Read about the Mayor’s controversial traffic plan that would affect our businesses and neighborhoods in this article.

If you want to help us oppose the plan, please consider attending the Traffic Commission hearing on February 13th. It will be during the day. More info to follow.

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Join your neighbors in our effort to stop the Mayor’s plan to increase traffic on Pico and Olympic. This weekend we will be distributing posters to businesses along Pico.

When: Saturday &/OR Sunday, 1/26 & 1/27 (Sunday is needed to reach our orthodox community)

Where: Vons at the corner of Fairfax & Pico. We’ll meet in the parking lot.

What time: 1:00pm (both days)

Attire: Wet weather gear. Bring an umbrella! Although the forecast says there is good chance of cloudy sun, prepare for the worst. If it does rain and you are not well, please do not feel you have to attend. You can fight another day.

So far there are 42 people signed up. If everyone shows up that means each person will be passing out posters to approximately 30 businesses. You’ll be carrying a clipboard and some 11″x17″ posters.

If it rains, it might be advisable to pair up so that you can stay dry while your partner holds the clipboard and posters. It’s good company and you can cover the same amount of territory just as quickly. It should take about and hour or two to distribute.

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For more information call Scott at (323) 939-0339.

Are you concerned about the impact of the Mayor’s Pico/Olympic traffic plan on our neighborhood? Please attend a town hall meeting at 7pm Wednesday, January 9th.

This forum is sponsored by Councilmember Bill Rosendahl (11th District, West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council, Mar Vista Community Council).

Come and listen to LADOT proposal to change traffic flow along Olympic and Pico Boulevards. Learn more about the plan’s alternative measures:
1. addition of peak period lanes,
2. directional signal operation, and
3. preferential directional flow

7pm Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Daniel Webster Middle School Auditorium
11330 W. Graham Place
West Los Angeles, CA 90064
(parking available on street or at the lot at Sawtelle Blvd. and Ivy Pl.)

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Please RSVP to: Len Nguyen at len.nguyen@lacity.org

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Residents, Businesses Unite to Protect Model Urban Village

Local business owners and residents from the Mid-City neighborhoods of Wilshire Vista, Picfair Village, South Carthay and Carthay Square gathered at CJ’s Café on Pico Boulevard Thursday evening to establish a united campaign against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s three-phase “Olympic-West Pico-East” Initiative. Because of the mayor’s attempt to fast-track the initiative, which he announced publicly on Nov. 26, 2007 and scheduled for implementation beginning in January of 2008, all attendees agreed on the urgent need to inform and mobilize their neighbors as quickly as possible, despite the challenges of doing so during the holiday season. They voted to name their coalition the “Pico-Olympic Village People.”

“The mayor claims that he wants Los Angeles to be a green city of walkable ‘urban villages,’ so we chose this name to draw attention to the fact that the neighborhoods threatened by this plan are already walkable urban villages.” says Ashley Thompson, a Wilshire Vista resident and business owner. “Our neighborhood is also one of the most ethnically and economically diverse in the whole city. We are a model community in every sense, yet the mayor’s plan treats us like we’re nothing but an inconvenient speed hump for commuters.”

The first phase of the “Olympic-West Pico-East” Initiative will eliminate all metered parking along Pico and Olympic between the hours of 7-10 a.m. and 3-7 p.m. Small businesses owners along Pico’s burgeoning commercial corridor are adamant that their businesses will not survive.

“This is a historic area, so we don’t have dedicated parking lots like newer shopping developments,” said John Wilson, owner of the Home Grown Store. “By taking away the few parking spaces we do have, this plan will discourage people from visiting our businesses. We’re all small, mom-and-pop shops here, and frankly we can’t afford to loose a single customer.”

Hugo Arce, of the Peterson Arce Design Group, says the metered parking is also essential to preserving the neighborhood’s pedestrian-friendly environment. “Who wants to window shop or sit down at a sidewalk café with a freeway a few feet away?” Arce asks. “For several years, we’ve been working to revitalize a neglected part of Pico, and now that the area is really taking off, the mayor wants to undo all of it in one fell swoop,” he says.

For neighborhood residents, the loss of businesses will mean having to drive more. “Right now, this is one of the few truly walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods in L.A., ” says Jela Ellefson. “My husband and I moved here from Santa Monica specifically because we didn’t want to get a second car. Here, almost everything we need is within walking distance, including our daughter’s daycare, great restaurants and shops, which will all suffer if this plan goes forward.”

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Ellefson, a graduate student in urban planning with a focus on transportation at USC, also noted that by encouraging more people to drive, the Olympic-West Pico-East Initiative goes against the city’s General Plan Framework, as well as the basic principles of sustainable urban planning. “Neighborhoods like this are not the cause of L.A.’s gridlock, we are the solution,” she says.

Many participants at Thursday’s meeting expressed their outrage at the mayor’s attempt to circumvent public debate about the proposal. Others questioned the legality of implementing the Olympic-West Pico-East Initiative without an environmental impact report.

“He announces the plan the Monday after Thanksgiving and wants to start it in January? This makes a mockery of public process, and it should be a scandal,” said Daniel Woodford, a neighborhood resident and attorney. “The timeline is clearly designed to avoid public input, which begs the question – if the mayor really thinks this is such a great idea, why is he afraid to debate it?”

Woodford questions the mayor’s true motives. “We all know this won’t solve the city’s traffic problems. The only way this plan makes any sense is if it’s a scheme to create blight,” he says.

The Pico-Olympic Village People is a coalition of residents and local businesses dedicated to preserving the vitality, walkability and long-term sustainability of our community, a model urban village. For more information, please contact us at LAvillagepeople@gmail.com.

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The 2nd Annual Pico Holiday Stroll this Friday, December 14th from 5 to 9pm between La Brea & La Cienega

Come and celebrate the holidays on Pico Blvd. from La Brea to La Cienega this Friday from 5 to 9pm. Join our local businesses and your neighbors for fun, food and music.

A holiday trolley will be shuttling revelers and carolers from stop to stop. Many businesses will be open and spreading holiday cheer, serving refreshments and offering special discounts.

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So head down to Pico on Friday and show these great neighborhood businesses that we support them!

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A large crowd of P.I.C.O. stakeholders, and those from our neighboring
councils, showed up for a Transportation committee meeting on the
Pico/Olympic plan recently proposed by Mayor Villaraigosa.

See LA City Beat article describing the meeting.

As with the previous proposal by Zev Yaroslavsky, we encourage our
neighbors, business owners, and neighborhood associations to write to
Herb Wesson and Jack Weiss (CD10 and CD5 Councilmen), and to Wendy
Greuel, Chair of the Transportation Committee, letting them know what
you think of this proposal!

Addresses to use are:

Honorable Wendy Greuel
Council member, 2nd District
Chair, Transportation Committee
200 N. Spring St., Room 475
Los Angeles, CA 90012
RE: Council File 07-1199, Olympic-Pico One-Way Proposal

Hon. Jack Weiss
Councilmember, 5th District
200 N. Spring Street, Room 440
Los Angeles 90012
Phone (213) 473-7005
Fax (213) 978-2250
E-Mail councilmember.weiss@lacity.org
RE: Council File 07-1199, Olympic-Pico One-Way Proposal

Hon. Herb Wesson
Councilmember, 10th District
200 North Spring Street, Room 430
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 473-7010
Fax (213) 485-9829
RE: Council File 07-1199, Olympic-Pico One-Way Proposal

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Please copy your letters to the PICO Neighborhood Council, and they
will be included as part of our formal response as well:

PICO Neighborhood Council
P.O. Box 351506
Los Angeles, CA 90035-1506

Thank you for being an active participant in your community!

Richard Lindstrom
PICO NC

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Mayor Villaraigosa unveiled his Olympic-West Pico-East Traffic Initiative on Monday. This initiative differs slightly from Zev Yaroslavsky’s proposal but the impact would be much the same. The result? A slow death of the small local businesses along with the immediate halting of growth and area revitalization that we have worked so hard over the past few years to achieve. This came as a complete surprise to Councilman Herb Wesson’s office as well as other area neighborhood councils.

A hearing will be held at the Traffic Commission this Monday, Dec. 3rd. We need to unite quickly and have a strong voice if were are to have an impact. Here are two things you can do immediately:

1. Please sign the petition that opposes this initiative. And email your Los Angeles friends and ask that they do the same. We need to make a continued effort to gather signatures even if this initiative moves forward because we can still impact certain phases of the initiative.

2. If you can, please attend the meeting with Deputy Deron Williams from Councilman Herb Wesson’s office. Here are the details:

Friday, November 30 at 7pm
GAM Arts (NE corner of La Brea / Pico)
4975 West Pico Blvd., L.A., CA 90019

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Now let’s get to work and Good Luck to us all!

Scott McNeely
Co-Chair, Pico Neightborhood Council

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Calling all creative high school students!

Boulevard Without Borders is an exciting community art project starting this fall and you can be part of it! Join together with other students in documenting people and places along Pico Boulevard. Make new friends and learn about digital photography while fulfilling community service requirements. No previous experience is required.

Apply now! Check out our Web site for details. Applications due October 15, 2007.

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