General

i am sick and tired of ALL OF THE TRASH in venice. it has become overwhelming and disgusting. i am not sure how it got so bad, but every day i go out, i spend the entire time picking up trash. we need more trash cans, and we need to make sure people do NOT litter. it is NOT okay. many times it is the homeless (as i see them do it - leaving beer cans and crap all over the place), but many other times it is those people visiting our neighborhoods on the weekends. i hope that it is not our locals that are trashing our own home. it is disgusting and needs to stop.

The VNC Safety Committee is meeting May 14 at 6:30 pm at the Vera Davis Center, 610 California Ave.
Anyone with issues of SAFETY IN VENICE is invited to come and work with us as we attempt to make Venice safer for all. We work with LAPD and other City Services.
We will also be discussing our role in the June 5 VNC Townhall on Safety.

I live on McKinley Avenue, which is a small street with approximately 20 houses in the Silver Triangle section. One home on my street allows television and movies studios to film at his house so often that he has turned his home AND my entire street into a movie studio.

Showtime uses his home as the home of the main charter of one of its ongoing series. This causes my street to be filled with movie crews at least two days a week for the entire summer.

The Ad Hoc Safety Committee is meeting Wednesday, April 30 at 6:30 pm at 610 California Avenue.
We are asking the question: do you feel safe in Venice? There are many different answers to this question. Please come to our meetings and participate in the dialogue. We are working toward a Town Hall meeting in June dealing with the issues of Safety in Venice in hopes of creating action that can lead to a safer Venice.

The Homeless Task Force is meeting Monday, April 28 at 6 pm at 720 Rose Ave.
Please come and join the dialogue.

Articles Wanted!

We're planning our next issue of Your Venice, the Quarterly Newsletter of the Venice Neighborhood Council and we need to hear from you. If you have an idea for an article that you'd like to write, please let us know - and then go ahead and write it! Articles should be no longer than 550 words.

Homeless Task Force Meeting
Monday, March 24
6:00 pm
720 Rose Avenue

There is horrible flooding on speedway all the way down to washington blvd even when it rains one inch".
I think that the Venice Neighborhood council needs to tackle this problem.

Let's start a conversation about how to rid the world of outdoor advertising, from reporting illegal outdoor advertising, to greatly increasing the fines for illegal outdoor advertising. to changing the state law requiring huge payments to billboard owners when banning billboards, and everything in between.

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