Councilman withdraws proposal for new BID

A proposal to begin the creation of a new Westwood Business Improvement District was withdrawn from today’s city council agenda after area merchants expressed upset over what they considered sneaky politics. Councilman Jack Weiss, whose district includes Westwood, deferred plans for Westwood’s new BID to the Economic Development Committee, headed by Councilman Eric Garcetti. Though […]

Weiss to propose new Village BID

Westwood merchants and property owners are upset at Councilman Jack Weiss’ possible preparation of another Business Improvement District, less than four months after the Village’s original BID was ended amid controversy. The agenda for Friday’s L.A. City Council meeting includes an item proposed by Weiss that would allocate $25,000 in city money to the BID […]

UCLA students join anti-war protests

SAN FRANCISCO AND YORBA LINDA ““ As the Pentagon sends more soldiers and warships to the Persian Gulf, anti-war activists, hundreds of them university students, again took to the streets to protest a seemingly inevitable war against Iraq. The California rallies took place Saturday as demonstrators across the United States ““ including an estimated 500,000 […]

Merchants voice parking woes to Weiss

L.A. city councilman Jack Weiss, whose district includes Westwood, held a meeting for Village business owners and community organizers Thursday to discuss lack of parking ““ a problem many merchants point to as a prime reason for business woes in the Village. Amid heckles and groans from several merchants dissatisfied with Weiss’ failure to improve the […]

Merchants in Westwood advocate foot police patrol

Police officers will be walking up and down Westwood Village and stopping by shops for the occasional cookie or donut ““ if many community organizers and business owners have their way. Crimes committed in professional and medical buildings in Westwood and Century City have prompted West Los Angeles Police to release a community crime alert […]

Lesson not learned: placard problems persist

Despite efforts to heighten surveillance of illegal parking in areas designated for disabled persons, misuse of disabled parking placards continues to remain a problem at UCLA. Even after the notorious handicapped parking scandal of 1999, in which 19 former football players used fraudulent disabled parking placards, a “small minority” of UCLA students continue to misuse […]