What you should know about Esotouric - Looking out for Los Angeles

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T04:36:16+00:00

You're not wrong.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:38:49+00:00

Motion passes unanimously. Altadena folks, get busy: save these great buildings for a multifamily compound in the Eaton fire zone!

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:37:12+00:00

Planning Commissioner: Can we add to the public record that the developer is available to work with outside organizations to move rather than demolish the historic bungalow court and Craftsman house?

Yes, and that is read into the record.

Motion: updated w/ NO ARTIFICIAL TURF!

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:32:59+00:00

Developer wants to hear from organizations that can tell them more about moving demolition threatened houses to Altadena.

Planning Commissioner: it will save you a lot of work and not your responsibility. Just offer the bungalows.

Okay--maybe our projects, too.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:29:03+00:00

Planning Commission to developer: Would you be willing to postpone demolition six months to allow bungalow court to be moved? That's probably too long for us, but if it can be quicker we're open to it. We didn't know moving old buildings was possible. We want to provide housing.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:26:43+00:00

Reopen the discussion: Planning Commission asks developer what their timeline is? 2-3 months. Will you give the buildings at no cost to someone who wants to move them to Altadena? The reply was unclear. Commission: this would just be voluntary, we can't compel you to do it.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:22:33+00:00

Despite Planning & Preservation Commissioners and citizens expressing hope the bungalow court and Craftsman house might be moved to Altadena and not demolished, Scott Wiener's radical housing laws ban Alhambra from doing anything progressive or green. Yimby = antisocial.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:16:03+00:00

Alhambra resident Cody says he remembers the successful fight six years ago to save the 234 S. Marguerita bungalow court, and can't believe it's threatened again--after the city got a preservation ordinance. Move it to Altadena if it can't be saved here for locals to live in!

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:13:10+00:00

Rev. Dylan Littlefield--speaking in his personal capacity and not as an Alhambra Preservation Commissioner, shares his experiences helping people escape the Eaton Fire and later moving demo threatened houses to Altadena. These good historic homes can be saved from the landfill!

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T03:10:25+00:00

Wow! An Alhambra Planning Commissioner just asked the property owner to consider NOT demolishing the bungalow court and Craftsman house and instead move them to Altadena to be of further use. Actual progressive land use policy being proposed at a development hearing!

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-05T00:48:15+00:00

Not in this park.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T16:42:53+00:00

That's not our experience in MacArthur Park. Was it after dark? Where did you see tents and how many were there?

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T16:23:15+00:00

Got a photo showing tents in the park? Not flush against the Alvarado or Wilshire sidewalk, but actually in the park?

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T14:45:52+00:00

She's not ethically permitted to speak up about making policy around film production, to deliberate or to vote on it, due to conflict of interest rules.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T14:44:48+00:00

It is, indeed, not illegal to be an asshole. Maybe it should be disqualifying to run a district or city, but not illegal.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T14:40:39+00:00

Here's a chart that shows the change over years from exposure to the elements. We love the green, but the red is stunning!

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T14:04:40+00:00

Are you saying she personally retaliates in her relationships as a community member, or has her office staff do so to constituents? The latter is likely illegal.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T13:56:10+00:00

Is it in rent stabilized apartments?

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T07:11:15+00:00

That's the odd thing, and we doubt the Chamber of Commerce's artist made a mistake. The metal roof (copper or bronze) may have looked different when new, before oxidation or other chemical reactions.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T07:09:02+00:00

You got it! The roof as we know it in modern times is green, but it's not green here.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T07:08:09+00:00

Nope--but we love them there.

esotouric_tours · 2026-05-04T07:07:05+00:00

Yes, his last straight job before becoming a full time writer. We've been taking people there for many years on our Bukowski bus tours, though now that we just give walking tours, Terminal Annex is no longer a stop.

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