Studio City’s Real Needs

Councilman Joel Wachs recently proposed that a Studio City street be renamed in honor of the late Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov. A grand gesture in the name of world freedom and perestroika.

Instead of the community rallying around Joel, his proposal has caused many Studio City merchants and certainly a number of surrounding neighborhood residents to say, if you are interested in doing something for our community, give us what we desperately need to improve the conditions in Studio City.

The people of Studio City remain concerned about the recent and proposed commercial and residential growth that places a severe hardship on persons wanting to park their cars. This great concern for lack of parking in Studio City’s business sections is not new, and can be immediately and most successfully addressed, while still responding to a desire to identify ourselves with the great names in world history.

The solution is a win-win solution. Currently Mr. Wachs, at the request of the community, is studying a proposed 300-car parking structure on the corner of Ventura and Laurel Canyon boulevards to be built behind the existing Unocal service station and carwash. It’s a natural!

If Wachs takes a leadership position in negotiating with the developer, who insists that we must have another mini-mall in Studio City, we can have our parking structure erected in the names of perestroika and Andrei Sakharov.

Go for it, Joel

WALTER M. McINTYRE

Studio City