Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
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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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
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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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
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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Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
West Hollywood, California (February 4, 2010) A jury found West Hollywood resident David Jassy, a rapper and record producer from Sweden, guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the death of John Osnes, a 55-year-old jazz pianist, in Hollywood. Mr. Jassy stood accused of attacking Mr. Osnes, a popular local pianist and pedestrian rights activist, punching him in the head, kicking him in the face and then driving over his mortally wounded body. Commentators at the time likened the affair to an incident straight from the previous year’s Oscar winner, “Crash,” a film about racial tensions and random life changing happenstances.
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
SUNSET STRIP GROUNDBREAKING
The Sunset Strip in West Hollywood is getting its first facelift in 75 years, and city officials gathered last Wednesday at the Whisky A Go Go for a groundbreaking ceremony to hail the overhaul of one of the nation’s most famous stretches of road.
City officials, members of the local business community and some [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
West Hollywood will continue work on its General Plan with a community workshop this Saturday.The General Plan community workshop will include presentations on key issues including housing, transportation, land use, and climate change, as well as opportunities to review and give feedback on a variety of goals and policies for other topics to be included in the updated General Plan.
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
Op-ed BySteve Martin, West Hollywood, California (Thursday, January 21, 2009) The often over-heated rhetoric regarding the opening of KLEAN West Hollywood drug and alcohol rehabilitation center opening in the Norma Triangle has raised a lot of emotions distracting us from what I would consider a more troubling issue.That larger issue is the city’s encouraging the commercialization of our residentially zoned neighborhoods, allowing the conversion of housing for commercial purposes. It has been the City’s active encouragement of the commercialization of our neighborhoods that has directly to KLEAN’s purchase of the Hilldale units from the San Vicente Inn.
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Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Carlo Capomazza
By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood, California (January 4, 2010) When you need a new apartment and you want to live in West Hollywood, paying for rent listings only adds to the already too high expense.Check out WeHo News’ FREE West Hollywood Rental Listings, supplied by the City’s Department of Rent Stabilization here.
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