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FIRST CLASS PRESORT PAID SUPERFAST WWeessttddaallee LOS ANGELES, Quarterly Newsletter of the CALIFORNIA Westdale Homeowners Association P.O.Box 66504 Los Angeles, California 90066 President www.westdalehoa.org Jerry Hornof ILLAGERILLAGER 310 391-9442 jerry.horno [email protected] VV Editor Winter 2017 Quarterly Newsletter of the Westdale Homeowners Association Marjorie Templeton 310 390-4507 [email protected] Advertising Ina Lee P RESIDENT ’ S M ESSAGE 310-397-5251 [email protected]. Editor/Graphic Designer ESTDALE ARES Dick Henkel W C [email protected] •Jerry Hornof The Westdale Homeowners Association's 2017 theme is Westdale Cares. We live in a wonderful neighborhood in Los Angeles. To sustain the features we love in • INSIDE • Westdale, it will require building a larger community of participants. There is a myriad of ways to get involved MEMBERSHIP TIME in the community with various time commitments. Please consider participating. In this message I want to highlight two issues • W ESTDALE H OMEOWNERS A SSOCIATION • • CALL FOR ARTICLES and two events. These provide an opportunity for your active involvement • and/or enjoyment. The first issue is the Great Streets initiative impacting Venice Boulevard WESTDALE PUBLISHER between Inglewood Boulevard and Beethoven Street. The intent was to develop • four new pedestrian crossings, a safer road design featuring protected and SAFETY REPORT buffered bike lanes, and improvements at existing signalized intersections. • Combined, these changes could serve to help make the street the “small town downtown” for Mar Vista. The challenge has been the loss of traffic lanes and GETTING TO KNOW the increased congestion in that corridor. The Mar Vista Community Council OUR NEIGHBORS (MVCC) has debated this issue. Adding your voice to the discussion is important. • The second issue is a proposed development at 11671-11677 W. National Blvd. FRESH OFF THE BOAT This development would be a four story, mixed use development on the north • side of National Boulevard between Federal and Barrington Avenues. The proposed development would include 46 housing units. This clearly will impact The W.H.A. thank REAL ESTATE NEWS our community and is an active topic for the MVCC. • The first event is Mar Vista Art Walk. This is a reoccurring unique opportunity Fresh Off The Boat for bringing PARK REPORT in our community to experience all the arts – visual, music and movement – in • Mar Vista. The Art Walk event takes place on Venice Boulevard between Christmas to Westdale all year long! Inglewood Bl. and Beethoven St. For further info, contact Lenore French at WESTDALE ADS • W ESTDALE H OMEOWNERS A SSOCIATION • Green Communications Initiative (323) 828-5880 or [email protected]. Additional information can be found at the Mar Vista Art Walk Facebook page. The final event is to volunteer to help with this year’s block SAFETY & S ECURITY REPORT Please visit our website: www.westdalehoa.org for party. With volunteer support we are planning for a additional information about events. Westdale Homeowners Association (WHOA) block party •Leah Oye/ Liaison to Pacific Police Division Here is contact information for Officer Acosta: in the spring of 2018. Please contact me if you are interested Adrian D. Acosta, #37285 • Police Officer III+1 The holiday season is here. There are so many in helping to plan the block party. ([email protected]) Pacific Area Senior Lead Officer • L.A. P. D. things to do and remember. With people distracted In closing, I want to remind everyone to visit the [email protected] • 310.622.3973 by traveling, shopping and family concerns, crimi - Westdale Homeowners Association website (http://west - www.facebook.com/14SLO25 nals often take advantage of this time of year. Our dalehoa.org/). Our Westdale Homeowners Association ALL OR ILLAGER RTICLES Annual meeting will occur on Tuesday, January 30, from C F V A neighborhood is relatively safe, but it is good to 7:30pm to 9:30PM at Mar Vista Park. Be sure to mark your keep watch on what goes on in adjoining areas: We are always looking for interesting articles Palms, Venice Blvd, Playa Vista. Criminals do not calendars. As we start the New Year I hope that 2018 will be about the neighborhood and the people who a wonderful year for all of our Westdale families. keep within a geographic area. They hit one area live here. If you would like to be featured in an then move on to the next. Go to the Website: article, or you have a neighbor who might be http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/ MEMBERSHIP TIME featured, please send their contact information neighborhood/mar-vista/crime/?q=Mar+Vista to Jan Burns ([email protected]) along with %2C+Los+Angeles%2C+CA%2C+USA&lat=34.015 Please support the Westdale Homeowner’s some comments about their background. We 2567&lng=-118.4338345&g=Geocodify#six-months Association (WHOA) with your annual dues also welcome articles about Westdale history, to see recent crime activity. payment. Use the enclosed form and envelope events at the local schools or Mar Vista Park, or Our community has been spared violent crime, to respond today. Mail your check in the anything else that might interest our readers. but we are a target for property crime. These include enclosed envelope or to save postage, take a Articles should be sent to Margie Templeton theft, theft from vehicles, vehicle theft, burglary and walk through the neighborhood and drop it off ([email protected]) by the 15th of the month a few robberies. The thieves are targeting bathroom at Jami Olson’s house at 3216 Barry Avenue. before the issue (Feb 15, May 15, Aug 15, or windows, often open, usually not alarmed, and for - WHOA dues at $20/year are a real bargain. Nov 15). Please do not submit time sensitive gotten by the homeowner. If you want to keep the Dues are used to support publishing and distri - articles as it usually takes at least a month from window open, consider a lock stick to prevent the Have a safe holiday. bution of the Villager with advertising sales off - submission to receipt of the Villager. Some articles window from opening more than a few inches. setting some of these costs. They are also used may be modified or postponed due to space constraints. Open the window only when home and close it to support the neighborhood through contribu - when leaving. Westdale's Own Debbie Kaplan tions to Mar Vista School, Mar Vista Park, and For those holiday packages…consider having a towards zoning advocacy to protect our neigh - required signature or have the item sent to your borhood. Dues support website maintenance, work. If you order from Amazon, some orders may communication software, the LAPD, the block be eligible for delivery to an Amazon locker. captain program as well as the annual block Returns may also be made through the locker. party. Supplemental payments to Community THE JADE PENDANT Home security cameras are helpful. The photos/ Emergency Response Team (CERT) fund our .............. L.P. LEUNG videos were instrumental in the capture of the ..................................... I have lived in Westdale Trousdale for over 40 years. I was treasurer homeowners’ emergency supplies, which are ..................................... “Anarchy” tagger. If you need advice on placement of the Westdale Homeowners for 15 years, and am still an active stored at Mar Vista School and help to subsidize ..................................... of cameras, you may contact our Senior Lead Officer, member of the Board of Directors. The Board sponsors the Villager, the quarterly newsletter, it monitors and influences such matters as the disaster awareness course. Adrian Acosta. He can walk with you and your adherence to building and property restrictions, graffiti controls, earth - Those who have already paid are listed by WESTDALE PUBLISHER neighbors around the homes on your block to point quake preparedness and response, and traffic control, and also address on our web site http://www.westdale - out security problems and camera placement locations. sponsors block parties. It also runs a website; Westdalehoa.org. I am proud to continue serving on the Board. hoa.org/. Many have already paid through L.P. Leung, a resident on Rose, published a book We are overdue for an earthquake. Are you pre - I have been a Realtor for for almost 40 years. I have first hand 2018. You may pay for up to 3 years with one “The Jade Pendant” which is being made into a pared? What do you need? Are your family contacts knowledge of neighborhood trends. No one knows your neighbor - hood better than your neighbor! If you were to list with a larger name payment. In spite of the name “homeowners,” movie. The story is based on the Los Angeles up-to-date? Do you have food and water? The company, your listing would be turned over to many different people we hope that renters will also pay dues to our Chinatown Massacre in 1871. WHOA has sponsored several Disaster Awareness throughout the process. My company, DK Properties provides the individual attention and neighborhood association as the owners of The movie made its debut on Nov 3, 2017 in Los courses in the past few years. We are considering a service your deserve when selling a home. You would get my total rental homes do not pay dues, and the benefit of Angeles, San Francisco and New York. The Los First Aid class for next year. Let me know if you attention. I also represent buyers of properties in other counties ; I know the Riverside market very well, and can help you with our association comes to the renter. Angeles debut is at the AMC theater In Monterey have an interest (westdalehoa@ yahoo.com).