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The intersection of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Devonshire Street, where a $7 million dollar, 55-unit homeless housing is going to be built. (Google Maps)
CHATSWORTH, CA Members of the Los Angeles City Council Homelessness and Poverty Committee voted unanimously Thursday to drop CD12 Councilmember John Lee s motion to rescind HHH funding from a proposed housing development for the homeless and veterans in Chatsworth. The controversial project, many years in the making, is expected to break ground in late 2021.
Even Councilmember Kevin de Leon, who co-sponsored Lee s motion, ultimately voted against it. The broader Los Angeles City Council will now decide whether or not to take up the motion.
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An unusual bid by Los Angeles City Councilman John Lee to pull back funding from a Chatsworth homeless housing project met headwinds Thursday, as a council committee voted unanimously against rescinding the money.
“We can’t keep punting the obligation that we have to start actually making a dent in this crisis,” said Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, a member of the Homelessness and Poverty Committee.
The decision now heads to the full council, according to a spokeswoman for the committee leader. The council voted more than a year ago to fund the Topanga Canyon Boulevard project using money from Proposition HHH, a $1.2-billion bond program approved by voters. As it stands, more than $7 million in HHH funds is slated to be allocated for the project, according to the housing department.
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Los Angeles City Councilman John Lee is again battling plans for a homeless housing project along Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Chatsworth, more than a year after the council voted to approve funding for the development.
Lee recently put forward a proposal to yank money being allocated for the Chatsworth project under Proposition HHH, a $1.2-billion bond measure approved by voters. The rescinded funds should instead be earmarked for “an innovative project proposal” in his district that could be built more quickly and at a lower cost, Lee stated.
As it stands, more than $7 million is slated to be allocated from the HHH program for the Topanga Canyon Boulevard development, according to the housing department. The city attorney’s office declined to comment on whether there would be any legal barrier to rescinding the HHH funds for the project.
By City News Service
Mar 8, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The coroner today released the name of a Woodland Hills woman struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking near a manufactured home community in Topanga Canyon.
Afsaneh Bashirzad Daneshvar, 40, died from blunt force trauma, the coroner s office said.
Officers were called about 7:40 p.m. Wednesday to the 4000 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard, near the Woodland Park Estates, for a report of a pedestrian dead on the side of the road, according to the California Highway Patrol s West Valley station.
“When CHP officers arrived on scene, evidence suggested the pedestrian was hit by a vehicle while walking southbound on the right shoulder, the CHP said in a statement.