Category Archives: Pacific Palisades Community Council

City, Annoyed by “Pesky” Appeals to Planning, Seeks to Hike Filing Fees

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Sue Pascoe

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)...

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Posted in Highlands Eldercare Project, Pacific Palisades Community Council | 1 Comment

VIEWPOINT: Homeless at Will Rogers, the PPCC meeting and the Elephant in the Room

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Sue Pascoe

  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...

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Posted in City/Councilman Mike Bonin, Community, Homelessness, Pacific Palisades Community Council | 9 Comments

Bonin’s Homeless Plan Faces Withering Opposition at the Pacific Palisades Community Council Meeting 

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Sue Pascoe

“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...

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Viewpoint: UNDERDOG Will Save the Day

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Sue Pascoe

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...

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Posted in Community, Councilman Mike Bonin, Pacific Palisades Community Council, Real Estate | 8 Comments

PLUM Committee to Re-Hear Controversial Project at Former Jack-in-the-Box Location

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Sue Pascoe

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...

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Ugly Behavior at the Palisades Farmers Market

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Sue Pascoe

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...

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VIEWPOINT: Should the Community Council Become a Neighborhood Council?

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Sue Pascoe

In one of my Musings on September 29, (“VIBRANT OR HO-HUM?”), I noted that while researching a story about Councilman David Ryu’s motion seeking to halt construction during the fire season in Very High Fire Severity Zones,   I went to...

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COVID-19 ROUND-UP: SUPERMARKETS, MASKS AND SCOFFLAWS

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Sue Pascoe

Wrong Way on a One-Way Aisle: I shopped at Von’s (at Sunset and PCH) on Sunday morning. I generally visit Gelson’s and Ralphs, but since I was interviewing Bruce Schwartz by the onion patch, near Von’s, I threw on my mask...

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Posted in Community, Pacific Palisades Community Council, Parks | 2 Comments

PCH Task Force Meeting: Caltrans Official Addresses Four Projects Affecting Pacific Palisades

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Sue Pascoe

What’s the most dangerous move a driver can make on Pacific Coast Highway? At the Wednesday quarterly PCH Task Force meeting in Malibu, an L.A. County Sheriff and a California Highway Patrol representative agreed that it’s “a U-turn on Pacific...

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Sweet Rose, the Popular Ice Cream Store on Monument, Will Close February 29 

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Sue Pascoe

Say goodbye to Fresh Mint Chip and Cookies & Cream, the best-selling flavors at Sweet Rose Ice Creamery, located in the Monument Building off Sunset. A sign posted on the front door says the shop will close. Circling the News...

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