NEWLY CERTIFIED:  Westwood Neighborhood Council

On January 19, 2010, the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners certified Westwood as the 90th Neighborhood Council in the City of Los Angeles.  Join us now as we work together to make Westwood the best it can be.  Contact Us         
The City Clerk has promised an election for June 26, 2010.   

Transition Committee Agenda for the meeting scheduled on Monday, February 8, 6pm at Belmont House, Warner Av and Wilshire, northwest corner

The Westwood Neighborhood Council represents an area of Los Angeles which encompasses significant diversity in its stakeholders through their residential, cultural, entertainment, business and educational interests. The Westwood Neighborhood Council serves as a forum and as a representative of these diverse points of view; it seeks to find solutions to common problems, advance the quality of life, and promote the common good of its stakeholders. The Westwood Neighborhood Council will be established in accordance with the authorized plan of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment of Los Angeles and will comply with Federal, State and City laws including the Brown Act. Please write to us at:

          Westwood Neighborhood Council Formation Group    
          P O Box 24973
          Los Angeles, CA  90024                                          

         

For more about us see: http://www.citywatchla.com/content/view/2894/ 

Who are stakeholders? 

Neighborhood Council membership is open to all Stakeholders. "Stakeholders" shall be defined as those who live, work, or own property in the neighborhood and also those who declare a stake in the neighborhood and affirm the factual basis for it.

Anyone who owns property, rents or lives, or works in the district, or declares a documented stake in the district bounded by (north side ) Santa Monica Blvd on the south,  to (east side) of Sepulveda Blvd and the 405 on the West, Sunset Blvd on the North and the Beverly Hills border on the East.  Membership is free.  The WWNC welcomes property owners, shop keepers,  renters, students and faculty, service sector workers, managers of theatres, medical personnel, veterans and teachers --- in short any and all who are affected by urban life within the district and who will work to find solutions to problems, advance the quality of life, and promote the well being of the whole.

Boundary map for the area designated as Westwood  by the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment.

****Note: UCLA is not city-property. All who live or work there are designated stakeholders

who may vote or serve as directors; they do not represent UCLA. It may be invited to send an ex-officio representative to board meetings.****

 

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF WWNC BOUNDARIES

 

Beginning at Sunset Boulevard and the San Diego Freeway (I-405), the northern boundary extends easterly along the south side of Sunset Boulevard to the city of Beverly Hills western boundary near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Ladera Drive; southerly along the Beverly Hills city border along the eastern boundary of the Los Angeles Country Club to the northerly right of way limit of Santa Monica Boulevard at a point approximately ¼ of a mile west of the Wilshire Boulevard / Santa Monica Boulevard intersection; westerly along the northern side of Santa Monica Boulevard to the eastern edge of the I-405; northerly along the I-405 for approximately 2,000 feet then easterly to Sepulveda Boulevard; northerly on west side of Sepulveda Boulevard to a point 1,000 sf south of Wilshire Boulevard; easterly to the east side of Veteran Avenue; northerly along Veteran Avenue to a point immediately south of Levering Avenue; westerly to a point approximately 300 feet south of Cashmere Avenue on the eastern side of the I-405 freeway; northerly along the I-405 Freeway to Sunset Boulevard.

Northern   boundary

The south side of Sunset Boulevard from the border of Beverly Hills on the east to the 405 freeway on the west.

Southern boundary

The north side  of Santa Monica Boulevard extending from the 405 freeway, (inclusive of Cotner Avenue.) to the western boundary of the city of  Beverly Hills at the southeast corner of the Los Angeles Country Club.

Western boundary

The 405 Freeway between Sunset Boulevard (south side and Santa Monica Boulevard, north side) excluding the Veteran's Cemetery and administrative land.  The boundary shifts to the 405, westward at Veteran Avenue following the northern boundary of the Veteran's Cemetery. Veteran continues to be the western border until Rochester street where the boundary moves west, following the northern side of Westwood Park and reconnects with Cotner Avenue (at border of the 405 Freeway) and Sepulveda Boulevard ending at Santa Monica Boulevard (north side.)

Eastern boundary

The western boundary of the city of Beverly Hills from Sunset Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard.The boundary follows the eastern side of the Los Angeles Country Club and is not street accessible.