{"id":44397,"date":"2012-06-18T07:25:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44397"},"modified":"2012-06-18T07:25:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:25:42","slug":"lat-chabad-of-north-hollywoods-building-in-progress-is-too-big-for-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44397","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Chabad of North Hollywood’s building-in-progress is too big for the neighborhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAT<\/a>: For two decades, Dee Tuntkavep has enjoyed a view of pine-shrouded Chandler Boulevard from the upstairs reading room of her Sherman Oaks home.<\/p>\n

Now all she sees are concrete walls two stories high \u2014 the still-in-progress expansion of an Orthodox Jewish house of worship. In fact, plans for the upgraded Chabad of North Hollywood are for a structure nearly nine times the size of the prayer house it replaces.<\/p>\n

On its website, the Chabad gives thanks: “Divine Providence has finally shined down on this long-awaited project.”<\/p>\n

Litigation, however, has brought the project to a virtual halt.<\/p>\n

Tuntkavep and dozens of other residents say the new building’s size \u2014 12,000 square feet squeezed onto a 9,568-square-foot parcel zoned for residential \u2014 is just too big for the surrounding blocks of single-family homes, some starting at more than $1 million.<\/p>\n

“It’s like a mountain,” Tuntkavep said. “How did this happen?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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