Westwood community leaders criticized the city’s latest attempt to mitigate conflicts of interest in city planning. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an executive directive March 9 that will prevent developers from meeting privately with city planners in an attempt to to curb their influence in City Hall. Developers can often donate large amounts behind […]
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Police find bodies in car on Veteran Avenue, suspect murder-suicide
This post was updated on March 15 at 2:30 p.m. Police discovered the bodies of a man and a woman in a parked car on Veteran Avenue on Wednesday morning. Authorities are investigating the death of the man and woman, who were in their 80s, as a murder-suicide, said a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson. […]
Chipotle to close all ShopHouse restaurant locations
All ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen locations, including one on Broxton Avenue, will close Friday. Chipotle, a Mexican fast-food chain that owns the ShopHouse franchise, said in a statement that the restaurant did not generate enough revenue to justify further investment. ShopHouse’s Westwood location opened on Broxton Avenue in 2013, two years after Chipotle launched the […]
Students and faculty give blunt opinions on passing of Measure M
The impacts of a city ballot initiative that would tax and regulate marijuana are still unclear. Measure M, a ballot initiative that will allow city officials to tax and regulate recreational and medicinal marijuana, passed Tuesday with about 80 percent of the vote. Measure M will implement a 10 percent gross receipts tax on all […]
LA County municipal elections see reduced voter turnout rate
About 6 percent of registered voters in Westwood and on campus voted in Los Angeles County municipal elections Tuesday. Out of 13,081 registered voters on campus, the Hill, the North Village and Westwood Village, only 810 cast ballots. About 7.5 percent of students registered on the Hill voted. The county’s total voter participation rate was […]
LAFD conducting chemical investigation at Glendon parking structure
This post was updated March 10 at 1:45 p.m. A hazardous materials squad is investigating chemical agents at an apartment complex on Weyburn Avenue. Ten people complained of illness after being inside an underground parking structure at 1010 Glendon Ave., according to a Los Angeles Fire Department alert. An LAFD spokesperson said no one on the […]
Westwood Neighborhood Council recap – March 8
The Westwood Neighborhood Council meets monthly to discuss issues pertaining to Westwood Village and the surrounding areas. Comments by public officials Christopher Ragsdale, a Los Angeles Police Department officer for Westwood, said residential burglaries and automobile crimes continue to increase in the district. He advised residents to use break-in alarms and motion sensors in their […]