Full Transcript for Demolition, Development, and Drugs

Yeah, No one would think for Ah in his prime. You know kind of thing. I mean, we understand that people die. Michael Monks at iHeartMedia dot Com. Michael Monks at iHeartMedia dot com. This this is my way of saying good luck to everybody out They fix those towers next to your place. 00:02:50 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 00:02:51 Speaker 2: I was just staring up at these disasters yesterday when I was walking to the grocery and the graffiti tower. 00:02:56 Speaker 3: They're just part of our lives. Now, this isn't even funny. Anymore. 00:02:59 Speaker 2: It's just part of the fabric of downtown Los Angeles, the ocean Wide Plaza, that failed development, multi billion dollar development that was later hijacked by graffiti artists taggers if you will now spray painted from top to bottom. We've been waiting on some sort of remedy that has never come through. But now the sale, which we've talked about before, that we were told we were close to a potential remedy. And remember the city wants this fix before the Olympics come to town. 00:03:27 Speaker 3: At well, they're fighting it too. Now. 00:03:30 Speaker 2: The sale of ocean Wide Plaza, which we do lovingly refer to as the Graffiti Towers, has been delayed again while the city questions whether the proposed buyer has a real plan. But the New York Post has this headline out there, and we were talking a bit about their dramatic headlines. They called it the owners of this building now are the people who want to development the proposed buyer. They have a insidious. 00:03:53 Speaker 3: Plot to rake. 00:03:56 Speaker 2: In cash, maybe without ever doing anything with the building. 00:04:00 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. 00:04:01 Speaker 2: So the idea on this unfinished three tower project across from Crypto dot Com Arena where Olympic events will be taking place. They have this idea that there will be what some massive screens to sell advertise a huge LED screen. Think of think of modern dashboards and cars where you've got the entire dashboards basically an LED screen. Now image if that where the block, so you have storefronts, and then right above that would be this massive LED screen that covers basically an entire block. 00:04:32 Speaker 3: It would be huge. 00:04:34 Speaker 2: And so like some people are saying, Wow, they want to put this LED screen in here, and so if they do that, they have no incentive to finish the rest of the remodeling and finish these towers off. They may say, yeah, we want to get the screen up there so we can start bringing some revenue in so that we have the money to be able to front the building and the construction under the rest of this. Yeah, it makes it makes sense to me. Of course, you're gonna have naysayers, You're gonna have poop poors. The city wants to say, look, you want to buy this thing, we have to have a contract that says you're gonna have it done by this time or there will be consequences. Here's what those consequences look like. That seems like the easy, simple solution to me, why would you oppose replacing the graffiti with something else to stare at at this development? I mean, at this point, what is our standard? 00:05:18 Speaker 4: Well? 00:05:20 Speaker 2: How long does the graeffeedie have to be there before it becomes a cultural fixture in downtown Los Angeles? 00:05:26 Speaker 3: At some point someone is going to say, for. 00:05:29 Speaker 2: Historic preservation purposes, we need to take a look at what street artists did. Hey, don't They took this blank canvas and they turned it into something magical, something that was iconic, something that was recognizable world round, and we need to protect that. Don't mock historic preservationist, not just because it's mean, but also because we've got a couple who are coming in as our guest in the next segment. 00:05:48 Speaker 3: I can't wait to find out what we're preserving next. 00:05:50 Speaker 2: We've been talking about this building. We've owned this story, the Barry Building story, this building in Brentwood. It used to house a pretty well known bookstore. It's fallen into this prepare if the owners want to get rid of it. It looks like they want to tear it down. But there are folks who say, this is a piece of history, we should keep it. 00:06:07 Speaker 3: Uh, huh. 00:06:08 Speaker 2: Just like the graffiti towers. I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start standing up for the graffiti towers when no one else. 00:06:12 Speaker 3: Is willing to. You can tie yourself to the graffiti towers all I care. I'm gonna keep the graffiti towers. 00:06:17 Speaker 2: The city said this building could be knocked down, but preservationists fought and they got to win recently. So we'll talk about saving this old building in Brentwood. 00:06:27 Speaker 3: Just give away the end. Spoiler alert. They got a win. Unbelievable again. 00:06:33 Speaker 2: Jays died last night on House of Dragon. 00:06:35 Speaker 1: What you're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFI AM six, sporting more stimulating talk. 00:06:45 Speaker 2: But it's Monks and Merrill on Michael Monks. That is Chris Merrill and welcome to Monday. We're glad to have you been here for a while. Actually I'm thirteen hours into Monday, my friend. Good for you, Thank you. We have talked on this program more than once about a little place called the Berry Building. Now, if it doesn't ring a bell, it's this place in Brentwood. Prominent corner used to house a very well known bookstore. For example, It's been there a long time. It's about what seventy five years old. Now I guess well, the owner of it wants a tear down. It's fallen into bad shape and they believe that the land itself is more valuable than having this rickety building on it. But some people say exactly, and there folks who say, don't call it rickety. It is salvageble. It still has its beauty and it should stay. It is a historic cultural landmark in the city of Los Angeles, so that does offer some protections, you would think, but we shall see.

Apparently the Cultural Heritage Commission says, despite the permission given to tear it down, you're gonna have a one hundred and eighty day stay on demolition and we'll see if the people behind preserving this building are able to explore alternatives to demolition. One of the guys who was fighting for the Bury Building is named Blue. He's with Angelino's for Historic Preservation. That's a group that is working with the LA Conservancy, which is another historic preservation organization here in town. Bob explain it to us, how is this a win for those of you who want to see the Berry Building stand still? 00:08:15 Speaker 5: Well, it's a win because then we can have a win win solution both for the community and the people that don't like what they call an eyesore, and also for the preservation community. We can have an opportunity to find a buyer now at this point, a preservation minded buyer that could restore and properly retrofit the building for earthquake standards and things like that, and then they can reuse the building. They can use adaptive reuse. So there's examples of this all over the city of la We have thousands of buildings in this age group, and this really stands out as a mid century modern building. 00:08:49 Speaker 2: Bob, I'm assuming that behind the scenes you've been looking for potential buyers, developers that would continue to maintain the preservation of this building. 00:09:00 Speaker 5: On that process, well, actually, the conservancy had a preservation minded buyer and they did try to contact the owners back in twenty twenty four and they were rebuffed and all this came out in the hearing last week of the Cultural Heritage Commission, and I think that's what influenced them to offer the state. So they never actually put it up for sale. I mean, typically you see a for sale sign. It's advertised on online services things like that and that was never done. That all came out. They were focused on demolishing the building. This is not a negative to the owner. That was their focus. They've put all their effort and funds into getting approvals for demolishment. 00:09:34 Speaker 2: They believe the land without the building on it is a more valuable option to sell. 00:09:38 Speaker 5: Yes, and they also justified it by showing the costs involved in restoration. But we had subject matter experts, people that have done historical buildings, and that's in the record too. 00:09:48 Speaker 3: Now. 00:09:49 Speaker 5: Our costs were substantially less than what they thought it would be under those circumstances, then they would be required to retrofit the building. But they do have the option to sell it intact. That's the option we think think would be the best. 00:10:01 Speaker 2: We heard from some folks in Brentwood. We've heard from people like you also in Brintwood, and folks who think, please save this building. But there are folks who say this property is a problem. There are homeless people living in it, isn't there is there a fence around it. At this point, it's unattractive, so just get rid of it. Let's let's start a new chapter for this block. Let's move on why why not. 00:10:21 Speaker 5: Well, first of all, there has been it is fenced off, it has been allowed to dilapidate, you know, demolition by neglect is the conservancy in US we call it. But there's an opportunity really to move on. Why why not sell it? Why not offer a opportunity you can have hand in hand, new development and historical you know, buildings hand in hand. It isn't a choice of one or the other. It isn't a choice of light versus beauty something new. It can be history and new together. 00:10:51 Speaker 2: Bob Blue is joining us with Angelina's for historic preservation. If you do get what you're looking for as a preservation minded buyer that comes in there and kind of rehab what you're talking about, how much of the original needs to needs to remain to kind of meet some of those preservation standards. 00:11:06 Speaker 5: Right, ideally the entire building, but they have looked at explorations saving part of the building. But ideally it can work. It can be integrated into a larger project. It can also be used as standalone. So that's still an option, and I think that's an option that we shouldn't take off table because we haven't explored buyers for it. 00:11:25 Speaker 2: It's a big ask. You know, you're not developing it. The conservancy may be connecting buyers, but they're not developing it either. You're asking somebody to develop this at high cost. You know, it's a lot of money. Why why why? 00:11:40 Speaker 3: What would the community be like without the building? 00:11:43 Speaker 5: Oh, it hurts not just our community but city wide because it sets a dangerous precedent. Here's the problem. Typically, what happens in this scenario is you're offered a choice between actually three choices. One choice would be keep the building and integrate it into a new project. Another one could be also building, but we're trading and offered new project. But the problem is this is now offered with a dirt lot, no replacement project. So at least they should come back with a replacement project, either a project that integrates a new product, you know, something new with the old building, or sadly would tear it down, which we don't want to see. But that is not being offered. And that's what makes the Bury Building a case study not only for a Los Angeles, for all statewide California. This has never happened before. 00:12:26 Speaker 2: In the city of La pot Blue with Angelina's for Historic Preservation if if we can't find a buyer for the building as it stands right now to come in and take care of that. I mean, wouldn't selling a dirt lot be easier than trying to sell a dilapidated building. Somebody's to put money into it. 00:12:41 Speaker 5: May not be again, the you know, the costs they came up with were astronomical, so they did this, but they have a responsibility because it is an HCM and in

two thousand and seven when it was made in HCM, the owners didn't oppose it. So it is now everyone everyone has an interest in this building, especially everyone one in the city of La So there's an interest now in this building to keep it. And other buildings throughout the city have been restored. You've probably seen some, so there's an opportunity now to do that. 00:13:10 Speaker 2: We know that there is basically a six month stay of demolition on this project right now, courtesy of the Los Angeles Historic Cultural Commission, the Heritage Commission, I should say, but you've also taken legal action Angelina's for Historic Preservation and the LA Conservancy, correct jointly, who are you suing somebody? 00:13:28 Speaker 5: We're suing the City of Los Angeles. And then the owners are also a real party of interest, okay, and it has to do with several issues. One is environmental issues because they didn't properly explore it. We accuse them of peacemealing because they own all the surrounding properties and yet they're just narrowly looking at the only the parcel has the Bury Building, and there's other issues related to due process and other things that have occurred. So we're hoping that this ninety day stay would do the job, and then we have a backup plan would be we're pursuing the lawsuit and I would still leave an opportunity that the owner could come out good on it and also the city and everyone would win. So we look at this as a positive for everybody. 00:14:09 Speaker 2: Well, let's see, I'm sure this isn't our last update on the Berry Building. We'll see where we are certainly after that stay is up in six months, but also with this case penning before the court. It's Bob Blue with Angelino's for Historic Preservation. Thanks as always for sharing the insight on the Berry Building in Brentwood. 00:14:25 Speaker 3: Appreciate you, Bob, Thank you so much. 00:14:27 Speaker 5: Thank you. 00:14:27 Speaker 2: Hey say, California needs more homes and somebody tries to build them near your street, near your cannon, near your golf course, and all of a sudden, everybody is a wildlife biologist. There's a housing war in a neighborhood near you. That's next Monks and Meryl KFI I AM six forty, Li'm everywhere on the iHeart Radio ap. 00:14:42 Speaker 1: You're listening to Monks and Meryll on demand from KFI AM. 00:14:49 Speaker 2: On demand anytime the iHeart Radio app. That's where you can also tap that subscribe button on the podcast never miss a Moment. And on the social media is at Monks and Merrill, at Monks and Meryl. Kayla, did you producer, Kayla? Did you see that We've got a new geography test today? Are we going to record this in the next break? 00:15:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you have a longer break. 00:15:09 Speaker 5: We're going to go in there right now. 00:15:10 Speaker 3: And I have the answers. I hope you do too. That's not a very radio you didn't it. Yeah, you'll have the answer, So I hope you're not radio. 00:15:18 Speaker 5: That just sounded like I'm you. 00:15:20 Speaker 3: Have the answer. Still, let's see. 00:15:22 Speaker 2: We'll have that posted on our social media at Monks and Merrill, at Monks and Mary so feedback on your historic preservation people are Michael Michael Okay, I. 00:15:32 Speaker 3: Choked in the middle. 00:15:33 Speaker 2: This is about the Berry Building in Brentwood, which faces demolition, but activists had managed to score a six months stay of execution. Hey, guys, question about this historic building that they're trying to preserve. If the owner wants to tear down, who pays the property. 00:15:50 Speaker 5: Taxes on this thing? This is ridiculous. 00:15:52 Speaker 4: Is this another. 00:15:55 Speaker 2: Situation where the taxpayer has to pay this? 00:15:58 Speaker 5: Love your show, guys, All right. 00:15:59 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Briefly, are we updating the fire? Oh? 00:16:03 Speaker 2: Let's go, Let's go to this press conference? Jesse, can you bought this press conference? 00:16:06 Speaker 4: Up? 00:16:06 Speaker 3: Katla? He's got an update on this boiled fire? Region one coordinator. 00:16:11 Speaker 6: My team has been working around the clock to bring in help from around the region. We have successfully coordinated mutual aid resources from San Luis, Obispo all the way down to Orange County. This is not just about personnel. It's about ensuring that we have the right equipment and the expertise to protect this community effectively. I want to sincerely acknowledge the team at cal Oees for their partnership. Their support has been instrumental in ensuring that these resources reach the incident site quickly and efficiently to bolster our efforts. We're committed to keeping you informed every step of the way. Your safety is our mission, and your fire department will remain on site until we are certain that this community is secure. And now I'd like to bring up my partner, Fire Captain Aaron Keaton. 00:17:17 Speaker 3: Good afternoon. 00:17:18 Speaker 6: They told me that I'm giving the fire department comments in Spanish skeb almost what else Saturday? 00:17:23 Speaker 3: Okay, we can dump out of that. 00:17:27 Speaker 2: This is the press conference that I mentioned would be happening at the top of our show, said about one thirty, this news conference will be taking place County Supervisor Hill to Slice and other local leaders. We heard from the from the fire department there. Our safety is their mission. So a little sloganeering. Just put the fire out, bro put the fire out? 00:17:48 Speaker 3: Where? Yeah? What's the status on the fire? Yeah? 00:17:50 Speaker 2: And they're going to be handing out some airperi fires to people that need them in the immediate vicinity of that ongoing fire. And Boyle Heights started last Wednesday, still burning on this Monday. 00:18:00 Speaker 3: It's Monday. By the way, did you want to welcome us to Monday. Welcome to Monday. Unbelievable. All right, back to your preservation stuff.

00:18:07 Speaker 2: The Dutton bookstore in Brentwood, it looks like it's going to get a six month reprieve. They're going to stop the demolition of it for at least six months while they try to find a buyer. You think that they would have been working a little harder to find a backup buyer before now, but I guess they haven't been able to find one. 00:18:25 Speaker 4: Regarding the buried building. Yeah, this is why we can't have nice things. Everyone has a pet project, a pet reason. There were a bunch of whys and maybes and stuff like that. But this guy is not assuming any of the risk the owner is. 00:18:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I think the owner is paying the property taxes. The owner has made the investment in it, The owner has done all these things. The only hang up that I have, the only hang up. This is the only place where I agree with you on this because I know you want to save everything all the time, knowing there should never be any progress. Brigadoon, is your preservation is progressed, unbelievable. It is your safety is my missions program. The only thing is it was named historical cultural money and there are rules, and that's that's the only issue. Like, what's the point in having a designation? Now there are folks who say, the hell with those designations? You know, well, then get rid of all the designations. Then that's fine. Basically, just be consistent. That is what a preservationists say. Is at stake here is that if you can tear down these landmark buildings, yeah, what do they mean? 00:19:23 Speaker 3: Do they mean anything? 00:19:25 Speaker 2: And the other argument is, I mean, there's no question that the people who own the property are the ones taking the risk. But the argument is, have you taken the appropriate risk? You want to get rid of the property, You've not listed it for sale with the building on the site, you're waiting for my building, You're to tear it down because you think the land is more valuable. Yeah, So there's a building and there's a process here, there's a process and only because of the historical cultural monument status. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, which is why I want to try to give that to the Ocean Wide Plaza. I guess for the last five years we have looked at something that is very Los Angeles towers covered in graffiti and unfinished. And I gotta tell you that has become a landmark for me. Every time I'm in town, I look at the beautiful towers, look at the local artisans that have decorated this in a way that you will never see in another city. 00:20:18 Speaker 3: This is so Los Angeles. We need to preserve this. 00:20:20 Speaker 2: There are for eternity who do genuinely believe that, Chris y me, because it's telling you as soon as I'm gonna preserve it. Honestly, it's the most attention that property had gotten. That's right in a long time. That's right, despite being a multi billion dollar project that was abandoned by its Chinese base. We should stop all progress. Yeah, because it makes me feel happy to see it. But there are legitimately folks who share that belief. You're saying it ironically, what sarcastically, very annoyingly frankly, you know what bugs me when they take away like my country clubs. We might have to save this for the next segment because you you just kept yapping because we had a pop it in that breast conference and get a quick update and by the way, no real update there. Yeah, they're fighting the fire, They're fighting the fire. They're passing out the air purifiers. Hope that it works out. We're about to talk about another save the country clubs development, Save my golf. We're gonna go to the Woodland Hills country Club, which is near to. 00:21:21 Speaker 7: I'm pissed about. 00:21:22 Speaker 3: It's where we go and we have giant Hamburgers together. 00:21:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a developer that wants to put in housing. Look, we need more housing, we need more housing. 00:21:32 Speaker 8: Not there, it's a fire danger. She's giving it anmare. 00:21:38 Speaker 2: We have to say, it's a historic cultural monument that deserves preservation for artistic reasons, and. 00:21:44 Speaker 7: It's done in secret. 00:21:46 Speaker 3: That's right, and it's cultural. What do we need. 00:21:48 Speaker 2: We need housing, we need tea times. But then when we present housing, we need cart girls the Deborah marks of the world stand up and say, oh, but not there, not there, that's right, it's going to cause traffic. Oh and what about the mountain lions. 00:22:01 Speaker 3: That's right. Save the mountain lions. Yes, and that's right. I agree. 00:22:07 Speaker 2: We'll see save them mountains. Yibi versus Nimby and Woodland Hills. As Monks and Merrill continues. 00:22:13 Speaker 1: You're listening to monks and Meryl onto the air from kf I AM six. 00:22:19 Speaker 2: Forties, available anywhere on the Iart Radio app. You've got Monks and Merrill on Michael Monks, that is Chris marrill on a beautiful Monday here in southern California. 00:22:27 Speaker 3: But I gotta warn you. 00:22:28 Speaker 2: I gotta warn you about this Monday because Tuesday follows and there's an excessive eight warning. I mean, their temperatures could get into the upper seventies. 00:22:35 Speaker 3: Well, happy Tuesday. Then we could. 00:22:37 Speaker 2: Literally melt tomorrow. And then if you don't, we'll welcome you to Wednesday, fourth of July, celebrate America's two fifty at America's Block Party hosted by Queen Latifah Fourth and July Benefit Show happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Who's going to be there? 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This seems to be an example of part of a golf course becoming housing. You hear folks all the time. We don't have enough housing. Let's build more housing. The proposal in this area of Woodland Hills would take about twenty acres of the course land and turn it into three hundred and ninety eight homes, including ninety seven that are rent restricted. That's another issue. Sure, build the housing, but can anybody afford to live there. 00:24:27 Speaker 3: I don't want poor people in the neighborhood, Debora. 00:24:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you hear from people like Deborah. We don't want the poors living in Woodland Hills NAIs. 00:24:34 Speaker 8: Second, it's not about that. It's about people who move to certain areas. They they don't want apartment buildings, they don't want the traffic, they don't want the fire hazards. There's a reason people move into certain areas that they move into. 00:24:48 Speaker 3: Right. 00:24:48 Speaker 2: This is like Michael wants to go to Hancock Park, which she doesn't want the pores r right. 00:24:51 Speaker 8: And I can't afford Hancock Park. That's why I don't live there. 00:24:55 Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, But no, that is just. 00:24:58 Speaker 7: Not going to happen in this life time. And I accept that. 00:25:01 Speaker 8: But in the Woodland Hills case, first of all, it was it's been shrouded in secrecy. I'm so glad you guys brought this up. There's lots of meetings. I mean it's very political, and we're in a fire hazard. There's not a lot of exits, that's right, So it's not a good idea. And it's already friggin crowded, and there's I can go on and on and on, but I don't want to steal. 00:25:24 Speaker 3: Your Yeah, and also I like the golf courses. 00:25:27 Speaker 8: And there are people that moved there to have views of golf courses. Now you're just going to have housing that's just not okay. 00:25:34 Speaker 3: It's not okay. Save our holes. 00:25:37 Speaker 2: So we have a housing development here, but in an area that folks like Deborah say, we can't accommodate it because there are fires that happen. There's heavy traffic, and while there would be eight hundred and thirty five parking spaces, if all those cars had to flee in the event of a fire, Deborah Mark might get stuck in her mansion on the hill. 00:25:56 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:25:57 Speaker 8: I wish I lived in a mansion, and then I would not be able to come here and do the news on your show because I would be trapped. 00:26:03 Speaker 2: So City council Member Bob Blumenfield rescue. He said the city Planning Department has paused the application because the developer had not submitted all of the required documents. Okay, so it's paused right now. But one other strategy, One other complaint that folks have is it's not just a fire hazard. Won't somebody think of the mountain lions. We read an article in the Real Deal that's a real estate publication online. They do a lot of really interesting analyzes of local development projects. Or you're selling it, would anyone like to hear some really interesting analyzes of some real estate development projects? Okay, well it's where I got this article to talk about on our show. Okay, so do you want to mock my content gathering because I have more sources than I don't. 00:26:45 Speaker 3: Know what do you use. 00:26:45 Speaker 2: I'm just glad you're a nerd. That's all chasel bands. He gets so frustrated, Debra, I know it would interrupt the wildlife. Yeah, the mountain lions, the coyotes, Yes, things that get rid of the small dogs. And I like all of those things. So we get to eliminate small dogs by feeding the wildlife. We get to maintain our holes, and I get to keep going golfing, and we get to keep the pores out. 00:27:09 Speaker 3: Where's the downside? I don't know. Let's talk about it this way. 00:27:12 Speaker 2: We talk about the fact that there is h and I know it's disputed a little bit, but people say there's a housing crisis. Yes, they say there's a housing crisis, right to me. I mean, if you look at the market, you know it's supply versus demand, isn't it. Wooden prices go down for rental units, especially if there were more to choose from. I think that's how that works. I mean, that's a basic economic principle. So if you create more places for people to rent, the prices would go down. Now you have somebody proposing to build in Woodland Hills. You have people in Woodland Hills saying we don't want apartments there, okay. So then you have the statewide initiative that says, well, let's build some apartment buildings near transit stops. You have the neighbors in those neighborhood saying, we don't really want apartments here either. Where are we supposed to build? 00:27:52 Speaker 3: Not in my neighborhood. 00:27:53 Speaker 8: That's where there are plenty of other open spaces that. 00:27:56 Speaker 7: I sa on the way to Vegas. 00:27:59 Speaker 3: All my god, I'm talking about I mean, this is an LA city. 00:28:02 Speaker 7: SKay, but so it is what it is. You asked me. Question is what

it is? 00:28:07 Speaker 2: Basically, go f yourself. She says, you want to live in Los Angeles. That's a quote from Debrah. 00:28:13 Speaker 8: There are plenty of other places I have seen. There are areas by parks. There are other areas that are in Woodland Hills, by your hazard area where traffic is not going to. 00:28:25 Speaker 2: Be Okay, okay, what if we said we want to build more residential units near transit so as to offset the demand for cars on the streets. Why is it that then we hear from folks, No, we still don't want it. 00:28:40 Speaker 7: Michael Monks. 00:28:42 Speaker 3: It's not my argument. I can tell you that. 00:28:43 Speaker 8: Can I just say in your mansion when you're living in Hancock Park, I don't. 00:28:47 Speaker 3: Want to mansion. 00:28:47 Speaker 2: I want a modest manner. I have been clear about that from the beginning, a modest man. 00:28:52 Speaker 8: And you want apartment buildings to be surrounding your modest manor. 00:28:56 Speaker 3: I don't know that they would surround it. 00:28:59 Speaker 8: Okay in your area because there's only one way to really get out. And then all of a sudden they start developing all these apartment buildings and then you're sitting and going wait, wait. 00:29:10 Speaker 3: A second, and then a fire breaks out. Michael's okay, because he's gonna wait for the next bus. 00:29:14 Speaker 4: Well. 00:29:14 Speaker 3: Well two one. 00:29:15 Speaker 2: My future neighborhood of Hancock Park already is mixed use. There are historic apartment buildings, and there are new apartment buildings, and it is close to transit. 00:29:24 Speaker 8: Can I just say one other thing, Yes, there are apartment buildings, plenty of apartment buildings in Woodland Hills. 00:29:30 Speaker 7: This area is not appropriate, is what I'm saying. 00:29:33 Speaker 3: She's right about that, there are plenty of apartments there. 00:29:37 Speaker 2: I love when our impartial news department gets involved in our coffee critical because I work with. 00:29:43 Speaker 8: You guys in John and I wear different hats. 00:29:46 Speaker 7: I'm not doing the news. 00:29:48 Speaker 3: You know what, Dubba, You bring the heat. I like that. 00:29:50 Speaker 2: I like bring the heat that brings the fires that will lead everyone to be killed in Woodland Hills if they build this apartment community. 00:29:57 Speaker 7: Really funny today, and I totally dig the sarcasm do. 00:30:01 Speaker 2: Monks. 00:30:02 Speaker 3: You're just funny looking, just kidding. 00:30:06 Speaker 2: I find you kind of sexy in a hipster mister Rogers sort of way. 00:30:11 Speaker 3: Wow. 00:30:12 Speaker 2: Okay, thanks guys. You might she might turn you you got handcock mark money, honey, all right, all right, all right, all right. So we clean up a park in the morning, right, and then the dealers they just wait until dark. Now the Feds and the local cops are showing up at night. You're about to find out whether the crackdown is going to work long term or just make for good headlines. The next raid in the Park. Next Monks and Meryl CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio. 00:30:38 Speaker 3: App, KFI on demand. 00:30:43 Speaker 2: You've been listening to Monks and Merrill here the show live weekdays from noon to three on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.