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SELECT AN OPTION OR SCROLL DOWN By SARAH SHMERLING Editor-in-Chief T he Department of Recreation and Parks is searching for fi- nal approval for a new location for trash bins at Palisades Recreation Center—one that, they hope, will cause the least disturbance and be the most beneficial for neighbor- ing homeowners, tennis players and park visitors. As of today, the six trash bins are located in the maintenance yard area of the park, where they are emptied two times per week as early as 5:15 a.m., one audience member explained. In addition to the rec center, the bins are used for trash from Temescal Park and the Bluffs. Several neighbors from The Huntington attended the Oct. 17 Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Board Meeting to express con- cerns about young children being woken up by the slamming of bin lids when they are emptied, as well as rats that are attracted to the bins that then make their way to the surrounding homes, damaging homeowners’ property. After a lengthy discussion and listening to the concerns of the neighbors, the Park Adviso- ry Board unanimously approved (with one abstaining vote) mov- ing the bins to an open area next to a shipping container used by the baseball teams near the tennis courts—a location proposed by the Department of Recreation and Parks that would convert approx- imately 1,400 square feet of what is now asphalt into green space. The board asked member Gustaf Soderbergh to design an enclosure for the bins that they hope will make them secure, odor- free and out of sight from nearby residents and tennis players. “There’s an almost 100 per- cent chance tennis players will complain,” Palisades Tennis Cen- ter’s Mike Tomas said at the meet- ing. Several spots were consid- ered but this spot was the closest thing to a “win-win for every- body,” Park Director Erich Haas explained. Residents of Frontera Drive are not so sure. “Where the bins are going to be moved, I’m as close as you can be,” resident Mark Victor ex- plained to the Palisadian-Post. Possible issues at the pro- posed location Victor cited were the bins blocking a busy thorough- fare from Frontera to the park, as well as animals and people riffling through the bin after park hours when the lights are shut off with young children walking by. Though the new location would be near homes, it would be 54 feet away, as opposed to 24 feet away where they are located now, according to Vice Chair of the Park Advisory Board Robert “Bob” Harter. After continuing community concern, the moving of the bins returned to the Park Advisory Board’s agenda for a special meet- ing on Tuesday, Oct. 30, with a chance for additional public com- ment and an explanation letter to be read by Harter. “At the Park Board’s January [16] meeting, the community will have an opportunity to comment on whether the idea of moving the bins should be given final ap- proval,” Harter explained. “In any event, the bins will not be moved unless the plan has been approved by the Department of Recreation and Parks and the bin enclosure is in place.” Concerned community mem- bers will have a chance to discuss the matter of the bins at the Jan. 16 meeting before the board votes again for final approval. “Whether or not the plan re- ceives final approval, the park has a problem that requires urgent attention,” he continued. “The maintenance yard is infested with rats, and the rats must be immedi- ately eliminated.” “Everyone’s got to put their heads together and find a better place [to move the bins],” Victor expressed. “Nobody wants a con- flict, we just want a solution that makes sense.” The Oct. 30 meeting took place at 7 p.m.—after the Post had gone to print. For more informa- tion on Haas’ rat update as well as additional input from the commu- nity on the moving of the bins, see the Nov. 8 edition. ‘THE BARKER’ COMES TO PALI HIGH (Page 18) Palisadian-Post Serving the Community Since 1928 24 Pages $1.50 Thursday, November 1, 2018 Pacific Palisades, California THIS WEEK iN pali life NAVIGATING HIGH SCHOOL ON TWO WHEELS: Pali High Students Form a Mountain Bike Team (Page 13) By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA Reporter E fforts by residents of Mar- quette Street looking to enlist the help of community leaders to stop or delay an incoming develop- ment of eight two-story homes with attached garages and swimming pools were thwarted at the Pacif- ic Palisades Community Council meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25. In hopes of getting the PPCC to write a letter to the city of Los Angeles voicing concern or oppo- sition to the project, several Mar- quette Street residents presented their oppositions and findings to the council. Linda Deacon, a neighboring resident to the project who also attended the public city hearing, read a list of what they are asking the city to do, including a thorough geotechnical assessment, “suffi- cient information regarding sewer plans,” and to significantly reduce the size or the amount of homes being built. “We would like you to urge the city to take action, to provide ade- quate oversight prior to granting a coastal development permit for this project,” Deacon said. “We need the council’s help to make sure the city does what is necessary to prevent another landslide on our street.” With the closing of the “ad- visement period” coming four days after the PPCC meeting, Rick Mills, Area 4 representative, made a motion to write a letter that would urge the city of LA to “disallow use of sequential lot line adjustments” and that the city “look seriously and carefully at the detailed con- cerns.” Throwing a wrench into the ex- pedited vote, Rick Lemmo, Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce representative, cited a PPCC bylaw that delays a vote pending further review from a voting party. “On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, I’d like to ask for an automatic postponement of our vote,” Lemmo said. Mills quickly denounced that proposal and asked Lemmo to withdraw his request. “It would be a black mark on a wonderful chamber of commerce if you use that tool, and is for no pur- pose other than to delay it and sup- port the development,” Mills said. Rejecting the notion of sup- porting the development, Lemmo said, “Our vote counts for every- thing.” Ultimately yielding to the by- laws, the PPCC board agreed to instead ask for an extension on the advisement period, but was later denied by the zoning administrator Kenton Trinh. “Unfortunately, your request to extend the advisement period cannot be accommodated,” said Trinh in an email to the PPCC on Tuesday, Oct. 30. “Both the appli- cant and any members of the public in attendance were given adequate time to prepare and submit any comments/reports [regarding these specific issues].” The sudden delay of the vote further raised questions of con- flicts of interest between develop- er Cosimo Pizzulli and members on the board with backgrounds in development and real estate. Sev- eral members of the community questioned if the delay was pre-or- chestrated or a genuine request for more time. “I just think it’s bad form for this body to take any motion with- out hearing from both sides,” said Howard Robinson, chair of the Land Use Committee, who had re- cused himself for having a working relationship with Pizzulli. “This is being brought to us very late in the game, and this is why the LUC was formed, so that [the PPCC] would not have to go through this kind of incomplete process.” Pizzulli, who was reportedly at the meeting prior to it starting but left before the Marquette Street hearing, issued a statement to the Palisadian-Post explaining his ab- sence. “I am traveling, the design stu- dio is very busy we have current clients in Brussels, Paris, Milano, New York and Beverly Hills,” he said. “I wish the Pacific Palisades Community Council the very best in their community meetings.” The Marquette Street debate is expected to continue at the Nov. 8 meeting. By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA Reporter T he Bay Theatre by Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas will open on Friday, Nov. 9, according to a spokesperson for Cinépolis. The opening date comes well over a month after Caruso’s Pal- isades Village project opened on Sept. 22—and just in time for highly anticipated films during the holidays. While aesthetically ready for the Village’s ribbon cutting, heavy construction in the days following made it clear that there was still work to be done. Workers who were approached by locals asking for an opening date caused further confusion, with only vague announcements of “mid-Oc- tober” and “early November” dates given by Cinépolis representatives. Now, giving an exact date for the first time, Cinépolis has put an end to the rumors and new life to the excitement of the first Palisadi- an movie theater since the closing of the original Bay Theatre in 1978. “The grand opening for the theater will be next Friday, Nov. 9,” a spokesperson for Cinépolis said. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is also expected to be held around that time. The theater will feature a 3,000-square-foot lobby with five auditoriums, reclining leather seats, and a full dining and drink service. After multiple residents pro- tested the liquor license of the the- ater, Cinépolis obtained an interim permit that allows the sale of alco- hol until February 2019, according to public records. As this issue of the Palisadi- an-Post went to print, details of what movies will be screened on opening day were not yet available. Marquette Street Project Sparks Debate at PPCC Halloween Fun Around Town Getting into the spooky spirit of the season, Marquez Charter Elementary School hosted a Halloween Festival and costume contest on Sunday, Oct. 28. For more photos from Palisadian celebrations, see Page 5 for Palisades Village’s first Fall Festival, Page 5 for addi- tional Marquez photos and Page 22 for Spooktacular. 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By SARAH SHMERLINGEditor-in-Chief

The Department of Recreation and Parks is searching for fi-

nal approval for a new location for trash bins at Palisades Recreation Center—one that, they hope, will cause the least disturbance and be the most beneficial for neighbor-ing homeowners, tennis players and park visitors.

As of today, the six trash bins are located in the maintenance yard area of the park, where they are emptied two times per week as early as 5:15 a.m., one audience member explained. In addition to the rec center, the bins are used for trash from Temescal Park and the Bluffs.

Several neighbors from The Huntington attended the Oct. 17 Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Board Meeting to express con-cerns about young children being woken up by the slamming of bin lids when they are emptied, as well as rats that are attracted to the bins that then make their way to the surrounding homes, damaging homeowners’ property.

After a lengthy discussion and listening to the concerns of the neighbors, the Park Adviso-ry Board unanimously approved (with one abstaining vote) mov-ing the bins to an open area next to a shipping container used by the baseball teams near the tennis courts—a location proposed by the Department of Recreation and Parks that would convert approx-imately 1,400 square feet of what is now asphalt into green space.

The board asked member Gustaf Soderbergh to design an enclosure for the bins that they hope will make them secure, odor-free and out of sight from nearby residents and tennis players.

“There’s an almost 100 per-cent chance tennis players will complain,” Palisades Tennis Cen-ter’s Mike Tomas said at the meet-ing.

Several spots were consid-ered but this spot was the closest thing to a “win-win for every-body,” Park Director Erich Haas explained.

Residents of Frontera Drive are not so sure.

“Where the bins are going to be moved, I’m as close as you can be,” resident Mark Victor ex-plained to the Palisadian-Post.

Possible issues at the pro-posed location Victor cited were the bins blocking a busy thorough-fare from Frontera to the park, as well as animals and people riffling through the bin after park hours when the lights are shut off with young children walking by.

Though the new location would be near homes, it would be 54 feet away, as opposed to 24 feet away where they are located now, according to Vice Chair of the Park Advisory Board Robert “Bob” Harter.

After continuing community concern, the moving of the bins returned to the Park Advisory Board’s agenda for a special meet-ing on Tuesday, Oct. 30, with a chance for additional public com-ment and an explanation letter to be read by Harter.

“At the Park Board’s January [16] meeting, the community will have an opportunity to comment on whether the idea of moving the bins should be given final ap-proval,” Harter explained. “In any event, the bins will not be moved unless the plan has been approved by the Department of Recreation and Parks and the bin enclosure is in place.”

Concerned community mem-bers will have a chance to discuss the matter of the bins at the Jan. 16 meeting before the board votes again for final approval.

“Whether or not the plan re-

ceives final approval, the park has a problem that requires urgent attention,” he continued. “The maintenance yard is infested with rats, and the rats must be immedi-ately eliminated.”

“Everyone’s got to put their heads together and find a better place [to move the bins],” Victor expressed. “Nobody wants a con-flict, we just want a solution that makes sense.”

The Oct. 30 meeting took place at 7 p.m.—after the Post had gone to print. For more informa-tion on Haas’ rat update as well as additional input from the commu-nity on the moving of the bins, see the Nov. 8 edition.

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By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

Efforts by residents of Mar-quette Street looking to enlist

the help of community leaders to stop or delay an incoming develop-ment of eight two-story homes with attached garages and swimming pools were thwarted at the Pacif-ic Palisades Community Council meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25.

In hopes of getting the PPCC to write a letter to the city of Los Angeles voicing concern or oppo-sition to the project, several Mar-quette Street residents presented their oppositions and findings to the council.

Linda Deacon, a neighboring resident to the project who also attended the public city hearing, read a list of what they are asking the city to do, including a thorough geotechnical assessment, “suffi-cient information regarding sewer plans,” and to significantly reduce

the size or the amount of homes being built.

“We would like you to urge the city to take action, to provide ade-quate oversight prior to granting a coastal development permit for this project,” Deacon said. “We need the council’s help to make sure the city does what is necessary to prevent another landslide on our street.”

With the closing of the “ad-visement period” coming four days after the PPCC meeting, Rick Mills, Area 4 representative, made a motion to write a letter that would urge the city of LA to “disallow use of sequential lot line adjustments” and that the city “look seriously and carefully at the detailed con-cerns.”

Throwing a wrench into the ex-pedited vote, Rick Lemmo, Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce representative, cited a PPCC bylaw that delays a vote pending further review from a voting party.

“On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, I’d like to ask for an automatic postponement of our vote,” Lemmo said.

Mills quickly denounced that proposal and asked Lemmo to withdraw his request.

“It would be a black mark on a wonderful chamber of commerce if you use that tool, and is for no pur-pose other than to delay it and sup-port the development,” Mills said.

Rejecting the notion of sup-porting the development, Lemmo said, “Our vote counts for every-thing.”

Ultimately yielding to the by-laws, the PPCC board agreed to instead ask for an extension on the advisement period, but was later denied by the zoning administrator Kenton Trinh.

“Unfortunately, your request to extend the advisement period cannot be accommodated,” said Trinh in an email to the PPCC on Tuesday, Oct. 30. “Both the appli-cant and any members of the public in attendance were given adequate time to prepare and submit any comments/reports [regarding these specific issues].”

The sudden delay of the vote further raised questions of con-flicts of interest between develop-er Cosimo Pizzulli and members on the board with backgrounds in development and real estate. Sev-eral members of the community questioned if the delay was pre-or-chestrated or a genuine request for more time.

“I just think it’s bad form for this body to take any motion with-out hearing from both sides,” said Howard Robinson, chair of the Land Use Committee, who had re-cused himself for having a working relationship with Pizzulli. “This is being brought to us very late in the game, and this is why the LUC was formed, so that [the PPCC] would not have to go through this kind of incomplete process.”

Pizzulli, who was reportedly at the meeting prior to it starting but left before the Marquette Street hearing, issued a statement to the Palisadian-Post explaining his ab-sence.

“I am traveling, the design stu-dio is very busy we have current clients in Brussels, Paris, Milano, New York and Beverly Hills,” he said.

“I wish the Pacific Palisades Community Council the very best in their community meetings.”

The Marquette Street debate is expected to continue at the Nov. 8 meeting.

By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

The Bay Theatre by Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas will open

on Friday, Nov. 9, according to a spokesperson for Cinépolis.

The opening date comes well over a month after Caruso’s Pal-isades Village project opened on Sept. 22—and just in time for highly anticipated films during the holidays.

While aesthetically ready for the Village’s ribbon cutting, heavy construction in the days following made it clear that there was still work to be done.

Workers who were approached by locals asking for an opening date caused further confusion, with only vague announcements of “mid-Oc-tober” and “early November” dates given by Cinépolis representatives.

Now, giving an exact date for the first time, Cinépolis has put an end to the rumors and new life to the excitement of the first Palisadi-an movie theater since the closing of the original Bay Theatre in 1978.

“The grand opening for the theater will be next Friday, Nov. 9,” a spokesperson for Cinépolis said. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is also expected to be held around that time.

The theater will feature a 3,000-square-foot lobby with five auditoriums, reclining leather seats, and a full dining and drink service.

After multiple residents pro-tested the liquor license of the the-ater, Cinépolis obtained an interim permit that allows the sale of alco-hol until February 2019, according to public records.

As this issue of the Palisadi-an-Post went to print, details of what movies will be screened on opening day were not yet available.

Marquette Street Project Sparks Debate at PPCC

Halloween Fun Around Town

Getting into the spooky spirit of the season, Marquez Charter Elementary School hosted a Halloween Festival and costume contest on Sunday, Oct. 28. For more photos from Palisadian celebrations, see Page 5 for Palisades Village’s first Fall Festival, Page 5 for addi-tional Marquez photos and Page 22 for Spooktacular. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

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Palisadian-PostThursday, October 18, 2018

From ICU to the Alphabet Streets

Douglas Segal Shares His Wife’s Recovery Story in Recently Released Memoir “Struck”By SARAH SHMERLINGEditor-in-Chief

“Daddy, it’s me … Mommy was just in a car acci-dent.”It’s the call that no husband, no father, no person in the world ever wants to get. But this is the call that Doug Segal received from his daughter, Alyce, one morning that would change the course of their life as they knew it.Doug’s wife Susan was hit, quite literally, by a bus. She was driving Alyce to school when a truck rolled onto Hollywood Bou-levard, causing a bus to swerve into oncoming traffic, hitting Su-san’s BMW.

Alyce miraculously walked away with some bruises and scrapes—Susan would not be so lucky. She suffered 12 bro-ken ribs, several punctures in her lungs with one lung partially col-lapsed, brain bleeds in three areas and, worst of all, a broken neck.But, meeting with Doug and Susan in their Alphabet Streets home on a sunny Thursday af-ternoon, one would have no idea the full extent of what the couple

faced together.“Susan may have been crushed by the bus, but her zest for life, her sense of humor and her positivity was not,” Doug said with a smile, with Susan nodding in agreement next to him.In fact, Doug took his expe-rience, helping his wife on her journey back to health, and turned it into a memoir, “Struck.” The book is a combination of Doug’s reflections, interspersed with re-al-time emails that he had sent out to update his family and friends about Susan’s nearly yearlong journey from ICU to the hospital to rehab and, finally, back home.“The response I got from sending the emails out was so beautiful—and so many people still to this day say, ‘I saved every one of those emails, I have a fold-er of every one of those emails,’” Doug shared.

Those responses inspired him to publish the updates in a book.“It was that kind of feedback that made me, not just want to share the story of Susan’s resil-ience and unbelievable recovery and the miracle of it all, but to help others because I think a lot

of it is universal—we all have our stuff,” he explained.He now refers to the emails as cathartic, almost like therapy, which helped him through the process of nursing Susan back to health.

For Susan, the emails were revealing—she was, at first, em-barrassed at the idea of them be-ing shared. Since Doug had sent out the majority when she was re-covering in the hospital, she did not have a chance to read them until after the fact.“I was nervous how I would be perceived and I was embar-rassed,” she shared. “I think that it’s so revealing that I was very shook. Then I called people and I asked, ‘Should I be shook?’ And people were crying and applaud-ing and saying how they saved them.”

Susan said these affirma-tions changed her mind and she now thinks of them as what she described as the “most beautiful thing in the entire world.”“I credit Susan for being brave and allowing everybody to know every intimate detail of our life at that time and to say this is

The damage Photo courtesy of Douglas Segal/LAFD

why we’re doing this: to really be transparent to really show the ex-perience as openly as possible,” Doug explained.The book, with Doug’s thor-ough email updates and addition-al reflections, is often raw. He delves into not only her recovery process, but also how it relates to their marriage and the bigger picture.

The two are nearly six years out from the accident and cele-brating 29 years of marriage.“We were pretty lucky to begin with,” Susan shared. “We had a lot of things in common and we’ve had a pretty good time, all things considered, except appar-

ently when I loaded the dishwash-er incorrectly.”“Which she still does,” Doug interjected with a laugh.“But I think, for the most part, we’re pretty normal, pretty average, and this journey—it’s so kooky—but how lucky we are that we get to do this together,” Susan concluded.

The two live with Alyce, now a senior at Palisades Charter High School, and a rescue dog, Bruce. Their son, Michael, is away at college.With the journey, for the most part, in the rear-view mirror, Doug and Susan reflected on what was the hardest part of the process for

each of them.Doug, with a production background, is used to juggling moving parts to make something work. But when it came to Su-san’s recovery, it was his biggest project yet.

“It’s not just managing it be-cause I think about the produc-tions that I’ve been in, I’ve man-aged a lot of big productions,” Doug explained. “It’s that the stakes of this production were so much higher.”Susan shared that the hardest part for her is the now—where taking care of her health is a full-time job.

The two have always relied heavily on community—whether that is in Hollywood, where they lived at the time of the accident, or Pacific Palisades, where they have lived for going on four years.“Don’t go through it alone,” Doug offered for anyone facing a crisis. “Wherever that community comes from, try to find it, reach out. The support is so critical—whether that’s church or syna-gogue or neighborhood groups or friend groups or your book club, whatever it is—don’t just sit and silently suffer.”Anyone who is interested in learning more abut the Segals’ story is invited to see them speak at Palisades Branch Library on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m.

At home with Bruce, the Segals’ rescue dog Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

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Median Household income in the palisades $168,008

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bad behavior in our election.”With only three days left to

vote, it is unclear if such a state-

ment by the PPCC will have any

effect on outcome, but for Han-

dler, the damage was done. “The only thing that was in-

accurate in what Joey Mudd said,

whoever he is, was he called Steve

[Cron] the president of his HOA

when he’s just on the board,” he

said in phone interview. “I mean,

is that dirty politics? Is that slime?

Give me a freaking break.”The Summit VP further ques-

tioned how sending a link to

where people can vote is a vio-

lation. When Card urged him to

send out a correcting email, Han-

dler said it would be too much

work as he sent out individual

emails, and not an email blast. In-

stead, he asked the Summit HOA

to send out a statement via their

newsletter, as most people he

reached out to were Summit res-

idents. “If you notice, they’ve said

nothing about Steve Cron blast-

ing me and insinuating that I’m

doing bad things,” Handler said.“That’s Steve Cron’s is-

sue? ‘I’m unfairly treated, vote

for me?’” Handler asked. “Why

don’t you talk about the eldercare

center, why don’t you talk about

traffic, why don’t you talk about

crime? I’m trying to talk about the

issues not about, ‘Is somebody

being mean to me on Nextdoor?’”While questions remain on

why sharing a ballot link is pro-

hibited, both Cron and Handler

share the sentiment that such

“dirty politics” were never ex-

pected in a small coastal commu-

nity’s election.

Voting closes on August 30 at

9 p.m.; election results will be an-

nounced on September 13.

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By SARAH SHMERLINGEditor-in-Chief

The latest tenant to join Pal-isades Village is shoe store

Tamara Mellon—the creation of

Tamara Mellon, a British fash-

ion designer, businesswoman and

magazine editor.Mellon founded the brand in

2013 after stepping down as chief

creative officer and co-founder of

Jimmy Choo.“I co-founded Jimmy Choo

in 1996,” Mellon wrote on the

Tamara Mellon website. “Today,

I’m still obsessed with shoes, but

not the traditional way of doing

things. So I’m starting over. This

is my reboot—pun intended.“I’m redefining luxury and

doing what I do best: designing

shoes and breaking rules.”Though the brand launched in

November 2013, this will be the

first brick-and-mortar store.“For us, we love what Rick

Caruso does and the community

and environment he creates,” Al-

exa Grandolfo, senior manager of

communications for Tamara Mel-

lon, told the Palisadian-Post. “It’s

a great location, our customer

base, and the right size and neigh-

borhood.”The brand works with fami-

ly-run factories in Italy that have

been in the shoe world for de-

cades—promising no caveats or

markups.“Shoppers can expect a new

way of displaying and shopping,”

Grandolfo said. “We drop shoes

monthly, so every time they come

in they will see something new

that they can wear immediately.

Plus, we will have our core iconic

shoes that people like to buy again

and again.”Currently available on the Ta-

mara Mellon website are a range

of shoes, including boots, wedg-

es and heels. Prices range from

$325 for the Darling – Capretto

flats to $1,695 for the Sweet Re-

venge-Suede S—a “revolutionary

all-in-one pant and shoe hybrid.”“I’ve been around the block

more than once—in killer heels,”

Mellon wrote. “I know what

women need, and what they want.

My shoes are designed for wom-

en, by women. They’re leaning in,

climbing ladders and shattering

ceilings.”With just over three weeks

until Palisades Village opens, ten-

ants are settling in and gearing up,

showing off social media posts

from behind-the-scenes of the

near-complete project.At least one tenant who was

previously reported as joining Pal-

isades Village will not be opening

this September. Miller’s Oath, a

New York-based suit shop, cited

“a change in direction” when the

Post asked why the brand would

not expand to the West Coast at

Palisades Village.

Tamara Mellon Joins Palisades Village

By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA

Reporter

The Pacific Palisades Commu-nity Council Election Com-

mittee took a stand against ongo-

ing misconduct on Monday, Aug.

27, in an email to Area 2 candi-

date Steve Cron that condemned

fake social media accounts and

“improper campaigning.”When Cron’s opponent Adam

Handler sent an email to his con-

stituents asking for their vote,

Handler inadvertently violated an

election rule that prohibits shar-

ing a link to the voting ballot.

“You have apparently been

the victim of two instances of im-

proper campaign conduct in the

Area 2 [Highlands] election,” said

David Card, Election Committee

chair, in an email sent to Cron and

later posted on the PPCC website.

He cited the now-infamous “Joey

Mudd” postings on social media,

and Handler’s “campaign email

on August 22, which contained a

link directly to the ballot [a vio-

lation of the rules], and his five-

day delay in sending a correcting

email [he has yet to show the

Election Committee a copy of the

correcting email].”

While the PPCC bylaws do

not outline any procedure for dis-

ciplining a candidate for PPCC

office, according to the letter,

“That will be a topic for the By-

laws Committee to address in the

near future.”In response, Cron was pleased

with the election committee’s

statement.“I am very impressed with the

Election Committee’s response to

the election rules violations by

my opponent and/or his support-

ers,” Cron said in an email to the

Palisadian-Post. “I’m glad to see

that they are taking a stand against

Election Committee Weighs

in on Messy Election

By TRILBY BERESFORDReporter

Crime reports from July and

August indicate an increase

in vehicle break-ins on Los Li-

ones Drive in Castellammare,

particularly near the start of Los

Liones Canyon Trail.At the Aug. 9 Pacific Pal-

isades Community Council,

LAPD Senior Lead Officer Mi-

chael Moore reported vehicle

break-ins as the biggest crime is-

sue in the Palisades currently.Typical incidences occur in

the evening and include a single

suspect smashing a window to

retrieve property such as purses,

clothing, accessories and elec-

tronics. At the meeting, Moore ad-

vised residents to avoid parking

on that street in the afternoon and

evening.

One PPCC member asked if

leaving doors unlocked with the

glove compartment open, signify-

ing there was nothing valuable in

the car, would be helpful. Moore

responded that “it could work,”

but could also be an inconve-

nience to the car owner. In email correspondence with

the Palisadian-Post, Moore clar-

ified that Los Liones has “real-

ly been a target lately.” He then

speculated on the reason for the

spike: an increase in street activ-

ity.“There might be a correlation

between the vehicle break-ins

and the number of construction

workers parking in the area,” he

explained. Locals are encouraged to be

mindful in securing their belong-

ings when visiting the popular

trailhead or attending engage-

ments in the neighborhood.

Rise in Vehicle Break-Ins

Photo by Christian Monterrosa

Sweet Revenge-Suede S Photos courtesy of Tamara Mellon

Tamara Mellon

Movies in the Park ended its 15th season on Saturday evening with a screening of “Coco”—complete with a costume contest. See Page

4 for details and additional photos. Photos by Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

A few chances remain to participate: This week, the Palisadi-

an-Post is giving away a four-pack of tickets to Street Food Cin-

ema’s screening of “The Wedding Singer” on Saturday, Sept. 1

at Will Rogers State Historic Park. To enter, email “wedding” to

[email protected] by Friday, Aug. 31 at 10 a.m. Congratula-

tions to last week’s winner, Madeline Hyman, who won a gift card

for $200 to Makani.

Crowds gather for a previous show. Photo courtesy of Street Food Cinema

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By SARAH SHMERLINGEditor-in-Chief

The Department of Recreation and Parks is searching for fi-

nal approval for a new location for trash bins at Palisades Recreation Center—one that, they hope, will cause the least disturbance and be the most beneficial for neighbor-ing homeowners, tennis players and park visitors.

As of today, the six trash bins are located in the maintenance yard area of the park, where they are emptied two times per week as early as 5:15 a.m., one audience member explained. In addition to the rec center, the bins are used for trash from Temescal Park and the Bluffs.

Several neighbors from The Huntington attended the Oct. 17 Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Board Meeting to express con-cerns about young children being woken up by the slamming of bin lids when they are emptied, as well as rats that are attracted to the bins that then make their way to the surrounding homes, damaging homeowners’ property.

After a lengthy discussion and listening to the concerns of the neighbors, the Park Adviso-ry Board unanimously approved (with one abstaining vote) mov-ing the bins to an open area next to a shipping container used by the baseball teams near the tennis courts—a location proposed by the Department of Recreation and Parks that would convert approx-imately 1,400 square feet of what is now asphalt into green space.

The board asked member Gustaf Soderbergh to design an enclosure for the bins that they hope will make them secure, odor-free and out of sight from nearby residents and tennis players.

“There’s an almost 100 per-cent chance tennis players will complain,” Palisades Tennis Cen-ter’s Mike Tomas said at the meet-ing.

Several spots were consid-ered but this spot was the closest thing to a “win-win for every-body,” Park Director Erich Haas explained.

Residents of Frontera Drive are not so sure.

“Where the bins are going to be moved, I’m as close as you can be,” resident Mark Victor ex-plained to the Palisadian-Post.

Possible issues at the pro-posed location Victor cited were the bins blocking a busy thorough-fare from Frontera to the park, as well as animals and people riffling through the bin after park hours when the lights are shut off with young children walking by.

Though the new location would be near homes, it would be 54 feet away, as opposed to 24 feet away where they are located now, according to Vice Chair of the Park Advisory Board Robert “Bob” Harter.

After continuing community concern, the moving of the bins returned to the Park Advisory Board’s agenda for a special meet-ing on Tuesday, Oct. 30, with a chance for additional public com-ment and an explanation letter to be read by Harter.

“At the Park Board’s January [16] meeting, the community will have an opportunity to comment on whether the idea of moving the bins should be given final ap-proval,” Harter explained. “In any event, the bins will not be moved unless the plan has been approved by the Department of Recreation and Parks and the bin enclosure is in place.”

Concerned community mem-bers will have a chance to discuss the matter of the bins at the Jan. 16 meeting before the board votes again for final approval.

“Whether or not the plan re-

ceives final approval, the park has a problem that requires urgent attention,” he continued. “The maintenance yard is infested with rats, and the rats must be immedi-ately eliminated.”

“Everyone’s got to put their heads together and find a better place [to move the bins],” Victor expressed. “Nobody wants a con-flict, we just want a solution that makes sense.”

The Oct. 30 meeting took place at 7 p.m.—after the Post had gone to print. For more informa-tion on Haas’ rat update as well as additional input from the commu-nity on the moving of the bins, see the Nov. 8 edition.

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pali lifeNavigaTiNg high sChool oN Two wheels: Pali high students Form a mountain Bike Team (Page 13)

By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

Efforts by residents of Mar-quette Street looking to enlist

the help of community leaders to stop or delay an incoming develop-ment of eight two-story homes with attached garages and swimming pools were thwarted at the Pacif-ic Palisades Community Council meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25.

In hopes of getting the PPCC to write a letter to the city of Los Angeles voicing concern or oppo-sition to the project, several Mar-quette Street residents presented their oppositions and findings to the council.

Linda Deacon, a neighboring resident to the project who also attended the public city hearing, read a list of what they are asking the city to do, including a thorough geotechnical assessment, “suffi-cient information regarding sewer plans,” and to significantly reduce

the size or the amount of homes being built.

“We would like you to urge the city to take action, to provide ade-quate oversight prior to granting a coastal development permit for this project,” Deacon said. “We need the council’s help to make sure the city does what is necessary to prevent another landslide on our street.”

With the closing of the “ad-visement period” coming four days after the PPCC meeting, Rick Mills, Area 4 representative, made a motion to write a letter that would urge the city of LA to “disallow use of sequential lot line adjustments” and that the city “look seriously and carefully at the detailed con-cerns.”

Throwing a wrench into the ex-pedited vote, Rick Lemmo, Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce representative, cited a PPCC bylaw that delays a vote pending further review from a voting party.

“On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, I’d like to ask for an automatic postponement of our vote,” Lemmo said.

Mills quickly denounced that proposal and asked Lemmo to withdraw his request.

“It would be a black mark on a wonderful chamber of commerce if you use that tool, and is for no pur-pose other than to delay it and sup-port the development,” Mills said.

Rejecting the notion of sup-porting the development, Lemmo said, “Our vote counts for every-thing.”

Ultimately yielding to the by-laws, the PPCC board agreed to instead ask for an extension on the advisement period, but was later denied by the zoning administrator Kenton Trinh.

“Unfortunately, your request to extend the advisement period cannot be accommodated,” said Trinh in an email to the PPCC on Tuesday, Oct. 30. “Both the appli-cant and any members of the public in attendance were given adequate time to prepare and submit any comments/reports [regarding these specific issues].”

The sudden delay of the vote further raised questions of con-flicts of interest between develop-er Cosimo Pizzulli and members on the board with backgrounds in development and real estate. Sev-eral members of the community questioned if the delay was pre-or-chestrated or a genuine request for more time.

“I just think it’s bad form for this body to take any motion with-out hearing from both sides,” said Howard Robinson, chair of the Land Use Committee, who had re-cused himself for having a working relationship with Pizzulli. “This is being brought to us very late in the game, and this is why the LUC was formed, so that [the PPCC] would not have to go through this kind of incomplete process.”

Pizzulli, who was reportedly at the meeting prior to it starting but left before the Marquette Street hearing, issued a statement to the Palisadian-Post explaining his ab-sence.

“I am traveling, the design stu-dio is very busy we have current clients in Brussels, Paris, Milano, New York and Beverly Hills,” he said.

“I wish the Pacific Palisades Community Council the very best in their community meetings.”

The Marquette Street debate is expected to continue at the Nov. 8 meeting.

By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

The Bay Theatre by Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas will open

on Friday, Nov. 9, according to a spokesperson for Cinépolis.

The opening date comes well over a month after Caruso’s Pal-isades Village project opened on Sept. 22—and just in time for highly anticipated films during the holidays.

While aesthetically ready for the Village’s ribbon cutting, heavy construction in the days following made it clear that there was still work to be done.

Workers who were approached by locals asking for an opening date caused further confusion, with only vague announcements of “mid-Oc-tober” and “early November” dates given by Cinépolis representatives.

Now, giving an exact date for the first time, Cinépolis has put an end to the rumors and new life to the excitement of the first Palisadi-an movie theater since the closing of the original Bay Theatre in 1978.

“The grand opening for the theater will be next Friday, Nov. 9,” a spokesperson for Cinépolis said. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is also expected to be held around that time.

The theater will feature a 3,000-square-foot lobby with five auditoriums, reclining leather seats, and a full dining and drink service.

After multiple residents pro-tested the liquor license of the the-ater, Cinépolis obtained an interim permit that allows the sale of alco-hol until February 2019, according to public records.

As this issue of the Palisadi-an-Post went to print, details of what movies will be screened on opening day were not yet available.

Marquette Street Project Sparks Debate at PPCC

Halloween Fun Around Town

Getting into the spooky spirit of the season, Marquez Charter Elementary School hosted a Halloween Festival and costume contest on Sunday, Oct. 28. For more photos from Palisadian celebrations, see Page 5 for Palisades Village’s first Fall Festival, Page 5 for addi-tional Marquez photos and Page 22 for Spooktacular. Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

Bay Theatre Reveals Opening Date

Park Advisory Board to Revisit Trash Bin Relocation

Bay TheatreRich Schmitt/Staff Photographer

The proposed location for the bins Photo courtesy of PP-PAB

A rendering of 566 Marquette Street

With just a few days left before summer turns to fall, the Palisa-

dian-Post Summer Giveaway concludes with a two-pack of tickets to visit Uni-versal Studios.

Admission includes new experienc-es at “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.” Guests can cast spells with their wands throughout the land at designat-ed locations or treat themselves to but-terbeer ice cream. There is also a wide array of apparel inspired by the films available at Gladrags Wizardwear.

Another one of Universal’s lat-est attractions is DreamWorks The-atre’s “Kung Fu Panda: The Emperor’s Quest,” which introduces the “first-ever integration of interior projection map-ping designed to engulf guests in 180 degrees of immersive adventure.”

If you feel like sticking around, Hal-loween Horror Nights, a separately tick-eted event, immerses “guests in a living, breathing, three-dimensional world of terror.” This year’s event features a new slate of mazes, scare zones and a fully re-imagined “Terror Tram” experience.

Congratulations to last week’s win-ner, Caron Lewis, who won a gift card to dine at Port Via Palisades after it opens this weekend.

The Post would like to thank all of the local businesses that participated in this year’s Summer Giveaway contest and helped make it a success!

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Burglars graB, Police NaB, cut taB

Spotted in the Palisadian-Post: August 7, 1969

Burglars are more than $2,500 richer as a result of seven Pacific Palisades break-ins reported to city police during the past week—but they are also fewer in number due to quick, coordinated action involving citizens and lawmen.

The highlight of the week was the arrest early Sunday morning of a 26-year-old Tarzana suspect inside Trager Phar-macy. Two officers who cornered Stephen Hoppers said he was in the process of stealing hypodermic needles and narcotics valued in excess of $190.

PalisaDes Neighborhood News

calling Prospective VolunteersThe Village

The Palisades Alliance for Seniors will host an informational meeting for prospective volunteers on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room at Palisades Branch Library.

The nonprofit intergenerational organization, which helps se-niors in the Palisades to stay connected with their community as they grow older and encounter limitations, is seeking volunteers for accounting, audio visual, Eventbrite, fundraising, phone calls, program coordination, publicity, QuickBooks, research and writing, refreshments, set-up, signage, social events, Typepad, Wordpress, and more.

For more information, call 424-260-6167. —SARAH SHMERLING

update on Beach robberyWill RogeRs sTaTe Beach

On Sept. 13, the Post reported that a Palisadian man was robbed while swimming at Will Rogers State Beach during the afternoon of Sept. 6. An African-American male under 40 stole his car key and bag, and then took off running.

The key has now been recovered using the Tile iPhone app, which incorporates a Bluetooth tracker to locate lost items with the help of the local community.

“Unbelievable,” the man said in email correspondence with the Post. He presented the key to a local police station for fingerprints.

—TRILBY BERESFORD

upcoming PPtFH Meeting The Village

The Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness will host a community meeting to discuss “Safety on our Beach” on Monday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. at Palisades Branch Library. Speakers include LAPD beach patrol officers Rusty Redican and Jimmy Soliman, Lifeguard Chief Erik Albertson, and Chief Deputy Director of Beaches and Harbors, Kerry Silverstrom. PPTFH encourages local Palisadians to attend and be actively involved.

—TRILBY BERESFORD

Writing contest awardsThe Village

The Friends of the Palisades Library will host an awards cer-emony for its summer writing contest on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library Community Room.

Winning stories, penned by first graders through adults with the theme Chocolate, Vanilla & Strawberry, will be performed by ac-tors Bill Jones and Christine Kludjian.

Festivities will include an ice cream bar with flavors provided by incoming Palisades Village tenant McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams.

—SARAH SHMERLING

library Welcomes guest speakerThe Village

On Thursday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 p.m., surgeon and UCLA pro-fessor Nina Shapiro will give an informative talk in the communi-ty room at Palisades Branch Library, discussing how to navigate through the endless health misconceptions and medical myths that populate our culture. These ideas are featured in her new book, “HYPE: Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice.”

—TRILBY BERESFORD

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Provided by LAPD Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore.

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Welcome Palisades Village!

By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

A long standing battle between Palisadians and aircraft

noise has taken its latest step with a new way to lodge complaints.

A piece of technology called the Airnoise Button allows resi-dents to file complaints against aircraft flying directly over their

home simply by pushing the but-ton. The click of the button sends out a signal that registers the in-formation of the low-flying plane in the area and sends a formal complaint to Los Angeles World Airports.

Leading the Palisadian fight against aircraft noise, Debbie Warfel informed the Pacific Pal-isades Community Council on

Thursday, Sept. 13, of the new button, and explained how a change in FAA regulations led to a flight path directly over the Palisades.

“What they have done is cre-ated super highways in the sky—it’s affected the quality of many peoples’ lives,” Warfel said. “The planes are supposed to come over the coast around 10,000 feet and glide, and they’re not doing that at all.”

The button is priced at $24 for the hardware and $5 per month for the subscription, paving the way to an overwhelming amount of complaints for airports.

“Mad as hell and super-moti-vated to take action? Get a button and have at it,” says the Airnoise Button’s website.

Sleepless Palisadians can also skip paying for the button altogether and lodge complaints online for free.

In response, airports have changed their complaint system and have blocked incoming ones from the Airnoise Button, ac-cording to a report by the Wall Street Journal, reducing the piece

New Button sends air Noise complaint Directly to airports

The push of a button Photo courtesy of Airnoise

of technology to nothing more than a stress ball.

While a viable solution to air noise complaints has yet to be found, Warfel and the Santa Monica Canyon Civic Associa-tion are not giving up.

“It’s really crucial to keep complaining, to let your gov-ernment officials know that the noise is bad for us,” Warfel said. “Get your neighbors to also com-plain, and we also are looking for money because the litigation is expensive and we’re raising money to pay for the attorney to go to D.C.”

By CHRISTIAN MONTERROSAReporter

Over 1,000 Palisadians voted in the recent Pacific Palisades

Community Council elections, according to the PPCC Election Committee, with a vote count of 1,034.

“We had the second largest voter turnout in PPCC history,” the committee said in an election report, with 1,200 voters setting the record in 2016. “We commend all the candidates and thank the Palisades community for partici-pating in this election.”

The committee attributed the lower turnout to there only be-ing two contested seats instead of four.

At-large Representative Alan Goldsmith beat out John Padden by 96 votes with a total of 565, according to the report. In Area 2, also known as The Highlands, Steve Cron pulverized his oppo-nent Adam Handler by 232 votes, with a total of 335.

The vote count process took place in the presence of election committee members Bill Bruns, Richard Cohen and Richard Blu-menberg, according to the report,

along with PPCC Chair George Wolfberg and advisors Chris Spitz and Heather Cohen.

“Each questionable ballot was inspected by every member of the committee and discussed by the group,” the report said. “Every de-cision concerning each ballot was unanimous and decisions were based strictly on the bylaws.”

Going forward, the commit-tee also plans make changes to the process, like establishing “reason-able guidelines for the conduct of election campaigns by the candi-dates, and for dealing with mis-conduct.”

During the election, a fake social media account went on a smear campaign of Area 2 repre-sentative-elect Cron, and a viola-tion of the rules by Handler drew a letter of condemnation from the election committee, but no action was taken.

In addition, the committee will seek to eliminate a voting “help session,” which drew zero attendants this year, and short-en the election period from three weeks to two.

The next PPCC meeting is set to take place on Sept. 27.

Over 1,000 Turnout for PPCC Election

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Ross Canter was walking in circles with a placard when

he realized that he would rather be making cookies. It was 2007, the year of the writer’s strike, and Ross, a successful screenwriter, was feeling the pain. Suddenly the dream of running a little bakeshop didn’t seem so fanciful.

Baking had always been part of Ross’ life. His wife, Melanie, confided that he presented her with a cheesecake brownie on their sec-ond date, but his misgivings about selling cookies were that “it would be hard to bake for people I don’t know.” His approach had always been emotional rather than scien-tific.

As a scion of the family who ran Canter’s Deli, he remembered going to the Boyle Heights Deli with his grandfather, but the de-lights of the bakery cabinets were not for him. His parents were early advocates of the health food move-ment and sugar was frowned upon.

“In my own house there was not a lot of baking. Growing up in the ’70s we had Stella D’oro cook-ies. They were more like packing peanuts,” he said, surrounded by the most lavish, flavor-filled cook-ies I have ever seen.

Melanie took up the story of

how the kitchen in their Marquez Knolls home then turned into the first staging post for the Cookie Good empire.

“[Fellow Palisadian] J.J. Abrams was one of the first cook-ie clients, and he got us into the shipping business,” she explained. On their second week, he placed an order for 20 two-dozen boxes to be shipped to New York.

The Canters had never shipped their cookies before, so they rap-idly devised packing and sent the first parcel to themselves to find out how it held up.

“I drop kicked it across the post office so I could really see it get beat up,” Melanie said with a laugh. Having survived the ship-ping test, their company grew.

The couple credited the Abrams with raising the bar for the business.

“When someone asks you to do something, it presses you up to the wall and you find out what you

can do,” the couple said, such as the time when a friend asked for one of their non-existent bacon maple cookies. That was when the Pancakes and Bacon cookie came into being—a loving rendi-tion of Sunday morning, with the

Canter’s favorite fluffy pancake dough, featuring bacon, caramel-ized in brown sugar, and a salted maple-syrup glaze, made glorious with sour cream.

Further sweet-savory experi-ments yielded the Cheetos Cookies, one of my favorites—and so much better than its namesake crunchy snack. It has the signature orange coating but then a dairy creaminess that hits all the right notes between salt and sweet. A revelation.

New cookies are premiered as inspiration strikes. The Mac’n’Cheese Cookie didn’t make it out of the research stage. The Cap’n Crunch did.

The whole family was in-volved in the business. The cou-ple’s two children came home from Palisades Charter High School at night and joined the production line.

One birthday treat for the Can-ter kids was to design the signa-ture cookies that still feature on the

menu: the Mia and the Gabe.Their friend, Jake, diagnosed

with celiac disease at age 12, was not barred from the fun. He de-signed the first Cookie Good glu-ten-free offering, a delicious mix of dark and milk chocolate chips, peanut butter cups, honey roasted peanuts, gluten-free pretzels and marshmallows. The Jake more than holds its own with the other cookies and is the cookie that got the most attention among my in-formal testers.

The store’s most popular cook-ie is the Caramel-Pretzel-Choco-late Chunk. With the pretzels pro-viding a salty, crisp counterpoint to the gently oozing, melted caramel, this cookie is an irresistible combi-nation of flavor and sensation.

It also features in the range of cereal milks the store offers. In a truly original addition to the menu, cookies are infused into milk, or “pre-dunked.” The chilled, fla-vored milk comes in four varieties

and has a more complex profile than chocolate milk, which is its nearest cousin.

The cookie menu says a lot about the Canters' approach to baking and the visions it conjures of a classic American childhood. S’mores around a summer camp-fire, birthday cake, Lucky Charms at breakfast, and milk and cookies before bed. Memory is intimately connected with taste and smell, and it is the essence of a happy family that is captured here.

The store itself is a hub of ac-tivity. The huge, arching window looks out across Wilshire at Doug-las Park, which teems with children and seniors playing on the lawn.

Friends and ex-staff pop in to share news. It is more than the cookies that are offered in the Santa Monica store. Somehow the Canters have created a sense of welcome, and the deeply comfort-ing flavors of the happiest times in our lives.

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Matt and Marissa Hermer are feeling more at home in Pacific Palisades than ever. Marissa, a California native, spent 10 years with Matt in London before the two decided to move

stateside, landing in The Riviera.And now, the couple, along with their three

kids, Sadie, Max and Jake, can often be spotted in their Palisades Village restaurant: The Draycott. The restaurant is a California-inspired, family-friendly brasserie, named as an homage to London’s Draycott Avenue—which is where Matt and Marissa first met.

“We really built this place for selfish reasons,” Marissa told 90272 Magazine with a laugh. “When Matt and I moved to Pacific Palisades, we loved the community, we loved how family friendly it was. We loved the values of this community, we loved that we could be five minutes from the ocean and a hiking trail.

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DemographicS & reaDerShip

HOMES

1  

2  

19%renters

81%

home

owne

rs

9,500 homes

AGE

1  

2  

3  

4  

5  

>6520% >20

25%

20-348%

35-4413%

45-6434%

SUBSCRIBERS

1  

2  

83.8%

16.2%newsstand

subscrip

tion

5,000+ circulation

POPU

LATION

1  

2  

47.6%

male

52.4%

fem

ale

total: 35,689

50%penetration

1,000 homes in Santa Monica Canyon and Sunset Mesa+

EDUCATION

1  

2  

3  

5% associate’s

49%

bachel

or’s

29%

graduate

70% w

/4-year degree or higher

9,50081%19%

HOMESHomesProperty OwnersRenters

Median Home Value: $2,115,800

Male (47.6%)Female (52.4%)

RESIDENTS16,91018,779

Total Population: 35,689

66%

31%3%

41%

FAMILIESSmall families (higher concentration of younger couples)Medium sized familiesLarge FamiliesPet Owners

Median IncomeAverage Household

Total Expenditure

INCOME

Average Income: $245,387

$168,008$142,353 $142,353

*total household wealth minus debt, secured and unsecured, based on the survey of income and program participation, U.s. Bureau of the census data sources: U.s. census Bureau and pacific palisades chamber of commerce.

per capita income in the palisades $93,473

Median Household income in the palisades $168,008

Median Household income in los angeles county $56,266

Median Home Value in the palisades $2,115,800

net worth per Household in the palisades* $1,342,920

total Household retail spending in the palisades trade area $198,147,000

Median disposable annual income of palisades residents $112,729

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