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Category Archives: Pacific Palisades Community Council
State Will Fund Potrero/PCH Pedestrian Bridge, Offering Pedestrian Access to the Beach
State Senator Ben Allen confirmed at the July 8 Community Council meeting that the state will budget $11 million to build a pedestrian bridge over PCH that connects Will Rogers State Beach with the George Wolfberg Park at Potrero Canyon. … Continue reading
Letter from Pacific Palisades Community Council to LA City Explaining Why Will Rogers Should Not Be Used for Homeless
(Editor’s note: the following letter was sent on June 10 from the Pacific Palisades Community Council to Richard H. Lewellyn, Jr., City Administrative Officer (CAO) and to Matt Szabo, CAO appointee (effective 7/4/21), who is current Deputy Chief of Staff … Continue reading
Members of Community Council’s Executive Board Are Perturbed about City/County Inaction
The Pacific Palisades Community Council sent a letter on April 29 to County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Councilman Mike Bonin asking them, “Will you reject or withdraw any proposal to use the public state beach parking lots for … Continue reading
Community Council Decries Bonin’s “Lack of Transparency” in Will Rogers Beach Housing Plan
In an April 19 letter to Mayor Garcetti, Councilman Mike Bonin and City Council President Nury Martinez, in reference to putting homeless in little homes on Will Rogers State Beach, the Pacific Palisades Community Council Executive Committee wrote: “Councilmember Bonin … Continue reading
City, Annoyed by “Pesky” Appeals to Planning, Seeks to Hike Filing Fees
The L.A. City Administrative Office (CAO) is proposing an 18,000 percent increase in the cost of filing an appeal to the City Zoning Administrator from the current $89 to $16,097. The City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) … Continue reading
VIEWPOINT: Homeless at Will Rogers, the PPCC meeting and the Elephant in the Room
By NINA MADOK Special to Circling the News After participating in the Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting on April 8 and listening to the comments of concerned citizens and council members alike opposed to Councilman Bonin’s motion to house … Continue reading
Bonin’s Homeless Plan Faces Withering Opposition at the Pacific Palisades Community Council Meeting
“The Chamber of Commerce is opposing this motion,” said Fay Vahdani, the Chamber’s representative on the Pacific Palisades Community Council. “We’ve seen what has happened in Brentwood and Venice and it has destroyed those communities.” Lasting nearly two hours, last … Continue reading
Viewpoint: UNDERDOG Will Save the Day
Whenever Sweet Polly Purebreds (aka Palisades residents) are being victimized by developers, L.A. City Planning, the Planning and Land Use Committee and L.A. City Council, we sing “Oh where or where has my UNDERDOG [Mike Bonin] gone, oh, where oh … Continue reading
PLUM Committee to Re-Hear Controversial Project at Former Jack-in-the-Box Location
The L.A. City Planning and Land Use Committee will rehear plans for a controversial project to be built at the former Jack-in-the-Box site (17346 Sunset Blvd.) at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16 in a virtual meeting. At the prior … Continue reading
Ugly Behavior at the Palisades Farmers Market
Early this morning, two elderly women set up a table for the Republicans at the Palisades Farmers Market on the corner of Antioch and Swarthmore. When Circling the News walked by, a middle-age white male was shouting at them, asking … Continue reading