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By Staff reportPosted Jul 9, 2019 at 5:22 PM

Residents of Trona and Windy Acres area will have a chance to hear updates andvoice concerns during a town hall meeting in Trona on Wednesday at 10 a.m.The meeting will be held at Trona High School, 83600 Trona Road.

Elected officials and service experts from San Bernardino County, federal andstate governments, and local utilities will discuss the status of response andrecovery efforts related to the July 4 and 5 earthquakes.

Participants at the town hall meeting will include the San Bernardino CountySheriff’s Department, San Bernardino County Fire Department, San BernardinoCounty Public Health and San Bernardino County Public Works, among otheragencies. In addition, State Sen. Shannon Grove, San Bernardino County Boardof Supervisors Chair Curt Hagman, First District Supervisor Robert Lovingood,Sheriff John McMahon and Assemblyman Jay Obernolte.

The speakers will address the status of recovery efforts to those communitiesaffected by the earthquakes and services to residents. Residents will have anopportunity to speak and ask queens publicly and privately following themeeting.

Trona was especially hard hit during the 6.4 magnitude and 7.1 magnitudeearthquakes that occurred Thursday morning and Friday evening. More than 40homes were damaged, water service disrupted and people displaced. SearlesValley Minerals, the town’s major employer, was reported to have shut downdue to the earthquakes, though no updates have been provided.

In addition, San Bernardino County Fire Department Assessment team had tored tag The Old Guest House and the Searles Domestic Water Company onTuesday due to continuous ground shifting from continued seismic activity.

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Due to the damage caused by the earthquakes, President Donald Trump declaredan emergency for the state of California and ordered federal assistance tosupplement state, tribal and local response efforts.

This follows a declaration of emergency signed by San Bernardino County onSaturday.

In the intervening time, several relief efforts were deployed to the Trona area,with Trona High School as a local distribution point.

Portable SHOWERS were made available starting on Tuesday at Trona HighSchool, 83600 Trona Road. Medical services will be offered starting today at thehigh school as well.

Five portable restrooms will be set up at the County Public Works Yard, 8031Trona Road.

The Commodities Point of Distribution (CPOD) is at Trona High School. Inaddition, a Local Assistance Center (LAC) at Trona High School will be openfrom 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The LAC is a one-stop location to access supportiveservices for residents affected by the earthquakes. Resources are provided free ofcharge.

The Community Crisis Response Team will continue to provide mental healthservices through Friday.

Stray animals are being taken to Ridgecrest Animal Shelter located at 411 SanBernardino Blvd.

Mass care and shelter needs are being coordinated with State, Kern County, SanBernardino County, and the Red Cross.

A boil water notice for Westend, South Trona, Argus, and Trona Villageremains in effect through the weekend.

Trona County Library will open as a COOLING CENTER from 10 am. to 6 p.m.through Thursday, July 18. Portable restrooms will also be available outside theLibrary, 82805 Mountain View Street.

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Members of the National Guard assist with water distribution in theaftermath of two major earthquakes in the small mining town ofTrona on Monday, July 8, 2019. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda,The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: July 9, 2019 at 2:32 pm | UPDATED: July 9, 2019 at2:32 pm

Recovery efforts continued Tuesday, July 9, in thecommunities of Trona and Ridgecrest, shaken lastweek by two major earthquakes.

After Friday’s 7.1 temblor centered roughly 11miles northeast of Ridgecrest and preceded byThursday’s 6.4 magnitude quake, both followed bythousands of aftershocks, the communities havebeen cleaning up.

Services have been coming back online as they’vebeen restored. And work continues to get waterflowing to Trona again, the community has beenwithout running water since the first of the twoquakes rattled the area.

No deaths or major injuries were reported, butsome buildings, including homes, were damagedor destroyed, and roads in the area, includingHighway 178, are under repair.

Trona town hall

A town hall meeting for residents of Trona andWindy Acres is been scheduled for 10 a.m.Wednesday, July 10, at Trona High School, 83600Trona Road.

Representatives from the San Bernardino CountySheriff’s Department, the County Fire ProtectionDistrict, County Public Health, County Public

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Works, and other San Bernardino County agenciesare expected to be there, as are State Sen.Shannon Grove, County Board of SupervisorsChairman Curt Hagman, First District SupervisorRobert Lovingood, Sheriff John McMahon andState Assemblyman Jay Obernolte.

Residents will have a chance to speak and askquestions.

New cooling center

The Trona County Library opened as a coolingcenter Tuesday. Hours are 10 am. to 6 p.m. until Thursday, July 18. There will be a portablerestroom outside the library, 82805 Mountain ViewSt.

Additional services

Portable showers arrived at Trona High School onTuesday, where bottled water has been handedout by volunteers and California National Guardsoldiers. Medical services for residents will startthere on Wednesday, and will be available from 11a.m. to 5 p.m., according to San BernardinoCounty officials. Mental health services havealready started.

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Ridgecrest DMV

The Ridgecrest Department of Motor Vehiclesreopened for business Tuesday, July 9, after beingclosed as seismic safety inspections took place.

Trona Post Office

The Trona Post Office is closed until further notice.While regular mail will be delivered, Tronaresidents who use post office boxes can pick uptheir mail at the Ridgecrest Post Office, 101 E.Coso Ave., according to the U.S. Postal Service.All other USPS services will also be available inRidgecrest, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday throughFriday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Post office box pickups will require a photo ID.Trona residents who can’t travel to the RidgecrestPost Office can get a change of address fortemporary moves, available online.

Shuttle bus

Free shuttle bus service from Trona High School,and possibly other points in the town, to the RedCross shelter at the Kerr-McGee Center inRidgecrest will continue. The scheduled pickup isat 10 a.m. in front of Trona High Schoo. The buswill leave the center at noon and return to the highschool.

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California Office of Emergency Services andFederal Emergency Management Agency willbegin their inspections later this week, Cal OESspokesman Robb Mayberry said Tuesday.Agencies for the two counties are conducting theirown inspections, he said.

There was no immediate word from either countyTuesday on how many buildings had been red-tagged — unsafe to occupy, or yellow-tagged —OK to occupy, with restrictions. San BernardinoCounty spokesman David Wert said Tuesday thenumbers won’t be released until inspections arecompleted.

The U.S. Geological Survey said after the 7.1temblor that the “economic damage” to the areawas at least $1 billion dollars.

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The Mojave Desert town of Trona braced for heat Tuesday as they remained without clean running waterafter pipes buckled from two powerful earthquakes the previous week.

Crews have been working on �xing them since the back-to-back temblors on July 4 and 5, but the SearlesDomestic Water Co. has not yet provided an estimate of when services will be restored. The damagedpipes brought water from Ridgecrest, a larger community about 20 miles away.

In the meantime, San Bernardino County of�cials, who said they have no control over the system, havebeen offering residents bottled water at Trona High School. Authorities also planned to open portableshowers starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

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Temperatures could reach 101 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, with even hotter weather in the forecast inthe coming days. Many resident say they use water-powered swamp coolers to cool off.

Richard Ancira, one of about 1,900 people who live in Trona, said more crews were needed to expediterepairs.

“We need more help," he told KTLA.

One of the biggest problems residents face is not having water to clean their homes, another local said.

"You’re still sitting around the mess… That’s the hard part," the man said as he �lled up empty containerswith water from a truck brought into town by the Searles Domestic Water Co.

Building inspectors so far have deemed at least 10 Trona homes too unsafe to stay in.

Later on Tuesday, National Guard troops arrived in a convoy of Humvees to hand out bottles of water andemergency supplies at Trona High School.

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Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: July 9, 2019 at 4:14 pm | UPDATED: July 9, 2019 at11:14 pm

Damage assessments that could lead to federalaid for residents and business owners affected bylast week’s earthquakes will begin Thursday, July11, the Federal Emergency Management Agencysaid Tuesday.

Nine teams of local, state and federal officials,including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, willconvene Wednesday for training before fanningout Thursday in the Ridgecrest and Trona areas,said Victor Inge, a FEMA spokesman.

The teams will examine schools, bridges, roads,public buildings, businesses and homes. Theywon’t examine every property, Inge said, but willuse what they discover during inspections to forma representative sample of the damage.

That data will be presented to Gov. GavinNewsom, who then is expected to seek a majordisaster declaration from President Donald Trump.

Such a declaration would trigger programs such asgrants to homeowners, apartment residents andbusiness owners to cover uninsured losses. Adeclaration would also allow the Small BusinessAdministration to provide low-interest loans andthe state to seek reimbursement of up to 75percent of the costs of repairing damage to stateproperty.

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“The purpose of federal disaster assistance is toprovide resources and capabilities where the localand state don’t have it,” Inge said.

The emergency declaration approved by Trump onMonday was an action separate from a majordisaster declaration. Monday’s action authorizedthe federal government to provide emergencyassistance such as delivering meals, cots,generators and blankets, Inge said.

The area was rocked Friday by a 7.1 temblorcentered roughly 11 miles northeast of Ridgecrest,near where Thursday’s 6.4 magnitude quake hit,the USGS said. Thousands of aftershockscontinue to rattle the area, including Monday. Thetwo quakes knocked some homes off theirfoundations, set fire to others, and sent items instores and homes crashing down. No deaths ormajor injuries were reported.

“Emergency declarations supplement state andlocal or Indian tribal government efforts inproviding emergency services, such as theprotection of lives, property, public health, andsafety, or to lessen or avert the threat of acatastrophe in any part of the United States. Thetotal amount of assistance provided for in a singleemergency may not exceed $5 million,” the FEMAdisaster declaration web page states.

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TRONA — As this unincorporated town in San Bernardino County moves fromearthquake disaster to recovery mode, a group of High Desert and Victor Valleycharities worked together to deliver five truckloads of supplies to a church hereon Tuesday.

Lissette Angulo and Basil Kimbrew, both of Victorville, teamed with DarrenFikstad of Desert Manna in Barstow and Lisa Graham-Anderson and JoshuaGraham of Swapping Mamas Clothing Swap/Closet charity in Adelanto, todeliver food, water, toiletries and other necessities to the Christian Fellowship ofTrona.

Volunteers filled the church with donations and provided assistance fortownspeople ravaged by the two largest magnitude earthquakes to hit SouthernCalifornia in 20 years.

“We don’t want to leave anyone behind,” Angulo told a group of volunteers atthe church. “We won’t leave our neighbors behind.”

The cooperative effort began with Angulo, who several years ago, helpedorganize aid for Houston after Hurricane Harvey. “If we can help Houston, weneed to help our neighbors,” Angulo said.

Angulo and Kimbrew reached out to Desert Manna, which offered a 25-footrefrigerated truck, full of food.

“We did this on two days notice,” said Fikstad, as volunteers emptied a truck offresh produce, drinks and snacks. “We tried to bring the types of things thatpeople can just open and eat.”

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“This is heartwarming,” said Julia Doss of the Christian Fellowship. “We’re notturning any donations away.”

A board posted in the hall at the Christian Fellowship building listed items thatwere needed, such as first aid kits, Band-Aids, bleach, rubbing alcohol, peroxide,dog and cat food, charcoal, even denture adhesive.

Although electricity had been restored to the town by Tuesday, running waterhad not.

“These people have been amazing. I wish we had a government like them,” saidStephanie Smith, a two-year resident of Trona.

Smith and her husband were looking for help when they found the church listedon the Facebook group “Trona Cares.”

“I’m not a Christian, but good work is good work,” said Dwayne Smith,Stephanie’s husband.

San Bernardino County has provided shower trailers for residents. More than 12showers and free water is now available at Trona High School, just down thestreet from the Christain Fellowship.

The County library’s Trona branch is also listed as a cooling center, withportable restrooms.

Tracey Martinez, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County FireDepartment, reported Tuesday that 270 homes were damaged by recentearthquakes.

She added five to 10 homes could be red tagged, or deemed unfit for occupancy.

San Bernardino County will open a local assistance center at Trona High Schoolon Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A dozen county agencies will be providingservices at the center, including public health, veterans services, behavior healthand land use services. The center will remain open daily until further notice,according to a county statement.

Southern California Edison and faith-based organizations will be there also.

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An earthquake town hall is scheduled for 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at the highschool. Assemblyman Jay Obernolte and 1st District Supervisor RobertLovingood will join representatives from local and state agencies to talk aboutrecovery efforts and what’s next for the community.

Trona High School is located at 83600 Trona Road, Trona.

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Kristina Stockmyer and her husband Mark walk back to their home in the Heritage Village community of Ridgecrest, Calif., where most of thestructures stayed intact after a pair of earthquakes hit the area last week. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

After major temblors on July 4 and 5, structural engineers descended on Ridgecrestexpecting to study destruction from the largest earthquake to hit Southern California innearly 20 years.

They found relatively little.

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Yes, mobile homes were torn off foundations, chimneys fell, gas lines leaked and somehomes caught fire. But overall, most buildings did fine — and many businesses were upand running within a day or two of the biggest shock, a magnitude 7.1.

“Ridgecrest, I’m just amazed,” California Earthquake Authority structural engineerJaniele Maffei said of the light damage.

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But the outcome in Ridgecrest shouldn’t provide solace to California’s biggest cities.

The Mojave Desert town remained largely unscathed because its building stock wasrelatively new and remarkably resilient. Many homes are one or two stories, built in the1980s. It lacks the kind of structures that experts say are most vulnerable in a big quake— unreinforced masonry, brittle concrete, so-called soft story apartments and single-family homes not bolted to their foundations.

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As a result, Ridgecrest suffered far less damage than cities hit by less powerful quakes inrecent years, including Napa and Paso Robles, where older buildings in the downtownareas crumbled amid the shaking.

Experts were quick to point out that last week’s quakes would have proved far moredevastating had they been located near bigger cities filled with more susceptiblebuildings.

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“You take a 7.1 and put it into the Hollywood fault or Newport-Inglewood fault in LongBeach — we’re going to see substantially different levels of damage,” said Ken O’Dell,president of the Structural Engineers Assn. of Southern California. “Ridgecrest did a very

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good job surviving this particular 7.1.”

Keith Porter, a nationally renowned earthquake engineer and research professor at theUniversity of Colorado Boulder, said Ridgecrest’s result should not be seen as a “victorylap.”

“We still have dangerous buildings, and we still have a building code that is not optimaland doesn’t protect society as well as it could,” he said. “Instead of a dozen collapsedmanufactured homes, hundreds or thousands of collapsed manufactured homes. Insteadof four or so building fires, hundreds of building fires.”

Progress has been made by cities — Los Angeles and San Francisco among them — torequire some building retrofits. But even those large population centers have notmandated retrofits of all the types of structures engineers worry about. And authorities inmany suburban areas — including in Silicon Valley, San Mateo County and the beachcities of L.A. County’s South Bay — haven’t ordered flimsy apartment buildings to bestrengthened.

Many cities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties haven’t required fixes to brickbuildings, a vulnerability Californians have known about for a century.

A U.S. Geological Survey simulation said a plausible magnitude 7.1 earthquake on theHayward fault in the Bay Area could kill 800 people, burn the equivalent of 52,000single-family homes and displace 400,000 people, worsening the region’s housing crisis.

And a hypothetical magnitude 7.8 earthquake that would send violent shaking wavesalong a 186-mile section of the southern San Andreas fault could kill 1,800 people, leave50,000 injured and cause lasting harm to Southern California’s economy.

Such a direct hit “would take days or weeks to get to the place we are [at in Ridgecrest] —gearing up toward restoration and early recovery,” said Laurie Johnson, president of theEarthquake Engineering Research Institute.

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Why Ridgecrest was spared

There are a number of reasons why Ridgecrest was largely spared.

Ralph "Zeb" Haleman, 67, carries cases of water home Sunday in Trona, Calif., where residents were still without water and electricity was spottyafter last week's quakes. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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The town, which began growing up the near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lakeduring World War II, does not have a stock of unretrofitted brick buildings like thoseconstructed before the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, said USGS seismologist SusanHough. Unretrofitted brick buildings are a major killer in quakes, causing at least fivedeaths in San Francisco during the 1989 magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake and twofatalities in the 2003 magnitude 6.5 Paso Robles earthquake.

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There are also very few “soft story” apartments with weak ground floors built toaccommodate parking — likely, Hough said, a result of “having enough room to not everneed high-density housing.” A soft-story apartment collapse killed 16 people in the 6.7Northridge earthquake in 1994.

And because they are newer, the single-family homes in Ridgecrest lacked thevulnerability of many Southern California and Bay Area pre-1980 wood-frame housesbuilt with a handful of steps above the ground. Sharp shaking can snap the woodsupports connecting such homes to their foundations. A retrofit to brace and bolt thestructure can cost several thousands of dollars — but repairing the problem after a quakecan cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Repeating the July 4 and 5 quakes in the Bay Area and Southern California would result“in a lot of homes off their foundations,” Maffei said. “Without retrofits, the Bay Area andLos Angeles do not have resilient housing.”

There are at least 1 million of these vulnerable homes in California, but Ridgecrest hasvery few.

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Joaquin Vasquez, 12, looks over earthquake damaged shelves as his father, Alex Vasquez, cleans up their garage in Ridgecrest. "We lucked out.We didn't get much damage," Alex said. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The more obvious signs of damage in Ridgecrest did not make many structuresuninhabitable — cracked concrete walls surrounding yards or a broken decorative brickfaçade on a home, said Southern California structural engineer Wayne Chang, whovisited the region Sunday and shared his observations with the Earthquake EngineeringResearch Institute.

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foundations, engineers said.

The happenstances of geology and geography also worked in the town’s favor.

The magnitude 7.1 earthquake started at an epicenter 10 miles northeast of centralRidgecrest. But it occurred on a fault that focused the worst shaking waves away fromRidgecrest and Trona, to the northwest and southeast, respectively, of the epicenter, andinto sparsely populated areas, Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson said.

On the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, Ridgecrest endured “very strong,” or level 7shaking, enough to break chimneys and damage badly designed structures but keepdamage negligible in well-designed buildings. Trona got a level 6 “strong” shaking.

By contrast, much of the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys saw at least level 8, or“severe,” shaking during the Northridge quake — an intensity that can greatly damagepoorly built structures. (The shaking nearly caused a new steel frame Auto Club buildingin Santa Clarita to collapse and seriously damaged or destroyed 200 apartmentbuildings.)

Even though the Northridge earthquake produced much less total energy than thetemblor on July 5, its location caused shaking to be worse directly underneath a highlypopulated area.

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Trona, an older city, was more heavily hit than Ridgecrest.

Although the shaking was less intense, Trona’s location on soft sediments that haveeroded off a mountainside — known as an alluvial fan — caused the ground to act likequicksand, O’Dell said.

“That spreading of the soil undermined the foundations,” he said, causing the base ofbuildings to come apart.

Chang said Trona’s well-maintained homes seemed to withstand the shaking well, butsome abandoned and unoccupied houses suffered collapsed walls.

There are few public details so far about the structural damage suffered at the Naval AirWeapons Station, which has been directly on top of recent earthquakes. Conditions haveforced personnel to evacuate.

So far, authorities believe one person has died as a result of one of last week’searthquakes — a Nevada man found pinned under his Jeep after the vehicle fell off itsjacks.

What should be done

Engineers and safety advocates say more can be done before the next big quake hitsCalifornia. That includes bolting bookshelves to walls, arming kitchen cabinets andclothing dressers with toddler-safe locks, and using quake putty to affix breakable itemsto shelves.

Porter wants lawmakers to look to strengthen the state’s minimum buildingrequirements, which he says currently allow for construction just strong enough to notcollapse in a quake.

“People think a new building is earthquake-proof. But really, all it’s supposed to do is notcollapse and kill you,” Porter said. “The damage can be so costly that you can’t afford tofix it; that it doesn’t make sense to fix it.”

He urged lawmakers to reconsider a measure vetoed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018,which called for a tougher construction code to keep new buildings usable after a majorearthquake.

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Porter also said cities need to tackle the vulnerabilities presented by some of California’slargest buildings.

Los Angeles, for instance, has yet to decide how it wants to address the risk of steelmoment frame buildings constructed before the Northridge quake; the USGS has said itis plausible that five high-rise steel buildings in Southern California could topple in amagnitude 7.8 quake.

San Francisco has yet to decide on how it wants to deal with its stock of about 3,000potentially vulnerable brittle concrete buildings, the kind that collapsed in theNorthridge and Sylmar earthquakes.

“If we think it’s expensive to fix those buildings, wait until we get the bill for not fixingthem,” Porter said. If a financial district is obliterated by the collapse of a single steelskyscraper, Porter said, “who is going to want to go into all the other ones that didn’tcollapse? Our trust in those buildings will evaporate.”

It’s time to move beyond simply preparing an earthquake kit as the main way to preparefor the Big One, O’Dell said.

“Being prepared is more than having your kit stocked, it’s more than having a hard hatunder your bed,” O’Dell said. “We need to be preparing our buildings.”

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Aftershocks from the recent earthquakes near Ridgecrest are decreasing in bothfrequency and magnitude, and seismologists say they expect the pattern to continue.

The earthquakes on July 4 and 5 — one a magnitude 6.4 and the other a 7.1 — were thestrongest to hit the area in 20 years. Thousands of aftershocks have already beenreported, and scientists have said they expect thousands more — about 34,000 over thenext six months.

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But since an initial cluster of magnitude 5 and above quakes that struck in the hoursfollowing the 7.1 temblor, the aftershocks have been subsiding in intensity and strikingless often, an analysis of seismological data shows.

Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson said late Monday the earthquake sequence seemedto be quieting down faster than was initially thought.

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One possible reason: The quakes are occurring in an area of Earth’s crust that isrelatively warm. Aftershock sequences in these areas can be particularly intense but alsofade more quickly — as has been seen in relatively hotter rock in the Imperial Valley.

Scientists had earlier said the probability of another earthquake of magnitude 7 orgreater resulting from the July 5 quake was less than 1%.

“Now it’s probably quite a bit less than that,” Hauksson said. “It’s extremely unlikely bynow to have another magnitude 7” quake resulting from that sequence.

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The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday the aftershocks would continue to taper off inthe coming days and weeks, and the probability of another large quake — magnitude 4 orhigher — also will decrease.

No deaths or major injuries were reported as a result of last week’s temblors, but theearthquakes damaged homes and roads and sparked widespread anxiety, causing scoresof residents to question their earthquake preparedness.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration declared a federal emergency for areas ofSouthern California devastated by the Ridgecrest quakes.

The declaration, which was requested by Gov. Gavin Newsom, authorizes the FederalEmergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to assistwith disaster relief in Kern and San Bernardino counties in the aftermath of the quakes.

“California is grateful for President Trump’s approval of our request and the ongoingefforts of local, state and federal emergency responders to protect communities acrossthe region,” Newsom said in a statement.

The federal assistance adds to the state and local relief efforts already underway.

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A Hollywood building lies in ruins following a 1994 earthquake. (Los Angeles Times)

The Ridgecrest earthquakes didn’t cause any notable damage in the Greater Los Angelesarea.

But the shaking did spur hundreds of thousands to ask that eternal question inearthquake country: How safe is my building?

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Major earthquakes in metropolitan areas of California have highlighted thevulnerabilities of certain types of buildings. Unreinforced masonry can crumble. Housesnot bolted to foundations can slide. Brittle concrete towers can collapse, as can “softstory” apartment buildings.

Government agencies, researchers and journalists have begun compiling inventories ofsome of the buildings that might be at risk.

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Here are some of the most vulnerable places, as compiled from The Times’ archives:

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Soft-story apartments

Los Angeles inspectors spent about two years developing a list of 13,500 so-called soft-story buildings that probably need seismic strengthening. These apartments, whichfeature flimsy first floors that often serve as parking spaces, became popular after WorldWar II as Los Angeles was spreading north into the San Fernando Valley and west towardthe ocean.

But they’ve also proved to be vulnerable to violent shaking. Such buildings collapsed inthe 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and the 1994 Northridge earthquake, including oneapartment building where 16 people died.

Owners of each building have been put on notice, and a number of them already havebegun the retrofitting process. The retrofits can cost as much as $130,000, which hassparked concerns from owners and residents feeling the pressure of rising rents and ahousing crunch.

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This map shows concrete frame buildings in Los Angeles County. (Los Angeles Times)

Concrete buildings

A Times analysis found more than 1,000 older concrete buildings in Los Angeles andhundreds more throughout the county may be at risk of collapsing in a major earthquake.

Despite their sturdy appearance, some of the buildings are vulnerable to the sidewaysmovement of a major earthquake because they don’t have enough steel reinforced bars tohold columns in place. University of California researchers estimate that about 75 of the

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nearly 1,500 buildings on the list could collapse in a large earthquake, exposingthousands to injury or death.

Each building would need to be examined more closely and undergo extensive testing togauge its vulnerability; some may be safe, some may turn out not to be concrete.Scientists stressed that the list is not 100% accurate and that they have not reached anyconclusions about the safety or hazard posed by any of the 1,451 buildings.

A separate group of scientists used public records, maps and street surveys to compile alist of nearly 1,500 concrete buildings constructed before 1976 in Los Angeles.

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Fault lines run through Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times)

Faults and liquefaction

Parts of California — including Los Angeles County — are crisscrossed with faults. Livingabove or adjacent to faults also increases the chance of damage in a quake.

Some areas are also vulnerable to liquefaction. Shaking from an earthquake can causeland to behave like quicksand, causing the ground to fail. This can happen in placeswhere the land is made of loose sand or silt and filled with groundwater.

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Liquefaction also can cause something called “lateral spreading,” in which the groundcan slide down gentle slopes or toward the bank of a river while on top of a buried layerthat acts like a liquid.

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Detectives in Nevada began to investigateTuesday the death of a man who may have diedas a result of the July 4 earthquake nearRidgecrest in Southern California, authorities said.If confirmed as quake-related, it would be the firstdeath from last week’s earthquakes.

At about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, deputies with the NyeCounty Sheriff’s Office were called to FortChurchill Road and Carrol Road in Pahrump, Nev.,where they found the body of a 56-year-old manpinned beneath a vehicle, said Sgt. Adam Tippettsof the Sheriff’s Office in a video posted toFacebook on Tuesday evening.

The man appeared to be working on a vehicle atthe time of his death.

Since investigators observed that the car had beenproperly jacked up prior to the incident, theybelieve something else may be to blame: the 6.4magnitude earthquake that rocked the MojaveDesert towns of Ridgecrest and Trona, Calif.

“Based on preliminary timing and circumstances atthe scene, the Nye County’s investigation revealsthat this may be the result of the vehicle, falling offthe jacks on July 4th during the earthquake,”Tippetts said.

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Edited video and photos of the scene, released byNye County authorities, show a red Jeep leaningtoward its right, a missing front right wheel, and ablurred out area on the screen, possibly where theman was found.

It was not immediately known whether the manwas trapped alive beneath the vehicle for a time,or was instantly killed.

A local newspaper in Nevada, the Pahrump ValleyTimes, reported both quakes last week shook thePahrump area.

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Authorities said both earthquakes were felt in Pahrump, Nev.

A Nevada man found pinned under his Jeep appears to have died after his vehicle fell offits jacks as a result of one of the Ridgecrest, Calif., earthquakes last week, authoritiesannounced Tuesday evening.

Deputies with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched Tuesday afternoon andfound the 56-year-old man beneath the Jeep in Pahrump, Nev., about 180 milesnortheast of Ridgecrest.

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Sgt. Adam Tippetts said in the news release that the man was last seen alive Wednesdayat a local gas station.

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remote Searles Valley area Thursday morning near where Inyo, San Bernardino and Kerncounties meet, or the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the area Friday night.

Tippetts said both earthquakes were felt in Pahrump.

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By Martin Estacio Staff Writer Posted Jul 9, 2019 at 8:40 PMUpdated Jul 9, 2019 at 8:40 PM

RANCHO CUCAMONGA — At San Bernardino County’s largest jail, a varietyof resources are available for inmates, which can range from earning their highschool diploma to petting a miniature donkey.

With West Valley Detention Center’s capacity of up to 3,347 persons, servicesare geared towards reducing the risk that after release inmates will go back.

“There’s 6,000 people in jail on any given day,” said Sheriff John McMahon of thecounty’s total jail capacity. “We don’t need the business, so if some of them don’tcome back, it’s not going to hurt our feelings. It’s better for all of us if they’resuccessful when they get released.”

Sheriff’s officials presented some of those resources and gave a tour of the jail tomembers of the media on Tuesday.

In addition to education, substance abuse counseling, and job readiness courses,one program works to strengthen mother and father bonds that are lacking formany inmates.

Through the TALK, or Teaching and Loving Kids, program, children of inmatesare allowed to be with their incarcerated parent once a week in a daycare-likeenvironment, said Inmate Services Director Chris Martin.

Individuals must first take a two-week course in trauma recovery and familyrelations before being qualified to have their kids visit them. The goal is to worktoward family reunification and at the same time reduce recidivism, Martin said.

“We want to take a holistic approach and not just help the individual that’s incustody, but the whole family,” she said.

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One incarcerated mother said it was the “best thing (she) could have done” in avideo officials showed. She said she can play outside with her daughter, watchher ride a bike, do puzzles, paint, and the interaction helped her focus on a long-term plan.

“My daughter deserves so much more than to be here. I don’t want to see hercome back to see me,” she said. “It really straightened me up.”

The jail must care for and treat some underrepresented members of society aswell.

From 2012 to 2018, the number of seriously mentally ill inmates in the jail morethan tripled, from 94 to 360, according to health services administrator TerryFillman.

Overall, nearly 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. live with some type of mental illness,according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

A history of public policy changes has effectively turned jails into “de-factomental insitutions,” said McMahon.

Fillman said a period of institutionalizing people in state mental hospitals beganto decline when advocacy groups and politicians caused a shift in the 1960s.

In 1967, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which limited the right to involuntarily commit mentally-ill patients,reducing the state’s expenses on institutions.

Patients were moved into federally-funded community centers, which oftenlacked funding and were understaffed, Fillman said.

Assembly Bill 109, enacted into law in 2011 and designed to reduceovercrowding in California’s state prisons, mandated that persons charged withless serious felonies, such as drug crimes, be housed in county jails.

More than 1 in 4 U.S. adults live with both a substance use disorder and a seriousmental health issue, according to the U.S. Department of Health & HumanServices.

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For those deemed incompetent to stand trial, West Valley runs the Jail BasedCompetency Treatment Program.

In partnership with the Department of State Hospitals, the program offerssimilar services to those in state mental health facilities and starts treatingpatients sooner, Fillman said.

The wait for a bed at a state hospital is about 765 days. Fillman noted that theprogram speeds this process by offering mental health treatment and works torestore a person’s mental competency to possibly stand trial and has cut the waittime to 265 days.

“For us, they’re patients,” Fillman said of the mentally-ill inmates. The overallgoal is to treat patients to the “highest level of wellness” where they can integrateinto the jail’s general population and ultimately, society, he said.

On average, it takes about 55 days to restore a person to the requiredcompetency.

Several therapies are offered, in addition to the prescribing of psychotropicmedication. As a group of reporters entered one unit, a billboard-sized paintingof the Seattle skyline hung.

Fillman said this is part of the patient’s visual therapy so that those isolated intheir cells have something to look at other than a white wall.

And one non-human visitor to the jail, a 15-year-old miniature donkey namedRusty, is said to bring some of the more uncooperative patients out of their shell.

His owner, Janella Denney-Mullican, told the group of reporters it takes a specialbrand of donkey to be brought into a jail for animal therapy. The right donkeyhas to be unafraid of shiny floors, the slamming of the jail doors and most of all,must be mellow.

“You have to know your donkey,” she said.

Fillman said Rusty and other therapy animals that visit the jail have had thegreatest impact on patients who might be schizophrenic or paranoid, and don’tusually participate in activities.

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“This is the kind of thing that can draw these people out,” he said.

A group of seven or so mentally-ill patients clad in orange uniforms werebrought into one of the units. Denney-Mullican trotted the amiable Rustyaround the semi-circle of men who reached out, some hesitatingly, to pet him.

A counselor asked them how it felt. One said it was nice. Another said it was“relaxing.”

One man with matted hair and holding a coffee cup frowned when Rusty firstwalked past him.

After Rusty made his first round and started his second, however, the mansmiled a bit, extended his hand and patted the donkey’s head.

Martin Estacio may be reached at MEstacio@VVDailyPress.com or at 760-955-5358.

Follow him on Twitter @DP_mestacio.

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By Ben Christopher.

Rhonda Shader is tired of looking at maps of Placentia.

First as a councilmember and now as the mayor, Shader has seen the 7-square miles of her

north Orange County town sliced and diced at least a dozen ways to satisfy the demands of

good governance groups who accuse the city’s leaders of gerrymandering and discrimination.

“We’ve really made an effort to stay out of court because quite honestly our city can’t afford

it,” said Shader.

Easier said than done.

In 2016, the city agreed to ditch its at-large election system and adopt a new map with five

distinct districts. That came after the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

threatened to sue the city, arguing that the old system, with each council member

representing the entire city, made it all but impossible for Placentia’s minority Latino

community to elect a representative of their choosing.

When the city adopted a new map in 2018—one of eleven proposals—the Legal Defense

Fund threatened to sue again, arguing that the designated-Latino district was short on Latinos

voters.

Now the city is considering its third map.

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Placentia is one of hundreds of California cities and counties that have been forced, either by

court order or the threat of legal action, to redraw their electoral maps over the last decade. In

Kern County, Palmdale, Torrance, Menlo Park and Martinez, to name a few, litigants have

accused local leaders of abusing the districting process to disempower minority groups,

protect incumbents, or tilt the scales in favor of one party.

“When the lines aren’t drawn fairly, it can block a community out of having representation for

a whole decade. On top of that, when people feel the election process is rigged, it undermines

trust in democracy,” said Nicolas Heidorn, policy and legal director with California’s Common

Cause, a government transparency group.

They may soon have extra help from the state of California: Legislators are considering two

bills that would place new districting rules on local governments.

Already California’s congressional and state legislative districts are drawn by a bipartisan

commission, which supporters say represents a national gold standard in fair, transparent

political map design. Its intent is to prevent gerrymandering—a technique of map

manipulation named for Elbridge Gerry, who as Massachusetts governor in 1812 permitted his

party to draw districts to their advantage, including one shaped like a salamander. An editorial

cartoonist at the time lampooned it as a “Gerrymander.”

Now, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gives lawmakers across the country the

greenlight to gerrymander as much as they like, these two bills could push the state even

further in the other direction.

AB 849 would set up rules restricting how cities and counties draw their council and

supervisory maps. Among other things, the bill by Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta from

Oakland would require each district to “respect the geographic integrity of local

neighborhoods and communities of interest.”

SB 139, by Santa Monica Senator Ben Allen, would require most counties over 250,000

people to create independent redistricting commissions. These could either be modeled on

California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission, with virtually equal seating for Democrats,

Republicans and political independents, or they could be made to reflect the partisan

makeup of the county itself—as long as no one political party controls more than a majority

of the seats. Of the 12 slots, a single party would only be allowed to have 6, with the rest

made up of political independents. Exceptions are made for San Francisco, San Diego, Los

Angeles and Santa Barbara counties, which already have their own commissions.

In the wake of a recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, advocates say it’s more important

than ever that the state take the lead on this issue.

In an opinion issued in late June, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the county’s highest

court did not have the authority to second-guess district lines just because they artificially

inflate the electoral prospects of one party over another. But, he reminded opponents of

partisan gerrymandering, “the avenue for reform established by the Framers, and used by

Congress in the past, remains open.”

In other words, states that are tired of gerrymandering are invited to do something about it at

the state level.

“These bills are basically taking up the challenge that was laid down in that opinion,” said

Heidorn with Common Cause, the co-sponsor of both bills.

So far, no high-profile Democratic lawmakers have argued that the state should abandon its

high-minded position on nonpartisan districting in response to the Court’s ruling. That might

be because California’s independent districting system was approved by voters in two

separate ballot measures and that, with Democrats holding supermajorities in both chambers

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of the state Legislature along with 46 of the state’s 53 congressional seats, there isn’t that

much room for electoral improvement.

If both bills were to become law, they would go into effect next year, just in time for the next

round of mapmaking after the 2020 Census. For the hundreds of cities that have, like

Placentia, been forced to adopt by-district city councils over the last decade, this will be their

first experience with redistricting.

“As a general matter, it is wise to ensure that the first redistricting process that these local

governments experience go as smoothly and transparently as possible,“ said Thomas Saenz,

president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Saenz said the Fund

withdrew its support of SB 139 last week, after the bill was amended to allow counties to

establish committees with equal partisan representation.

“We don’t think that complies with the US Constitution,” he said. “If particular counties did that

we would look at whether there is a legal avenue to challenge that choice.”

The Fund is officially neutral on both bills.

So far, most of the opposition has come from county and city government groups, who are

worried they will be saddled with the costs of implementing these reforms.

But others have raised philosophical objections—arguing that while extreme gerrymandering

results from partisan warfare at the state and national level, such partisanship is largely

absent in cities and counties where offices are technically nonpartisan.

“This is what folks mostly up in Sacramento are clueless about,” said Doug Johnson, president

of the National Demographics Corporation, which consults with cities on political mapmaking

and who has drawn many electoral maps that could be invalidated by these laws. “They’re so

used to Sacramento politics and the Sacramento gerrymandering and the nonstop

partisanship of Sacramento, they miss that local government in California is a whole different

world.”

Courts have not always seen things that way.

Last year, a federal district judge found that the Kern County Supervisors’ map split the Latino-

dominated portion of the county across multiple seats, depriving Latinos “of an equal

opportunity to elect representatives of their choice.” The county was ordered back to the

drawing board.

Under Allen’s bill, Kern’s next map would likely be drawn by an independent commission.

Placentia faced a similar charge when it approved its 2018 district map, which cut the city into

columns running north to south, splitting the Latino neighborhood between the first and

second district. But Shader said that configuration was designed to promote collaboration at

City Hall.

“Everybody has a piece of the north, everybody has a piece of the south,” she said. Instead of

a system in which each council member is loyal to one neighborhood or community, that

original map “helps everybody work together,” she said.

Who draws themaps in eachstate?

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The City of Placentia introduced the map on the left in 2018 and then withdrew it after the it was threatened witha lawsuit. On the right, the latest proposal.

“I feel like they’re trying to control our process,” she said of Bonta’s bill. “We know our

communities.”

Kevin Shenkman has heard this argument before. By his count, the Malibu-based lawyer has

forced over 70 California cities to redraw their maps, beginning with his first suit against

Palmdale in 2012.

“That’s just another way of saying we don’t want to have to pay attention to the poor

neighborhood,” he said. “Does that make making decisions more difficult? Sure. But it also

makes those decisions better because you’ve got every viewpoint at the table.”

Shenkman said that he is concerned that Bonta’s bill doesn’t go far enough to prevent elected

city officials from drawing districts simply to protect their own seats. But splitting

neighborhoods—even for the sake of unity—would be out.

Yet the idea of the state imposing its will on localities rubs some lawmakers the wrong way—

including one with a record against gerrymandering.

Sen. John Moorlach, a Republican from Costa Mesa, sat on the Orange County Board of

Supervisors in 2011, when a proposed district map grouped together the largely Republican

Vietnamese community while splitting up the majority Democratic Latino voters. Moorlach

cast the lone “no” vote, telling a reporter, “I just wanted to stay with my principles. I’m opposed

to gerrymandering.”

Even so, he opposes SB 139. Moorlach said he supported two bills in 2016 that gave cities,

counties, school and other special districts the option to appoint redistricting commissions.

“I appreciated that spirit,” he said. “But I get a little nervous about requirements—you

shall versus you may.”

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By Garrett Bergthold Staff Writer

By Martin Estacio Staff Writer Posted Jul 9, 2019 at 5:02 PMUpdated Jul 9, 2019 at 5:02 PM

SAN BERNARDINO — Federal law forbids anyone besides the federalgovernment from releasing information about immigration detainees.

That was what the City of Adelanto successfully argued in San BernardinoSuperior Court last month in defense of a lawsuit National Public Radio filedagainst the city in January demanding such records.

“The court announced its ruling from the bench to deny NPR’s request for awrit. The city prevailed,” said Lloyd Pilchen, a lawyer with the city attorney’soffice.

An NPR reporter sought records related to use of force, and related grievancesregarding the treatment of detainees held at the privately-owned Adelanto ICEProcessing Center. NPR argued state law requires the city turn over the records.

At the time, the city acted as an intermediary in an arrangement whereby up to1,940 detainees under the custody of U.S. Immigration and CustomsEnforcement were kept at the facility, which is owned by Geo Group Inc. Thecity pulled out of the agreement on June 25.

Under the agreement, the city had access to the records. NPR argued thisrequired the city to disclose those records pursuant to a 2018 state law, theDignity Not Detention Act.

At the time of the original request, the city said it did not possess the records.

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The law demands any facility detaining “a noncitizen pursuant to a contract witha city, county, city and county, or a local law enforcement agency is subject to theCalifornia Public Records Act.”

But the court sided with the city, citing a federal law that bars any “person,including any state or local government entity or any privately operateddetention facility, that houses, maintains, provides services to, or otherwiseholds any detainee on behalf of (ICE)” from releasing such records.

A spokesperson said NPR would not be providing comment.

“The number one defense was that releasing any records, regardless of who holdsthem, is prohibited by federal law,” Pilchen said.

He said the California Records Act has built-in exemptions, and one of whichincludes any record prohibited from being publicly released by federal or statelaw.

Pilchen added that ICE agreed to release the records directly to the NPR reporterpursuant to a federal public records law.

“The City is pleased with the court’s ruling and is satisfied that NPR’s journalisticpurpose is being supported by the appropriate federal agency in accordance withthe Freedom of Information Act,” Pilchen said.

Lori K. Haley, an ICE spokeswoman, said on Friday she would not comment onthe case.

Adelanto City Manager Jessie Flores told the Daily Press previously that “theCity previously provided all documents in its possession in response to a PublicRecords Act request received from NPR.”

In letters dated March 27, Flores sent notice to ICE and Geo Group informingthe parties that Adelanto would be withdrawing from an arrangement wherebythe city shuffles money from ICE to Geo Group to pay for the confinement ofimmigration detainees.

Adelanto city officials have said leaving the arrangement afforded the city legalprotection against lawsuits similar to the one filed by NPR in January.

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Pilchen said that decision was not a factor in this case because the recordsrequested by the NPR reporter were from dates before the city withdrew fromthe agreement.

NPR can still appeal the court’s decision, he said.

The case’s conclusion came weeks before ICE contracted directly with GeoGroup as of June 26 to hold over 1,900 immigration detainees at the AdelantoICE Processing Center.

Martin Estacio may be reached at MEstacio@VVDailyPress.com or at 760-955-5358.

Follow him on Twitter @DP_mestacio.

Garrett Bergthold can be reached at GBergthold@VVDailyPress.com or at 760-955-5368.

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PUBLISHED: PUBLISHED: July 9, 2019 at 3:19 pmJuly 9, 2019 at 3:19 pm | UPDATED: | UPDATED: July 9, 2019 at 3:19 pmJuly 9, 2019 at 3:19 pm

Carolyn Raft watches Monday as Bill Ruh signs a commemorative beam that will beCarolyn Raft watches Monday as Bill Ruh signs a commemorative beam that will beincorporated into the AMC 12 under construction at Montclair Place. (Photo by Davidincorporated into the AMC 12 under construction at Montclair Place. (Photo by DavidAllen)Allen)

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Montclair beams at chance to signMontclair beams at chance to signgirder for future AMC theatergirder for future AMC theater

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At this movie theater, you won’t have your name up in lights. You might, however,At this movie theater, you won’t have your name up in lights. You might, however,

have your name up in the ceiling.have your name up in the ceiling.

A steel beam to be part of the A steel beam to be part of the construction of an AMC theater at Montclair Placeconstruction of an AMC theater at Montclair Place

mallmall is available for the public to sign. is available for the public to sign.

As the mall’s publicity materials put it: “This will allow Montclair Place visitors toAs the mall’s publicity materials put it: “This will allow Montclair Place visitors to

become part of the theater’s history.”become part of the theater’s history.”

As regular readers know, I like history — even, in this case, history that hasn’tAs regular readers know, I like history — even, in this case, history that hasn’t

actually happened yet.actually happened yet.

And so I showed up to a ceremony Monday afternoon inside the mall in front of J.C.And so I showed up to a ceremony Monday afternoon inside the mall in front of J.C.

Penney. A 6-foot, Minions-yellow beam lay lengthwise on a table draped in black. APenney. A 6-foot, Minions-yellow beam lay lengthwise on a table draped in black. A

few signatures had already been added to the beam, but it was largely a blankfew signatures had already been added to the beam, but it was largely a blank

canvas.canvas.

I wasn’t sure I would be able to get a column out of this event but thought it wasI wasn’t sure I would be able to get a column out of this event but thought it was

worth seeing for the novelty.worth seeing for the novelty.

Officials were gathering. Ed Starr, the city manager, and I got into a conversation. HeOfficials were gathering. Ed Starr, the city manager, and I got into a conversation. He

asked if I was going to sign the beam. It hadn’t occurred to me. I was there toasked if I was going to sign the beam. It hadn’t occurred to me. I was there to

observe.observe.

“Of course you’re going to sign it,” Starr declared. “You can talk about how you’re“Of course you’re going to sign it,” Starr declared. “You can talk about how you’re

swinging high over the AMC while the movie is playing, and talk about how yourswinging high over the AMC while the movie is playing, and talk about how your

name is vibrating on the beam.”name is vibrating on the beam.”

Suddenly this column was writing itself.Suddenly this column was writing itself.

Mike Diaz, the city planner, joined us. He said it was only natural to see theMike Diaz, the city planner, joined us. He said it was only natural to see the

newspaper columnist there.newspaper columnist there.

“Beams and columns go together. They’re both part of a building,” Diaz observed. He“Beams and columns go together. They’re both part of a building,” Diaz observed. He

knows his stuff.knows his stuff.

Four-fifths of the City Council was present, everyone but Mayor John Dutrey. BillFour-fifths of the City Council was present, everyone but Mayor John Dutrey. Bill

Ruh, who revels in the city’s history, put the AMC construction into context.Ruh, who revels in the city’s history, put the AMC construction into context.

“We’re bringing a theater back to Montclair,” Ruh told me, emphasizing “back.” The“We’re bringing a theater back to Montclair,” Ruh told me, emphasizing “back.” The

mall, opened in 1968 and mall, opened in 1968 and known as Montclair Plaza until 2015known as Montclair Plaza until 2015, had theaters from, had theaters from

the late 1960s to the late 1990s out in the parking lots.the late 1960s to the late 1990s out in the parking lots.

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“it was one of the first multiplexes. It was Cinema I and II, then it became III. It was“it was one of the first multiplexes. It was Cinema I and II, then it became III. It was

located closer to Monte Vista Avenue, where the restaurants are now,” Ruh said.located closer to Monte Vista Avenue, where the restaurants are now,” Ruh said.

And a five-screen theater was added a few yards away, where the LA Fitness nowAnd a five-screen theater was added a few yards away, where the LA Fitness now

stands.stands.

That’s eight screens. Now the That’s eight screens. Now the 12-screen AMC12-screen AMC is under construction on the east side is under construction on the east side

of the mall where the Broadway department store had been. The long-vacant storeof the mall where the Broadway department store had been. The long-vacant store

was demolished starting in April 2018 was demolished starting in April 2018 in a Hollywood-style ceremony with ain a Hollywood-style ceremony with a

wrecking ballwrecking ball..

The AMC is expected to open in summer 2020, just in time for blockbuster season. AThe AMC is expected to open in summer 2020, just in time for blockbuster season. A

Lazy Dog CafeLazy Dog Cafe is going up in front of it. is going up in front of it.

But back to the ceremony. Photos were taken as council members Ruh, Carolyn Raft,But back to the ceremony. Photos were taken as council members Ruh, Carolyn Raft,

Tricia Martinez and Tenice Johnson posed behind the beam. Johnson, whom I hadn’tTricia Martinez and Tenice Johnson posed behind the beam. Johnson, whom I hadn’t

met, was met, was appointed in February to fill a council vacancyappointed in February to fill a council vacancy..

Then they and others started scrawling their names and messages.Then they and others started scrawling their names and messages.

“God bless this mall success,” Raft wrote.“God bless this mall success,” Raft wrote.

“Can’t wait to watch a movie at the new AMC Theater at Montclair Place!” wrote“Can’t wait to watch a movie at the new AMC Theater at Montclair Place!” wrote

Andrea Phillips, the city clerk.Andrea Phillips, the city clerk.

Police Captain Jason Reed wrote: “There is no ‘I’ in beam! Yes there is! Great work.”Police Captain Jason Reed wrote: “There is no ‘I’ in beam! Yes there is! Great work.”

I had to ponder Reed’s comment before realizing he was making a joke about I-I had to ponder Reed’s comment before realizing he was making a joke about I-

beams. I like it, but Reed told me he wished he had a do-over or had taken morebeams. I like it, but Reed told me he wished he had a do-over or had taken more

space to explain himself.space to explain himself.

“They’re going to be tearing this down in 100 years,” Reed predicted, “and saying,“They’re going to be tearing this down in 100 years,” Reed predicted, “and saying,

‘Look what this idiot wrote.’”‘Look what this idiot wrote.’”

He wasn’t the only one filled with self-doubt.He wasn’t the only one filled with self-doubt.

“I wrote, ‘Montclair is ready for its close-up now, Mr. DeMille,’” Ruh told me,“I wrote, ‘Montclair is ready for its close-up now, Mr. DeMille,’” Ruh told me,

paraphrasingparaphrasing a famous line by Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard.” a famous line by Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard.”

“Nobody gets it,” Ruh lamented. “Plus it’s hard to read because I kept getting“Nobody gets it,” Ruh lamented. “Plus it’s hard to read because I kept getting

bumped.”bumped.”

The beam was soon carted off by a crew of workmen. It will be back “periodically,” IThe beam was soon carted off by a crew of workmen. It will be back “periodically,” I

was told. I suggested the public might like a firmer idea of when they might find it.was told. I suggested the public might like a firmer idea of when they might find it.

On the fly, mall officials came up with this plan: The beam will be outside the interiorOn the fly, mall officials came up with this plan: The beam will be outside the interior

J.C. Penney entrance from noon to 1 p.m. daily through July 18. Come add yourJ.C. Penney entrance from noon to 1 p.m. daily through July 18. Come add your

autograph.autograph.

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“Someday it will be like a time capsule,” mall spokeswoman Deborah Blackford told“Someday it will be like a time capsule,” mall spokeswoman Deborah Blackford told

me.me.

The beam is due to be incorporated into the construction July 19. It may be visibleThe beam is due to be incorporated into the construction July 19. It may be visible

for a bit because of its vivid color before construction covers it.for a bit because of its vivid color before construction covers it.

Which might be all to the good if you write something regrettable or illegible.Which might be all to the good if you write something regrettable or illegible.

I’m not sure mine is so great either, but Diaz’s comment earlier inspired me. “I’dI’m not sure mine is so great either, but Diaz’s comment earlier inspired me. “I’d

rather sign a rather sign a columncolumn than a beam, but…” I wrote. “Best wishes from the than a beam, but…” I wrote. “Best wishes from the Inland ValleyInland Valley

Daily BulletinDaily Bulletin and David Allen.” and David Allen.”

Admittedly, I’m wondering if anyone in 100 years will recognize the name InlandAdmittedly, I’m wondering if anyone in 100 years will recognize the name Inland

Valley Daily Bulletin.Valley Daily Bulletin.

“That was something called a ‘newspaper,’” some old codger in the 22nd century will“That was something called a ‘newspaper,’” some old codger in the 22nd century will

tell his granddaughter with a fond chuckle. “Now we get all our news directly fromtell his granddaughter with a fond chuckle. “Now we get all our news directly from

the government.”the government.”

Ruh came over to fret more about his autograph.Ruh came over to fret more about his autograph.

“I don’t know if Montclair “I don’t know if Montclair isis ready for its close-up,” he quipped. “It’s the first movie ready for its close-up,” he quipped. “It’s the first movie

quote that came to mind.”quote that came to mind.”

“There are a lot worse quotes,” I assured him. “Imagine if you’d written, ‘Frankly, my“There are a lot worse quotes,” I assured him. “Imagine if you’d written, ‘Frankly, my

dear, I don’t give a damn.’”dear, I don’t give a damn.’”

David Allen writes Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, columns that are soon gone with theDavid Allen writes Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, columns that are soon gone with the

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Mayor Jeff Williams listens as Jamie Starr, of Bullhead City, AZ, gives her perspectiveMayor Jeff Williams listens as Jamie Starr, of Bullhead City, AZ, gives her perspectiveas an Arizona resident in support of the council, just before the Needles City Councilas an Arizona resident in support of the council, just before the Needles City Councilvoted to adopt a resolution, declaring Needles a Second Amendment Sanctuary City,voted to adopt a resolution, declaring Needles a Second Amendment Sanctuary City,during a city council meeting at Needles City Council Chambers in Needles onduring a city council meeting at Needles City Council Chambers in Needles onTuesday, July 9, 2019. The city is pursuing an exemption from certain California gunTuesday, July 9, 2019. The city is pursuing an exemption from certain California gunlaws. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)laws. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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Needles is a step closer to taking their fight for gun rights to lawmakers inNeedles is a step closer to taking their fight for gun rights to lawmakers in

Sacramento.Sacramento.

The Needles City Council on Tuesday, July 9, adopted a resolution declaring theThe Needles City Council on Tuesday, July 9, adopted a resolution declaring the

city a city a “Second Amendment Sanctuary,”“Second Amendment Sanctuary,” giving direction to city officials to begin giving direction to city officials to begin

working with their state representatives on legislation that would exempt the cityworking with their state representatives on legislation that would exempt the city

— and possibly other border cities — from certain state gun laws.— and possibly other border cities — from certain state gun laws.

  

The resolution not only declares the city’s support of the Second Amendment, itThe resolution not only declares the city’s support of the Second Amendment, it

also has language about the flow of commerce in the tri-state area.also has language about the flow of commerce in the tri-state area.

City officials and residents have two main points of contention with the state’sCity officials and residents have two main points of contention with the state’s

gun laws, which are some of the strictest in the country.gun laws, which are some of the strictest in the country.

For one, it is illegal for Needles residents to cross state lines into neighboringFor one, it is illegal for Needles residents to cross state lines into neighboring

Arizona or Nevada to purchase ammunition. The closest in-state ammo shops areArizona or Nevada to purchase ammunition. The closest in-state ammo shops are

100 miles away in Blythe or more than 140 miles away in Barstow, while there are100 miles away in Blythe or more than 140 miles away in Barstow, while there are

stores within a 15-to-20-minute drive across the river in Arizona.stores within a 15-to-20-minute drive across the river in Arizona.

“That’s a long drive to go buy a bullet,” said Mayor Jeff Williams earlier Tuesday.“That’s a long drive to go buy a bullet,” said Mayor Jeff Williams earlier Tuesday.

Secondly, California does not recognize out-of-state concealed carry permits,Secondly, California does not recognize out-of-state concealed carry permits,

which comes with inconveniences for out-of-state residents entering Needles.which comes with inconveniences for out-of-state residents entering Needles.

For example, if someone wants to get from Arizona to Nevada, or vice versa, it’s aFor example, if someone wants to get from Arizona to Nevada, or vice versa, it’s a

quicker trip along the 40 Freeway, which runs through Needles. But that meansquicker trip along the 40 Freeway, which runs through Needles. But that means

stopping at the border to unload the firearm and lock it in the trunk in order tostopping at the border to unload the firearm and lock it in the trunk in order to

abide by California state law.abide by California state law.

The resolution drew comments almost universally supportive from locals.The resolution drew comments almost universally supportive from locals.

“We Arizonans do avoid your city like the plague,” said Jamie Starr, a resident of“We Arizonans do avoid your city like the plague,” said Jamie Starr, a resident of

Bullhead City, Arizona and NRA training counselor who holds four concealedBullhead City, Arizona and NRA training counselor who holds four concealed

carry permits.carry permits.

“But, the only Social Security office for 150 miles is in Needles. My doctor is here.“But, the only Social Security office for 150 miles is in Needles. My doctor is here.

We have no choice but to come here.”We have no choice but to come here.”

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Ellen Campbell, who called herself a “gun slingin’ mama,” is skeptical. Campbell,Ellen Campbell, who called herself a “gun slingin’ mama,” is skeptical. Campbell,

who drives between her longtime home in Needles and a second home in Rialto,who drives between her longtime home in Needles and a second home in Rialto,

asked the council for more clarification on what it actually means to declare theasked the council for more clarification on what it actually means to declare the

city a Second Amendment Sanctuary.city a Second Amendment Sanctuary.

Campbell is particularly concerned with the difference in California’s andCampbell is particularly concerned with the difference in California’s and

Arizona’s laws related to gun violence restraining orders and other gun violenceArizona’s laws related to gun violence restraining orders and other gun violence

prevention laws.prevention laws.

“Here we have people who have orders or protections on them across the river,“Here we have people who have orders or protections on them across the river,

coming over here with guns,” she said. “Who’s going to monitor this?”coming over here with guns,” she said. “Who’s going to monitor this?”

Campbell, however, does agree that purchasing ammunition is a challenge, butCampbell, however, does agree that purchasing ammunition is a challenge, but

she does not believe that will stop people.she does not believe that will stop people.

“Restraining orders don’t stop bullets or knives, and laws are not going to stop“Restraining orders don’t stop bullets or knives, and laws are not going to stop

people from bringing guns over,” she said. “They’re just going to be more carefulpeople from bringing guns over,” she said. “They’re just going to be more careful

about being caught.”about being caught.”

On June 11, the council formed a committee of its members to draft a resolutionOn June 11, the council formed a committee of its members to draft a resolution

outlining these issues. After some assistance of the City Attorney and supportoutlining these issues. After some assistance of the City Attorney and support

from the National Rifle Association, the council adopted the resolution, Williamsfrom the National Rifle Association, the council adopted the resolution, Williams

said.said.

Next, they’ll reach out to officials in other border cities and work with their stateNext, they’ll reach out to officials in other border cities and work with their state

representatives on legislation that would carve out the exemptions. But, Williamsrepresentatives on legislation that would carve out the exemptions. But, Williams

said, they will wait until after the desert cities of said, they will wait until after the desert cities of RidgecrestRidgecrest and and TronaTrona get what get what

they need from the state to help with the aftermath of last week’s series ofthey need from the state to help with the aftermath of last week’s series of

earthquakes.earthquakes.

“We have some money and some strength behind this moving this forward,”“We have some money and some strength behind this moving this forward,”

Williams said. “And they’re glad we’ve started this process so we’ll see.”Williams said. “And they’re glad we’ve started this process so we’ll see.”

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An o�-trail area around one of Southern California’s tallest waterfalls will be closed to the public

beginning on the 4th of July, San Bernardino National Forest o�cials announced today. Visitors

will still be able to hike the Big Falls Trail to a waterfall overlook, but areas beyond the railing

will be closed due to safety.

"There have been too many search and rescues in this area in the past," said Joe Rechsteiner,

the district ranger for the Front Country Ranger District. "We want to make sure the public

enjoys this beautiful spot while staying safe. Some of rocks in Falls Creek are deceivingly

slippery."

Search and rescues by partners at San Bernardino County Fire and sheri�'s deputies are

sometimes so frequent in this area that one rock in particular is known to locals as "Blood

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Two people were hospitalized with stab woundsafter a 15-year-old boy who reportedly has adiminished mental capacity attacked them at ahome in Fontana on Tuesday, July 9, police said.

The teen fled on a bicycle but was later arrestedon suspicion of attempted murder, said Fontana

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police Officer Richard Guerrero, a departmentspokesman.

The incident was reported just after noon in the13700 block of Sunrise Street. Officers arrived tofind a woman about 22 years old, and a boy about12, stabbed. The woman had serious injuries andunderwent surgery, Guerrero said.

Family members described the suspect as beingdevelopmentally disabled, Guerrero said. Thesuspect, who was not identified because of hisage, was found about 1:50 p.m. on MulberryAvenue south of Foothill Boulevard. He wasarrested without a struggle and booked intojuvenile hall after discussions with the SanBernardino County District Attorney’s Office,Guerrero said.

The teen and the victims knew each other, buttheir exact relationship had not been determinedas of late Tuesday afternoon.

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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Departmentis investigating the death of a 26-year-old Rialtoman who was found behind a business in RanchoCucamonga.

Officials said Joshua Conway was found behind abusiness on the 8100 block of Haven Avenue ataround 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday. On arrival, deputiesand medical personnel found Conway lying face-down and unresponsive.

Conway was pronounced dead by medicalpersonnel at the scene, the Sheriff’s Departmentsaid in a press release.

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When an investigator with the Coroner’s Officearrived, no visible injuries were found on Conway,and an autopsy will be performed to determine hiscause of death, officials said.

The Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Detail isinvestigating the incident due to unusualcircumstances surrounding Conway’s death,authorities said.

Anyone with information on the incident cancontact Detective Jerry Moreno with the Sheriff’sDepartment at 909-387-3589. Those who want toremain anonymous can call We Tip at 800-782-7463.

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BARSTOW — A 26-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for selling drugs outof a Pioneer Street residence.

The Barstow Police Department said a search warrant was served on a home at320 Pioneer Street about 9:20 p.m. An investigation by the department’s CrimeImpact Team found armed suspects had been selling drugs from the home,according to a news release.

Three pounds of marijuana, THC edibles and wax, measuring scales and a loaded.40 caliber pistol were found as a result of the search, police said.

Jacquell Karlos Buckhanon of Barstow, who was in the home when the searchwas conducted, was arrested. Buckhanon, a convicted felon with threeoutstanding warrants, was booked at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’sDepartment Barstow Jail.

Along with the outstanding warrants, he was charged with being a felon inpossession of firearm, felon in possession of ammunition, and possessingmarijuana for sale.

Persons with more information on the case may contact Officer George Gatti atthe Barstow Police Department, 760-256-2211. Anyone wishing to remainanonymous may also report criminal activity by calling the We-Tip hotline at 1-800-782-7463 or may leave information on the We-Tip website atwww.wetip.com.

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Desperate to get rid of homeless people, some are using prickly plants, fences, barriers - Los Angeles Times

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A man sleeps in a planter on South Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

With dirt, they can weigh hundreds of pounds. The makeshift planter boxes arePeter Mozgo’s creations — roughly 140 of them lined up on the sidewalk toprevent homeless people from pitching tents outside his business.

Mozgo acquires the boxes from a Bell Gardens company that imports ginger,paints them firetruck red, pays $120 per cubic yard for dirt and then uses a $900trailer to haul it all back to his neighborhood on the south end of downtown LosAngeles.

Like many L.A. residents and business owners, the 49-year-old says he isfrustrated by the growing homelessness crisis — and the city’s often uneven

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response to it.

So as the city struggles to clear encampments and get a handle on the trash andchaos that sometimes emanate from them, Mozgo and others increasingly aretaking matters into their own hands, putting obstacles in public spaces to protecttheir homes and businesses. By doing that, they can make homeless people feelunwelcome.

Every day, Mozgo says, he evaluates the condition of South Hope Street betweenWashington Boulevard and 18th Street: “How many tents do we have today? Andwho came in? And who moved out? And who flipped my boxes? And who graffiti-ed the front of my work?”

Left, Peter Mozgo, 49, operator of the Hungarian Cultural Center in Los Angeles, has placed planters along the perimeter of thecenter to prevent homeless people from setting up tents. Right, People wait in line for the St. Francis Center food bank to open nextdoor. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. has struggled to stymie the growing number of obstructions that residentsand business owners are creating to target homeless people. There are now about59,000 people without homes in L.A. County. Within the city of Los Angeles, thepopulation soared 16% this year to more than 36,000 — the majority of whom areliving outdoors on city streets.

In parts of South L.A., business owners have built chain link fences around theirbuildings. Venice has seen a proliferation of sidewalk planters. In Koreatown,orange mesh fences are so common that a Twitter account documenting theirexistence has sprouted up. Still other Angelenos have taken to plantingrosebushes and pointy cactuses in the “furniture zone,” the city’s designation forthe sometimes paved and sometimes grassy area between the sidewalk and street.

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That’s where obstacles are being placed the most, usually without permissionfrom the city.

“In general, a lot of things people have [put] in the public right of way aren'tpermitted,” said Ted Allen, deputy city engineer.

The Los Angeles City Council recently passed a motion, introduced by PresidentHerb Wesson, that calls on several city agencies “to work together to investigateand remove illegal fencing citywide that restricts free passage in the public right-of-way and report to council on these efforts.”

For Mozgo and his wife, Maria, the idea for planters began about two years agoafter they opened the Hungarian Cultural Alliance — a venue they hoped wouldgive their fellow ex-pats a place to take classes and enjoy Hungarian music andstand-up comedy, among other things. Mozgo’s wife also runs a law practice fromthe building.

To pay the rent, they had hoped to host weddings and film shoots. But homelesspeople soon began to line the block. St. Francis Center, which offers free meals

Peter Mozgo, 49, operator of the Hungarian Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Mozgo has placed 140planters along the perimeter of the center in the 1800 block of South Hope Street to prevent homelesspeople from setting up tents. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

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and showers several times a week, is next door.

“We lost so much weddings because people don't want to rent it anymore,” Mozgosaid.

Even after the couple dropped the price, they said, they still would receive textmessages such as: “I'm sorry, I really like your place, but the street isunacceptable.”

The block was scattered with barbecue grills, generators and flat-screen TVs. Thecouple lodged 311 requests in hopes that the street would be cleaned and thecamps cleared.

Mozgo began placing planter boxes on the sidewalk, admittedly without permits.The cops haven’t given him any trouble.

So far, the obstacles have been effective. South Hope Street is now cleaner, manysay. Even the few homeless people who remain note the number of peoplecamping has declined, with most huddled together at the one corner whereMozgo hasn’t had the chance to place planter boxes. They also say the planterboxes have become a magnet for rats.

“To get rid of space for tents, I can see it from their perspective,” said DavidCanup, who has been homeless in the neighborhood for seven months. “Butthere’s more of a feeling that we’re being pushed out.”

The area has become much quieter, and Canup says the homeless people who areleft make every effort to keep things clean. Even so, the planters contribute to afeeling of not being welcomed — here or anywhere.

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Top: David Canup, 38, of Hawaii has been homeless in Los Angeles for seven months and has a tent set up along the 1800 blockof South Hope Street. Below left: People wait in line at the food bank at the St. Francis Center next door. Right: A planter filled withtrash outside the Hungarian center. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Business owners in an industrial area east of USC installed 4-foot-high chain-linkfences down the middle of the sidewalk that surrounds their buildings, in an actof what they called desperation.

For months, they said, they had called the city’s 311 hotline, seeking relief fromencampments along Broadway and Hill streets. They complained of general filth

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and homeless people setting fires, using drugs and engaging in prostitution.

After the fences went up, the encampments disappeared.

“The only thing we found that actually helps a little bit is putting these fences upin front of our buildings,” said Daniel Tennenblatt, who owns a textilemanufacturing plant in the area. “And that’s so when someone lights a fire, itburns on the sidewalk and doesn’t burn the building down.”

But for Tennenblatt and others, it resulted in citations from the Bureau of StreetServices that could lead to fines of $750.

Although fences and planters are illegal on sidewalks, the city rarely removesthem, business owners say. The city Bureau of Street Services only enforcescitations on obstructions after complaints are filed, spokeswoman Elena Sternsaid.

“The city will continue to cite illegal fencing and planters that restrict … the publicright of way,” she said.

In an apparent acknowledgment of the difficulties the city is facing, the Board ofPublic Works created a working group to study how the city’s permitting processcould be updated to better address such issues.

The group has yet to meet, according to Allen, the deputy city engineer.

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A type of permit does exist to allow some encroachments into the right of way, butit’s mostly used for things such as outdoor seating at restaurants. Plantingrosebushes and spiked cactuses is not allowed, said Allen — adding that LosAngeles has a list of what’s allowed to be planted in those spaces.

“There's a desire to balance wanting to allow nice improvements in the publicright of way but not having them misused,” Allen said. “I think we're not sure howwe're going to arrive at that, but that's the goal.”

Chris Homandberg, a Koreatown resident and activist with the homeless outreachand advocacy group KTown for All, makes it his business to complain about thefences, planters and rosebushes that have been proliferating in his neighborhood.

On a recent afternoon, Homandberg surveyed several blocks, pointing out orangefences surrounding an area of the sidewalk where trees are planted. Then hepassed by St. Basil’s Catholic Church, where someone had planted rosebusheswith thorns next to the sidewalk where someone might otherwise put a tent.

“There’s some metaphor in there about a crown of thorns,” he joked.

Chris Homandberg, a volunteer with KTown for All, shows areas around Koreatown where planters,fencing and other obstacles have been placed by property owners to keep the homeless from campingalong the sidewalk, such as at this location on Westmoreland Avenue near 5th Street. (Myung J. Chun /Los Angeles Times)

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Homandberg has filed more than a dozen complaints through 311, and somesidewalk obstructions have been taken down as a result.

“These issues go unaddressed and allow property owners to do what they want toget people out of sight. That’s a problem,” he said. “My goal is not to get people introuble. It’s to work on this idea that you can’t address [homelessness] by pushingpeople around.”

Homandberg says planters or fences frequently pop up after cleanups by theBureau of Street Services. That’s what happened last year in Venice.

Activist Mark Ryavec — a frequent critic of Mayor Eric Garcetti and CouncilmanMike Bonin, whose district includes Venice — has helped coordinate efforts toinstall planters to prevent homeless people from setting up tents on the streets.He said they were inspired by locals who had planted a community vegetablegarden.

Ryavec helped raise $35,000 and installed 55 planter boxes along Grand Avenuenext to a post office. It made the area look nicer, he said.

A homeless man found a place to set up camp where planters were placed to discourage people fromcamping along West 18th Street in Los Angeles. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

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Then other residents, threatened by a nearby homeless encampment after a spateof thefts, asked Ryavec to help them raise $4,000 to build eight planters nearHarding Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard.

Ryavec emailed a Bonin staffer, Taylor Bazley, who then got a staffer fromGarcetti’s office to organize a cleanup of the encampment, according to emailsreleased by Adrian Riskin, a blogger on MichaelKohlhaas.org. The unpermittedplanter boxes were installed right after the cleanup.

In his role, Bazley said he often heard from residents who were desperatelysearching for ways to keep their streets clean. In this instance, he said he didn’tknow that the planters were going to be installed.

David Graham-Caso, a spokesman for Bonin, said the councilman did not“condone or encourage” the illegal installation of planters. He added that Bazleyno longer worked for Bonin.

Garcetti spokesman Alex Comisar said the mayor’s office wasn’t aware “of anyplans to place planters at this location after the cleanup, and [we] are currentlylooking into this issue across the city.”

Times staff writer Douglas Smith contributed to this report.

Planters line West 18th Street in Los Angeles to discourage homeless people from camping there. (Gary