APRIL MEETING TO FOCUS ON CRIME

March 24, 2000 -- Are you tired of cars speeding on residential streets? Do you see people going through stop signs and red lights in the Palisades? Have cars or houses in your area been broken into?|
Then come to this month'sPCA general meeting on Tuesday, April 4 at 8 p.m. at the Palisades Recreation Center.
This important meeting will focus on "Law Enforcement in the Palisades." The police will be represented by our PSA 203 (you will learn what this is if you come to the meeting!).
Lieutenant Lt. Angela Cousins and her team of officers. The meeting will break down into small groups of 10-15 people, led by a couple of police officers and members of the PCA's traffic committee. The groups will talk about individual concerns with crime in the neighborhood, then reconvene as a large group to assess the problems identified and take a vote to prioritize them.
The goal of the meeting is to create a collaborative PSA action plan to address neighborhood crime issues.
If you have traffic enforcement or other crime problems that you feel have not been adequately handled by the police, now is the time to come and tell them what you think needs to be done.
Following the meeting with the police, the PCA membership will take a vote on the proposed Board resolution on traffic issues in the Palisades (see text in President's Letter).
--C. R.

UPDATE ON V STREET SITE

March 24, 2000 -- As readers may have noticed, signs along the construction fence on MacArthur Boulevard near the drug store announced the first tenants for the new V Street commercial building: Marvelous Market and a Kodak photography store.
As of mid-March, developer Frederick Hessick could not confirm any other tenants, but said there is plenty of interest in the site.
"We are picking and choosing" among the applicants, he said.
Several hairdressers have been interested, but rest assured that he would rent to such a business only if no one else wanted to sign up.
Some restaurants are considering the location, but -- alas -- no hardware stores.
Despite considerable community interest in having a hardware store, Hessick says the ones he has talked to just don't think there's enough business in the Palisades to make a go of it.
--Linda Starke