Meeting Date: 2/28/24 9:21 pm

Meeting Type: Special

Input Requested on Hollywood Bowl Traffic!

With the upcoming Hollywood Bowl season starting up again in April, your feedback is requested on traffic related issues, solutions, and a community meeting date!

In 2022, the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council (HHWNC) established a Joint Committee to address the ongoing traffic implications as a result of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s management of the Hollywood Bowl.
At the Joint Committee meetings, the community got together to identify the issues of concerns and prioritized a list of recommended solutions that were outlined here.
Since then, HHWNC has been working with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, LA County representatives, LA City representatives, and other neighborhood organizations to address the ongoing traffic concerns through the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association Hollywood Bowl Community Advisory Group.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association has limited the participation in the advisory meetings and the community is prohibited from attending.
HHWNC will host a community meeting in the coming months to:
  1. Update the 2022 list of traffic issues caused by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Associations’ management of the Hollywood Bowl; and
  2. Update the list of solutions that the community is requesting to address the traffic issues.

Submit your feedback using the links below:

ISSUES: What issues do you experience in the community related to Hollywood Bowl Traffic? Please click here to review the list of issues and provide your feedback on any missing items.
SOLUTIONS: What solutions would you like to see implemented to solve the issues related to Hollywood Bowl Traffic? Please click here to review the list of solutions collated and provide your feedback on any missing items.
MEETING: A special ‘Hollywood Bowl United Community Group’ meeting will be held over Zoom to review the feedback given in the links above and and develop a formal approach and timeline to address the issues and implement solutions. Please click here to indicate your interest in attending this meeting and select the date and time that works best for you to attend.

If you have pictures, videos, or other feedback regarding neighborhood traffic issues caused by Hollywood Bowl events, please email them to [email protected]

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Meeting Date: 2/21/24 6:00 pm

Meeting Type: Regular

Location: Zoom Meeting Link

Details:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86314980032

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Meeting Date: 2/12/24 6:00 pm

Meeting Type: Regular

Location: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84329861422

There will be a joint meeting of the Business, Housing, Area 3 and PLUM committees to be held Monday, February 12, starting at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be digitally held over Zoom.

Topic will be the application for an expanse of hours of beverage operation at the Whiskey Hotel, 1717 Wilcox Avenue.

Please use the “Agenda” button above to access the complete agenda.

Zoom Meeting Link; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84329861422

Zoom Meeting ID: 843 2986 1422

Phone Dial in: +1 253 215 8782

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Meeting Date: 1/17/24 6:00 pm

Meeting Type: Regular

Location: Zoom Meeting Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89313932925

Save the Date:

Join us, January 17 at 6:00 PM.

Zoom Meeting Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89313932925

Meeting ID: 893 1393 2925

Phone Dial in: +1-669-900-6833 Code: 893 1393 2925

The HHWNC Environment Chair leads the HHWNC Environment Committee to make recommendations to the Board. Recommendations will address environment, beautification, preservation, and aesthetics. In addition, the Environment Chair is a voting member of the HHWNC PLUM committee.

The goal of the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council Environment Committee is to consider and address environmental and quality of life issues of significance to our area, including but not limited to promoting awareness around renewable energy, infrastructure upgrades, water conversation, tree plantings, and other initiatives related to the Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance “Green New Deal.”

To be eligible for the chair, a candidate must live, work or own real property within the boundaries of HHWNC. Candidates must be 18 years or older.

As a member of a government body listed in the Los Angeles Charter, the successful candidate is required to complete training in Funding, training in Ethics, etc. and also must also read and sign a Code of Conduct.

Interested parties should email Anastasia Mann at [email protected].

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Meeting Date: 11/15/23 6:00 pm

Meeting Type: Regular

Location: Junior Achievement – LOD Cook Building, 6250 Forest Lawn Dr. Hollywood, CA 90068

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Meeting Date: 11/7/23 6:00 pm

Meeting Type: Regular

Location: Gardner Street Elementary School Michael Jackson Auditorium 7450 Hawthorn Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046

The Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council has an important update on an initiative to improve the safety of the Hollywood Hills streets that has been in the works for the past nice years!

In April, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council (Council) passed Ordinance 187078 which established Los Angeles Municipal Code 80.36.11 that regulates tour bus operations in the City of Los Angeles.
The ordinance and code prohibits tour busses from operating on certain roads that the Department of Transportation (LADOT) has deemed unsafe to operate a commercial tour bus.
Based on feedback from the community, Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council (HHWNC) requested LADOT to evaluate 86 street segments in the hills to determine if they posed safety concerns with tour busses operating on them. LADOT evaluated each street segment for safety which includes 1) roadway characteristics (e.g., things like road widths, dead end turns, turns in driveways, and local street saturation), and 2) tour bus operations (e.g., things like blocking roadways, illegal parking, blocking visibility, pedestrian safety). They also evaluated tour bus volumes on each street segment.

Of the 86 street segments evaluated, LADOT deemed the following 11 segments to be unsafe for tour busses to stop or park and is recommending the Council pass a resolution to prohibit tour busses from parking or stopping on any portion of these street segments: 
  1. Outpost Drive between Franklin Avenue and Mulholland Drive
  2. Outpost Cove Drive between Outpost Drive and the dead-end west of Carmen Crest Drive
  3. Mulholland Drive between Cahuenga Boulevard West and Woodrow Wilson Drive (east of Multiview Drive)
  4.  Mulholland Drive between Floye Drive and Dona Pegita Drive
  5.  Torreyson Drive between Mulholland Drive and Torreyson Place
  6.  Torreyson Place between Torreyson Drive and the dead-end south of Torreyson Drive
  7.  Senalda Road between Outpost Drive and Castilian Drive
  8.  Mapleton Drive between Sunset Boulevard and Club View Drive
  9.  Charing Cross Road between Sunset Boulevard and Beverly Glen Boulevard
  10.  Wyton Drive between Mapleton Avenue and Beverly Glen Boulevard
  11.  Orange Grove Avenue between Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard
Additionally, LADOT deemed the following 9 segments to be unsafe for tour busses to operate on at all and is recommending the Council pass a resolution to prohibit tour busses from driving/operating on any portion of these street segments:
  1. Outpost Drive between Franklin Avenue and Mulholland Drive
  2. Outpost Cove Drive between Outpost Drive and the dead-end west of Carmen Crest Drive
  3. Torreyson Drive between Mulholland Drive and Torreyson Place
  4. Torreyson Place between Torreyson Drive and the dead-end south of Torreyson Drive
  5. Senalda Road between Outpost Drive and Castilian Drive
  6. Mapleton Drive between Sunset Boulevard and Club View Drive
  7. Charing Cross Road between Sunset Boulevard and Beverly Glen Boulevard
  8. Wyton Drive between Mapleton Avenue and Beverly Glen Boulevard
  9. Orange Grove Avenue between Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard

Los Angeles City Council Meeting Details and Opportunity for Public Comment

On Friday, October 20, 2023, the Los Angeles City Council will vote on this resolution. The meeting starts at 10am at City Hall and this topic is #15 on the agenda. Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council thanks LADOT, especially Brian Gallagher, Principal Transportation Engineer – District Operations Bureau, for all of their work on this topic and encourages the community to attend the meeting or call in to support and request the Council approve the resolution.
The Council meetings will be broadcast live on Cable Television Channel 35, on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.gov/calendar, and on YouTube. The live audio of the hearing will be available via telephone at: (213) 621-CITY (Metro), (818) 904-9450 (Valley), (310) 471-CITY (Westside), and (310) 547-CITY (San Pedro Area).
The City Council will take public comment from members of the public in the Council chamber and also by teleconference. Members of the public who wish to offer public comment to the Council via teleconference should call 1 669 254 5252 and use Meeting ID No. 160 535 8466 and then press #. Press # again when prompted for participant ID. Once admitted into the meeting, press *9 to request to speak. Written public comment may be submitted at LACouncilComment.com.

Implementation Plan:

If the Council passes the resolution, LADOT provides a 90 day notice to all Tour Bus companies operating in the City so they can adjust their routes/schedules accordingly. LADOT will also post a map on their website to clearly show the tour bus restricted street segments.
After the 90 day notification period (on January 21, 2024), LADOT will post the signage pictured above on the applicable restricted street segments mentioned above.

Enforcement Plan:

 

Violations of the Tour Bus ordnance carry both civil and criminal penalties which are progressive.
For civil violations:
For criminal violations:

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Meeting Date: 10/18/23 5:30 pm

Meeting Type: Regular

Location: Junior Achievement – LOD Cook Bldg, 6250 Forest Lawn Dr. Hollywood, CA 90046