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Section of rendering by architect Stephen Jacobs . A proposed five-story mixed use building with 116 apartments and ground-floor restaurant and retail uses on East Main Street and McDermott Avenue won approval of the Riverhead Town Board Tuesday night . In a split 3-1 vote, the board approved a pair of resolutions that simultaneously dispensed with extended environmental review and approved a site plan and special permit for the “ Riverview Lofts ” project proposed by Georgica Green Ventures LLC of Jericho. The actions green-light the construction of the five-story building with 12,623 square feet of first- floor commercial space , 55 on- site parking spaces and four-stories consisting of 116 workforce rental apartments : 31 studio, 37 one-bedroom and 28 two-bedroom units. Councilman Tim Hubbard , without comment, cast the lone vote against both measures. Councilwoman Jodi Giglio , an owner of Summerwind Square — the first mixed-use apartment building built in the downtown dis...

WOODLAND HILLS >> The nearly 40-year-old Woodland Hills Post Office may be stamped out, its cancellation marked May 31, 2017. The west San Fernando Valley post office , a mail and package drop for streams of residents and workers in and around Warner Center, has ended its lease and must find a nearby location. An Agoura Hills developer , meanwhile, has applied to replace the 130,000-square- foot post office with hundreds of high-end apartments. “Our lease is good through May 31, 2017,” Richard Maher, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman , said. “But after that we’re going to relocate, because the property owner wants to develop and won’t renew our lease.” A replacement post office , he added, would be found as close to the current post office as possible. Its more than 2, 500 post office boxes would be retained. The Woodland Hills post office opened in June 1977 at 22121 Clarendon Street on a 4.2- acre block west of Topanga Canyon Boulevard , just south of the 101 Freeway. Its 1...

click to enlarge channel moves water from the neighborhoods north and east of Austin Bluffs Parkway and Academy Boulevard and meets up with Templeton Gap Floodway at Union Boulevard. Trees growing through the concrete pretty much guarantee the concrete won't hold up for long. - PHOTOS BY PAM ZUBECK" /> Photos by Pam Zubeck This channel moves water from the neighborhoods north and east of Austin Bluffs Parkway and Academy Boulevard and meets up with Templeton Gap Floodway at Union Boulevard. Trees growing through the concrete pretty much guarantee the concrete won't hold up for long. In this week's Independent , we take a closer look at the lawsuit filed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the state against Colorado Springs over its neglect of stormwater facilities. ("Burden of proof," News, Aug. 23, 2017) This is important in light of the City Council's vote on Aug. 22 to refer a measure to voters at the Nov. 7 election that ...

El Sereno resident Scott Toland is another unhappy customer of L.A.’s new refuse and recycling program. Toland recently learned that the monthly trash bill at the 10- unit condominium complex where he lives could double — at a minimum. And that’s only if his homeowner association cuts back on regular trash pickup . The reason? An assortment of extra fees, all backed by Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council as part of RecycLA. Universal Waste Systems , the neighborhood’s designated refuse hauler , sent Toland an estimate indicating the company would charge $43.30 a month to open the gate to the complex, which requires a remote control clicker , for the property’s regular trash. The company added the same $43.30 “access charge” for recycling pickup. And it tacked on $303 in monthly “distance charges,” which compensate a hauler for moving trash bins across the parking lot to the street, where they are emptied. “No other trash company has ever charged us to open the gate or drive ...