Westwood Safety

Neighborhood Protection Plan Information

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

Status, January 2011: Superior Court Judge O’Brien ruled that the City broke the law by disregarding the Agreement to protect our streets from traffic in July of 2010. He wrote in his ruling, "the terms of the NPP and its Amendments are clear and unabiguous. LADOT had a ministerial duty to distribute the ballot only to those residents within the specifically defined Affected Areas because the traffic survey revealed according to LADOT's established criteria for significance, implementation of the NPP's traffic control measures did not significantly impact any residential areas outside of the defined Affected Areas."

Subsequently, the City filed a Motion for new trial and a hearing took place. Again, we prevailed. The City’s Motion for new trial was denied by Judge O’Brien in the fall of 2010. In April of 2010, the City also attempted a pre-trial motion, called a Motion to dismiss, that a different Judge (Chalfont) denied. It was also based on the City’s assertion that it can do whatever it wants.

To summarize our track record in court, the City has lost 3 times by 2 different highly-esteemed Judges.

The City is now pursuing an Appeal, although the Superior Court Ruling was unequivocally clear that the Traffic Plan must be installed, as a matter of law. The Superior Court also awarded the plantiffs over $170,000 in attorney fee reimbursement in November and December of 2010, as the Judge recognized that this case was required for the sake of the public good. To pursue an appeal will further cost the City hundreds of thousands of dollars: an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars.

Superior Court Ruling July 2010

Executed Neighborhood Protection Plan Agreement, Written and Signed by the City of Los Angeles

Letter to LA City Council from Traffic Committee: April 2009

Press

Link to LA City Council Files

Please help protect our neighborhood by contacting us:
EMAIL: decreasetraffic@yahoo.com

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