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Jean | October 21, 2025 | Get to Know the Neighborhood
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An Amazing Thing Happened
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WSSM Annual Meeting Sept. 18
Jean | August 30, 2025 | Action Alerts, Get to Know the Neighborhood, WSSMHOA News
Please join us for the Westwood South of Santa Monica Boulevard (WSSM) HOA Annual Meeting. Guest Speakers include: Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky West LA PD Captain Gabaldon LAPD Sr. Lead Officer Rick Ballesteros Chief Program Officer Randall Trice, Whittier First Day And more… DATE: Thursday, September 18, 2025 TIME: 6:30 PM Dinner (Optional) 7:15 PM: Business…
WSSM Opposes SB 79
Jeffrey Ellis | August 22, 2025 | Action Alerts, Development & Infrastructure, WSSMHOA News
Sacramento Continues its Efforts to Dismantle R1 neighborhoods, the latest attempt being SB-79 Over recent years, WSSM has been actively engaged in advocacy to protect R1 ( single family home) neighborhoods from California State legislative efforts to upzone them via government mandated one-size-fits-all legislation that would allow developers to build apartment buildings in the midst…
405 Sepulveda Pass Rehab Begins
Jeffrey Ellis | July 14, 2025 | Development & Infrastructure
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has started work on the Interstate 405 (I-405) Pavement Rehabilitation Project. This project will extend the pavement life along I-405 in Los Angeles from Van Nuys to Westwood along with other upgrades and improvements. Construction will continue through winter 2028/2029. Once complete, the approximately $143.7 million project will rehabilitate…
Community Health: MICROPLASTICS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT
Nancy Stone | July 2, 2025 | Action Alerts, Crime & Public Safety
In the 1967 Mike Nichol’s film, “The Graduate”, family friend Mr. McGuire takes recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) aside, and gives him some advice for his future. “I just want to say one word to you, just one word. Are you listening? Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics – will…
WSSM Welcomes New Boutique Hotel to Neighborhood
Nancy Stone | July 2, 2025 | Get to Know the Neighborhood
When I walked into the new Olivia Hotel for their open house celebration on June 26th , I was welcomed by the fashionable décor, inviting dining area, and comfortable courtyard. This was no longer the modest Travel Lodge that clung to the corner of Overland and Santa Monica for so long. This hotel, according to…
Use My311 to Report Neighborhood Issues
Jeffrey Ellis | March 4, 2025 | Action Alerts, Crime & Public Safety, Development & Infrastructure, Get to Know the Neighborhood
WSSM residents may not know that contacting the City of Los Angeles by calling 311 — or even better, downloading and utilizing the My311 mobile phone app — is the quickest and most efficient method of reporting concerns and issues that need to be addressed.
LETTER TO CITY – FOX DEVELOPMENT
Jeffrey Ellis | January 8, 2025 | Action Alerts, Development & Infrastructure
March 14, 2024 Mr. Ray Fukuda LA City Planning Associate Department of City Planning 221 N. Figueroa Street, Room 1350Los Angeles, CA 90012 VIA EMAIL: ray.fukuda@lacity.org RE: ENV-2023-1819-EIR, FOX FUTURE Project 10201-10275 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90064 Dear Mr. Fukuda: This letter is submitted on behalf of the board and stakeholders…
FOX FUTURE PROJECT SUMMARY UPDATE
Jeffrey Ellis | January 8, 2025 | Action Alerts, Development & Infrastructure
Case Number: ENV-2023-1819-EIR Council District: 5 – Yaroslavsky Community Plan Areas: West Los Angeles Project Location: 10201-10275 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 9006 The Fox Studio has begun the process for seeking approval of a new land use development plan for the studio property between Pico and Olympic Blvds. which they refer to as “Fox Forward.”…
Warm Fuzzy Article with Sliding Gallery
By Jean |
An Amazing Thing Happened
By Jean |
WSSM Annual Meeting Sept. 18
By Jean |
WSSM Opposes SB 79
By Jeffrey Ellis |
405 Sepulveda Pass Rehab Begins
By Jeffrey Ellis |
Community Health: MICROPLASTICS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT
By Nancy Stone |
Warm Fuzzy Article with Sliding Gallery
By Jean |
An Amazing Thing Happened
By Jean |
WSSM Annual Meeting Sept. 18
By Jean |
WSSM Opposes SB 79
By Jeffrey Ellis |
405 Sepulveda Pass Rehab Begins
By Jeffrey Ellis |
Community Health: MICROPLASTICS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT
By Nancy Stone |
WESTSIDE PAVILION PURCHASED BY UCLA
Media from throughout the State came to cover the press conference held by UCLA to announce the purchase of the former Westside Pavilion property to be the future site of the UCLA Research Park. The facility, a 700,000 square-foot property lies two miles south of the Westwood campus. A short video with highlights of the…
Sidewalk Repair
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…
L.A. Mental Health Resources
Mental Health Corner: If you or someone you know needs support now, call or text 988, or chat at 988Lifeline.org. 988 connects you with a trained crisis counselor who can help. NAMI WLA, the National Alliance for Mental Illness West Los Angeles, is offering free non-clinical mental health services for adults 18 and over living in the Westside…
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD VOICES: URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY HOMES
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…
WSSM Weekly Crime Map
Weekly West L.A. Crime Maps Are Temporarily Unavailable. Please use the link below to access Los Angeles Crime Mapping: https://www.crimemapping.com/map/ca/losangeles
WSSM Holds First In-Person Annual Meeting Since Pandemic
WSSM hosted our first post-pandemic community-wide Annual Meeting on the evening of November 14, 2023 at St. Timothy’s Church Social Hall. It was wonderful to gather together IN PERSON over dinner and to hear updates about what’s happening in the City and in our neighborhood. To welcome everyone back, WSSM hosted dinner for all dues…
West L.A. LAPD Town Halls Address Rise in Burglaries
Officers and detectives from the West LA Police Department Community Police station have held two Zoom town hall meetings to address concerns over the 368 burglaries reported in West LA during 2023. The meeting was convened by the Senior Lead Officers covering the Brentwood, Pacific Palisades and Bel Air areas of West LA. SLO Brian…
WSSM HOA 2023 Annual Meeting — Tuesday Nov. 14
Concerned about zoning issues, housing availability and local control of city planning decisions? Join your fellow neighbors to address these issues and more. WSSM is excited to be holding it’s first in-person Annual Meeting since the onset of the pandemic, on Tuesday evening, November 14th at Saint Timothy’s Church at the corner of Pico and…
Proposed Pico/Midvale Interim Housing Project for Homeless Individuals
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…