Hollywood Bowl Community Meeting
Meeting was Feb. 26
Angela Babcock of Stratiscope, the community relations group, encouraged people with concerns, comments or criticisms to reach out directly to her at angela@stratiscope.com
Traffic-related matters were the only topic
* Dashboard resident placards: (The brightly colored cards you put in your car to pass security during Bowl nights) Key question was how to distribute the cards to make sure all residents receive them. Suggestions included changing the size to allow them to be mailed, better outreach by neighborhood groups, offer show vouchers with the placards as an incentive. Also, allow entry for cars with neighborhood parking tags, i.e. 99 in Whitley Heights.
* Hard closures: Highland/Milner/Camrose intersection will be closed again this season for Bowl events with at least 10,000 in audience. Initial closure dates are expected to be announced by May, but may change during the season depending on sales forecasts. For Whitley Heights, traffic will be restricted to residents with dashboard placards. Guards will be posted at entrances along Franklin, i.e. Grace, Whitley and Las Palmas. Residents can't enter or exit at Milner during hard closure events. (Emergency vehicles will have access). A police officer will be posted at Bonair and Whitley Terrace to prevent drivers from getting stuck at the Las Palmas/Milner intersection. Lyft drivers and those using Waze will be rerouted during hard closures. Uber isn't fully onboard yet.
* Parking lots: This year's big innovation is allowing credit card payment for parking in the Bowl's lots. Previously, they only accepted cash, which slowed entrances. In one or two years, they'll accept alternatives, such as prepaid printouts, QR codes or Apple Pay. They'll still take cash.
* Future wishlist: A left turn lane from Northbound Highland at Odin to speed up rideshare and parking traffic. Reversible lane signage to facilitate exit and entry.
* June 1 is the annual Bowl pancake breakfast! And Ramon Grijalva is in talks with Angela about hosting a Bowl outreach event at his house with free donuts on a Saturday to be determined, possibly this month (March)
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Your Whitley Heights rep
John Gittelsohn, johngittel@gmail.com 6636 Emmet Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90068
"Residents can't enter or exit at Milner during hard closure events." This is so stupid. On these nights residents please take into account it will take you a 1/2 hour just to get to the Vine or Agryle 101 on ramps. Residents should be allowed to exit Milner onto Highland where even on the busiest Bowl nights it will take at most 5 minutes to get to the Highland 101 on ramps. I have written Angela Babcock several times on this and somehow she, they, feel this is better for the neighborhood. Obviously people who have to actually go places on those nights have not been considered. Yes it makes it nicer walking the dog on those nights, but every street surrounding us will be in total gridlock. I've lived on the hill 26 years and somehow these folks think they know what is better for us? Arghhhhh! Perhaps a petition is in order to keep at a minimum, Milner open to exit onto Highland for residents only. Thoughts? Jonathan at 6711 Whitley Terrace