Tuesday's Public Nuisance Hearings

LADBS’ agenda for next week’s Public Nuisance Hearings is out, and it doesn’t surprise me.

2618 West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard was abated 12/14/23. It’s a neglected commercial property with complaints about trash, open excavation, unpermitted construction and weeds, and the chain-link fence hasn’t kept out taggers and other trespassers. In fact, the abandoned-property complaints date back a full decade.

750-752 East Lanzit Avenue, consisting of two houses and a garage on one lot, looks like it survived the apocalypse. Abandoned-building complaints date to August 2024. The house has been heavily vandalized with signs of probable fire damage, repeat break-ins, portions of the fence missing, dumped trash, and overgrown foliage.

900 South Santa Fe Avenue, formerly the Dorin Realty Company office, is poorly fenced off and has faced repeat vandalism. Down the street, 912 South Santa Fe Avenue, which is fire damaged, isn’t even fenced.

I fully expect there will be little to no accountability for the owners of these derelict properties, and it begs the question of how much money the city leaves on the table by not assessing fines for neglect.