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Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 8, 2016. From a distance, it appears the construction fence for the 14 unit development on Riverside Drive is blocking the Red Car Property, north of India Street. However, they left us passage on the upslope side of the fence, hidden behind a silver Mercedes. (The Mercedes finally left last night, after being parked there more than a month.) (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 8, 2016. The pile of drywall dumped last January is on the downslope side of the trail, along with a reduced pile of salvage and trash on the 20 - 30' of downslope that is Red Car Property. No word if people are still living in the sheds further downslope.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 8, 2016. Neighbors still aren't buying the line from the Riverside Drive developer, that he doesn't have a deal to develop this part of the Red Car Property. They only cleared the brush from the path here once I bitched at him that it was not a functional path he claimed to have given us. It was full of trampled down brush and castor beans.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 8, 2016. The heritage Coast Live Oak is still standing. The developer blocked the highly used portion of the trail, and left us the narrow portion between the slope and the dust screened, chain link fence.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 8, 2016. There are a few leaves left on what was the most beautiful California Black Walnut Tree on the Red Car Property. Last month, the developer's brush clearance crew cut all the new growth from the tree for no good reason. The tree is definitely on the Red Car Property.
This site is not the site of the proposed zone change to allow 49 units. However, you better believe if they get the zone change and subdivision for condos on the south end of the property the remaining lots will be subject to a development application.
Photo: Gary Vlahakis, August 21, 2015. The totaled Mercedes SUV abandoned on the Red Car Property on Memorial Day Weekend, was finally removed late this week. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 12, 2015. The SUV was parked in the area south of India St, on the Red Car Property, where Rose Scharlin Nursery School is allowed to park 4 cars. When the crashed SUV first appeared, before putting it on the blog, we sent photos and information to Rose Scharlin and to the property owner's rep. Neither claimed any knowledge of the SUV's owner. We repeatedly asked the Red Car Property owner's rep to have the car removed as it was only attracting more problems to the area. LA City Dept of Building & Safety issued an order to comply to remove the abandoned SUV earlier this month.
Without adequate parking gates to keep vehicles off the property, this type of problem will persist.
Photos: Corralitas Neighbor, August 11, 2015, 6:55 AM. While out for an early walk this morning, a neighbor found two cars parked in a suspicous place hidden into the hillside behind homes on Corralitas Drive, on the Red Car Property. Neither car was parked there yesterday morning.
The Buick, a 4-door white sedan's CA license plate is 4COA887.
The Subaru, a 4-door white sedan's CA plate is 5UMC525.
Photos with this information were sent to the Red Car Property owner's rep, LAPD Senior Lead Officers Lenny Davis and Gina Chovan, CD13 and nearby neighbors.
Since this is private property, if the cars are not reported stolen, only the property owner can have them towed. Since the property is not gated to vehicle traffic as it was some 25 years ago, it periodically becomes a dumping ground for stolen and abandoned vehicles. The neighbors at these 2 homes are not parking their cars on the property.
In the meantime the Mercedes SUV abandoned on the Red Car Property south of India, Memorial Day Weekend is still there. The Red Car Property remains a lawless place.
*UPDATE Aug 13, 2015: Cars gone.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 16, 2015. Silver Mercedes SUV license plate: 6AON271 has not moved since it showed up on the Red Car Property just south of India Street, May 23, 2015. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
If this is your car, which is registered to an address in San Rafael, please come pick it up immediately.
We notified the property owner's rep on May 23 and frequently since then. He wonders why people dump their trash on the Red Car Property. Perhaps the property owner should take measures to tow the illegally parked cars away, block the property at India and Corralitas to vehicle traffic with a LAFD approved gate and do the brush clearance by May 1, every year.
