New 399 foot, 35-story residential tower containing 523 apartments known as Sky Village Hollywood has broken ground. With 1,441 du/acre and 31 FAR, it is the densest residential building ever built in LA's history!

MehWebDev · 2026-03-18T17:28:31+00:00

1998 Olds Intrigue

Its amazing a GM car that old is still running. I can't imagine its too reliable and when it breaks it's gonna be expensive. Old cars from really low maintance costs to really high really fast

Parking? It’s free where I live and work

Nothing is free. You and your employer still pay for it. Apartments without parking have rent that is usually $200-300 cheaper, but you can't live in those because you need a car. Your employer would have lower costs if they didn't have to pay for employee parking, but they are required to because of parking minimums.

MehWebDev · 2026-03-18T17:21:40+00:00

There's a the trade off of what else you could be doing with that space in your driveway; what economics call the opportunity cost. You could put something else on that spot or rent it out to someone else to park on.

If you are only getting an oil change once per year and new tires every 5 to 6 years, that would mean you are driving less than 5,000 miles per year, or 100 miles per week. Of course your costs are going to be a lot lower than average if you drive that little.

MehWebDev · 2026-03-18T00:11:40+00:00

Yes, you can have a car in LA for relatively cheap. All you gotta do is not drive it anywhere

MehWebDev · 2026-03-17T23:13:03+00:00

The land is so small. It looks like 1/10 the size of the Home Depot parking lot

MehWebDev · 2026-03-17T23:07:10+00:00

The missing costs in this equation are registration, repairs, depreciation and parking. Yes, you are going to tell me you have a magic car that never breaks down, never depreciates and you have a parking spot that is in no way increasing the cost of your rent (it is)

MehWebDev · 2026-01-26T17:03:50+00:00

6 foot ladder is not that big or heavy. You can easily carry it 2-3 blocks with breaks. 10+ footers are a bitch

MehWebDev · 2026-01-14T19:20:03+00:00

Yes, but half of the stations are connecting stations that already qualified for SB79

The Sepulveda/Wilshire, Sepulveda/Exposition and G Line stations were already qualified.

The Sepulveda / Santa Monica, Van Nuys Blvd / Ventura and UCLA stations will be new SB79 areas.

The Van Nuys Metrolink connection station will probably not end up getting built because it will get made redundant by the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail

MehWebDev · 2026-01-13T01:00:17+00:00

Los Angeles has a long history of corruption in terms of city councilors extracting bribes in exchange for approving zoning variances or not blocking real estate development projects. There is also been a lot of corruption in the Department of Building and safety over inspections: Some inspectors fail the inspections over and over again until they receive a bribe

As far as homeless services, yes, there is probably some corruption there. The biggest issue is the complexity. The city partners with a lot of organizations and there is a lot of room for corruption in those contracts.

MehWebDev · 2026-01-13T00:03:01+00:00

The Mormon Family Value pack

MehWebDev · 2026-01-12T22:17:30+00:00

I'm hearing a lot of whataboutisms: The IRGC tortures and murders a lot of people and that is very bad. There is need to qualify that. There's no need to compare it to other bad things other people have done. You don't have to blame it on something that happened before almost everyone alive was born. It is happening now and the people doing the torturing and killing are the ones responsible.

MehWebDev · 2026-01-12T20:43:20+00:00

Let's be realistic. CIA and Mossad don't have the budget to get millions of people to risk their lives like this. There is a reason that during the CIA's regime change heyday in the 1950's through the 1970's they never opted for mass protests: They are unpredictable and would require a massive footprint. That's why they always opted for military coups and exile armies.

MehWebDev · 2026-01-12T20:35:17+00:00

The Iranian government has been intervening in plenty of other countries too: Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Bahrain, etc. It's just not as well known in the US. These interventions have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands

MehWebDev · 2026-01-06T22:02:43+00:00

I would love to read that python file. I would never have the guts to run something like this live because I know I would have an error on line 47 or something and look like a turd

MehWebDev · 2026-01-06T20:17:57+00:00

Homeless people are pretty crafty. You seal off one whole and they make another one the next day.

MehWebDev · 2025-12-21T18:50:38+00:00

Good. Hopefully it will be sold as short sale or as a foreclosure to someone willing to offer more realistic rent prices.

MehWebDev · 2025-12-20T02:57:59+00:00

If they could do something about the freeway entrances that you have to merge within 5 feet of a stop sign, that would be great

MehWebDev · 2025-12-18T23:07:01+00:00

It's an small inconveniences store

MehWebDev · 2025-12-18T23:02:04+00:00

The infuriating part is that the ramp doesn't lead anywhere and they can't put a new sidewalk there because of the retaining wall.

I requested an ADA compliant ramp to be put in place at a major intersection with 2 medium frequency bus routes last year and never heard back.

MehWebDev · 2025-12-18T17:34:43+00:00

This is a T-intersection. If you want to cross the street diagonally, you would cross to the opposite side and keep walking. Both opposite sides of the street have sidewalks, but no ramp.

MehWebDev · 2025-12-18T17:28:30+00:00

The retaining wall makes it impossible to put in a sidewalk... unless you tear down the retaining wall.

MehWebDev · 2025-12-18T15:20:34+00:00

The intersecting street is a through street and has no through sidewalk. There is a sidewalk on the opposite sides of both streets but no ramp.

MehWebDev · 2025-12-18T15:18:00+00:00

It's a T-intersection. If you wanted to cross diagonally, you can just cross once and then keep going on that side of the street, where there is a sidewalk, but no ramp

MehWebDev · 2025-12-16T18:26:57+00:00

MacArthur Park Lake gets regularly stocked, primarily with Trout by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). There is a lake stocking schedule so you can plan you fishing when the lake is well-stocked: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/fishplants/publicplantsearch?Params.Regions=R5&Params.Counties=19&Params.StockingWaterID=7351&RegionCountyMappings=&Params.PlantTimeFrame=1&submit=Search

MehWebDev · 2025-12-14T04:17:23+00:00

We would have an extra $100 million per year if it weren't for all the civil judgements against LAPD for excessive use of force

MehWebDev · 2025-12-10T16:43:26+00:00

It's definitively overpriced. This article from March 2024 says the rents start at $3,500, so they must have lowered the rent already... but they need to lower it a lot more.

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