Re: “Billboards: A Sign of the Times?”
Based on the turnout at last Thursday’s introductory meeting, the high-tech sign language being amorphously recommended to City Hall as an economic vehicle at the southerly entrance to Culver City, has aroused substantial curiosity across the community.
Drawing a hundred persons to an open house without a formal program on a non-traditional meeting night means two ears on many residents of various generations are tuned in.
One more community meeting is due.
Where do we go from here, City Councilman Andy Weissman?
He was an eyewitness at the Vets Auditorium
Like many others, he is “not exactly sure.”
But he does have a roadmap.
Delivering a Proposal
By June or July, Mr. Weissman expects City Hall’s consultant, PlaceWorks, to submit a proposal “for an entertainment-hospitality district” in a neighborhood dominated by three major hotels “based on feedback they have received. The Council will discuss the matter, decide what to do next, and the public, of course, will have the opportunity to express their opinions.”
No guarantees that the spiritedly debated notion of signage on the sides of the three hotels – visible from the 405 and 90 freeways – will come to fruition.
Following what may grow into a summer-long discussion, the City Council “ultimately will make a decision whether to move forward with anything,” Mr. Weissman said.
“That ‘anything,’ if it were to happen, would be along the lines of a specific plan or a special overlay zone” in the neighborhood bordered by the three hotels, the DoubleTree, Marriott and Four Points by Sheraton.
“Until we see what the proposed economic development and revitalization plan is, everything else is uncertain,” the councilman said. “PlaceWorks may come forward and say ‘We don’t think anything is feasible.’ On the other hand, they likely will come forward with something for the Council to consider and work from.”
Mr. Weissman said that “the four of us who supported going to the visioning process (Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells being the dissenter), are interested in determining if there is a feasible way to promote economic revitalization and infrastructure in that area.”
