From the Office of Abbe Land to a neighbor of mine in the Norma Triangle: Dear ……., The City of West Hollywood is aware of the concerns expressed by residents on Hilldale Avenue regarding the sober living facility, KLEAN - West Hollywood. The City has been investigating the operation of KLEAN to determine whether they are properly complying with [...]

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Shots broke out in front of the troubled Guys and Dolls nightclub in West Hollywood this morning, leaving one man dead and two people injured.TMZ posted an amateur video.

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I attended the West Hollywood General Plan 2035 meeting on 7/11/10 in the West Hollywood auditorium.

In my opinion, the General Plan’s outline pays lip service to the level of water & power conservation required by Weho’s level of growth during the General Plan. The General Plan seems NOT to take into account the loss of 20-30% of water in our public holding areas nor are we capable of getting any more power into California, because we are unable to load up more power through Path 15.

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The League of California Cities is gathering signatures to qualify a ballot initiative aimed at protecting local revenues from another raid of local coffers by the State. This is of utmost importance to Cities, Counties and School districts. As the State attempts to balance its budget, they are eyeing local revenues and are considering another raid. We need to protect our funds; without them, our safety services are in jeopardy and so our local services.

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Once in a blue moon or so a jewel of West Hollywood historic real estate comes on the market.

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By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (February 22, 2009) Amidst calls for tabling the item in lieu of development of a citywide policy on outdoor advertising via development agreement, the West Hollywood city council unanimously approved replacement of a 144 sq ft billboard with one nine times its size in exchange for $90,000 per year. A plan to replace the current billboard atop the Rainbow Room at 9015 Sunset Strip, a restaurant co-owned by Nic Adler, who also owns the neighboring Roxy Theater music venue, with one 14′ X 48′ (672 sq ft) was originally denied by the Planning Commission, appealed to council and denied there, with urgings that a development agreement be hammered out that would fiscally benefit the city.

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By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (February 22, 2009) In March, West Hollywood and American households everywhere around the world will receive their 2010 Census forms in the mail: an important civic milestone that happens only once every ten years. What makes this year’s Census even more historic is the unprecedented and welcoming outreach by U.S. Census leaders and managers to include the entire lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and allied community in these efforts, as a way to achieve the nation’s most accurate count possible. Dr. Robert Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, endorsed this initiative: “We are charged each ten years to provide Congress with a Census they trust to be accurate and complete. We are grateful to our LGBT community partners in helping us achieve this significant responsibility

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By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (February 8, 2009) West Hollywood, the source of a number of natural springs with underground aquifers and rivers running below it, needs new gutters on one of its hill-climbing streets, Larrabee, to prevent run-off on the street surface.This water comes from the underground garages and basements that reach to the high water table and, until now, pumped the excess water directly into the street.With that in mind, construction begins today to install, along the curb of the street, a grated trench drain system designed to carry away the nuisance surface water.

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