Property rights headed in the wrong direction

Re “Boulevard of dreams,” editorial, March 11

Re your March 11 editorial (“Boulevard of dreams”) about the Community Redevelopment Agency’s use of eminent domain against the Bernard Luggage store. You are right that this power should not be used without great restraint and serious thought.

Make no mistake, the seizure and transfer of Bernard Luggage can happen almost anywhere in Hollywood. That’s because the Community Redevelopment Agency has designated most of Hollywood as “blighted.”

The agency’s project area goes roughly from Franklin Avenue to Santa Monica Boulevard and from Serrano Avenue all the way to La Brea Avenue. Is every block in the region ugly? It is now because the agency says so.

DAVID SCHOLNICK

President

Hollywood Studio District

Neighborhood Council

Los Angeles

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My piece of land is already overregulated by many ordinances, such as the Citywide Hillside Ordinance, the Mount Washington-Glassell Park Specific Plan, the Retaining Wall Ordinance, the recently passed Citywide Native Tree Ordinance and lord knows how many other “good faith” laws that are now in the making.

I honestly hope that our elected officials think twice and analyze carefully what is at stake here before another injustice is committed.

EDEL VERA

Los Angeles