Will Ramirez of Farmacia Ramiréz asked Metro to consider a parking structure on the Cesar Chavez Ave

Disparate Homeowners, longtime ebay in the united kingdom residents, advocacy groups and other stakeholders hijacked the discussion at Thursday night s Metro community meeting concerning Metro owned properties in Boyle Heights. The meeting was supposed to be Metro s sole opportunity to get community input before submitting design guidelines to the Metro board of directors for three sites -  Cesar Chavez ebay in the united kingdom Avenue and Soto Street, Mariachi Plaza and Southeast Corner of Pennsylvania ebay in the united kingdom Bailey, Soto and First Street.
Instead, it turned into a nearly two hour venting session aimed at the Metro representatives over the lack, or excess, of affordable housing, the need of a pocket park on 1st Street and Lorena Avenue which doesn t seem like it could possibly happen under Metro s plans and the frequent heated public exchanges between the community and MTA.
That s what was amazing tonight. The bulk of the conversation was about Lorena (Avenue and First Street site). And nobody ebay in the united kingdom said anything about out Mariachi, which shocked me, said Greg Angelo, Metro’s director of real property management and development, after the meeting.
Will Ramirez of Farmacia Ramiréz asked Metro to consider a parking ebay in the united kingdom structure on the Cesar Chavez Avenue/Soto Street site in order to create a park and ride for the Soto Street Gold Line Station. ebay in the united kingdom With the structure, ebay in the united kingdom Ramirez also recommended a walking path that connects the park-and-ride to the Gold Line station with better lighting, security.
Metro, Angelo said, speculates ebay in the united kingdom that all three sites should have some component of a mixed use with commercial and retail space. ebay in the united kingdom Soto Street and Cesar Chavez is the only site that Metro speculates that it could have apartments. These expectations for the site from Metro is dependent on the chosen developer ebay in the united kingdom and the community input, added Angelo.
Community members dialogue with the Metro representatives remained broad throughout the majority of the meeting. Leonardo Vilchis, cofounder of Union de Vecinos, started leading a chant in the crowd of Casa para los pobres, or  houses for the poor.
Diego Cardoso, executive officer for Metro transportation ebay in the united kingdom development and implementation, said after the meeting that he didn t know before about the issue of including street vending within the sites.
When a stakeholder ebay in the united kingdom from Union de Vecinos asked the Metro representatives to include street vending into their considerations, some people in the crowd start shouting No, no! which Vilchis countered with Si, si!
Joaquin Castellanos, a Boyle Heights resident, said he was against street vendors being involved in the vacant Metro lots. We need restaurants, we need people who want to bring businesses to the community and taxes for the city.
Diego Cardoso, executive officer for Metro transportation development and implementation, speaks at the Boyle Heights community meeting about the status of Metro owned sites. Kris Fortin/LAStreetsblog
I agree that this area needs parks, no question, but that s not what we (Metro) do, said Roger S. Moliere, Metro s chief of Real Property and Economic Development department, after the meeting. Also, Metro staff is already working on a proposal with developer A Community ebay in the united kingdom of Friends that would include affordable housing units. The land that Metro owns, Moliere said, needs to be used to improve transit quality, and a park wouldn t fall in that category.
Metro s going to build a money-losing over financed parking lot sinkhole wherever they damn well please, people! The unsophisticated semi-pro whiners in LA s poor communities need to sit back and enjoy the benefits of Metro s divine grace.
Just look at the myriad benefits given to the Gold Line stations due to that abundant free parking! Bloated maintenance budgets, dying local businesses, and municipal budgets strained just to maintain the status quo.
South Pasadena is struggling ebay in the united kingdom to pay for maintenance on their parking structure SOUTH PASADENA! The most hailed Gold Line stop, with the most retial per square foot, with all the right architecture, with all the right people in the community and they can barely make payments to clean their parking structure. What is going to happen in Boyle Heights?! You tards!