New to the ‘Hood: Echo Park Life
I recently met a couple of the Echo Park residents behind the new blog/community organizers called Echo Park Life at the Echo Park Improvement Association pot luck last week. What started as a few neighbors concerned with the direction of development on the western side of Echo Park, it turned into a website revolved around getting residents organized and educated.
Residents in what is called the “Washington Heights Tract” around Sunset, Alvarado, Elsinore, Mohawk, and Waterloo are currently concentrating their concerns on two major developments taking place in their part of Echo Park: the El Camino restaurant taking over the old Ramona Theater, and the Sunset Flats residential complex at Sunset and Reservoir.
Sunset Flats is a 64-unit residential complex that, in its original proposed state, will be a five-story complex with no parking provided to its residents. Echo Park Life organizers are concerned with the parking problem, the potential eyesore, and the demolition of six turn-of-the-century homes, among other potential problems.
The El Camino restaurant in the old Ramona Theater (which we’ve written about before) will also be off-street parking for its 200-person seated establishment (with the exception of a rumored limited car valet option). Echo Park Life worry about the parking, the bar open until 2:00 am, and the wood-fired pizza oven burning below their bedroom windows.
Tomorrow night (Wednesday, August 7), the GEPENC Planning and Land Use Committee will meet to discuss, among other things, the Sunset Flats project (if any new information is available, it might be the developer submitting some new design plans that will reflect past concerns). Echo Park Life is calling for residents to join them at the meeting to “get involved and come to a meeting to learn about the community issues going on in Echo Park.”
Go to www.echoparklife.org if you are interested in joining the discussion, and follow them on Twitter.
I understand the parking issue, but why would anyone complain about a new restaurant going into an eyesore of an abandoned theatre that was nothing more than a place for homeless to sleep in front of? I for one am excited to see that block start turning into something nice that brings value to the neighborhood rather than just another run down, dirty empty bldg.
I live in the area and I don’t have a garage and neither do a lot of my neighbors. We are at the breaking point now with parking problems and this would put us right over the edge.
We would love a business at this location but not one that is open all day long every day.
i love my echo park. iam a mexican man who hAS LIVE HERE FOR 40 YEARS NOW. STILL LEARNING THE NEW ECHO PARK. I WISH MORE OUTREACH WAS DONE FOR MY MEXICAN PEOPLE..MAY ALL HAVE A DAY OF LOVE AND PEACE
@Christian
I’m with you. I can’t fathom why they’d be against this restaurant. It’s something that will improve the neighborhood, while the shady boarded up movie theater wasn’t doing the neighborhood any favors. Talk about not choosing appropriate battles.
This is not a new community endeavor. It is not an open forum for discussion. It is being used simply as a way for this group to espouse their singular viewpoint and squash dissenters to their opinion.
How do I know? I left a comment regarding their original story regarding the restaurant going into the theater on sunset. My comment was in support of the upcoming business and pointed out a few flaws I found in their argument. Surprise surprise my comment was REMOVED!
I will be telling others in the community to avoid this “community organization community”
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