Saturday, March 8, 2008

"Pico-East Olympic-West " - CHRONOLOGY

























Date
Document
Description

04/23/08

Press Release

Pico Olympic Solutions Response to LADOT NEW FAQs


04/20/08

Press Release

LADOT Releases a NEW FAQ.


04/02/08

Legal

GWLACC dba Pico Olympic Solutions' response to the City's answer dated 3/26/08.


03/26/08

Legal

City's answer to the complaint filed 2/27/08.



03/13/08

Article

City Watch LA- Neighborhood Councils, HOAs and constituent groups are only heard by the city if they sue.



03/09/08

Article

Jewish Journal - Olympic Pico Traffic Plans on Hold.



03/07/08

Article

Beverly Hills Courier Article - Beverly Hills Traffic Commission Meeting and Pico Olympic Solutions' Jay Handal is there.



03/06/08

Article

Daily News Article



03/03/08

Article

LA Times Article - Mayor doesn't measure up against today's global cities.


02/29/08

Article

Jewish Journal - Pico Business Owners Protest Traffic Plans.



02/29/08

Article

Pico Olympic Solutions POSITION PAPER.


02/29/08

Article

CityWatch article by Harold Katz - opposed.


02/29/08

Article

Larchmont Chronicle article - opposed.


02/27/08

Legal

Suit Filed. Plaintiff - GWLACC dba Pico Olympic Solutions, Defendant - Mayor and City of Los Angeles.


02/27/08

Article

L.A. Weekly Article - Councilman Rosendahl upset. Wesson gets his carveout.



02/25/08

Article

L.A. Times Article weakly describes the Pico / Olympic dilema.


02/22/08

Article

Westwood South of Santa Monica Homeowners Association also opposes the Mayor's plan.



02/16/08

Press Release

Pico Olympic Solution’s Press Release in response to the Mayor’s action of 2/14.


02/15/08

Article

LA Times article re: Mayor’s blockade.


02/14/08

Press Release

Mayor’s bold move to bypass City Council.


02/13/08

Letter

Statement of unlawfulness prepared by an atty and presented at the 2/13 Traffic Committee Meeting on behalf of Pico Olympic Solutions.


02/05/08

Report

DOT Revised Report to the Traffic Commission in preparation for the 2/13 meeting


02/02/08

Article

L.A.Times prints story profiling business fears.


01/26/08

Emailed

Document prepared by Steven Chueng of the Mayor’s Office. Concessions to restricted parking hours.
They’re not hearing the people. WE
DON’T WANT THIS INITIATIVE.



01/23/08

Report

DOT Report to the Traffic Commission.
Parking Consultant's Findings:
The key finding of the parking consultant was that the "Preferential Parking Program (
PPP) is too
accommodating, diminishing its effectiveness to manage demand".
This is code for PPDs will be targeted for reduction and/or elimination to
accommodate displaced traffic from businesses.



01/18/08
Article
CityWatch - Opposed

01/18/08

Article

Jewish Journal - Reaction to CD4 Meeting on 01/14.

01/14/08

Meeting

Meeting notes for CD11 Rosendahl Townhall


01/07/08

Meeting

Westside Neighborhood Council Notice for a TownHall Meeting on 1/14

01/07/08

Article

Beverly Press article

01/05/08

Action
Signatures and PICO NC Letter of Opposition sent to Traffic Commission and Mayor’s Office (Copy of letter below)


01/03/08

Petition

Signatures gathered between 11/30/07 and 01/02/08 (electronically and manually) to oppose the initiative. Count = 1,147

01/02/08

Survey

D.O.T. Survey for suggestions to make the traffic better on the Westside

12/29/07

Article

Miracle Mile Monthly - Neutral POV- incomplete representation of core issues

12/28/07

Article

Jewish Journal - Opposed


12/22/07

Meeting

Organizational Meeting Minutes for ad hoc traffic group


12/21/07

Letter

PICO NC formal letter of objection to the traffic initiative

12/20/07

Article

Venice Paper - Opposed

12/20/07

Meeting

Notice for a TownHall Meeting on 1/09 - CD11 Councilmember Bill Rosendahl


12/18/07

Letter

Wendy Greuel, Traffic Commission Chair - plan for the future


12/18/07
Web Info

Wendy Greuel, Traffic Commission Chair - strategic plan


11/30/07

Petition

ONLINE PETITION - opposing the traffic initiative

11/30/07

Petition

DOWNLOAD PETITION for physical distribution

11/27/07

Report

Report filed by the Dept. of Trans. detailing the concept and implementation of a 3-phase project of turning PICO and Olympic into predominantly one-way streets, aka “Preferential Directional Traffic Flow”

11/26/07

Press Release

Announcement of Mayor’s Pico East Olympic West Traffic Initiative

03/06/07

Web Info

CITY OPENS FILE for Yaroslovsky's Initiative


09/19/01
Report

LA’s dept of City Planning’s Plan for the Wilshire Community