“Save the Date” as we are planning an exciting
Annual Homeowners Meeting on
Thursday, March 19th, at Honey Baked Ham. Stay tuned!
It’s Back. The California Senate is reintroducing Senate Bill 50 on Tuesday January 7th. SB 50 will allow massive apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods with no setback restrictions or parking requirements. And we will have no local control! Sacramento leadership is pushing our senators to vote yes on SB 50. We must stop SB 50 now!
SB 50 will have monstrous impacts on all California communities and every Toluca Lake neighborhood. Please immediately contact our Senator Bob Hertzberg and tell him to vote NO of SB 50: senator.hertzberg@senate.ca.gov by email and 818-901-5588 by phone.
Please contact all the Senators listed below. Tell your friends especially those who are constituents of these Senators to voice their objections and insist they vote NO on SB 50.
Senator Bob Hertzberg for Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Toluca Lake, Valley Village, and Van Nuys residents.
senator.hertzberg@senate.ca.gov by email and 818-901-5588 by phone
Senator Henry Stern for Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, and Woodland Hills residents.
senator.stern@senate.ca.gov by email and 818-876-3352 by phone
Senator Ben Allen for Santa Monica, Westwood Village, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Manhattan Beach residents.
senator.allen@senate.ca.gov by email and 310-318-6994 by phone
Do It Now! Send emails and make calls by Friday, January 10th, 2020.
Thank You!
A coyote was sighted just after dark on Whipple Street.
Small dog and cat owners please be wary!
Written by Stephen Hampar
The 7th Annual Turkey Trot returned with a roar, (Or should I say Gobble!) attracting runners and local families to partake in the festivities. Hosted by the Toluca Lake Homeowners Association, 100% of the proceeds go towards the East Valley PALS program and Toluca Lake Beautification Partners.
We were fortunate to have with us David Ono, Multi-Emmy winning News Anchor for ABC7 Eyewitness News as our Master of Ceremonies. Festivities kicked off (Literally) with a choreographed demonstration by KMA Martial Art kids. Next, trainers from the Toluca Lake Tennis and Fitness Club led the runners to an arsenal of stretches to prep them for the run.
A special sentiment of gratitude goes out to the Turkey Trot Committee, co-chaired by Ryan Kugler and Dana Boyd, including Beth Eras, Susanne Hayes, Kari Negri, Leah Mangum, Steve Hampar and Mary Vossler who rounded off the committee. Of course there was Board Member Bob Wexler, our illustrious Turkey Mascot, who seemed to be everywhere during the event.
The event could not have been possible without our generous Sponsors: NBCUniversal, Craig Strong, Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce, Toluca Lake Tennis and Fitness Club, Malbec Restaurant, A5 Events and Hampar Properties, Cindy Wexler Real Estate, KMA Black Belt Champions, Davis Education Services, Generales and Generales, Forget Me Not Florist, The Counter, A La Mutt, Sky Properties, Strength Code, Amarano, Trader Joes, Honey Baked Ham, Coffee Bean, Bob’s Big Boy, Romano’s Pizza and Veggie Grill. Thank you Councilmember David Ryu and Alice Roth, and Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian for your support and helping to coordinate with the City. Thank you to Chase Bank for hosting the event. Thanks to Officer Kurtis Delbar, and the LAPD for monitoring the race route. You are all appreciated!
The Toluca Lake Turkey Trot was originally conceived by Toluca Lake resident Piper Welch in 2011, and ran and promoted through the TLHOA. We hope to see you next year as the tradition continues!
The Toluca Lake Homeowners Association advocates and to gives a powerful voice to the Homeowners of Toluca Lake.
Dear UproarLA Supporters:
It’s a good day for our cause: Today, City Attorney Mike Feuer and the City of LA announced they are filing suit against the FAA in response to Burbank Airport’s new flight path, which as you know sends departing planes “in a singular, repetitive departure track” at extremely low altitudes over our new communities. In addition, the City is suing the FAA under the Freedom of Information Act in order to obtain documents which might shed light on the reasons behind the illegal and devastating southerly shift.
Mr Feuer had this to say: “FAA has allowed this change in departure flight tracks with no public notice, public comment or proper environmental review. The southerly shift has caused a significant increase in airplane noise and traffic, and the lawsuit seeks judicial action to require FAA to order its air traffic controllers to direct aircraft to depart the airport using historic departure tracks.”
“We’re fighting to get relief for tens of thousands of residents and businesses in the southeast Valley and Santa Monica Mountains who’ve borne the brunt of increased aircraft noise and other impacts. Today we’re urging the Court to order the FAA to return to previous flight patterns, and divulge information about Burbank Airport airplane traffic which the public has long been entitled to see.”
Mr. Krekorian added, “While thousands of my constituents have their lives disrupted day and night by departing planes, the FAA refuses to give direct answers why the shift has taken place. This lawsuit is needed to compel the agency to provide critical information it continues to withhold.”
UproarLA would like to thank you, our supporters, for making the time, for having the courage, for taking the leadership to SPEAK UP and SHOW UP time and time again. It is unlikely that these developments would have occurred without pressure from the community.
And we would like to heap thanks and praise upon Mr Feuer and his attorneys, and Councilmembers Krekorian, Ryu and Koretz for their courage, leadership and steadfast commitment to the health and well-being of their constituents.
Show them some love!
One month ago, we shared the hopeful news with you that LA City Attorney Mike Feuer had issued a cease and desist demand letter to the FAA, requiring that the illegal and devastating new flight paths out of BUR over our communities halt immediately.
To date, not only has the FAA NOT complied with the cease and desist demand — they have not even replied to the City Attorney’s letter.
While we are not surprised by the FAA’s arrogance and disregard for public health and safety, we are nevertheless angry at once again being ignored. Our strong belief is that the City of LA must take the next step and file a lawsuit against the FAA to halt this nonstop assault on our communities.We are in communication with the City Attorney’s office, who asked that we share this update:
“Please let the community know that our FAA team of lawyers is working overtime on strategizing the next steps that will be the most expedient, efficient and effective way to end the onslaught you and your neighbors are suffering.”
We THANK Mike Feuer’s office for their steadfast action to protect LA citizens and for highlighting what we all know is true: the FAA CONCEDED the path has moved SOUTH of the tracks previously established without public notice, comment or review. We respectfully plead with them to take the next necessary step: strong legal action against the FAA. As noted by Mr. Feuer, the FAA is OBLIGATED to use pre-Metroplex departure procedures, as the ones currently being flown over our NEW COMMUNITY are against their own policy and have never been studied.
UproarLA will continue working closely with our local representatives, our attorney, the media, the city of LA and all key stakeholders to fight FAA corruption. We are grateful for the support of the City, and we truly THANK YOU ALL for continuing to join us in standing up against the FAA and Burbank Airport.
We will continue to update you as events unfold.
Let’s continue to be vocal so the FAA hears us loud and clear regarding the airplane noise from the Burbank Airport flight paths! If you attend the next meeting, take a speaker card so you may say a few words about the noise issues you are experiencing.
Plans for a 234-unit apartment complex that will repurpose a Chase bank right off the 134 freeway in Toluca Lake at Lankershim and Riverside Drive were approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council’s planning and land use management committee. Read more…
Your HOA Board with Assembymember Adrin Nazarian at National Night Out
THANKS to the hundreds who attended and spoke out at the second meeting of the Southern San Fernando Valley Airplane Noise Task Force last night at the LA Marriott Burbank Airport Convention Center!
UproarLA kicked off the meeting, and was given 20 minutes to present. They explained the devastating health effects on residents of the new BUR flight paths, as well as interim solutions — jointly presented with former BUR Executive Director Dan Feger. These solutions could be implemented immediately and without the need for FAA approval — providing immediate relief to suffering residents. UproarLA presenters also touched on our F.A.I.R. long-term plan, which will be discussed in more detail by Mr. Feger during Studio City for Quiet Skies’ presentation at the next Task Force meeting.
Task Force members were provided binders containing the presentation, along with hundreds of pages of supporting documents: emails, memos, government studies, sound scientific data — which support the facts laid out by UproarLA. UproarLA’s Powerpoint presentation, including Mr Feger’s remarks, can be found HERE. All supporting documentation is available HERE.
We are incredibly grateful to Mr. Feger, who traveled to join UproarLA’s presentation, provide his expertise and elaborate on solutions to the problem.
Many Task Force members gave careful consideration to the facts presented, and were given an opportunity to pose questions to the FAA, BUR and VNY. Many of the questions were suggested within UproarLA’s presentation, including:
We need the Task Force members to insist on timely, complete, and honest answers from airport staff and the FAA. We, and all of our elected officials, must keep the pressure on BUR and the FAA. Because of the FAA’s/BUR’s history of lies and obfuscation, we all must be diligent in demanding meaningful answers, transparency and accountability by those organizations.
Absent from the meeting were the Mayors of Glendale and Pasadena, who are voting Task Force members. We hope they or their representatives will be able to attend these important meetings in the future.
Each of 65 speakers was then given 90 seconds to voice concerns over the effects of the deafening, nonstop noise, pollution, and increased fire hazard. We are grateful to you all for sharing your personal stories with the decision-makes in the room. Your voices are being heard!
NOW we must keep up the pressure!
Call your local officials (contact info below) and
And contact Southwest Airlines, whose flights represent an astonishing 70% of the ultra-low flights over our neighborhoods — tell them how their noise and pollution is upendcing your lives! Tell them about the F.A.I.R. solution:
And please take a minute out of your day to call our elected representatives — they are listening! — and tell them you join LA Councilmembers Krekorian & Ryu in supporting UproarLA’s FAIR plan for SFV aircraft traffic!
LA Councilman Ryu: Justin Orenstein 213-473-7004
LA Councilman Krekorian: Doug Mensman 818-755-7676
City Attorney Feuer: Rob Wilcox 213-978-8100
Mayor Garcetti: David Reich 213-978-0331
Sen. Feinstein: Peter Muller 310-914-7300
Sen. Harris: Heather Hutt 310-231-4494
Cong. Sherman: John Brodtke 818-501-9200
Cong. Adam Schiff: Joe Jankiewicz 818-450-2900
SB 592 and SB 330 have cleared committee hurdles and will be headed to the Assembly and then the Governor’s office by, or around, September 13th.
We must let our representatives know that we DO NOT SUPPORT ANY BILL THAT DESTROYS SINGLE-FAMILY NEIGHBORHOODS.
Furthermore, neither of the Bills addresses the real problem in California which isn’t a housing shortage, but a shortage of affordable housing.
Please feel free to let our State Representatives, and the Governor, know that there are better ways to solve this problem than ruining neighborhoods.
We can up-zone commercial corridors, develop underutilized state property (thousands of lots), encourage employers to establish their companies further
out in the suburbs in order to change commuting patterns…. We just need the time to RESPONSIBLY figure this out.
PLEASE WRITE, OR CALL, IMMEDIATELY to oppose the passage of these bills.
assemblymember.nazarian@assembly.ca.gov (818) 376-4246 or (916)319-2046
senator.hertzberg@senate.ca.gov (818)901-5588 or (916) 651-4018
governor@governor.ca.gov (916) 445-2841
Just a reminder that SB 330 and SB 592 are being heard on Wednesday, Aug 28 in the Appropriations Committee of the Assembly, chaired by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez and sitting on that committee are Richard Bloom( BH) and Jesse Gabriel (Encino).
assemblymember.gongalez@assembly.ca.gov
assemblymember.bloom@assembly.ca.gov;
assemblymember.gabriel@assembly.ca.gov
Also letting Senator Portantino know that we support the suspension of SB 50 is important because Wiener is trying to reintroduce this bill.
senator.portantino@senate.ca.gov
Our representatives in both the Senate and the Assembly are under great pressure to support Wiener’s bills. Our representatives need to hear that their constituents oppose them.
If these bills get through the Appropriations Committees then they get full Senate and Assembly votes before going to the governor. We don’t have much time. September 13 is the date that these bills must be approved and sent to the governor or they die.
Encourage everyone to reach out to their representatives and to this committee chair and voice your opposition. Everyone’s voice matters here, there is a lot of monetary support behind the bills from the Zuckerberg Initiative. So fighting to keep our local control and single family neighborhoods from upzoning needs a lot of voices in opposition to make the difference.
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Together with Studio City for Quiet Skies, we are providing this update to you about some very disturbing developments regarding the new Van Nuys Airport (“VNY”) “fix.” We have reviewed the FAA materials produced online and watched the FAA presentation of August 6, 2019. Shockingly, this “fix” appears to create a second superhighway of departures out of VNY running along almost the exact same path as the Burbank Airport (“BUR”) proposed procedures that our communities have vehemently opposed – just in reverse.
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Happy Fiscal New Year: The 2019-’20 City Budget Begins
The new fiscal year began on July 1, and with it came a number of new budget items that our Councilmember, David Ryu, has been fighting for. The new budget includes an additional $25 million for tree maintenance and increased staff at the Urban Forestry Department, $47 million of sworn overtime of LAPD officer overtime to increase neighborhood patrols, $25 million for repairing broken streets, concrete streets, and alleyways, and greater allocations into addressing homelessness and the City’s reserve fund. A more in-depth analysis of the City Budget can be found here.
Matt Adams, our nationally recognized attorney, continues his work on our behalf- aggressively fighting for our community. He is coordinating with the L.A. City Attorney’s Office, routinely communicating with the FAA, and monitoring any issues that may impact our efforts.
Yesterday, Mr. Adams sent a letter to the FAA’s legal counsel pushing forcefully for a resolution to the existing departure routes that are decimating our community.
He also protected a Burbank Airport (“BUR”) solution in light of new flight path changes at Van Nuys Airport (“VNY”). Mr. Adams noted that UproarLA supports the FAA’s efforts to address noise impact issues at VNY but knows of “no defensible reason why the noise concerns at the two airports would be treated differently.”
He preserved our community’s options for an optimal solution at BUR by reminding the FAA that:
A solution at one airport risks creating additional complexity at the other. With that possibility in mind, we note that [federal regulations] explicitly prohibits the FAA from taking any action that would ‘have an adverse environmental impact’ or ‘[l]imit the choice of reasonable alternatives’ until the agency ‘issues a record of decision’ with respect to the proposed New Routes at BUR. In other words, changes at VNY will not provide a defensible justification for eliminating from consideration-or refusing to adopt-alternatives to the New Routes at BUR.
The work Matt Adams does, and will continue to do, is what will get us out from under this horrendous BUR flight path. But we need your help to fund his work, so please consider making a tax-deductible donation (per I.R.S. guidelines) to our Legal Fund.
Thanks for being part of our group and your continued support! Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions, we’ll be happy to answer when we can.
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THANK YOU! AND NEXT STEPS
Dear UproarLA Supporters:
What an amazing turnout this morning at the BUR Authority meeting yesterday! About 200 people showed up and packed the room, hallway and stairwell to be heard and share their personal, moving stories. Thank you to all of you who attended and sent letters of support- you represented so energetically and wonderfully the thousands who could not make it.
You can view the meeting in its entirety below:
This meeting resulted in numerous critical first-time admissions by the BUR Authority:
UproarLA will follow up on the many issues/suggestions raised at this meeting. We will continue to attend every BUR Authority meeting and seek answers and specifics as to what BUR staff and Commissioners have done in the intervening period. We will continue to assure your voices are heard and pressure is applied as aggressively as possible. We will also continue our dialogue with City and Federal officials to pursue specific next steps.
We cannot do this without you, and appreciate your time, efforts and passion. Please keep the pressure on BUR, City of LA and Federal officials- it is paying off!
UproarLA will be sending more specifics on actions you can take shortly.
Thank you for everything you do!
Notice all the changes, even since 2013!
Drive down Riverside Dr., Toluca Lake- 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp-ZHkRvrzI
Drive down Riverside Dr., Toluca Lake- 1950’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZJeS3djBOQ
