Hello Neighbors!

I have received a very large power point presentation from Metro that updates the community on the improvements to the 405.  It’s 62 pages total and I was not able to post the whole thing here.  If you are interested in the whole document (10 MB), please e-mail traffic@beverlyglen.org and I’ll send it to you.

The improvements to the Sunset Bridge, including information about the closure of Sunset Blvd. are included in the three segments attached below.

If you have any questions, you can contact Metro’s community relations person for this segment, Olga Arroyo – her e-mail is arroyoo@metro.net (not a typo, there are 2 o’s at the end of her e-mail address).

Here’s the Sunset Bridge portion of the presentation – I had to break it down into three segments to get it posted here.  Closure information (between Sept. 30 and October 15) is listed in the final document (“sunset c”).

sunset a

sunset b

sunset c

The City Attorney’s Office has completed their draft of the Baseline Hillside Ordinance (BHO). The BHO was heard by the City Council today and received 10 Yes votes and 0 No votes. The BHO is an significant amendment to the Los Angeles Municipal Code that deals with single-family residential zoned lots in hillside areas. The Ordinance will go back to the City Council one more time for a “Second Reading” next Friday, March 18, 2011. It will only need 8 votes to be officially adopted.

To learn more about how this regulation affects the Beverly Glen community and its next steps please visit: http://beverlyglen.org/news/zoning-development/

Residents and Beverly Glen, Inc., in cooperation with the applicant, is hosting a meeting to allow residents that may be affected by this proposed two (2) home single family development to learn and ask questions.

When: Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Time: 7:30pm

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

Application Materials:ZA 2010 3363 ZAA Application

 ZA 2010 3363 Site Plan

ZA 2010 3363 Application Package

The City is undertaking a change of its Development Review Process in an effort to reduce processing times, increase transparency and make the process easier.  In this effort, they have organized forums to allow residents to provide their input.  All four forums are the same so pick any of the four but pick one, the change will be dramatic and likely easier for developers unless we provide our input on what is important to us.

Information about the forums and the notice can be found by downloading City Review Process Forums notice.

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.

Due to significant concerns from many community organizations (including RoBG), the City of LA has suspended approval of the Code Simplification Ordinance to have more public workshops

The ordinance is to help simplify the various findings for code modifications. although a good idea in principal, RoBG has concerns about how it can make it easier for developers to get modifications and its conflict with the Baseline Hillside Ordinance.

If you are interested, have concerns or want to express your views, you must attend any one of the three workshops.  You don’t need to stay for all of it but do let the City know what you are thinking.

Public Workshops Schedule

Code Simplification Ordinance

We do our best to keep you informed, up to you to get involved!

A little note that in rememberance of Memorial Day, on Wednesday, November 10th at approximately 10:10am, 2-3 F-22 Raptors will fly over UCLA as part of a ceremony so don’t get frightened, its just a friendly flyover.

Don’t forget to thank any and all veterans for their service, whether they worked in supplies or the frontlines, they put their lives on the line in defence of our democracy.

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.