Please print out the flier and ask people not to block access on our narrow roads. Often it's our own neighbors who park irresponsibly. Let Parking Enforcement know when cars park where they shouldn't or access is impeded. Their number is (213) 485-4184. Take photos and share them with our City Representative, Daniel Halden: Daniel.Halden@lacity.org  BCNA will be working with the City departments to review our streets based on the rules contained in the LAFD flier below.  

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This Tuesday the PLUM Committee of the City Council is going to be hearing a two-part motion by O'Farrell to repeal the new Hollywood Community Plan Update and also to eliminate the infrastructure reporting requirement from the Community Plans and to make it discretionary in the Framework Element of the General Plan.

One of the reasons that the Hollywood Community Plan Update was found to be in violation of the law was that the required infrastructure reporting was absent from the plan update. The City Council is reacting to that defeat not by insuring that there is infrastructure reporting in the future but by eliminating the reporting requirement. Please express your opposition to this terrible idea. Angelinos need to know the truth about the decrepit state of our infrastructure. Please send an email to the PLUM Legislative Assistant Sharon.Gin@lacity.org with subject line "Council file 12-0303-S4" and come to the meeting to express your opposition.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 2:30 PM

PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT CMTE

200 NORTH SPRING STREET - ROOM 350

LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

ITEM NO. (5)

TIME LIMIT: 6/2/14; LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION: 5/30/14

Statutory Exemption, and related California Environmental Quality Act findings, reports from the Mayor and the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, Ordinance [revised to be consistent with the Resolutions] to repeal Ordinance No. 182173, adopted on June 19, 2012, for zone and height district changes in furtherance of the Hollywood Community Plan Update (HCPU), and Resolutions to:

1) Rescind, vacate and set aside all actions approving the 2012 HCPU and certifying the Environmental Impact Report adopted in connection therewith, and all related approvals issued in furtherance of the HCPU, and thereby, by operation of law revert to the General Plan elements and zoning regulations that were in place immediately before the City's adoption of the HCPU and

2) Amend the General Plan Framework Element that reaffirms the City's historical interpretation and implementation that the Framework Element's monitoring policies and programs are intended to guide the community plan update process, that the Framework Element does not require, and was not intended to require, the community plans themselves to contain the same monitoring policies and programs set forth in the Framework Element, and furthermore, that the monitoring programs discussed in Saunders v. City of Los Angeles (Case No. B232415), i.e., Programs 42 and 43 are discretionary as the Saunders Court held.

Applicant: City of Los Angeles

Case No. CPC-2014-669-CPU

Fiscal Impact Statement: No

Community Impact Statement: None submitted.

(The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the cases entitled Fix the City, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) Case No. BS 138580; La Mirada Avenue Neighborhood Association of Hollywood v. City of Los Angeles, et al., LASC Case No. BS 138369, Save Hollywood.org, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al., LASC Case No. BS 138370. (These cases involve challenges to the City Council's June 19, 2012 adoption of the Hollywood Community Plan Update and its Environmental Impact Report).

Last January 28, 2014, Tom Labonge asked City departments to study the problem of traffic congestion in Beachwood Canyon caused by the invasion of tourists and Griffith Park visitors seeking entry via Beachwood Drive.

I THEREFORE MOVE that LAPD, LAFD, LADOT and the Park Rangers Division in the Department of Recreation and Parks be immediately instructed to report to the City Council a thorough and detailed assessment of their understanding of the Beachwood Canyon / Hollywoodland area and the traffic and public safety challenges the neighborhood currently faces.

I FURTHER MOVE that these departments be instructed to provide recommendations to the City Council for remedies and solutions to these challenges.

On March 20, 2014 the Los Angeles Department of Transportation and Los Angeles Fire Department returned with their recommendations.

LADOT:

Based on our findings, LADOT's recommendation is to immediately post signage on the east side of Beachwood Drive, between Ledgewood and Hollyridge Drives, as "No Parking Tow Away" from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, to support the 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM temporary preferential parking district that the community is in the process of establishing for weekends and holidays. The Department recommends that the "No Parking Tow Away" on the east side of Beachwood Drive be posted seven days a week.

Furthermore, the Department also recommends that the small dirt parking lot near the Sunset Ranch, north of the terminus of Beachwood Drive, be designated as parking for stables only and restricted via an electric gate that would be operated by the stables to allow vehicular ingress and egress solely for use by their customers.

LAFD:

The short term mitigation to the Beachwood Drive traffic congestion that we came up with is to direct DOT to post the east side of Beachwood no parking from 8am to 6pm every day. We feel that dissuading public parking on Beachwood would cut down traffic congestion. DOT will take the lead in this measure.

Los Angeles 
Contact: Brenda Barnette, General Manager - LA City

Here are some links to the video of P-22:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Caught-on-Camera-Mountain-Lion-Hollywood-Hills-Possibly-P22--249706481.html  

http://ktla.com/2014/03/11/mountain-lion-caught-on-video-strolling-through-hollywood-hills/#ixzz2vnbH8bss

http://ktla.com/2014/03/11/mountain-lion-caught-on-video-strolling-through-hollywood-hills/

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Mountain-Lion-P22-Hollywood-Hills-Home-Santa-Monica-Mountains-249836231.html

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Episode will air sometime in the next month or so. Stay tuned. We'll let you know the date when we know it.

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Feel Good Moment

Immanuel Kelly Sings "Imagine"

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Webtraker - See flights over the canyon 

Parking Enforcement