our watersheds, plus about 1.5 million for pumping groundwater. that is our available supply, and we have contractual obligation to keep under that 81 million gallons a day. the allocation itself up 31,193 units by 2014 is going to require 3.7 million gallons a day more. the annualized units that can be built under existing zoning will require 7.3 million gallons a day more, and eat you go all the way of to the initial vision scenario of 90,114 new units, you need 10.8 million gallons a day more. we cannot reach that. there have been updated assumptions in the computer model that the puc is using to project the man. in five years, demand is going up to 80.7, and is staying that way for about 20 years. do you agree with the five assumptions that have been changed in the computer model? can you assure us that certainty you know where we will obtain the additional water to accommodate the po
i am a resident of the marina district since the 1970 s. my understanding is that under the 2009 housing element, rh1 and rh2 zoning will be changed to allow up to eight-story buildings to be erected where i think four is the current height limit. such as in the marina cal hollow districts. i understand the current requirement for yard space is to be eliminated as well and that the requirement for adequate parking space will also be done away with. these changes will destroy the livability of our neighborhoods and will seriously damage the need character of this city, allowing the development in neighborhoods without accompanying parking space is in st.. muni is already overcrowded, and how the heck is going to handle all these additional riders? thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. if there s anybody else would like to speak, please come forward. we re going to close public comment in a moment. [inaudible] good afternoon, supervisors. i am a homeowner in san francisco, an