Chase Knolls Apartments
* “Apartments Given a Reprieve,” April 27.
Councilman [Mike] Feuer’s punitive effort to block redevelopment of the Chase Knolls apartments seems typical of his leadership style. Having ascended his soapbox, Feuer informs us that because this post-war, tract-style apartment cluster has endured past its 50th anniversary, it qualifies as an [historic] site.
If the site was worth preserving, the councilman should have acted sooner to revoke the current zoning that permits the property to accommodate more than 300 units.
Somehow, when city officials established the property’s zoning targets, they managed to overlook the architectural marvel we now read about.
PAUL PHILIPS
Valley Village
* How can our city Planning Department possibly consider replacing 260 units with 400 units at Chase Knolls when there will be no place for the children in those 140 additional units to go to school? And what if all 400 of the new units become occupied by families with school-age children? There are not enough seats, public or private, to house that many new students. All high schools in the San Fernando Valley will be year-round, Concept 6, within a few years due to overcrowding. Many of our elementary and middle schools already are on year-round calendars.
Unless there are plans to build a new school for the children who will live in the new Chase Knolls complex, creating those additional living spaces is extremely ill-advised.
LAURA PETERS
Studio City
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