"Cleanup crews began work on the largest site in the Palisades still filled with fire debris: a roughly 170-unit mobile home park along the coastline. It prompted a sigh of relief from Palisadians worried about the public health risks of potentially toxic debris. Yet, residents of the Palisades Bowl hardly see it as a step forward, since the mobile home park's owners still have not communicated a plan for rebuilding and cleared the debris only after intense pressure from the city."
""The owner, still, is not communicating with us ... and the only reason they're doing this is because the city eventually threatened them," said Jon Brown, who lived in the Palisades Bowl for 10 years and now helps lead the fight for residents to return home. "But once they get it cleaned up, they're able to just sit on their hands again.""
Cleanup crews have begun removing fire debris from Palisades Bowl Mobile Home Estates, a roughly 170-unit, rent-controlled mobile home park along Pacific Coast Highway. The cleanup starts more than a year after wildfire destroyed the park and more than four months after the city of Los Angeles declared the site a public nuisance. Excavators and hazmat crews prompted relief among Palisadians worried about toxic debris, but residents of the Bowl view debris removal as insufficient without a rebuilding plan. Park owners have not communicated plans, are disputing whether leases remain intact, and must repair foundations and utilities before residents can rebuild.
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