“Where are you going to send me to live?”
That’s what Columba Torralba, 85, asked the East Los Angeles Area Planning Commission at a public hearing on Wednesday, just before they approved a plan to build a six-story, mixed-use development on East Cesar Chavez Avenue – a project that will demolish the building she lives in.
The endorsement is a reversal from the commission’s veto last March, when it blocked the development over concerns it could lead to gentrification that would be harmful to the public health of residents…