News & Alerts

Many of you will have noticed the recent demolition on the east side of Westwood Boulevard, mid-2300 block.  We have made contact with the owner/developer of the site and can share the following details about the proposed development: The project is a 3-story + basement mixed-use building. There will be retail/coffee shop at street level, with 17 enclosed parking spaces ...

As you know, the COVID-19 pandemic has made any large gathering potentially unsafe.  We expect that this will be the case for at least the next two months.  For this reason, our 2020 Annual Meeting - which we were originally planning to hold in April - has been postponed, tentatively until October.

On April 16, Los Angeles City Council voted 12 to 0 to oppose Senate Bill 50. Authored by State Senator Scott Wiener, SB 50 is a controversial piece of legislation that would grant generous incentives to developers to build taller, denser projects in cities all over California.  SB 50 would deny local government any control over the planning process in ...

The Coalition to Preserve LA (C2PLA) has teamed up with Livable California to do an in-depth study of State Senator Scott Wiener's neighborhood-destruction bill - known as SB 50 - and has produced an interactive map to show the extent of the impacts.  Check it out HERE. The analysis includes upzoning proposed by Wiener in so-called jobs-rich/good schools areas.  The ...

In December of 2018, State Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 50, which would mandate greater density and height for new housing developments on all properties within 1/2-mile of any transit stop or within 1/4-mile of any stop on a major bus route.  Wiener’s controversial bill would grant this “upzoning” regardless of current zoning, which means that developers would be able ...

The former STR Auto Repair shop property at Westwood and Santa Monica was acquired in 2017 by Jamison Properties (DBA Westwood Regent, LLC), an investment/development company that recently entered the mixed-use market and has built several major projects in Koreatown, contributing to the “gentrification” of that area. Late in 2017 the WSSM land-use committee worked with the developer and Midvale ...