Los Angeles City Planning has released an updated draft ordinance to amend the Westwood Village Specific Plan. This draft is supported by the Los Angeles City Planning Commission and will be presented to the Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

These amendments are desperately needed. The Specific Plan has not kept up with the rapidly evolving retail landscape and changing consumer preferences and the result is a crippling Q4 2021 vacancy rate in Westwood Village of 39.4%. The amendments will support local businesses by simplifying regulations for food uses, parking, and signage requirements.

How Can You Help?

Please submit a letter of support to the Los Angeles City Council Planning and Land Use Management Committee. Enter your name, email, and zip code in the box provided, and then click Start Writing to be directed to your pre-written draft support letter (which can also be edited if you choose). Copies of this letter will be sent to the Los Angeles City Councilmembers serving on the PLUM Committee, Councilmember Paul Koretz, Council District 5, City Planning Staff, and the WVIA. Your submitted letters are crucial to demonstrating community support for the amendments.

The WVIA will keep you up to date on the public process to amend the Plan.

For more details on the draft amendments to the Westwood Village Specific Plan, please see the City Planning Commission's Recommendation and the LA City Planning Department’s draft ordinance.

Thank you for your support!