News from Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association

It's Time to Show Up & Speak Up!

Attend the Los Angeles City Council Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee Hearing, March 27 at 2:30 pm

This is what we've been waiting for. This is the community's opportunity to speak out about the errors in the Hollywood Community Plan Update and its potential impacts on Hollywood and beyond.

This hearing will take place in room 350 at City Hall, March 27 at 2:30 p.m. We hope you will all take some time off to attend. Drive, carpool or take public transit but please, be there! If you are driving, call the night before or that morning (213-485-3337) to CD4 office and give them your vehicle info to get free parking beneath City Hall.

People for Livable Communities are concerned Angelenos united in a mission to save Hollywood from the new Hollywood Community Plan. The plan disregards the safety and interests of LA residents while catering to the profits of developers. You can help get the City to correct the errors in the proposed Hollywood Plan and recirculate it.

Visit SaveHollywood.org for more information and to review the new Determination Letter and the newly released Findings (Learn and Share section). Please share this with your friends and neighbors. Encourage them to join our mailing list so they too can stay informed about this vital community issue. Like our Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter for additional updates.

Here's What You Can Do Right NOW!

Send a letter now to the City Clerk. The City Clerk will place the correspondence into the Council File. You will want to reference Hollywood Community Plan, Council File 12-0303 in the email as well. Tell them that Community Plans must be based on Facts, not Fiction!

For more on that subject, see this brief document:

Problems with the Plan

Correspondence should be sent to:

Sharon Gin, Legislative Assistant

Office of the City Clerk

200 N. Spring Street, 3rd Floor

or via email to: sharon.gin@lacity.org

The City Clerk said that email or PDFs are preferred since they can be uploaded right into the file.

For more information, please send email to:

info@savehollywood.org or call (323) 380-8970.
We look forward to seeing you at the PLUM Hearing next week!

Sincerely, Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association and Your Neighbors at People for Livable Communities

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Wildlife Update

This text was written by Gerry Hans:

I'm president of Friends of Griffith Park and live in "The Oaks" to your east.

I've been asked by a consortium of wildlife authorities and experts to reach out to some of Griffith Park's neighboring homeowners regarding wildlife activity in the area.

Mountain Lion

Since 2007, scientific surveys of flora and fauna of Griffith Park have been conducted as part of a "Griffith Park Natural History Survey" funded largely by local residents and groups such as Friends of Griffith Park. The latest collaboration, between Cooper Ecological Monitoring and U.S. Geological Survey(USGS), has been to investigate wildlife movement across Cahuenga Pass/101 Fwy., to assess how large mammals may be moving in and out of the park.

In late February of this year, images of an adult male mountain lion were captured by study cameras on the east side of Cahuenga Pass, an area where there have been scattered reports but no firm evidence of their occurrence. There may be a variety of public reactions to this photographic evidence, ranging from excitement to fear, so a "fact sheet" is included to help answer questions. Please direct any question to the referenced experts listed within this material.

We all need to keep doing the things all residents in hillside communities should be doing:

1) keep all food sources inaccessible to wildlife, report violators
2) protect your pets.

Best regards,

Gerry Hans
Friends of Griffith Park
www.friendsofgriffithpark.org

For the full report, go to http://beachwoodcanyon.org/BeachwoodWildlife.htm

For More Information About the Research Project, Please Contact:

Cooper Ecological Monitoring, Inc., www.cooperecological.com
Dan Cooper, President, dan@cooperecological.com, (323) 397-3562

Miguel Ordeñana, Contracting Biologist, ordenana@gmail.com,

(323) 481-1149

USGS Western Ecological Research Center www.werc.usgs.gov
Erin Boydston, Research Ecologist, eboydston@usgs.gov,

(805) 370-2362

Ben Young Landis, Outreach and Communications Coordinator, blandis@usgs.gov, (916) 278-9475

For Information About Mountain Lions and Other Wildlife in Southern California, Please Contact:

California Department of Fish and Game www.dfg.ca.gov/keepmewild
Rebecca Barboza, Associate Wildlife Biologist, rbarboza@dfg.ca.gov, (562) 754-9741

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Roadway to Hollywood Sign Reopening

Closed since January 28th due to a failed water pipe, Mt. Lee Road is opening once again THIS Thursday, March 22nd, according to Sharon Shapiro in Councilmember Labonge's office. Please enjoy your hikes once again and remember to respect the signage at the top of Deronda regarding parking. Neighbors are encouraged to walk up to this area to lessen the parking burden on this very narrow cul de sac.

Please don't park in this area. Gate must remain accessible to Fire and ITA staff.

Remember, you can still hike to Cahuenga Peak and to the Hollywood Sign this way: Park on Lake Hollywood Drive just off Wonder View and walk east on Wonderview past the Hollywood Knolls Water Tank. Take the trail-head on the right. It's a great hike past the vineyards with lovely views as you go.