Issue and Solutions(Copy)

UNDERSTANDING THE EXISTING PROBLEMS AND RESOLUTION

The following pages detail a brief history of issues facing this property over the years, and describes how the project will resolve these issues:

Future land movement issues, viewed from today
1926 ground levels to today – 30-foot vertical drop by landslides
Bridge and landslide stabilization include 140 permanent ground anchors and deep caissons
Dealers - drugs delivered from under Sunswept Bridge to Ventura Blvd
Hundreds of small fires set on this hillside over many years
Trash all over this hillside for many years – twice-a-month cleanups
Residents on Sunswept Drive are fed up, and acted in 2021 with CD2

Sunswept Place, once completed, will largely control the land movement by way of constructing 140 permanent tieback anchors and 16 deep caissons, as well as by way of constructing retaining walls that are mostly hidden from both Ventura Blvd and Sunswept Drive, and are landscaped.

Sunswept Place, once completed, will largely eliminate the access to this hillside by dealers and homeless, for the benefit of Sunswept residents and Ventura Blvd passersby.

Sunswept Place, once completed, will largely eliminate the risk of small fires set by the homeless, by irrigating, maintaining, and tightly restricting access to the remaining small residential hillside area, as well as 24/7 security monitoring.

THE SITE AS IT IS NOW – DANGEROUS ON SEVERAL LEVELS

When you take a walk up the steep hill along the yellow line - avoid the poison oak, please! - you see far more evidence of the landslides to come, the poor tree health due to unstable earth conditions and misuse by fires set, as well as hundreds of bags of trash gathered every few weeks for many years accumulating from those who used to prowl the delivery route between the two small rooms under the Sunswept Bridge and their car traffic clients on Ventura Blvd. Hard to believe this wasteland existed on Ventura Blvd for twenty years. In 2021, Sunswept Drive residents and Council District 2 partnered to build wrought iron fences to block entry to the two small rooms under the bridge, and AFD put in guards at the bridge, as well as cameras on the property.

Drug traffic is down to 1% of previous – we hope.

Sunswept Drive residents can breathe again. A small victory, perhaps, but a victory. Thanks Council District 2!!!!! You stepped up.

LANDSLIDES 1926 TO 2021 AND BEYOND

Look at the dotted line in Section B’ and Section A’. In 1926, the ground was at this level approximately. Now look where the caissons under the bridge connect to the ground. All the vertical distance between, from Sunswept Drive to Ventura Blvd, has slid away. Geological Engineering did not become a profession until the 1950s, so when the City removed about 20 feet of dirt to build Ventura Blvd, they did not realize they were removing the toe of an ancient landslide. Ooops. Then developers cut further into the hillside to build all the stores on Ventura Blvd. Ooops too. The dirt slid, and again, and again. And will slide again, taking the Sunswept Bridge, unless we build 140 really strong 80-foot long to 100-foot long permanent tiebacks deep into the ground on the property, some running under the Sunswept Bridge in joint cooperation with BOE. The pylons for the bridge did not provide the minimum factor of seismic stability in the 1991 BOE major strengthening study. Seismic safety factor standards are much higher today,

PERMANENT TIEBACKS TO STABILIZE SUNSWEPT BRIDGE

Each of the 140 tieback anchors can support a load of 60 cars suspended vertically.

140 permanent tieback anchors deep in the ground, and many deep caissons, will bring the Sunswept Bridge up to the current factor of safety required by the BOE.

CD2 PARTNERS WITH AFD TO BUILD FENCES UNDER BRIDGE 2021 THANK YOU CD2 FROM ALL SUNSWEPT RESIDENTS

DEALERS: FROM UNDER THE BRIDGE TO VENTURA

FREQUENT FIRES LIT BY DEALERS AND HOMELESS ON EXISTING HILLSIDE FOR TWENTY YEARS – DANGEROUS

When the project is completed, the property will be irrigated and fully maintained – as well as monitored by security – far less fire risk than currently.

Many small fires have been set on the property every year for over 20 years.

The fire above was set two days before the day with high winds in 2020

Trash Under Sunswept Bridge - Twice Per Month Cleanup Twenty Years - Dealers and Homeless

BEFORE AND AFTER BUILDING/SITE

Which one do you prefer?

Oh ye Ventura Blvd passersby, think of a destination for bicycles and tea,

designed for 2071.

The project, your project, name is Sunswept Place.

An ecclesia of the ancient Greeks, to gather and be merry, live, love and dispute.

A VIEW FROM A BRIDGE

Oh ye Sunswept residents, think 16 Oaks twenty years from now, thick foliage, park-like, obscuring the building while preserving the view.

The park, your park, is 16 Oaks.

Austin Family Development LLC.

Which do you prefer?

Sunswept Place forty years in the planning, 1982 start. Moving a little further. Such joy.

For the dream of our lovely Cynthia Birt Austin. You would have loved seeing what you designed for this one come to life, partner, wife for 24 years, mother of Jack, Indiana and Jett.

It was a privilege and our greatest joy. Thank you, and thank you God.

Do it again next lifetime, friend, partner, wife, mother.