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1073 • April 23 - April 29, 2020 briefs • City Council Considers briefs • Property Owners Question sports • BHHS Soccer Player Bike Lanes Page 2 Eviction Moratoriums Page 3 Selected All-Southern Section Page 8 Issue 1073 • April 23 - April 29, 2020 Toy Factory Becomes Hospitals’ Lifeline MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian on Producing Medical Supplies Amid Pandemic cover story • page 6 briefs Beverly Hills City Council Considers Bike Lanes The City Council decided against con- verting travel lanes to bike lanes tempo- rarily during the lockdown Tuesday. Vice Mayor Robert Wunderlich request- ed the council discuss temporarily dedicat- Weekly ing travel lanes for bicycle and pedestrian use. According to the city’s staff report, the po- Receive Beverly Hills tential new WHAT’S ON lanes were Weekly in your e-mail meant to help YOUR MIND? facilitate phys- inbox every week! ical distancing You can write us at: since s i d e w a 140 South Beverly Drive Robert Wunderlich l k s don’t have #201 room for bikes Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/ Beverly Hills, CA 90212 and people. Mayor Les Friedman and Councilmem- zfU-L You can fax us at: bers Lili Bosse and Julian Gold said they were against implementing the lane 310.887.0789 changes. Councilmember John Mirisch email us at: said he was fine with adding bike lanes if it was done in a cost effective way. [email protected] Wunderlich said he was in favor of add- ing bike lanes on major streets, rather than briefs cont. on page 3 SNAPSHOT WeBeverlye Hills kly Issue 1073 • April 23 - April 29, 2020 Beverly Hills Weekly Inc. Founded: October 7, 1999 Published Thursdays Delivered in Beverly HilIs, Beverlywood, Los Angeles ISSN#1528-851X www.bhweekly.com Publisher & CEO 1 year Josh E. Gross subscriptions are Reporter available. Ani Gasparyan Sent via US Mail Sports Editor $75 payable Steven Herbert in advance Contributing Editor Rudy Cole (1925-2013) Adjudicated as a newspaper of general Advertising Representatives circulation for the County Allison Abrishami of Los Angeles. Case # BS065841 of the Los Legal Advertising Mike Saghian Angeles Superior Court, on Eiman Matian November 30, 2000. 140 South Beverly Drive #201 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 310.887.0788 phone 310.887.0789 fax SOCIAL DISTANCING IN STYLE CNPA Member [email protected] All staff can be reached at: (L to R) Jim Jahant, JR Dzubak, Sandy Pressman, Sharona Nazarian, first name @bhweekly.com Unsolicited materials will not be returned. Michael Lushing, Greg Barton and Julian Gold ©2020 Beverly Hills Weekly Inc. NORTH REXFORD DRIVE The Beverly Hills Rotary Club distributed face masks to members last Friday at the fire station, while also taking social distancing precautions. The masks are customized with the OUR DATA SPEAKS words “Beverly Hills Rotary Club” and its logo. For more on the masks, see our update on the VOLUMES Rotary Club in our "Coronavirus Updates" brief on page 3. Page 2 • Beverly Hills Weekly briefs cont. from page 2 portation,” Friedman said. moratorium. the best and plan for the worse,” Hacker Community members also reacted to the The council issued this ordinance along- said. residential ones that already have minimal potential addition of bike lanes. side the ordinance that required non-essen- Board Vice President Rachelle Marcus traffic. He said converting the lanes would Former Mayor Robert K. Tanenbaum tial businesses to close in March, which said she would never endorse an activity make a pedestrian and bicyclist friendly said the temporary addition of bike lanes left many residents without a source of that would put the safety of students in environment, considering there have been is deceptive. He said bike lanes shouldn’t income. jeopardy. She added it’s too early to cancel large numbers of people out biking during cost drivers their parking spaces. “All your eviction moratorium and ur- or postpone any graduations. the quarantine. “This is another foot in the door for that gency ordinance has done is empower “The contingency plans have to be “My perspective is that walking and kind of outrageous activity that the people many dishonest people to take advantage made so we will be able to have some- biking is one of of Beverly Hills will overwhelmingly nev- of landlords that are in a bad situation thing, when and if we are able to have the few things er support,” Tanenbaum said. and facing unbalanced City ordinances,” something,” Marcus said. we can do now Tanenbaum added that there hasn’t been Yukelson wrote to the council. “Yet, you – do it with ap- adequate notice of the lane conversions. continue to harm and antagonize landlords Coronavirus Updates: propriate social “Nobody is saying cyclists should be for merely investing in our neighborhoods Quarantine Week Six distancing,” restricted but to expand these rights at the and providing housing to those in our The pandemic continued this week, Wunderlich cost of driving cars to and fro is a total out- community.” with 99 confirmed cases of coronavirus in said. rage,” Tanenbaum said. Yukelson asked for the city to require Beverly Hills as of Tuesday. Temporary If it had been approved, Beverly Hills tenants repay unpaid or deferred rent on Los Angeles County has 15,140 cases travel lane clo- would be joining other cities who have or before vacating their rental unit or at and 663 deaths as of press time. West Hol- sures would closed driving lanes for pedestrians and least allow for security deposits to offset lywood has 120 confirmed cases, Brent- have been on wood has 61 confirmed cases and Culver Robert K. Tanenbaum bikers. unpaid rent and require renters to furnish a streets with Oakland closed 10% of its streets with forwarding address. City has 44 confirmed cases. more than two neighborhood bike routes and Denver “Please don’t leave rental property own- The Beverly Hills City Council met on lanes in each direction to create bike lanes closed streets in areas with denser popu- ers ‘holding the bag,’” he said. “They will Tuesday to discuss the fiscal impact of the with barriers to protect bikers from cars. lations. Minneapolis closed two parkways never collect amounts owed to them once COVID-19 crisis on Beverly Hills, clos- The cost of implementing the chang- and an eastbound travel lane. The Massa- a renter has moved out.” ing travel lanes for bikes, and other issues. es could have ranged from $1,000 to chusetts Department of Conservation and The council discussed updating the The council canceled its annual Art Show, $150,000, depending on which streets had Recreation also closed portions of three eviction moratorium in its Tuesday meet- which was originally planned for May, been closed and for how long. parkways. ing, but decided to table the discussion to due to the stay-at-home order. A few streets the closures might have However, other cities have also decided a later date so it could get more legal in- The BHUSD Board of Education had a occured on include South Santa Monica against street closures. formation on the topic. special meeting on Monday, in which they Boulevard, Robertson Boulevard, Olym- New York reopened streets it had previ- Yukelson is a former member of the discussed creating virtual graduation vid- pic Boulevard, Canon Drive, Crescent ously closed due to costs. Portland, which Planning Commission. eos for Beverly Vista and Beverly High Drive, Beverly Drive, and Wilshire Bou- already has well-established bike lanes, graduates. Graduations for the 2020 class- levard. has not closed any streets because its may- Fate of BHUSD Graduation es have not been canceled or postponed as Gold said he would like a study to be or was concerned it would contradict ef- and Promotions Debated of press time, though schools are prepar- conducted on which streets could best im- forts to increase social distancing. Graduations and promotions at Beverly ing for that scenario just in case. plement bike lanes. However, he said he Los Angeles has also not closed any Hills schools have an uncertain future in Beverly Hills Rotary Club has continued was hesitant to invest money into imple- streets for bikers as of press time. the wake of quarantine and coronavirus, to meet virtually over Zoom every Mon- menting bike lines if it would be a short but the BHUSD Board of Education at- day. It created custom face masks with lived benefit to few people during the Property Owners Question tempted to give the ceremonies some clar- its logo and passed them out to members lockdown. Eviction Moratoriums ity last Tuesday. last Friday at the fire station while prac- “I’m willing to be convinced, but I think Beverly Hills property owners have re- While the board does not have the ju- ticing social as we sit here today I don’t have a concept acted negatively to the city’s temporary risdiction to determine how graduations distancing. It that I can agree to go forward,” Gold said. eviction moratorium, which was ordered or promotions will be conducted, or even also donated Since the quarantine, speeding has re- by the City Council in March and prevents if they will happen, it gave recommenda- 200 masks to a portedly increased throughout the greater tenants from being evicted during the tions to schools on how they can move senior citizen Los Angeles area. According to the city’s COVID-19 lockdown. forward with the events. It suggested plan- home on Cres- staff report, the Los Angeles Department The Apartment Association of Greater ning ahead for alternatives to traditional cent Drive. of Transportation General Manager Seleta Los Angeles sent a letter to the council ask- ceremonies, but not yet making any final “I’m incred- Reynolds shared that drivers are driving ing for it to repeal the ordinance Tuesday.
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