Students can now choose from four poke places in Westwood with the recent addition of a new restaurant in the Village. The Poke, a restaurant that serves poke bowls and hot plates served with cooked meat, miso soup, sweet radishes and other toppings, opened a new location Monday on Broxton Avenue. Poke is cubed sashimi, […]
Category Archives: Westwood
Homeless count increases from 2016 in City of LA, Westwood
Homelessness jumped 20 percent in the City of Los Angeles this year, according to numbers released by an independent agency Wednesday. Los Angeles volunteers counted 34,189 homeless individuals in the city in 2017 compared to 28,464 in 2016, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Volunteers counted 1,160 homeless individuals in Council District 5, […]
City Council allots nearly 2 percent of budget to tackling homelessness
Los Angeles City Council will allocate $176 million to pay for housing for homeless individuals in its budget for fiscal year 2017-2018. The city will dedicate nearly 2 percent of its budget to permanent housing projects and sanitation efforts, among other services, to support homeless individuals. The budget also proposes funds for street repair and […]
Westwood Village Improvement Association increases assessment fees
The Westwood Village Improvement Association increased the fees businesses need to pay Thursday, for the second time since the organization’s creation. Businesses operating in Westwood Village pay assessment fees to the association to fund services, such as cleaning the streets and repairing lighting. The association raised assessments by 5 percent for 2016 and another 5 […]
Metro’s Purple Line Extension to begin construction ahead of schedule
This post was updated May 23 at 7:10 p.m. A planned subway extension to Westwood will begin construction in 2018, nine years ahead of its original schedule, according to a schedule Metro distributed at a community meeting Thursday. The new timeline is possible because in November, county voters passed Measure M, a half-percent sales tax […]
Cannabis kingdom
Proposition 64 passed in November, legalizing recreational marijuana use in California. When it goes into full effect on Jan. 1, 2018, anyone 21 or older, including UCLA students, will be able to buy marijuana from stores with retail licenses. Currently, students 21 and over can possess up to 28.5 grams of marijuana and grow up […]
Westwood Village Improvement Association recap – May 18
The Westwood Village Improvement Association is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. Property and business owners created the association in 2011 to provide the Village with functions the city of Los Angeles could not provide. Its board of directors meets monthly. Lisa Chapman, president of the Westwood Neighborhood Council, recommended […]