Warm Fuzzy Article with Sliding Gallery
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 |
WSSM Annual Meeting Postponed
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.
WNC Safety & Preparedness Fair
The Westside Neighborhood Council’s second annual Safety & Preparedness Fair is happening on September 22, 2019 between 11AM and 3PM at Overland Elementary School. Last year’s event was a HUGE success with over 400 familes attending and the organizers are expecting an even bigger turnout this year! This fantastic FREE event is a great oportunity…
2019 Annual Meeting
It was great to have so many neighbors join us at St Timothy’s for the WSSM Annual Meeting on April 10th. President Barbara Broide reported on WSSM’s many accomplishments over the past year and addressed hot topics in our area. Guest speakers included Councilmember Paul Koretz, LAPD and Mayor’s Office reps. Congratulations and many thank…
2301 Westwood: PROJECT ABANDONED
The proposed apartment building project at 2301 Westwood Boulevard has been abandonded by the owner, which means that any and all previous approvals for development on the site are now null and void. Read the official notice HERE. WSSM understands that the owner’s decision to abandon the project was in response to a lawsuit filed…
L.A. City Council Opposes SB 50!
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…
Map of SB 50 “neighborhood wipeout” zones released
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…
SB 50: Scott Wiener’s latest attack on single-family neighborhoods
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…
New TOC Apartment Building Proposed for 1855 Westwood – UPDATE
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…
New Mixed-Use Development Coming to 2100 Block of Westwood
A 5-story, 77-apartment mixed-use building is proposed for this double-lot at 2136-2140 Westwood Boulevard, replacing what is now a low-rise commercial complex. The developer is seeking Tier 2 height and density incentives under the citywide Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program and (as with the other TOC projects on Westwood) there is no alleyway behind the…
WNC Elections
Westside Neighborhood Council held its town hall style board selections on March 14th. Organized and implemented by the LA Department of Neighborhood Empowerment and the City Clerk’s office, the town hall meeting was very well attended by stakeholders. The energy and level of engagement was amazing! Special kudos to neighbors from the Seat 7 area…