For those concerned, the following are applications submitted to the City that will be discussed at tonight’s Bel Air Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council (BABCNC) Planning and Land Use Committee Meeting:

• Where: Community Magnet School, 11301 Bellagio Road, Los Angeles, CA 90077
• When: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 6:00- 7:00 p.m.

Projects:

• 10291- 12097 Mariel Lane – construction of (2) new SFD on contiguous lots fronting on an approved private street off Chrystanthemum,
• 1756/1774 Beverly Glen – Lot line adjustment – Parcel A – vacant; parcel B SFR -total sq ft – 17,310,
• 2191 & 2193 N. Beverly Glen Place – for a wall extension

If you have any questions or concerns about any of the above, please attend tonight’s meeting so that the Committee can take those into consideration.  Please note that the BABCNC is a City sanctioned advisory only council, all decisions are made by the appropriate City agency.

If you have any questions, please email babcnc@beverlyglen.org.

The Los Angeles City Council will be voting on a motion to remove the only free public parking in Westwood Village, this Tuesday, December 14th at 10:00 a.m, citing budgetary reasons.  Public comments will be heard on the issue that would outsource the Broxton Parking Garage located at 1036 Broxton Avenue in Westwood Village to a private contractor for up to possibly 50 years. This is important to us as the Village is literally at our doorstep and many of us go there regularly.

Eight other city parking garages three in Hollywood, and one each in Downtown L.A., Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, and on Robertson Boulevard will also be considered as part of this motion.

If the City Council votes to support this motion, the two-hour free parking in Westwood Village will be eliminated and may possibly double or triple parking fees in these nine city garages. 

The city would be prohibited from building any other public parking garages within 1/8 mile of any of these nine garages, which may lead to no other public parking facilities being built in the Westwood area for the duration of the contract. 

The business and homeowners communities worked tirelessly in the past to ensure a parking facility owned and operated by the City.  The need for the City to continue this operation is vital to the community since free short-term parking is essential for Westwood Village is to compete with local shopping districts and malls that offer plentiful free parking, and with neighboring and outlying cities that also offer free short-term parking (Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Third Street Promenade, Culver City, Century City, Westside Pavilion, Pasadena, and many other cities and shopping districts).  Many of us remember the Westwood community working nearly 40 years with the City to secure the land and amass the funds from our own Westwood Village parking meters to build the Broxton Garage and establish two-hour free parking in the Village.  This was achieved thanks to the visionary leadership of our Councilmembers (Ed Edelman, Zev Yaroslavsky, Mike Feuer, and Jack Weiss), and with the support of our Westwood neighbors.

 I encourage everyone to voice their concern by doing the following:    

 1.  SIGN THE PETITION

•   Sign online petition or return the petition below by fax to 310-317-7400. 
•   Online: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/save-broxton-free-parking   
•   Or email signed petition to SaveWestwoodVillage@hotmail.com

2.  FORWARD THIS EMAIL AND PETITION

•  Please share this message with your friends, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, customers, classmates, and anyone else who cares about Westwood.
• Please help us reach and exceed our goal of 1,000 petition signatures by this Monday, December 13.
• Post a message on Facebook, Tweet it, Text it, get the word out.  Let’s go viral!

3.  ATTEND THE PUBLIC HEARING THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, and UCLA Daily Bruin all have published editorials opposing this short-sighted proposal. 

The following organizations are opposed including:

• Westwood Community Council
• Westwood Neighborhood Council
• Westwood Village Business Association
• Westwood Village Improvement Association
• Holmby-Westwood Property Owners Association
• Westwood Hills Property Owners Association
• Westwood Homeowners Association
• Comstock Hills Homeowners Association
• North Westwood Village Residents’ Association
• Save Westwood Village.

The public hearing is this Tuesday, December 14 at 10:00 a.m. in City Hall (200 North Spring Street)  in the City Council Chambers, Third Floor.  If you would like to arrange parking, please call Councilmember Koretz’s office at (213) 473-7005 or if you would like to carpool with others, please contact Steven Sann by email at stevesann2001@yahoo.com or at (213) 448-8147.

Numbers count so please consider attending the City Council meeting to show support of the Westwood community’s efforts to revitalize Westwood Village and oppose the motion. 

Thank you in advance for your immediate attention and critical support.  I hope you will join members of the Westwood community at the City Council meeting this Tuesday, December 14th at 10:00 a.m.

Sincerely, 

From our friends at the North East Central Alliance of Neighborhood Councils:

Wednesday, Nov, 17, 6-8pm 

CODE ENFORCEMENT TRAINING!!!

All interested community leaders and neighborhood activists are invited to attend the Nov. 17 meeting of NECA — the North East Central Alliance of Neighborhood Councils: 

 The City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Street Services, Investigation and Enforcement Division, will present a training session to help you learn safe, appropriate, legal and effective ways to work with the City in protecting and improving your neighborhood’s quality of life. 

Find out about the C.L.E.A.N. Team — Community Leaders Educating and Assisting Neighborhoods — helping stakeholders and residents with the identification and documentation of common quality of life problems in their communities, such as illegal signs, illegal dumping, trash can violations, illegal encroachments, and other illegal uses of the public right of way. 

In addition, Luis Bocaletti, (of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and the Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores) will discuss “food deserts” — communities lacking stores that provide affordable, healthy food — and related grassroots and governmental efforts to achieve change.

 Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:00 pm – 8 pm
Russian Orthodox Church Meeting Hall
650 Micheltorena Street (in Silver Lake), L.A. 90026
South of Sunset Blvd., between Marathon & Bellevue
Parking is free and available in Church parking lot

If possible, please RSVP with NECA/Paul Michael Neuman by sharing your name and neighborhood affiliation:  pmneuman@yahoo.com or (323) 662-3123.

Thanks to all who were able to donate to the efforts of the Mountains and Recreation and Conservation Authority per our prior posting.  We received an update that they were able to receive enough donations to make their payment (in particular thanks to two major donors).

Only obstacles are ensuring the City Council gets the approval through two committees (ITGA on 9/27 and Budget & Finance on 10/4) then to City Council for approval.

We’ll keep you posted!

As some of you may or may not know, the Mountains Recreation and Conversation Authority (established by Joint Authority in 1985) has been working to acquire (from the City of Los Angeles), 77 lots around the Beverly Glen area to help preserve those open lots.  The MRCA has negotiated with the City to use some of those proceeds to help the MRCA acquire the large undeveloped land by Laurel Canyon and Mulholland to preserve as open space.

The owner of the Laurel Canyon land is looking to sell the land to a developer unless we can raise $40,000 fast to extend the MRCA deadline by TODAY!

Log onto http://www.mrca.ca.gov/laurel3.html where you can find more information, for both preserving our open land around our community and to prevent development in our neighboring community (which impacts the Glen), it is critical all Beverly Glen residents take time to pay attention to this situation.

Please note that RoBG has coordinated a meeting with the owner of the land at 10342 Caribou Lane to discuss their proposed single family home development.  The applicant is requesting relief from code that prohibits development on streets less than 20 feet but no variances on the home size or other conditions.

If you are or know someone who could be impacted by this or are simply interested, the meeting is prior to the regularly schedule RoBG Board meeting:

When: Monday, September 13, 2010, 7pm

Where: Les and Dorothy River Community Center, 10409 Scenario Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90077

If you have any questions, feel free to email babcnc@beverlyglen.org.

If your ever curious of crime in our area, visit enter your address and you can search dates and radius.  Thanks to our hard working officers, thankfully crime in our area is very low but be aware, hillsides make easy targets when home and car owners get too comfortable with the safety of our hillsides.

While online, visit www.lapdonline.org.

Just a friendly reminder, tomorrow at 7:00pm is the special meeting regarding the Mars Lane/Sandal Lane/Isadora Lane proposed project before our regularly scheduled Board meeting at the Les & Dorothy River Community Center.

The applicant has provided us some information in advance so we can all review and be able to have questions ready:

• Title Sheet 7-6-2010
• Aerial 7-6-2010
• Existing Topographic Survey 7-6-2010
• Proposed Tract Map 7-6-2010
• Proposed Zone Boundary Adjustment Map 7-6-2010

Don’t worry, the applicant will have plenty of copies but do download these to take a look so your prepared.  This will affect those who live nearby and everyone on Beverly Glen so take a minute and attend and please stick around for our regular Board meeting!

Residents of Beverly Glen, Inc. has been tracking the progress of this project closely and through its attendance of meetings at the Bel Air Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council. RoBG has requested the applicant of this project to come to the Les and Dorothy River Community Center to provide residents a chance to see the project, ask questions, voice support or opposition and get informed.

The special meeting with the applicant and its representative is scheduled:

Monday, July 12, 2010
7:00pm – 7:30pm
LDRCC, 10409 Scenario Lane

It will be immediately before our regularly scheduled Board meeting so please do feel free to hang around and see what your Board is doing for you.  Here is some project information for your review prior to the meeting:

Proposed Application: Vesting Tentative Tract Map, Subdivision Application, Zone Change, General Plan Amendment
Area: 8.690 Gross Acres
Proposed Grading Summary:

Total CY Handling: 9,500 cubic yards

Map:

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