LAX New Roadway? Bad Plan.
LAX’s Sepulveda roadway improvement plan. It’s a bureaucratic zombie project with momentum based on reality 10+ years ago, pre-COVID. We can’t stop it. But BaBWP wanted to go on record questioning serious flaws in the proposals logic and value. This is our Public Statement plus a Backgrounder we prepped to illustrate how plan details led to our take.
11/17 CALL TO ACTION! Correct Federal $ for Homeless Housing, Services & Vouchers
11/17 Call to Action! NO on new Federal policy re grants for homeless housing, services and voucher programs. Call or email key Congressional contacts now! (By 11/20 if possible.)
Motion Proposed: Support 1st Floor Commercial in new Downtown Projects
BaBWP presentation to NC-PLUC on 4/8/25: encouraging NC to task CD11 staff to work with Planning, support enforcement of Downtown Westchester’s CDO requirement: first floor commercial-only use.
Livable Communities Intro Zoom! Monday 3/31 @ 7pm…Please RSVP
Zoom intro meeting to learn about the work of the Livable Communities Initiative, working to create 15-minute bikeable neighborhoods in LA.
CityView: BaBWP Support Letter + Email Comment Info
BaBWP has expressed it’s support for this project in a letter to Planning we have published here. Also in this post: instructions on how to submit Public Comment up through Wednesday, February 12th.
BaBWP Public Comment Correcting Factual Errors (NC Board Agenda Attachment)
For the 2025-02-04 meeting of the NC Board, BaBWP submitted public comment to correct factual errors sited to support the claim that “we are being set up to become the Westside’s containment zone for homeless.”
ED1: NC Board 2025-01 Meeting Public Comment
For the 2025-01-14 meeting of the NC Board, BaBWP submitted public comment to clarify support for ED1 affordable housing in the community.
ED1 Tutorial NC-PLUC Presentation on 11/19/24
On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024 Building a Better Westchester-Playa presented a tutorial to the NC-PLUC** on the current status of Mayor Karen Bass’s “Executive Directive 1.”
Intro: Our CPU Map 3 Report
This introductory post provides background on how the BaBWP team reviewed and compared CPU Draft 2 and 3 Maps.
CPU Edit 1: Manchester West
Our map change recommendations for the west end of Manchester (btwn Pershing & Lincoln)