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# Letter: Historic district rules should stop ugly new construction in the neighborhood
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/112407-story-20071124-5/
- Published: 2007-11-24T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:05:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

“IT’S CALLED AN HISTORIC DISTRICT, NOT a build-anything-that’s-ugly-enough-to-make-you-happy-but-annoy-the-neighbors district, so this jerk should be forced to keep his property along the lines of everything else in the neighborhood and not build some hideous ugly thing that nobody else likes. I don’t know why people build that kind of junk anyway. They have no taste.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 24, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/112407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)