
From last night's minutes of the Occupy LA General Assembly, we learn more details about the offer the city is making (in exchange for demonstrators taking down their tents in front of City Hall).
The city would provide a 10,000 square foot space in an old bookstore at the subterranean L.A. Civic Center Mall, across the street from City Hall. In the minutes, they refer to it as "Dutton Books". They must mean B. Dalton Books, which used to be located there before closing years ago.
THE CITY PROPOSAL TO THE 'OCCUPY LOS ANGELES GENERAL ASSEMBLY VIA JIM LAFFERTY, NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES
Here's what the city said it will do. 1. It will guve us for those who want to use it a 10,000 square foot building. 2. It will give one or more pieces of land to those ...who wish to farm it. 3. It will open up additional beds for the homeless. 4. It will open Single Residency Occupied, SRO residences. The important thing is... we do not represent you, we are only telling you what people have asked for, that you want. They have also ...when they will not allow this occupation to continue on this site here. ...that we now hope that you all will think of other things that you'd like us to demand on your behalf with the understanding that we will agree to nothing unless you have decided what to do. and we have made that time after time again... ...One of the things we made clear to them that even if ...accepted ...you will still be conducting the same kind of action that you have been conducting up to now.
8:06 pm, Jim: We asked to see the lease so that the rug is not pulled from under us. ...it's a dollar a year lease. It is in the Civic Center Mall with all the windows. It's the old Dutton Bookstore ...about 300 yards from here.
Where would the farmland be? Well, according to LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, it could be a parcel of vacant land somewhere in the city... He wouldn't say exactly where.
But, from the minutes, some of the Occupy LA demonstrators are discussing the possibility of growing vegetables and marijuana:
Chicken: ...this has great possibilities. ...me being a farmer is about the farmland. Will he have to use 'Round-Up' ready plants? Will be able to grow tomatoes or Ganja.
Jim. ...unless you have a license.
You can read all of the minutes here:
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