Metro reports that all northbound lanes of the 405 Freeway between Getty Center Drive and Ventura Blvd. will be closed at midnight tonight, Friday, March 2, as crews begin work on the Mulholland Bridge. They will start closing lanes as early as 10:00 pm, and all lanes will closed by midnight. Some ramps will be […]

Councilman Mitchell Englander's staff is consolidating their Northridge and Chatsworth offices into a single location in Chatsworth. The new District Office address is: 9207 Oakdale Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 The new office will be more centrally located in our District. In addition to housing their District operations, staff offices, constituent services and meetings, the new office will […]

Billingsley Room (formerly Billingsley’s Restaurant) 6550 Odessa Ave, Lake Balboa, CA (between Vanowen and Victory at the at the South end of Van Nuys Airport) Please join your Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council for our first meeting at the Billingsley Room. Wednesday – March 7, 2012 6:30 PM This will be the place to find out […]

Want to tell the mayor how the city's money should be spent?  Click here for a brief video created by Neighborhood Council members about the importance of the Mayor's Budget Survey.  The deadline is quickly approaching; the last day for participate in the budget survey is Monday, February 27th. The link to the Mayor's 2012 […]

BUDGET SURVEY RESULTS are being presented...and lots more. All LA stakeholders invited. Two Deputy Mayor's are attending. Event runs from 8:30 am - Noon. Please RSVP to joseph.hari@lacity.org or call 310-479-3823.

February 21st is the only LAUSD Re-Districting Community Meeting to be held in the San Fernando Valley (Covered by Districts 3 and 6). Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6pm Sepulveda Middle School Auditorium (Evans Hall) 15330 Plummer St. North Hills, CA 91343 Click here for the LAUSD district maps that are approved for the public's input. […]

Dear Neighbor, Draft boundaries have been drawn for all 15 Los Angeles City Council districts. You may view the draft maps here: https://redistricting2011.lacity.org/LACITY/draftMap.html The Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission is holding seven public input hearings prior to releasing the final maps. FIVE of these hearings have already taken place. Before new City Council maps […]

Do you know of a special place that has architectural, historical, social, or cultural significance in your neighborhood? Visit MyHistoricLA.org to share your ideas! MyHistoricLA.org is a program of SurveyLA, the citywide Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey project (www.surveyla.org). MyHistoricLA.org is a new and innovative public participation tool that allows you to contribute information about […]

The City Council took action in support of Councilman Krekorian's recommendation that NC elections not be postponed until 2014, but be available in Fiscal Year 2012-13. The next step will be deciding how to pay for it. The Department was asked to report back to Council on a plan to administer elections along with a […]

It's that time again to recycle your Christmas tree! Before recycling your tree, please remove all decorations, tinsel, and stand. Trees must be cut in half, stands removed, and placed in the green yard trimmings container, or if you are unable to cut in half, place your tree at the curb for collection. The Bureau […]

Click here for the meeting agenda.

From CD12... On Nov. 2, CD12 co-authored a motion calling for more local control and accountability to help improve Van Nuys airport, together with Councilman Tony Cardenas. The Valley is overdue for a positive change to focus on improving Van Nuys Airport. The Airport is one of the nation's busiest general aviation airports, used by […]

Many of us have fruit trees and use or distribute only a small portion of the fruit to our friends and families. Here's an idea that will help you and many others at the same time: FOOD FORWARD is an all-volunteer grassroots group of Los Angeles residents who care about reconnecting to our food system […]

The City of Los Angeles Stormwater Program is conducting a customer satisfaction survey and they need your input! VISIT www.LAstormwater.org/survey TAKE the five minute survey and give us your thoughts about the program – what they are doing well and where they need to improve. Get FREE Stuff! Every person who takes the survey will […]

It's now even easier to report graffiti to the City so it can cleaned up fast. In addition to calling 311, you can now report graffiti directly using the City's online 311 function at https://anti-graffiti.lacity.org/welcome.cfm. Just enter the exact address and a report and clean-up order are automatically generated. The City also is making efforts […]

Specific Needs Awareness Planning (S.N.A.P)- voluntary disaster registry website for Los Angeles County For millions of Los Angeles County residents who have access and functional needs including those relating to physical, medical, sensory, cognitive or age-related conditions; disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires or floods will present a real challenge. Disasters can strike at any time […]

If you hear loud aircraft in the sky above you, and you want to know more about the aircraft's destination, trajectory, type, or even altitude, we recommend the following webpage: https://www331.webtrak-lochard.com/webtrak/vny4 The webpage shows aircraft from Van Nuys Airport (VNY), as well as Burbank "Bob Hope" Airport (BUR), Whiteman Airport (WHP) in Pacoima, and the […]

The Negative Declaration for the Board Of Airport Commissioners consideration took place on February 22, 2011.  More info can be found at: https://www.lawa.org/boacLAWA.aspx VNY Propeller Park Final Negative Declaration Appendix Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C

Metro reports that all northbound lanes of the 405 Freeway between Getty Center Drive and Ventura Blvd. will be closed at midnight tonight, Friday, March 2, as crews begin work on the Mulholland Bridge. They will start closing lanes as early as 10:00 pm, and all lanes will closed by midnight. Some ramps will be […]

Councilman Mitchell Englander's staff is consolidating their Northridge and Chatsworth offices into a single location in Chatsworth. The new District Office address is: 9207 Oakdale Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311 The new office will be more centrally located in our District. In addition to housing their District operations, staff offices, constituent services and meetings, the new office will […]

Billingsley Room (formerly Billingsley’s Restaurant) 6550 Odessa Ave, Lake Balboa, CA (between Vanowen and Victory at the at the South end of Van Nuys Airport) Please join your Lake Balboa Neighborhood Council for our first meeting at the Billingsley Room. Wednesday – March 7, 2012 6:30 PM This will be the place to find out […]

Want to tell the mayor how the city's money should be spent?  Click here for a brief video created by Neighborhood Council members about the importance of the Mayor's Budget Survey.  The deadline is quickly approaching; the last day for participate in the budget survey is Monday, February 27th. The link to the Mayor's 2012 […]

BUDGET SURVEY RESULTS are being presented...and lots more. All LA stakeholders invited. Two Deputy Mayor's are attending. Event runs from 8:30 am - Noon. Please RSVP to joseph.hari@lacity.org or call 310-479-3823.

February 21st is the only LAUSD Re-Districting Community Meeting to be held in the San Fernando Valley (Covered by Districts 3 and 6). Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6pm Sepulveda Middle School Auditorium (Evans Hall) 15330 Plummer St. North Hills, CA 91343 Click here for the LAUSD district maps that are approved for the public's input. […]

Dear Neighbor, Draft boundaries have been drawn for all 15 Los Angeles City Council districts. You may view the draft maps here: https://redistricting2011.lacity.org/LACITY/draftMap.html The Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission is holding seven public input hearings prior to releasing the final maps. FIVE of these hearings have already taken place. Before new City Council maps […]

Do you know of a special place that has architectural, historical, social, or cultural significance in your neighborhood? Visit MyHistoricLA.org to share your ideas! MyHistoricLA.org is a program of SurveyLA, the citywide Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey project (www.surveyla.org). MyHistoricLA.org is a new and innovative public participation tool that allows you to contribute information about […]

The City Council took action in support of Councilman Krekorian's recommendation that NC elections not be postponed until 2014, but be available in Fiscal Year 2012-13. The next step will be deciding how to pay for it. The Department was asked to report back to Council on a plan to administer elections along with a […]

It's that time again to recycle your Christmas tree! Before recycling your tree, please remove all decorations, tinsel, and stand. Trees must be cut in half, stands removed, and placed in the green yard trimmings container, or if you are unable to cut in half, place your tree at the curb for collection. The Bureau […]

Click here for the meeting agenda.

From CD12... On Nov. 2, CD12 co-authored a motion calling for more local control and accountability to help improve Van Nuys airport, together with Councilman Tony Cardenas. The Valley is overdue for a positive change to focus on improving Van Nuys Airport. The Airport is one of the nation's busiest general aviation airports, used by […]

Many of us have fruit trees and use or distribute only a small portion of the fruit to our friends and families. Here's an idea that will help you and many others at the same time: FOOD FORWARD is an all-volunteer grassroots group of Los Angeles residents who care about reconnecting to our food system […]

The City of Los Angeles Stormwater Program is conducting a customer satisfaction survey and they need your input! VISIT www.LAstormwater.org/survey TAKE the five minute survey and give us your thoughts about the program – what they are doing well and where they need to improve. Get FREE Stuff! Every person who takes the survey will […]

It's now even easier to report graffiti to the City so it can cleaned up fast. In addition to calling 311, you can now report graffiti directly using the City's online 311 function at https://anti-graffiti.lacity.org/welcome.cfm. Just enter the exact address and a report and clean-up order are automatically generated. The City also is making efforts […]

Specific Needs Awareness Planning (S.N.A.P)- voluntary disaster registry website for Los Angeles County For millions of Los Angeles County residents who have access and functional needs including those relating to physical, medical, sensory, cognitive or age-related conditions; disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires or floods will present a real challenge. Disasters can strike at any time […]

If you hear loud aircraft in the sky above you, and you want to know more about the aircraft's destination, trajectory, type, or even altitude, we recommend the following webpage: https://www331.webtrak-lochard.com/webtrak/vny4 The webpage shows aircraft from Van Nuys Airport (VNY), as well as Burbank "Bob Hope" Airport (BUR), Whiteman Airport (WHP) in Pacoima, and the […]

The Negative Declaration for the Board Of Airport Commissioners consideration took place on February 22, 2011.  More info can be found at: https://www.lawa.org/boacLAWA.aspx VNY Propeller Park Final Negative Declaration Appendix Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C