Dear Fox Hills neighbor,
Your Fox Hills Neighborhood Assn. is taking a stand against the proposed billboards in Fox Hills.
The Carlyle Group wants to put up large digital and static billboards by the 405 and 90 freeway to benefit from the Silicon Beach traffic in that area.
Culver City will gain a 10 percent profit from this ($420,000/year). Is this worth what could potentially harm our local community?
Please read former Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells’s article at http://meghansahliwells.com/morebillboards/ to learn more about this action increasing litigation, loss of control and undermining our “brand” as a city.
For example, if the City Council approves the billboards, it will open up Culver City to future lawsuits because other billboard companies will want an exception to put billboards in Culver City.
At City Hall, on Monday, May 11, at 7 o’clock, our City Council will be presented the “Hospitality and Entertainment District” survey results by the Carlyle Group and PlaceWorks. Some of the results are below:
http://www.culvercity.org/en/Articles/districtvisioning_083115.aspx
In their presentation, they do not show where the signage will be other than on the sides of the hotels.
Below is a link to their original plan showing where the digital boards (some double sided) will be:
http://banbillboardblight.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Culver-City-Digital-Sign-Proposal.pdf
As stated on their “Proposed Vision” presentation on page 12:
“Revenue generated from these signs provides a source of funding for streetscape improvements, development of public plazas and open spaces, and bicycle share programs.”
What you can do:
- Forward this email to fellow Culver City residents.
- Email your City Council : http://www.culvercity.org/Information/emailus.aspx?dept_id=38 (Currently only one City Council member is opposed to allowing billboards into Culver City).
- Attend the May 11 City Council meeting at City Hall.
- Sign the petition: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/no-to-billboards-yes-1
Association President Paua Keating may be contacted via aboutfoxhills@yahoo.com
Our family had its business tucked in the little industrial area on Bankfield Ave across Sepulveda from the Fox Hills Mall since the late 1950’s. Bankfield Ave is located next to the north-bound 405 Fwy and just south of the 90/Slauson Interchange. We never thought of ourselves as being a part of Fox Hills. Fox Hills was always on the other side of Sepulveda.
This small industrial area had been under redevelopment for the last 40 years–since the mid 1970’s, but nothing was ever done to it. Redevelopment always seemed to happen elsewhere in Culver City. I think we are the last under-developed industrial area left in Culver City.
Now, with the death of our local CCRDA and the much needed partnership of public and private enterprise, redevelopment is going to take on a different perspective. This new public/private partnership is going to have new, different goals, different from the past. Like it or not, with the addition of private financing in the future redevelopment picture, profit is going to have to become part of the equation.
So it’s okay for the Fox Hills Neighborhood Association to say “No to Billboards” in their own neighborhood—It’s their local neighborhood, their local aesthetics. But, let’s not say it in such a broad, negative sweep that it stops the redevelopment of this last industrial area.
Were is the money going that Culver City gets for looking the other way?
Since 2009 the City has allowed on-site signage that has become billboards. Two sitting City Council Members know what the rules are for the Westfield Culver City Mall. These two now want to legalize billboards. How can they possibly even consider this? Because rules mean nothing to some people in Culver City. Should illegal activity be the precedence to allow NEW billboards. What else will the City sellout for? How much does it cost to buy the ethics of Culver City officials?
Watch and listen to the lies of 2009. Will lies be rewarded in 2015.
https://youtu.be/r1pjE1ow2LY
Bankfield is NOT part of Culver City. Surprise!
No surprise for your confusion, Ms Johansen! The border line between Los Angeles and Culver City goes right down the middle of Bankfield Ave. The freeway-side of the street is in Los Angeles. The east half is in Culver City and is the side where our family business was located for almost 50 years. I hope this is one of our city’s border irregularities that councilman Clarke has spoken about needing to be addressed .
You’re so amazing.I admire you.☺