News & Alerts

In December of 2016, the City of Los Angeles launched Safe Sidewalks LA, a 30-year, $1.4 billion program to make sidewalks accessible to everyone. The program was forged as the result of a settlement agreement in response to litigation brought against the City by advocates for the disabled. Following the litigation and settlement agreement, the City designed a program under ...

Westwood South of Santa Monica Blvd. HOA endorses and supports the “OUR NEIGHBORHOOD VOICES”  ballot initiative campaign now underway. The ONV campaign is the best hope that we and other communities across our state have to regain local land use and planning authority from the State legislature.  We call on all our WSSM residents, whether single-family, condo or apartment residents ...

CD5 Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky recently introduced a proposal to create a 30-bed interim housing facility on L.A. City Parking Lot #707, located at the northwest corner Pico and Midvale Ave. The proposal, while addressing the urgent need for interim supportive housing in CD5 (CD5 currently has no interim housing for homeless individuals in development) has been controversial.  Many residents in ...

Over the last few weeks, WSSM residents have likely noticed the closure of curb lanes along westbound Pico Boulevard and its intersection at Overland.  The great news is that the initial phase of the long anticipated Walk Pico! street improvement program is finally underway. After several years of planning in partnership with our community through the Westside Neighborhood Council (WNC), the ...

Once again, the California Legislature is considering a host of housing bills, ostensibly for the purpose of increasing affordable housing but without providing any subsidies to actually enable the development of affordable housing. Although some bills may be worthwhile, many are simply destructive of existing communities, the environment and our quality of life, while providing gifts to developers. For latest updates ...