Westwood Safety

Traffic and Safety Updates

Our Mission: To enforce the Court's order requiring the City to restore the cut-through traffic mitigation measures.

Attention Neighbors! TARGET is coming.

Target is coming just 2 blocks away on Weyburn Avenue. Are you ready for…

110,000 sq feet of retail space

Up to 9,253 cars a day or 771 cars an hour*

Less than a 1/4 mile from our homes

Shoppers from all over LA; the closest Target is Culver City

771 cars per hour = 1 car every five seconds!

What have others done?

In other cities, residents have protested to oppose Target due to traffic burdens. In many cases, Target has allotted $1-2 million in traffic improvements to protect nearby residents.

What can we do?

Our southwest pocket of Little Holmby is particularly vulnerable to Target’s traffic impact. Unfortunately, Target will be occupying existing retail space; so, it will not be required to protect our community from its traffic burden. We still can pursue City-installed traffic measures.

Next steps?
To address Target’s impact, we intend to utilize our past efforts via the Palazzo project to protect our neighborhood for years to come. Our traffic efforts must also aid in mitigating impacts from the planned 9 story hotel and conference center at the corner of Hilgard and Westholme at UCLA.

Did you know that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that the City of L.A. broke the law when it removed the traffic mitigation measures reducing neighborhood cut-through traffic that Westwood residents overwhelmingly approved in 2009?

After a court trial, the judge ruled that the City broke the law when it removed the cut-through traffic mitigation measures, and the judge also ordered the City to pay over $170,000 in attorney’s fees. Notwithstanding the judge’s ruling, the City continues to defy the Court Order and is planning to appeal the decision. Our Councilman, Paul Koretz, favors allowing the cut-through traffic and supports spending our scarce tax dollars on appealing the Court’s ruling.

Neighborhood Protection Plan Information

PRESS:

Happy Endings: Judge Rules Traffic Calming Measures Put Back in Holmby-Westwood (July 8, 2010)

*Based on draft Environmental Impact Report in comparable store.

HOLMBY-WESTWOOD TRAFFIC COMMITTEE

decreasetraffic@yahoo.com, www.westwoodsafety.com

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