Statue Erection Update
By John
Davis
The installation of a
controversial sculpture proposed for the Venice Circle has been appealed by
several different parties to the Los Angeles Department of Public Works. The
Beachhead learned on March 31 that the application may be invalid because the
required signature of Cindy Miscikowski is not on the application.
It is also inevitable the appeal process
will eventually land in the lap of the California Coastal Commission at what
must according to the Coastal Act must be a hearing held locally. That will
probably be in June. Even if the Commission approved the Coastal Development
Permit, the applicant, the City of LA, must wait sixty days to utilize the
permit. That would push any installation of the Statue into August or September
if it were not challenged in court.
At
any rate it is highly unlikely that lame duck Cindy Miscikowski will be
photographed cutting the ribbon on the 4th of
July.
While there have been many points
of view expressed, the majority believe that a request for proposals is
necessary and for the Community to be offered alternatives to just one
person’s vision, famous or not.
Posted: Fri - April 1, 2005 at 08:32 PM