Category Archives: City
Advocacy Group for Safer Streets Endorses DUI-Charged Council Candidate
(Editor’s note: When looking at ballot measures, it is sometime helpful to see who is supporting the measure. In the case of Measure HLA, it is supported by StreetsForALL. That makes the SFA’s choice of a candidate puzzling. The story...
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Sidewalk Vending Occupies Pedestrian Pathways and Pays No Taxes
One resident wrote CTN: “Here is a photo of the local carne asada street vendor setting up shop on Sunset in front of Ralph’s at 3 p.m. on Tuesday blocking the sidewalk. Business is so good that the vendor now...
Posted in businesses/stores, City, Community, Crime/Police
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Palisades Democrats to Hold Annual Meeting February 4
The Palisades Democrats will hold the club’s annual meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, February 4 at Mercer Hall on the Palisades High School Campus. The meeting is open to everyone and there will be free parking, free...
Posted in City, City Councilmember Traci Park, Community
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Viewpoint: NO on HLA City Mobility Plan: Money Comes from General Fund
(Editor’s note: there are a few items on the upcoming election that have not been highlighted, but deserve voters’ scrutiny. One is The City Mobility Plan Street Improvement Measure: Initiative HLA. This editor is all for improving mobility in the...
City Says the Cost Is $550,000 for Two Bathrooms
If one wanted to build an ADA bathroom, they might do like this editor did and check Google for costs, just to get a rough estimate. According to the home advisor, remodeling a bathroom for accessibility costs between $100 and...
Posted in City, Parks
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Castellammare Lacks Adequate Drainage/Roads for Major Developments
“What’s going on here is astonishing,” a resident said as he gave this editor a tour of the proposed Tramonto four house development off Revello on the Castellammare section of Pacific Palisades. “The big problem is the roadway.” Repeatedly residents...
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Discrepancies in Actions and Audits Raise Questions about LA City Controller’s Oversight
(Editor’s note: This article, which ran January 10 in the Valley Current, is the second installment of a two-part series delving into the practices and controversies surrounding LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia. The column aims to shed light on the biases,...
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Dog Park Implementation Creeps Along
(Editor’s note: Palisades dog lovers have asked for a dog park for decades–CTN will chronicle this story until some sort of resolution happens in 2024: either the park moves forward or it’s decided the project is dead. At the rate...
Posted in Animals/Pets, City, Community
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Streetlights Parallel the History of L.A. in “Electric Moons”
India Mandelkern, who grew up in the Palisades, has written a new book Electric Moons: A Social History of the Street Lighting in Los Angeles. “Believe it or not there are or different street lights designs in Los Angeles than...
Additional Castellammare Building Projects Seek City Approval
Circling the News received the following letter that was sent to Castellammare residents urging them to speak at another hearing for additional oversize homes built on the Tramonto Landslide. CTN is printing the letter as a service to Pacific...
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