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Briefs • New Office Building and Parking Rudy Cole • Vote on Home Lease with Woods Page 3 Structure Approved at Spalding and Wilshire Page 3 Reality Checks Page 6 photos • CECI Soiree Under the Stars Page 10 briefs • Board of Education postpones briefs • New office building and parking rudy cole • vote on home lease with Woods Page 3 structure approved at Spalding and Wilshire Page 3 Reality checks Page 6 ALSO ON THE WEB Beverly Hills www.bhweekly.com WeeklySERVING BEVERLY HILLS • BEVERLYWOOD • LOS ANGELES Issue 668 • July 19 - July 25, 2012 What’s Next for Hawthorne? Board of Education to consider the merits of historic preservation versus new construction cover story • pages 8-9 City Council reasserts opposition to tunnel under Beverly High, hires special counsel ant to walk to work under the beautiful available to the Board. briefs • New Firemen’s Association contract briefs • Staff to update Public Works rudy cole • Being increases retirement age for new hires Page 3 Commission on plastic bag ban Page 5 fair counts Page 6 trees. Beverly Hills has always had the reputa- ALSO ON THE WEB Beverly Hills www.bhweekly.com I support “Option 7,” which preserves tion of going a step further than the aver- letters significant aspects of the historic audito- age community, truly caring about excel- rium and courtyard. lence and quality. What I don’t understand WeeklySERVING BEVERLY HILLS • BEVERLYWOOD • LOS ANGELES Issue 667 • July 12 - July 18, 2012 Linda Lewis is why this attitude has not extended to & email Beverly Hills the preservation of important buildings of The Light In architectural and historical significance. It Her Eyes As one who attended Beverly Hills is my hope that now is the time the Board The Weekly’s exclusive “Board of Education moves forward interview with schools from kindergarten through high will do what is necessary to achieve two Director Julia Meltzer with radical demolition plan for school and still lives nearby, I have goals, maintain a safe school environ- Hawthorne” [Issue #648] retained a strong interest in the vitality of ment and instill in the students and their PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Several letters the school system and the Beverly Hills parents a strong sense that building on were sent to the Board of Education to be community in general. the community’s history is essential to its read at Tuesday night’s meeting. Since the I have fond memories of Beverly Vista, future progress. board president chose not to read them, where I was a student from 1955 until Robert J. Switzer we are publishing two of them below: 1964, when I entered Beverly High. It West Hollywood cover story • pages 8-9 pains me whenever I go past Beverly Vista I am a 1966 Hawthorne graduate, my to see what it looks like today compared “History One” [Issue #666] WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? son 2006. to what it was when I attended there. I read with interest [Rudy Cole’s] take I was absolutely horrified to hear that Although I understand the impact of the on “lessons from the past” in History One. You can write us at: in order to update the campus so much earthquake on the structures, the failure to Very interesting! For those of us here in 140 South Beverly Drive #201 demolition of historic buildings is being save more of the magnificent Romanesque town for fewer than 30 years, say, that his- Beverly Hills, CA 90212 seriously considered. Of course I want our exterior walls strikes me as a great loss to tory is news. And the more recent context students to be safe, but they also need to the culture and history of the city. And so, is valuable too—especially for those of us You can fax us at: learn to appreciate the historical environ- with an impending decision on the future who participate actively. 310.887.0789 ment in which they learn. How can they of Hawthorne, which seems to be facing I campaign for safer streets for cyclists do this if all their school buildings are email us at: a fate similar to Beverly Vista’s, I write and pedestrians in Beverly Hills (www. chipped away? What is learning, indeed [email protected] to urge you with all my heart to save as betterbike.org) and my work frequently what is life, without history? much of the original buildings as possible. takes me to City Council and various other A costly underground parking is unneed- “Option 7,” albeit less than perfect, seems meetings and hearings. But so often I am ed and unwanted by the faculty. It is pleas- to me the least damaging of the choices alone—the only stakeholder in attendance at committee and commission meetings. Inside Beverly Hills—BHTV10 And as you know, our City Council meet- Inside Beverly Hills, moderated by columnist Rudy Cole, will next air on July 19 at ings attract few callers or public comment 8 p.m. and July 20 at 10 p.m. about the Beverly Hills Bar Association; July 19 at 8:30 speakers. p.m., July 20 at 8 p.m., and July 23 at 5 p.m. about the Westside Subway Extension; We can lament the low electoral turnout SNAPSHOT and July 23 at 8 p.m., July 24 at 6 p.m. and July 25 at 6:30 p.m. about the Rodeo Drive and the low level of grassroots engage- Committee. letters cont. on page 7 WeBeverlye Hillskly Issue 668 • July 19 - July 25, 2012 Beverly Hills Weekly Inc. Founded: October 7, 1999 Published Thursdays Delivered in Beverly HilIs, Beverlywood, Los Angeles ISSN#1528-851X www.bhweekly.com 1 year Publisher & CEO subscriptions Josh E. Gross are available. Reporter Sent via US Mail Melanie Anderson $75 payable in Sports Editor advance Steven Herbert Contributing Editor Rudy Cole Adjudicated as a newspaper of gen- Advertising Representatives eral circulation for the Tiffany Majdipour County of Los Angeles. Saba Ayinehsazian Case # BS065841 of the Nataly Makabi Los Angeles Superior Court, on November 30, Legal Advertising Mike Saghian 2000. Eiman Matian 140 South Beverly Drive #201 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 310.887.0788 phone 310.887.0789 fax CNPA Member [email protected] All staff can be reached at: first name @bhweekly.com Unsolicited materials will not be returned. BONJOUR! ©2012 Beverly Hills Weekly Inc. PARIS 2012 Beverly High graduates celebrated graduation on the “Buzz” tour of Europe, which included a visit to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Back row, left to right: Matin Mehdizadeh, Jonny Baradarian, Mason Spector, Evan Suber. Front row: Ryan Neman, Josh Amirianfar, Nuriel Lavi Page • Beverly Hills Weekly Board of Education expected to break promise to the voters not to raise taxes for Measure E mination of this Lease by Landlord in Beverly Hills, following the Planning time that the 9800 building is finished,” accordance with the provisions set forth Commission’s unanimous approval July Gohlich said. above,” the proposed lease states. 12 of its new office building and parking The Architectural Commission approved According to the lease, BHUSD is structure at 121 Spalding Drive. the remodel designs for the 9800 Wilshire briefs the landlord, and Chief Administrative The proposed four-story, 45-foot-tall project in March. The 121 Spalding project Officer Dawnalyn Murakawa-Leopard building is part of a project involving the still requires Architectural Commission Board of Education was listed as the contact. adjacent three-story, 45-foot-tall office review, as well as City Council review postpones vote on home Included in the staff report for the agen- building at 9800 Wilshire Boulevard, of a proposed alley vacation and right- lease with Woods da item was a statement that the estimated which is currently undergoing an “exten- of-way encroachments. The City Council insurance for the home is $7,040 per year. sive remodel,” Senior Planner Ryan and Architectural Commission are sched- No other information about insurance was Gohlich said. The project proposes a uled to hear the matter on Aug. 7 and 15 provided. bridge connecting the top floors of the respectively. On Monday afternoon, Goldberg said two buildings, both of which The Gores Although the project involves widen- he did not have a comment on what Group owns and plans to occupy. ing the existing east-west alley between was included in the insurance estimate, According to its Web site, The Gores the two buildings from 15 to 20 feet, the because he had not yet been briefed in Group is a private equity firm that focuses project proposes vacating one foot of the closed session, which took place Tuesday on acquiring controlling interests in a existing alley to accommodate the 9800 afternoon. variety of businesses, investing primarily Wilshire remodel. The alley vacation is 220 N. Doheny Drive In an e-mail, Murakawa-Leopard said in the technology, telecommunications, proposed to allow the installation of a Wednesday afternoon the figure is an esti- business services, industrial, healthcare, stone veneer along the building’s south The Board of Education announced mate and has not been finalized. media, and consumer and retail sectors. wall that faces the alley. Tuesday evening it was not prepared to “The $7,040 is a figure that includes The company also has offices in Colorado Corman said width of the alley would vote on a lease with Superintendent Gary preliminary figures on property and liabil- and London. be made up on its south side, by dedicat- Woods to live in the $1.5-million home ity insurance, including earthquake cover- The proposed building at 121 Spalding ing six feet of land to establish a 20-foot- that the BHUSD recently agreed to pur- age,” Murakawa-Leopard wrote. features a total of 11,000 square feet wide alley. chase. Typically, a homeowner’s insurance of office space on the fourth floor and To accommodate the City’s large trash “We are close to a negotiated agree- policy for a small home ranges $400– the portion of the ground floor fronting trucks and utility vehicles, Corman said ment, but we were not there yet today,” $600, not including earthquake coverage.
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