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A summary of selected City Hall actions last week that affect the Westside. : CITY COUNCIL

* SENIOR HOUSING--Approved the construction of Hollywest, a 100-unit senior citizen low-income housing project and commercial building for the northeast corner of Western Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. The project, which was proposed seven years ago, is expected to be completed by 1998. The planning board approved the complex with an off-site alcohol sales permit for a ground-floor grocery store and fewer parking spaces than normally required for a 100-unit complex. Some citizens had objected to building a seniors complex in the run-down neighborhood, but Mirta Ocana, who handles housing redevelopment affairs for Councilwomen Jackie Goldberg’s 13th Council District, said: “Just because an area is troubled, we shouldn’t abandon it.”

* JOBS PROGRAM--Approved the Los Angeles Department of Aging’s application for state funding that will provide part-time jobs to up to 400 city residents who are at least 55 years old and have an annual income at or below the federal poverty level. The jobs will be at community service agencies and pay at least $4.82 an hour.

* SENIOR SERVICES--Approved a Department of Aging plan to distribute more than $10 million in state and federal funds for seven senior citizen programs. The programs will provide meals, transportation, in-home services and legal assistance to low-income and frail seniors. The programs to get funding are congregate meals ($4.8 million), social services ($2.7 million), home-delivered meals ($2.9 million), preventive health ($192,000), in-home services ($100,000), elder-abuse prevention ($53,000) and citizen complaints against government agencies ($36,000).

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* CULTURAL MONUMENT--Approved a recommendation by the Cultural Heritage Commission to include the Trianon Apartments at 1750-1754 N. Serrano Ave. on the city’s list of historical-cultural monuments. Built in 1928, this six-story, French Norman chateau-style apartment building suffered cosmetic damage during the 1994 earthquake. Citibank, which owns the building, planned to repair it by taking down ornamental chimneys and replacing the slate roof with asphalt. Now such alterations will not be allowed.

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