Ritzy LA neighborhood descends into bizarre shouting match over old peoples home plans: Hes just a perv

A heated Los Angeles planning meeting descended into a chaos on Thursday as residents clashed with a developer over housing for the elderly.Furious Woodland Hills residents battled it out at the public forum with Akhilesh Jah over plans to transform a single-family home into a sprawling senior living facility, according to Fox 11.At one point, Jah was forced to shout over the crowd: “It’s my turn to speak! When you spoke I didn’t interrupt, did I?”But the angry audience wasn’t having it.“He’s just a perv,” one person yelled from the crowd, according to footage from the chaotic Los Angeles City Planning Commission hearing.“You lie, shame on you!” another woman shouted before officers escorted her from the meeting.Then things took an even stranger turn.“I’m going to do black magic on you,” a third person threatened.The extraordinary scenes unfolded as residents fougth against Jah’s proposal to demolish a four-bedroom, three-bathroom home on Del Moreno Drive and replace it with a 71-unit senior living facility featuring a cafeteria and medical office.Neighbors say the project is wildly out of place in their quiet residential community, and they’re particularly furious that the development would have no parking.The property sits directly across from Taft High School, with homes on one side and commercial buildings near Ventura Boulevard on the other.Residents also raised concerns about the location being within an LA Fire Department fire zone.Jah, an aerospace engineer-turned-developer, said the project would include eight units designated as low-income housing.

Under California’s increasingly developer-friendly housing laws, projects that include affordable housing can qualify for incentives allowing them to sidestep certain local restrictions involving density, height and parking.That has left some residents feeling as though their neighborhood rules have been rendered practically meaningless.Most of the variances Jah sought were appro...