The owners of the Fifth Christ Church/Mosaic Church building located at 7107 Hollywood Boulevard (intersection of La Brea Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard) are seeking to demolish this historic building and rezone the plot in order to build a 26-story skyscraper containing 410 units plus extensive commercial space on the ground floor including a 940 vehicle commercial parking facility. The proposed development would require a change in zoning from the current R-3 (medium residential) to Regional Center (C-4) permitting unlimited height, increased density and commercial development on this site. The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue has been graded F on all current traffic studies which is the worst score that can be achieved. The intersection is jammed with normal traffic and often experiences gridlock because of the frequent closures of Hollywood Boulevard at La Brea Avenue and spillover during the Hollywood Bowl season. The rezoning will have a domino impact, as developers along Hollywood Boulevard will use the rezoning of this plot as precedent to rezone their land for increased height and density.  The City Planners of Los Angeles never intended to change the zoning of this site and indeed have kept it as a bulwark signaling a change from downtown Hollywood and the residential areas west of La Brea Avenue. Zoning of this site has remained medium residential in both manifestations of the Community Plan for Hollywood. The entire character of the neighborhood changes west of La Brea Avenue including Hollywood Boulevard itself, which is a two-lane road between La Brea Avenue and Fairfax Avenue. 
 Not only would the proposed development have a profound negative impact on the quality of life in our neighborhood, the congestion creates a public safety issue that will dangerously increase emergency response time in our neighborhood. The increased noise from the commercial establishments and a large pedestrian plaza designed to bring non-residential foot traffic will completely alter the character of our neighborhood. 
(1) It will set a dangerous precedent for increased density and commercial development all along Hollywood Boulevard west of La Brea Avenue;  

(2) It will paralyze the area with traffic congestion and lengthen emergency response times for medical, fire and police responders; 

(3) It will draw tourists, noise, pollution, and crime from the Hollywood Business District;  

(4) It will deprive the neighborhood of a culturally significant building and civic function.

The county administrator had removed the confederate flag after the killings in Charleston SC. The board of county commissioners walked an agenda item onto their meeting agenda and voted to restore the flag.

Secretive megadonors are ready to unleash a tidal wave of spending on the 2016 election -- and the IRS is helping them hide their identities. Groups on the right, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, and left, like Patriot Majority USA, buy millions of dollars in political ads to influence elections after claiming a special nonprofit status that lets them keep their donors secret. And the IRS takes their word for it! We need to close this loophole BEFORE next November. Demand that the IRS enforce the rules and stop millionaires from abusing our tax laws to pump secret money into our elections!

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California is in a severe drought and every drop of water is needed to sustain the residents, wildlife, fisheries and farms in our state. As a California resident, I am outraged that a for-profit company plans to extract and sell this precious resource. It is corporate irresponsibility at it's worst extreme.

Texas has decided to change the textbooks for schools by deleting the Civil War, slavery, and other significant events of U.S. history. This should not happen. As a country, we must remember history--good or bad. You cannot delete history. Our children will not know the real facts of history.

Leave the Fireworks Safety Act 256 of 2011 alone. There is no need to repeal this Act as it does not stop the fireworks from being in the hands of those that incorrectly use them. This will only help keep bringing extra money into Michigan instead of sending it to other states.

This pipeline will carry gas produced in the Marcellus Shale through fracking, contributing to major pollution and climate change impacts. The Pinelands is a truly unique and ecologically important region and protecting it is critical not only for our water supply, but for biodiversity as well. This pipeline is going to promote water pollution from fracking and cooling towers, as well as air pollution from power plants, while creating irreversible harm to wetlands, streams, and damaging important open spaces. I know firsthand how pollution can impact our health, because one of my family members contracted a rare blood cancer from chemical exposure.

The USTA LLAR4B Adult League rule only allows players to play for one team going into playoffs. Therefore, players must choose one team only, and cannot play for all their teams if they are on multiple teams and if their teams made it to playoffs. Are you a USTA captain who's had to withdraw its team at playoffs because you lost players to other teams? Or are you a player on a team who's been in a dilemma figuring out which team to commit to at playoffs? Have you been frustrated when you chose the wrong team for playoffs and sadly saw your other team move to districts without you? If you are a USTA member and answered "YES" to any of the above questions, join our cause to change the USTA rule by signing this petition, and show USTA that you agree that all players should be able to play on multiple teams at playoffs, and should only choose one team when and if they get to districts. Please include your USTA number in the comments box when signing the petition. Thank you! Sophie Heerinckx (USTA#2001135307) Maria Scheper (USTA#2000250071) Lynne Sheehan (USTA#10240378) We thank the following Bay Area captains who have been part of this initial movement and are in support of the rule change: Jodi Andrews Lynn Case Misty D'Amore Mesi Erdos Terrie Field Marybeth Gonzales Fe Jangraw Soo (Sue) Kim Nancy Li Ken Marques Jamie Reynolds Lainey Richardson Jennifer Roberts Stephan Rogalla Laurie Selover Patricia Spratt

There is little to no truly affordable housing in NYC, and landlords use credit checks as a form of discrimination against potential tenants in order to keep charging exorbitant amounts of money for rent. As someone who has been directly affected by this issue for many years; it has become even more difficult to find an apartment for my growing family. Your credit history should not limit your ability to find a home.

We know that smoking is addictive and damaging to the health of both smoker and second-hand smokers. Having lost their stronghold in the U.S., the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is working against developing countries' health measures, irresponsibly pushing U.S. money and clout against that of poorer nations, to maintain profits for American tobacco. This is wrong and must stop! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/business/international/us-chamber-works-globally-to-fight-antismoking-measures.html

President Obama is taking strong steps to require corporations to tell us what they spend on politics. It’s a reasonable step in the right direction. Everyone is for transparency, right? Wrong. In fact, Republicans in Congress are doing whatever they can behind closed doors to keep corporate political spending in the dark. They recently slipped a provision into a financial services bill that would actually prohibit the IRS from developing rules to unmask the dark money. It was approved by the House Appropriations Committee and could make it to the floor for a final vote any day. They thought they could get away with it. They thought nobody would notice -- but we’re calling them out. Sign the Petition: tell Congress to let President Obama unmask the dark money!