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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 |
6-Story Apartment Building at 2301 Westwood – UPDATE
Noah Riley, of Riley Projects, architect and owner’s representative for the 2301 Westwood project made a presentation at the WSSM HOA meeting on February 5, 2019 to bring us up-to-date with the design proposals, which have changed somewhat since we first connected with Noah in December 2018. The current proposal includes 60 apartments (6 set…
Motion to Rezone Rancho Park – UPDATE
The motion made by Councilman Koretz on January 23 to rezone Rancho Park from the current R1 (Baseline Mansionization Ordinance) zone to variation zone R1-V2 (which would allow construction of larger houses) will not proceed any further. The news was announced by CD5 Planning Deputy Hagu Solomon-Cary at our February 5 meeting and was met…
LA City Ethics Commission Considers Ban on Developer Contributions
At its meeting on February 19, 2019, Los Angeles City Ethics Commission will continue its review of contributions from real estate developers to political campaigns in the city. This discussion is timely, as it coincides with an ongoing (and widening) FBI investigation into corruption at LA’s City Hall. The Commission is taking public comments on a potential…
“Norm’s” Project – UPDATE
The 6-story 89-unit apartment building proposed for the former “Norm’s” restaurant site, at 11001 Pico Boulevard was the subject of a special WSSM Board Meeting on October 29, 2018. At that meeting, neighborhood stakeholders presented a list of concerns about the negative impacts of the project, which would include increased traffic, parking overspill, shadows/visual blight, loss…
New Apartment Building Coming to Westwood Boulevard
A new 62-unit apartment building is proposed for the partially vacant property at 2301 Westwood Boulevard, on the corner of Westwood and Tennessee. The project Applicant – doing business as “The Westwood, LLC” – plans to take advantage of increased height and reduced setback bonuses under the citywide Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program, which would…
Want to become a WNC Board Member?
Westside Neighborhood Board elections will be on March 14, 2019. If you live, work or own a business within the WNC boundaries and want to get involved, you can file online here or follow the filing link on the WNC website. Candidate filing is open from December 29, 2018 to February 12, 2019. WNC Board…
Westside Community Plan Updates
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…
Development of “Norm’s” Property
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…
Expo Corridor Plan
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…
10 Tips to Identify a Phishing or Spoofing Email
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…