Green space is growing in Hollywood with the recent addition of two new pocket parks. In addition to the Gordon Street Park, the new Carlton Way Park scheduled to open this summer. The quarter-acre park is situated near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and the 101 Freeway, on Carlton Way between Gordon Street and Bronson [...]
Controller Ron Galperin’s push to modernize City practices by implementing new technologies has resulted in another success: nearly 14,000 city employees opted to receive their W2 tax forms electronically. This is the first year they have had the option. “Fortune 500 companies have been issuing tax forms electronically for years,” said Galperin. “Electronic W2s save [...]
In collaboration with Councilmen Tom LaBonge and Mitchell Englander, this month’s Emergency Management Department (EMD) bulletin will discuss steps you can take to prepare yourself if you are in your car when an earthquake occurs. Given the large amount of time that residents of Los Angeles spend in their cars, knowing how to react to [...]
In 2011, the City of Los Angeles passes a Low Impact Development ordinance, which requires development and redevelopment projects to mitigate runoff in a manner that captures rainwater at its source utilizing natural best management practices such as rain barrels, permeable pavement, storage tanks and infiltration swales to use water. The City's award-winning Stormwater Program [...]
Did you know there’s a city department dedicated to ensuring compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and improving quality of life for persons with disabilities? Are you taking advantage of the resources and services the Department offers to provide accessibility to all of your Neighborhood Council meetings? The Department on Disability, on behalf of [...]
In order to help more homeowners convert their front yards from grass to Watershed Wise landscapes, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power provided a grant for the Lawn Be Gone project, a collaboration of the LADWP, Selva International, G3 Green Gardens Group, Surfrider Ocean Friendly Gardens, and the Hollywood/Los Angeles Beautification Team. The [...]
In collaboration with Councilmen Tom LaBonge and Mitchell Englander, this month’s Emergency Management Department (EMD) bulletin will discuss the City of Los Angeles tsunami danger resulting from earthquakes. A tsunami is a series of waves that is usually caused by a very large earthquake. The first wave may not be the largest and the timing [...]
The City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering is pleased to announce an Informational Open House for the 2015 Floodplain Management Plan (FMP) Update. The purpose of the FMP update is to complete the required steps to receive classification under the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System (CRS). The target audience for this meeting [...]
The Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council wants to get the word out about the Department of Animal Services’ Reserve Animal Control Officers (RACO) program. The Department needs 15 qualified volunteers to serve as RACO officers for the City of Los Angeles. This is a program that many of the neighborhood councils funded in 2010, but it never [...]
The Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department works to create viable urban communities by advocating for safe and livable neighborhoods through the promotion, development and preservation of decent, safe, affordable housing and by expanding economic opportunities and public services, principally for low- and moderate income persons. A merger is always difficult, but restructuring is [...]
