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Not sure what kind of substantiation “resident” requires. Two people reported that a city agent told them that someone from CD10 called and told the office to stop assisting Save Our Future’s effort to move forward in securing permits. I personally have had city agents tell me that they do whatever the Council office tells them regardless of whether or not it violates the regulation, procedures or codes and that it happens "all the time". We have documentation and emails that prove people in CD10 have lied to officials (claiming they had documents to LAFD that they did not have, claiming numbers of supporters for a project they were pushing that didn't exist etc). I know you are having a difficult time believing that this office is capable of this kind of activity, of interfering with city agencies or being misleading or inaccurate with information but unfortunately it is common knowledge to more than a few in the community who have experienced it.

From "Resident"

Dear Mr Ashikian Thank you for the reasonable tone of your post, and for the recognition that this is about what the Los Angeles codes require. Codes are complex instruments, and views about them may differ. Nothing wrong there, and everyone is entitled to make his or her case. But at the end of the day, the case has to be made to the City, and only the City has the authority to decide. I’m sure from what you say that we can agree at least on that. Just to clarify, previous posts about the codes were not written to debate them through all their twists and turns, but only to show that a slew of unjustified and very poorly substantiated allegations and assertions had been made by Dianne Lawrence, to the effect that an Order To Comply had been improperly issued because of political interference; that a rock had been placed in an otherwise open path to the necessary permits; and that the operators of a new use could decide themselves whether or not the codes applied to them, without official review.