West Los Angeles neighbors of the Museum of Tolerance are opposing a planned addition to the popular Holocaust education center due to increased traffic and noise, and late-night private functions.
"The longtime neighbors are pressing their campaign against the museum's owner, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the organization named for the famed Nazi hunter."
"Most of those fighting the plans are Jewish, and many are museum members. They say they support the museum's mission to educate people about intolerance and hate but object to plans they believe would further spoil the peace and quiet of their West Los Angeles neighborhood."
"The expansion would require a loosening of conditions imposed by the city from the museum's beginning to protect the community."
"'They have done literally a world of good, and any smart city would be lucky to have them and nurture them,' City Councilman Jack Weiss said. 'It would be perverse public policy to punish them now for their enormous success. Good public policy will nurture their future success at healing the world.'"
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