For
those of you who might not be familiar with Eastwood Coalition's accomplishments...
• The E.C. helped organize neighbors and stopped 6 cellular towers
from being placed on top of a 5- story , populated apartment building on N. Gramercy
Pl.
• The E.C. has saved 4 businesses from being demolished for a
new Fire Station 82.
• The E.C. has saved approximately 100 residencies
from being demolished for a new Fire Station #82.
• The E.C. is responsible
for having the crosswalk installed at Hollywood and St. Andrews, and for a crossing
guard placed there to ensure the children can cross safely.
• East
wood had three overgrown fichus removed and a sidewalk fixed on Franklin and Taft.
Eastwood
Offers Events for the Community
• The E.C. has co-hosted two Historical
Hollywood Nights, with presentations being made by Hollywood Heritage members
Robert Nudelman, Kay Tornborg, and slide show present at ions by Marc Wannamaker.
• The E.C. sponsored its first block-long-yard-sale on N. Gramercy
Pl. last September, and are making plans to hold more block sales throughout the
coming years.
•
Eastwood Gets Cleaned UP!
Ongoing
Neighborhood Networking Projects
• The E.C. helps to organize
Neighborhood Cleanups around vacant lots in the community, like the vacant lot
at Hollywood and St. Andrews, and Hollywood and Van Ness.
• The E.C.
holds Neighborhood Outreaches on Saturdays, setting up a table in different parts
of the neighborhood, addressing neighbors concerns and hearing their wishes for
a better community.
• As the E.C. is an issue-based organization,
it will continue to organize neighbors as long as issues of development, safety,
and quality of living affect our community.
Keeping a Watchful Eye
• Representatives of the E.C. attended
every meeting of the Hollywood Community Plan Update to ensure the latest knowledge.
• Representatives of the E.C. attended every CRA (Community Redevelopment
Agency) Hollywood/Western meetings and spent hours going over the plans and maps
and pertinent laws. In fact, it was the E.C. that alerted the C.R.A. that AB 1309
was not an applicable law to acquire the properties along (North) Western Avenue
as adjunct properties to the Hollywood-Western Project. In addition, the E.C.
warned that if the C.R.A. relied on AB 1309, the project would be illegal and
delayed years. [CRA ignored the advice and the project has been delayed for years.]
Eastwood
Submits Important Technical Papers On City Planning
• The E.C.
submitted important comments on the proposed Whole Foods Project at the NW corner
of Hollywood and Garfield, proving to the City that the scale of the project would
have unmitigated negative impacts on the neighborhood, and while neighborhoods
surrounding the E.C. would benefit (because a Whole Foods would be so close but
not in their neighborhood) the over-sized project would have ruined our immediate
community. (Think of a store twice as big as Ralph's and three times bigger than
the Mayfair.)
• The E.C. is currently involved in a lawsuit for the
current proposed project at Hollywood and Garfield. Another project, by the same
developer, which the E.C. contends to violate local zoning codes and therefore
violating the City's own laws.
Eastwood
Coalition Works With Other Groups
•
The E.C. worked with Garfield Watch and the City Attorney's Office on their tireless
effort to have Bond Companies behave like responsible property owners and clean
and maintain their lot on Hollywood and Garfield.
• The E.C. supported
Friends of St. Andrews Stairs when the stairs were to be closed to the public
and incorporated into one property owner's back yard. The stairs remain open to
the public.
• The E.C. was one of the sponsors for Thai CDC's Community
Health Fair.
• The E.C. supported and worked with the Oaks homeowners
when it had problems with illegal cul de sac closures.
• The E.C.
worked with the residents of North Canyon when plagued by a huge, ugly and illegal
front yard fence.
• The E.C. met with City officials and worked with
Garfield Watch to remove the MTA buses off of Garfield Place and stopped the buses
from using this residential street for a turn-around.
• The E.C.
worked with Taft Watch in their clean up efforts at the corner of Taft and Hollywood
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