{"id":280420,"date":"2026-04-22T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:48:10","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-venice-isnt-the-only-l-a-neighborhood-beset-by-constant-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280420\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Venice isn\u2019t the only L.A. neighborhood beset by constant noise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the editor: The front-page story about bar and restaurant noise disturbing residents of Venice could have been my own (\u201cIs he \u2018The Venice Karen\u2019 or a crusader for a better community? L.A. may soon decide,\u201d<\/a> April 18). But after more than 30 years\u2019 residence in Santa Monica\u2019s Ocean Park neighborhood, I left because of the congestion and the noise, and the city\u2019s tolerance of it.<\/p>\n

I lived on Second Street, right behind Main Street, and was regularly subjected to the amplified order-ready announcements emanating from a pizza parlor\u2019s patio, and the loud voices of bar patrons at closing time. That was years before the pandemic forced restaurant service onto the sidewalks.<\/p>\n

The Venice neighbors described in the story didn\u2019t object to the proximity of businesses. They objected to the nuisance of their noise.<\/p>\n

By law, people have the right to the quiet enjoyment of their property. They should not be expected to forfeit that to commercial interests unable to adjust to post-pandemic circumstances, and the city should not enable their inability.<\/p>\n

I miss living at the edge of the continent, the smell of salt air, the surf nibbling the sand under my feet. I don\u2019t miss the noise. Where I live now, nighttime supplies the sound of silence. Or maybe the hoot of an owl, if I\u2019m lucky.<\/p>\n

Ellen Alperstein, Palm Desert<\/p>\n

..<\/p>\n

To the editor: The plight of the victims of nuisance businesses in Venice is all too common. I went through a similar situation in another city that caters to nightlife and alcohol \u2014 West Hollywood \u2014 and eventually had to move. Irresponsible business owners will always break laws because they know they can get away with it.<\/p>\n

The only real solution is to ensure nuisance never starts by planning for entertainment zones within industrial or commercial areas. But such planning is beyond the capabilities of local government.<\/p>\n

Dan Silver, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: The front-page story about bar and restaurant noise disturbing residents of Venice could have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15017,387,1409,120734,2072,120735,48,52,51,721,1838,47,50,49,63,57129,120736,3292,120737,6646,72],"class_list":["post-280420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bar","tag-business","tag-city","tag-constant-noise","tag-editor","tag-front-page-story","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-law","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nuisance","tag-only-l-a-neighborhood","tag-residence","tag-salt-air","tag-venice","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}