LAFD Declares Red Flag Parking Restrictions Will Be In Effect Again Thursday

Photo: Corralitas Neighbor, December 5, 2017.  Tuesday, neighbors who parked on the Freeway side of Corralitas Drive, in defiance of the Red Flag Day No Parking signs, got $68 tickets.  The point of the freeway side of the street being clear on Corralitas, where vehicle  access is extremely limited, is to have consistent access for emergency vehicles while leaving the street open for neighbors to escape safely.

After first lifting Red Flag parking restrictions 8 AM today, LAFD has called a Red Flag Day for tomorrow, Thursday December 7, 2017, beginning at 8AM.  Text of the message sent:

DATE/TIME: 12/06/2017 / 03:11:53PM

SUBJECT: RED FLAG PARKING RESTRICTIONS IN EFFECT

The City of Los Angeles has declared that Red Flag No Parking Restrictions to be in effect starting 8:00 AM on 12/07/2017 and will remain in effect until further notice.

For additional information please visit our website at: http://notify.lafd.org/redflag OR call 3-1-1. Thank you for your cooperation.

Note: The Call Center's operating hours are from 08:00 AM to 4:45 PM daily including weekends and holidays.

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LAFD Declared Red Flag Parking Restrictions In Effect Tues, Dec 5, 2017, Until Further Notice

Photo: Diane Edwardson September 9, 2009.  LAFD declared a Red Flag Day starting at 8AM, Tuesday, December 5, 2017.  LAFD's website has become difficult to sign up for, or change how you receive notices.  Some of us, who've been signed up for alerts since the program began, got notice; others did not.  Once again, I got a call and email but not a text.  I used to receive all three. I recommend following @LAFDtalk on Twitter.

Photo: Red Car Property Neighbor June 19, 2016.  The Silver Lake Fire illustrated why Corralitas Drive is a Red Flag Day No Parking street.  There is only one access road, Rosebud Ave, to about 52 homes on Corralitas Drive, a substandard Hillside Street with hairpin turns.  If you didn't drive out before the Fire Dept arrived, you could not drive off the hill.  June 19, 2017 was not a Red Flag Day.  Neighbors a half a mile away, reported 6" embers blowing past their homes.  

The recent fires in Orange County, Napa Valley and Santa Rosa were wind driven fires.

December 1, 2011, we had a major windstorm that knocked down trees, knocked out power and started a fire on Lake View Ave.  

Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract: Dead Trees, Brush Clearance

Photo: Corralitas Drive Neighbor, June 13, 2017.  Dry grass on the odd slope on Allesandro St at Rosebud Ave which is actually Sunflower Ave, but the maps are out of sync with the street signs.  (click on photos to enlarge.)

The odd slope is within the CalTrans easement, but like everything surrounding the 2 Freeway, no one takes responsibility for it. More than once in 27 years,  I've seen a CalTrans crew spray the weeds with poison.

Photo: Corralitas Drive Neighbor, June 13, 2017.  Enlarged from previous photo.  Dead Eucalyptus are in the Modjeska Street right-of-way, a paper street, on an  extremely steep slope in the Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract.  Looks like the Modjeska slope is in need of brush clearance too.  The City will never build  40' wide Modjeska Street right-of-way, as it is steeper than a 30% grade.

Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 22, 2016.  A year ago, the dead non-native Eucalyptus in the Modjeska paper street, were clearly evident as viewed from Corralitas Drive.  Eucalyptus trees all over the area have been dying suddenly for the past 4 years.  The Modjeska trees have been dead for more than a year.

Every year on and around the 4th of July, some idiots invariably shoot fireworks off over the Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract.

Riverside Drive: 1927 - 2008, Another Rerun*

Photo: C.C. Pierce Photography, Title Insurance & Trust, California Historical Society, probably 1927 (when area roads were paved). Riverside Drive at Partridge Rd., looking toward Allesandro. Note the retaining wall on the right: it's the same wall as currently in front of Allesandro Elementary School and homes on Riverside Drive today.(Click on photo to enlarge.)
Photo: AAA of Southern California, USC Digital Archives, 1961. 2 & 5 Freeway construction dramatically changed the landscape of the neighborhood. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Photo: Diane Edwardson, 2008. If you look closely at the first photo and this photo, you can see the same homes on Sunflower Ave. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Cal Trans & the MTA released the environmental review for the 2 Freeway Terminus Redesign. There are two community workshops and a public hearing in June 2009.

In the fall of 2008, we explored the history of our neighborhood surrounding the 2 Freeway through photos collected primarily from neighbors. If you have photos of the neighborhood prior to, or during construction of the area freeways, please share them with us: redcarproperty@gmail.com.

*This post was originally published May 20, 2009.  Due the recent tanker fire at the 2 & 5 Freeway Interchange, we thought it was a good time to stroll through our archives.

Click here for all our 2 Freeway History posts. 

Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract: 6 More Proposed Homes Up For Environmental Review On Rosebud Ave

Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 9, 2012.  The 6 vacant lots in question are to the left (downslope) of the police activity on Rosebud Ave in the Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)

 

Six vacant, adjacent, hillside lots (together totalling only 9,000 square feet) are under public environmental review for Zoning Administrator's Adjustment for reductions in front and sideyard setbacks for 6 new single family homes.    

 

They are legal lots, as they were cut in 1905.  The lots are at the hairpin turn at Peru and Rosebud, on the downslope side.  It's not just fire engines that have trouble making that turn.  Trash and delivery trucks, and even cars have trouble navigating that turn.

 

We have not yet reviewed the plans available for public review in

City Planning: (213) 978-1332. 

Case # ENV-2010-399-MND for 1943 Rosebud Ave. 

 

DEADLINE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT: October 1, 2012.

 

We first learned of the availability in the City Environmental Notices, buried in the Classifieds on page 6 of the LA Times Business Section, yesterday, August 30, 2012. 

 

The notice failed to mention the significantly sized, protected native trees on the lots.

 

Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract: Those Trees Didn't Count

Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 1, 2007.  None of those trees on the Allesandro Street frontage counted toward the tree replacement ratios in the 60 native and significant trees to be removed in the Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract controversial 16-lot subdivision, approved in 2009.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 1, 2012.  Well, that's certainly an improvement. 

Trivia: in the 2007 photo and as late as early 2011, what's noted in the first photo as "Sunflower Ave" is now "Rosebud Ave."  When this changed in 2011, we should have taken it as a sign that someone was getting ready to build.

Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract: Shredtastic

Photos: Diane Edwardson, February 23, 2012. This afternoon, a wood chipper shreded trees for hours across the street from the Red Tailed Hawk nest at Allesandro & Rosebud Ave.  (Click on photos to enlarge.)  

Then they moved over to Sunflower Ave (the opposite side of Allesandro, Sunflower becomes Rosebud Ave - so confusing - even to neighbors).  Photos shot from Corralitas Drive looking across the 2 Freeway at the controversial 16-lot subdivion of the Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract. 

2 Freeway & Rosebud Ave: A Popular Location

Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 19, 2011.  The Rosebud Ave overpass of the 2 Freeway serves as background for several photo shoots every week.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)