The Residents of Beverly Glen has a Facebook page. Please like us on Facebook and post comments about the community and the Annual Fair that will be held on Sunday June 2nd from Noon until 5pm.

The Winter, 2013, issue of the Glenite is now available online and in full color. To access the current (Winter, 2013) version, click

http://beverlyglen.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/glenite-winter-2013.pdf

The black and white version will appear in your mailbox later this week. Please don’t forget the Garden Walk from 1-3 pm on April 14, and do contact Sharalee Flesche to help out with this event and/or to help organize the Annual Glen Fair on June 2.

Protecting the visual environment of Los Angeles is important and the current situation regarding digital billboards in Los Angeles and the City’s process threatens that environment. Among other things, digital billboards pose a distraction for drivers and cause light pollution in residential neighborhoods. In a victory, California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled recently that two sign companies should not have been allowed to convert billboards to digital. However, when the City’s PLUM committee was scheduled to discuss the pending sign ordinance on December 11th, 2012 it quickly postponed the discussion to January 22nd, 2013, a move most feel is to give sign lobbyists time to make the ordinance more favorable to them and to investigate ways to validate those illegal digital billboards. Though the current sign ordinance has its limitations it does contain several important provisions and numerous community organizations (including Residents of Beverly Glen Inc.) and many neighborhood councils have weighed in on the ordinance. Those significant provisions include (from www.banbillboardblight.org):
• Limiting off-site digital signage such as billboards to special sign districts, where they can be strictly regulated to avoid negative effects on residential neighborhoods and traffic. These sign districts would be limited to intensive commercial areas such as large shopping and entertainment centers, thus precluding digital billboards from appearing on regular commercial streets.
• Prohibiting signage such as large “supergraphic” banners and wall and fence wraps advertising commercial products and services in city parks and recreation areas.
• Increasing penalties for maintaining illegal signs to a level that can serve as a real deterrent to companies tempted by large profits to cover buildings with supergraphic signs or maintain billboards that were put up or altered without permits.
• Requiring new off-site signage in sign districts to be offset by the removal of existing billboards from the surrounding communities, thus reducing neighborhood blight.

The sign ordinance needs to be finalized immediately without further modification from lobby groups representing advertising interests.
What you can do.
If the issue of illegal digital billboards, potential for advertising in City parks, and dishonest process is of concern to you please email hillside@beverlyglen.org by January 19th. Your personal information will not be shared though we will have a greater impact if we can tell the PLUM committee that a number of our residents have also expressed concern and PLUM should respect and uphold that ban on those digital billboards and keep advertising out of parks.

DWP will repair the water main leak on Corfu Lane & No. Beverly Glen today between noon and 4:00 pm. WATER WILL BE TURNED OFF ON CORFU & VIRETTA AND ALL OF NO. BEVERLY GLEN BETWEEN THESE 2 STREETS.
No. Beverly Glen will be reduced to ONE Lane (north bound) with managed traffic. CORFU Lane will be closed completely. Corfu Ln residents: Be sure to park your vehicles on No. Beverly Glen if you need to leave your home from noon to 4:00 p.m.
I will post again if I hear of an update.
This is all weather permitting of course.

Please note that the sections of the 405 freeway and the Mulholland Bridge will be closed this entire weekend.

For information, click here: http://www.metro.net/projects/I-405/daily-updates/.

Detailed information is outlined in this flyer:

Mulholland Bridge Demo Prep Work 9.8.12

You might want to just stay home and make these:

Banana Chocolate Chip Mini muffins

:>)

Sincerely, Your Traffic Committee Chair

Part of the 405 improvement project will involve extended closure of all eight on- and off-ramps at Wilshire and the 405 freeway.  The first closures will be the Wilshire westbound-to-405 northbound on-ramp, and the 405 northbound-to Wilshire westbound off-ramp.  These ramps (both on the northwest corner of Wilshire and Sepulveda) will be closed from NEXT FRIDAY, 6/22, through September 22.  Click below for a pdf fact sheet:

Wilshire Ramps Reconstruction fact sheet

Interested in learning more about how traffic will be impacted by the closure of the Wilshire on- and off-ramps to the 405?

Metro will host a live online chat about the closures on Friday, 6/15 (TOMORROW) at 1 pm.  Here’s more information:

Century City Patch

The Source Blog

We have been informed that one of LADWP’s machines became inoperable today during the beginning of the repaving process, and the work has been postponed. They anticipate that the work will be done tomorrow and Wednesday.

Street closure times should be between 8 am and 3:30 pm on those days.

This is all of the information we have received.

IT IS SHOWTIME! Come and meet your electeds, Mike Feuer (Assembly), Paul Koretz (City Council) between 1:30 – 2:30 pm in the courtyard. Children’s parade at noon, new and fantastic vendors, great music, teen’s corner, kids games galore, irresistible Glen food, unusual wine tasting, cool beer and a belly dancer! This fair is not to be mixxed!
Sunday, June 10, noon – 5 pm, Beverly Glen Place.

Come join your friends and neighbors at the 52nd Annual Glen Fair
When: June 10th from Noon until 5pm
Where: 2200 Block of Beverly Glen Place
Volunteers are still needed for the fair. A lot of work goes into planning the community fair and any time (an hour or two) that you have to volunteer is welcome.
Also a side dish or salad would be a great item to bring to the barbeque buffet to share with your friends and neighbors!
Please contact Sharalee Flesche 310-967-9025 or email fair@beverlyglen.org to be put on the volunteer schedule.
Strengthen the community by renewing your Resident of Beverly Glen Membership. Having fun at the fair is just one of the many benefits of membership!