$799,000 on Zillow<\/a>. <\/p>\nLast June, Paulsen started a GoFundMe, quickly raising more than $30,000 for legal representation to fight the RV park. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are uniting to express our concerns about the proposed construction of this RV park which will harm the safety of our quiet neighborhood, overcrowd our area with traffic, and negatively affect the privacy and property values of neighboring residents of this RV park,\u201d neighbors wrote on their website, \u201cSave Green Meadows West.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI followed all the rules. We\u2019re going to be good neighbors. These are communities that I build,\u201d Silver said. \u201cThe people we cater to at these things are … everyday people, salt of the earth people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silver has promised that the RV park will be staffed with a security guard 24-7.<\/p>\n
Dana Goller, a security guard who already lives on the property with his wife, said the park will make the neighborhood more safe, not less safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody moving here is people just like them,\u201d he said. \u201cThey work. They live. They pay bills. … What Stewart\u2019s opening here is a blessing, not a sin. This is not a homeless camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
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L.A. City Councilman Tim McOsker holds a news conference on July 11.<\/p>\n
(Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
McOsker, who represents the area, said he heard from locals like Paulsen who were concerned about the RV park. <\/p>\n
In his motion requiring the environmental analysis of the oil wells, McCosker cited alleged issues \u2014 from missing children to assaults with a deadly weapon \u2014 at other RV parks Silver has operated. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe operator has demonstrated several public health and safety failures … and the potential for this type of nuisance activity to occur in Harbor City and impact public safety should be taken into consideration,\u201d McOsker wrote in the motion.<\/p>\n
Silver said that he sold an RV park in Wilmington nearly five years ago and that there was \u201cno crime\u201d when he ran it. <\/p>\n
In an interview, McOsker said he was horrified by the conditions at the Wilmington site, including narrow driving lanes, food for sale outdoors and washers and dryers connected with extension cords. He feared Silver might soon sell the Ocean\u2019s 11 property, which could allow it to similarly deteriorate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked like a very dangerous encampment,\u201d McOsker said of the Wilmington RV park.<\/p>\n
After the City Council passed McOsker\u2019s motion in June 2024, the Department of Building and Safety closed the project\u2019s permits, effectively putting it on hold. <\/p>\n
McOsker and neighbors say that Silver has not built his park up to the 12 standards required for public benefit projects, though city agencies have signed off on the project multiple times.<\/p>\n
McOsker said he also believes the project needs a conditional use permit, which would require public hearings and a more formalized process. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not about stopping anything. This is about requiring a safe and inhabitable property,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s about applying our code fairly, where we are protecting health and safety of the residents at the property.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A sign on a lawn in the Green Meadows West neighborhood in Harbor City on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n
(Christina House \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
A conditional use permit could codify requirements for Silver and subsequent owners, McOsker said, such as spacing the RVs to allow emergency vehicles to easily maneuver. <\/p>\n
Silver said McOsker\u2019s measures were \u201cthinly veiled\u201d political efforts to stop Ocean\u2019s 11 from operating in his district. <\/p>\n
Some advocates for more affordable housing agreed with Silver.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing when City Council members continue to disrupt affordable housing, and Councilmember McOsker is certainly trying to use procedure and political moves to do so with this [conditional use permit] process,\u201d said Zachary Pitts, the Los Angeles director of YIMBY Action.<\/p>\n
Last July, after McOsker\u2019s motion requiring the environmental review passed, Silver sued the city. <\/p>\n
Last month, a judge ruled largely in Silver\u2019s favor, saying the city must issue the permits it has been withholding. McOsker\u2019s argument that the project needs a conditional use permit \u201cconflicts with the city\u2019s own long-standing, consistent interpretation\u201d that an RV park needs only to meet the 12 standards to qualify as a public benefit project, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie wrote.<\/p>\n
The city attorney\u2019s office declined to comment on the case or whether it plans to appeal. <\/p>\n
McOsker is fighting back with more legislation. Last month, the council approved his motion for city staff to draft an interim ordinance that would prohibit the issuing of permits for RV parks built as public benefit projects.<\/p>\n
The ordinance, when it is published, will be in effect for 45 days and can be extended for months as the city works to adopt new land use rules.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear whether the ordinance would affect Ocean\u2019s 11. McOsker\u2019s office said the RV park\u2019s permitting will \u201cbe most likely resolved through judicial and administrative determinations both at the court and at the city.\u201d Silver believes the judge\u2019s ruling entitles him to permits.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis ruling really hurt me,\u201d said Paulsen, who started to cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Montagna is ready to move into a new RV park in the Green Meadows West section of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,140009,2961,224,5337,126210,9105,21191,3042,20038,140010,936,3546,8744,10558,11449,140007,8152,140008],"class_list":{"0":"post-268919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-city-agency","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-mcosker","15":"tag-month","16":"tag-motion","17":"tag-neighbor","18":"tag-neighborhood","19":"tag-nicole-paulsen","20":"tag-ocean","21":"tag-people","22":"tag-project","23":"tag-property","24":"tag-resident","25":"tag-rv-park","26":"tag-safety","27":"tag-stewart-silver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115298434429758956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}