News & Alerts

The City Planning Department has embarked on a three-year process to update four Community Plans for the Westside of Los Angeles: Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey, Venice, West Los Angeles and Westchester-Playa del Rey. Our WSSM community is included in the West Los Angeles Plan area. Much like the Expo Plan, the Westside Community Plan updates will have a far-reaching impact on ...

The site of the former "Norm's" restaurant, at 11001 Pico Boulevard has been acquired by NMS Properties, a real estate development and management firm based in Santa Monica. NMS proposes to build a 6-story, 89-unit apartment building in this location, taking advantage of additional density and height allowances made possible by the City’s “Transit Oriented Communities” ordinance. WSSM is monitoring ...

The Exposition Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan (ECTNP) is a package of new and reassigned zones applied to a mile-wide strip of West Los Angeles, along the route of the Expo Line. The Plan is now finalized after five years of outreach and study by the City Planning Department. WSSM was involved in the process every step of the way, attending ...

Phishing attacks are more rampant than ever before. They cost organizations around the globe $4.5 billion every year and over half of internet users get at least one phishing email per day. The best defense companies have against phishing attacks is to block malicious emails before they reach customers with the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance) standard. Brands ...

Many crime trends include scams, distraction burglaries and soliciting. Nearby LAPD Senior Lead Officer Chris Ragsdale shares some helpful advice on how you should deal with when these happen to you: If anyone knocks, calls, emails, texts, or approaches, unsolicited by you, DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR, DO NOT ENGAGE! Respectfully and politely indicate that you are not interested. If ...

Neighborhood Watch is about getting to know and watching out for your neighbors. A neighborhood watch meeting is a way to facilitate that and to also get some tips on what is suspicious activity and how to report it. Neighborhood watch does not involve patrols of the neighborhood. It needn't involve a time commitment either; it really is about getting to ...