Two proposals are in the works to rectify the boundary of our community

City Human Relations people tell how they can help settle the border controversy
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Nonprofit Chrysalis agency employs and trains the homeless

VENICE BLVD.:
CLEANUP TRIAL WILL BEGIN

Palms Neighborhood Council will set aside $500 a week to empty the trash baskets along our main thoroughfare

The nonprofit Chrysalis Works will be hired by the Palms Neighborhood Council to empty the trash cans on Venice Blvd. for a period of three months at a cost of $6,000. The workers, attired in their trademark orange vests, will alternate with city crews in the collection duties. They will also remove signs illegally posted on power poles.

The Palms Council will see if Venice Blvd. merchants are willing to support the effort financially once the trial period is over.

The money will come from the yearly $50,000 allocation the Council receives from the city.

Two officials of the city's Human Relations Commission were in Palms on Wednesday, Oct. 18, to tell how they might help settle a dlspute over the border between Palms and Mar Vista.

The meeting was one more step in a lengthy battle by people in Northwest Palms to leave the jurisdiction of the Mar Vista Community Council and join with the Palms Neighborhood Council.

Some 277 petitioners living in or doing business in that area have signed on to that campaign.

The Palms Representative Assembly on Sept. 6 approved the idea of engaging in an outreach program there.

Among its other duties, the commission offers "facilitation services that help Neighborhood Councils’ leaders and stakeholders to resolve their own differences." (Go here for more information about the commission.)

The meeting was held in the Culver–Palms Church of Christ, 9733 Venice Blvd. (corner of Delmas Terrace).

Board members of both the Mar Vista Community Council (a city agency like the Palms Neighborhood Council) and the Westside Village Civic Assn. (a homeowners group) were invited to the gathering, but nobody from those groups showed p.

Northwest Palms is often called Westside Village, although the district in question includes much more than the single-family residential subdivision of that name famously built without sidewalks by developer Fritz Burns in 1939 and 1940.

About 8,400 people live in apartments in the district and 3,600 live in the Burns-built or other houses. There are large commercial areas at Sepulveda-Palms and Sepulveda-National, a Trader Joe's at Westwood-National, a Blockbuster at Overland-National and a small commercial strip at Overland-Palms-Rose.

It was placed into the Mar Vista Community Council by the city upon the urging of the Westside Village homeowners' board.

For more information on this subject, go to this page with maps and background.