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December 21, 2018

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CHRISTMAS AT GREYSTONE — Earlier this month, an elegant preview cocktail party was the launch of the Friends of Greystone’s Joy to the Holidays Home Tour events. The evening included appetizers by Il Fornaio of Beverly Hills, Crustacean’s House of An, Randy Fuhrman Events, and Blank Espresso. Tree and decor lighting was done by Dr. Christmas.

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Deborah Frank is newest member of the City’s Fine Arts Commission.

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City Council Retains First-Year No-Cause Eviction In Second Round Of RSO

By Victoria Talbot In a meeting that lasted past midnight Tuesday, the Beverly Hills City Council finally agreed that the Rent Stabilization Ordinance, which will affect over 60 percent of the City’s residents, was not yet ready for approval.

The proposed 150-page ordi-

nance became available to the public late last Friday evening.

Councilmembers Lili Bosse and Robert Wunderlich took the lead to postpone the vote on the ordinance right away, each of them protesting that the ordinance was not complete. (see ‘RSO’ page 12)

NEW YEAR’S EVE IN BEVERLY HILLS The Beverly Hilton Count down to 2019 at Circa 55 with a New Year’s Eve party that includes a dinner buffet, live band, red carpet and midnight Champagne toast. First seating is 6-8 p.m. for $75 per person and second seating is 8 p.m. to midnight for $95/person.

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Jean-Georges Beverly Hills will offer a special tasting menu tailored for the holiday, with a four-course menu from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at $165 per person and a six-course menu with midnight Champagne toast, beginning at 8 p.m. at $280/person. Alternatively, The Rooftop

by JG will offer a dance party with a live DJ and Champagne toast at midnight. Call 310-860-6566.

The Peninsula Beverly Hills The Belvedere offers a six-course prix-fixe dinner with live music, with seatings at 5 p.m. ($165/adult, $75/child) and 8 p.m. ($310/adult, $195/child). The Living Room will also have a six-course prix-fixe menu, with a dance floor and live band, beginning at 7:30 p.m. for $310/person and $195/child. Call 310-975-2736.

George Christy, Page 6 It Began As A Spoof Of The Famous Burt Lancaster And Deborah Kerr’s Hot Embrace On A Honolulu Beach, Inspired By The Classic From Here to Eternity Film. Mailed As A Christmas Card, Other Spoofs Followed

By Laura Coleman Continuing the beloved and impactful annual tradition of feeding the hungry on Christmas Eve, on Monday at 10 a.m. the community is invited to gather at Beverly Vista to craft around 1,500 bag lunches which will then be delivered to the Hollywood Food Coalition.

“It’s a chance for the kids to give,” described Beverly Hills PTA Council Community Service Liaison Kelly Hinden.

“I think it’s important for the kids to have a sense of giving to community and especially realizing that there are others in need, and in a small way, for them to participate in the process.”

This year’s lunches will include hand-made cards from kids in the City’s four K-8 schools, sandwiches, a fruit

The Montage Beverly Hills The Marquesa ballroom will host a Great Gatsby-themed black tie gala with a cocktail reception, five-course dinner with wine pairings, dancing, and a midnight Champagne toast for $415/person. Call 310-860-7800. The Restaurant will also offer dinner, with a fourcourse prix-fixe menu with optional wine and Champagne pairings, beginning at 7:30 for $295/person. Call 310-860-7670. The Bar at the Montage will have Champagne toasts, live music and dancing, beginning at 6 p.m. Call 310-860-7886 for reservations and pricing.

SEE PAGE 4 FOR MORE FUN NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECIALS

whom may have been involved in the wide distribution of salacious letters to prominent members of the law enforcement community and the community of Beverly Hills. Others say it may be the work of a retired police officer residing in Beverly Hills.

The letters were sent to police, City staff and selected residents. In one instance, the return address was that of attorney Gregory W. Smith, who represented Sgt. Rich Ceja in his arbitration case (see (see ‘SETTLEMENT’ page 15)

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By Victoria Talbot When the EBI scandal took former Police Chief Dave Snowden down, the City of Beverly Hills selected Dominick Rivetti as interim chief, pulling him out of retirement. Photos on social media show Rivetti with Snowden and others at law enforcement gatherings. Snowden served as President of the California Police Chief’s Association in 1992, while he was chief of the Costa Mesa PD. According to law enforcement sources, Snowden has powerful friends, some of

box, a granola bar and a bag of chips. For the first time since the tradition began, SunButter will replace peanut butter in the fun-to-make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Hinden said that the switch to sunflower seed butter means that children with peanut allergies won’t risk anaphylactic shock if they participate in the dynamic event.

The PTA Council-sponsored event was fortunate enough this year to get donations from SunButter for all of the jars that the event will need. Beverly Hills residents Bruce and Stephanie Langer also donated multiple Langer Juice Company juice boxes for inclusion in the bag lunches.

The event is slated to run from 10 a.m. to noon and will also include a card-making station for students.

A TEAM WORTH KNOWING — The marketing maven, Madelyn Hammond and Pete Hammond, Deadline Hollywood’s chief film critic who covers the Oscars and Emmy seasons, are distinguished in their fields and influential during the award weeks that become a crazy ring-around-the-rosie madness, when studios bow to them for their recommendations.

For more photos, see George Christy’s column on page 6.

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COURTESY CORRECTED NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING (Note: This notice was originally published in the Beverly Hills Courier on December 14, 2018, with an incorrect hearing date of Tuesday, January 8, 2018. This courtesy notice corrects the hearing date to Tuesday, January 8, 2019 with all other contents of the notice unchanged.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of Beverly Hills, at its meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at 7:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, 90210, will hold a public hearing to consider: AN APPEAL OF A DECISION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION CONDITIONALLY APPROVING A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT AND VESTING TENTATIVE TRACT MAP TO ALLOW A FOUR-STORY, MIXED-USE PROJECT CONSISTING OF 25 CONDOMINIUM UNITS AND 13,036 SQUARE FEET OF GROUND FLOOR RETAIL IN A COMMERCIAL ZONE ON THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 9908 SOUTH SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD; AND CONSIDERATION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION’S RELATED RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, ZONING MAP AMENDMENT, AND ZONE TEXT AMENDMENT TO CREATE A MIXED USE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY ZONE (M-PD-5).

The proposed project involves the construction of a new mixed-use building containing a total of 25 residential condominium units and 13,036 square feet (SF) of ground floor retail on the property located at 9908 South Santa Monica Boulevard. The proposed four-story project is 47’ in height when measured to the top of the finished roof deck, with a rooftop pool deck 52’ above the project height datum point. The top of a rooftop amenity room is 57’ above the datum point and the top of elevator enclosures is 62’ above the datum point. Proposed rooftop residential uses include a 1,850 SF rooftop pool with a 3,623 SF rooftop deck and a 5,944 SF rooftop amenity garden deck area. Three levels of underground parking containing 176 parking spaces with one vehicle entrance on Charleville Boulevard and another entrance on South Santa Monica Boulevard are proposed.

The Planning Commission, at its regular meeting on September 13, 2018, voted 3-2 to conditionally approve the requested Planned Development and Vesting Tentative Tract Map and to recommend that the City Council approve a General Plan Amendment, Zoning Map Amendment and Zone Text Amendment to create a Mixed Use Planned Development Overlay Zone (M-PD-5). On September 24, 2018 an appeal of the Planning Commission’s decision was filed. On November 6, 2018, the City Council scheduled the appeal hearing of the Planning Commission’s decisions regarding the Planned Development and Vesting Tentative Tract Map for the project, as well as consideration of the Planning Commission’s recommendation that the City Council amend the general plan, the zoning code, and zoning map to create a Mixed Use Planned Development Overlay Zone (M-PD-5), for the January 8, 2019 City Council meeting.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW This project has been assessed in accordance with the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the State CEQA Guidelines, and the environmental regulations of the City. The City of Beverly Hills has prepared a Final Environmental Impact Report (Final EIR) to analyze potential environmental impacts associated with development of the project. On September 13, 2018, the Planning Commission reviewed and certified a Final EIR for the project (Planning Commission Resolution No. 1857). The appellant has appealed the Planning Commission’s certification of the Final EIR, however regardless of the appeal of the Final EIR, the City Council would consider certification of the Final EIR as part of its consideration of the requested legislative changes. Responses to the appellants CEQA related comments included in the appeal petition will be included in the Final EIR in an additional appendix (Appendix 12), which will be reviewed by the City Council at the January 8, 2019 hearing.

At the public hearing, the City Council will hear and consider all comments. All interested persons are invited to attend and speak on this matter.

Written comments may also be submitted and should be addressed to the City Council, c/o City Clerk, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. The comments should be received prior to the hearing date.

Please note that if you challenge the Council’s action in regards to this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or prior to the public hearing.

If there are any questions regarding this notice, please contact Masa Alkire, Principal Planner in the Beverly Hills Community Development Department at 310.285.1135, or by email at malkire@beverlyhills.org. The case file, including the project plans, environmental documentation, and associated documents, is on file in the Community Development Department and can be reviewed by any interested person at 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90210.

LOURDES SY-RODRIGUEZ, CRM, MMC Assistant City Clerk In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Council Chamber is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with audio equipment for the hearing impaired. If you need special assistance to attend this meeting, please call the City Clerk’s Office at (310) 285-2400 or TTY (310) 285-6881. Please notify the City Clerk’s Office at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting if you require captioning service so that reasonable arrangements can be made.

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Pedestrain Distraction Assembly Reminds Kids To Stay Aware LOOKING UP— Hawthorne students received an important safety tip this week on how to survive in the digital age. Pictured: Principal Sarah Kaber, Lisa Kay Schwartz and Beverly Hills Police Officer Stephanie Frias with students Spencer and Emily Pratt.

CHRISTMAS KINDESS — The Beverly Hills PTA Council and Police Department collected toys this week for the K-12 children from Compton Unified School district. Pictured, top row (from left): Rachelle Marcus, Marc Coopwood, Lori Fienberg, Julian Gold (Santa Claus No. 1), Eric Olson, Lili Bosse, Sean Smollen, Sandra Spagnoli, Sarah Kaber, Rose Kaiserman, Isabel Hacker, Tristan Walker Shuman and Julian Reyes (Santa No. 2). Front row, (from left): Elias Pilichos, Guillermo Bedo and Lisa Kay Schwartz.

Beverly Hills Police To Hold DUI Checkpoint

By Victoria Talbot The Beverly Hills Police Department’s Traffic Bureau reminds drivers that “DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze” this holiday season.

There will be a DUI checkpoint tonight at the intersection of Roxbury Drive and Olympic Boulevard from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., where officers will stop motorists to check for alcohol and/or drug impaired drivers and valid driver’s licenses.

With heavy holiday traffic expected as motorists travel for the weekend, the BHPD and

the Office of Traffic Safety are working to educate the public about the effects of prescription drugs and marijuana on driving.

Prescription drugs with a warning label advising patients not to drive or operate machinery while on the drug could impair drivers enough to get a DUI. Marijuana, especially in combination with alcohol and other drugs, can also impair drivers and result in a DUI. The BHPD is conducting the checkpoint to “promote

public safety, to increase awareness of the dangers associated with drinking and driving, and to serve as a deterrent to potential impaired and unlicensed drivers.”

For questions related to traffic safety issues, contact Sgt. Gregg Mader at 310-2852140.

Revelers should be aware there will also be an LAPD checkpoint at the intersecion of La Brea and Oakwood avenues, 8 p.m. - 1 a.m. the same evening.

By Laura Coleman In an increasingly digital world, staying connected to reality may just save your life.

It’s a message that former Beverly Hills Commissioner Lisa Kay Schwartz, who just finished her term on the City’s Health and Safety Commission last Monday, is trying her best to communicate to a young generation which has grown up with an abundance of digital technology all around.

“As human beings, we’re all preoccupied with a lot of things all day long,” she reminded the sixth-grade students at Hawthorne this past week as part of a campaign to educate all Beverly Hills Unified School District middle school students about the dan-

gers of distracted phone usage.

“Looking down for one second could mean disaster,” Schwartz cautioned. “When you’re walking, you don’t want to be distracted because you don’t want to be hit by a car.”

While research studies are increasingly revealing alarming trends related to youngsters’ use of online technology, such as associated risks of stunting development, increasing addictive tendencies and even bringing on or exacerbating ADHD, depression, obesity or anxiety, all of those concerns are relatively moot in the face of a critical accident that could have been avoided simply by being aware. (see ‘PEDESTRIAN SAFETY’ page 13)

NEW COMMISSIONER— Beverly Hills resident Deborah Frank (pictured left with husband Andy, a master potter, and daughter Sydney, an artist and CalArts graduate) was appointed to the Fine Art Commission at Tuesday’s formal City Council meeting. Frank, who works for The Broad museum, has previously led art tours in the City.

Other commissioners appointed this week were James Matson and Jennifer K. Schreiber, who are both now on the Architectural Commission.

BOLD – Hundreds of tourists photograph themselves every day in front of the Lily Pond at Beverly Gardens Park. For Holiday BOLD, the City of Beverly Hills and the Conference and Visitors Bureau spent $50,000 on these decorations. “It was a package installation which included the lilies, the BOLD sign and an arch (which was not used for BOLD). The cost also included maintenance, storage, transportation, installation and de-installation,” said Public Information Officer Keith Sterling.

Burglars Rob Beverly Grove Shop For More Than $100k In New Year’s Eve In Beverly Hills: Where To Dine, Merchandise from brands like Christian

By Matt Lopez Dance To Ring In 2019 Burglars made off with Louboutin, among others.

By Matt Lopez The Beverly Hills Hotel: The Pink Palace will ring in the new year at The Polo Lounge, with à la carte menu options, a four-course prix-fixe menu, live music and a Champagne toast during the second seating. First seating, with the à la carte menu, is from 5-7:30 p.m.

Second seating, at $295/person, is from 9 p.m. to midnight.

Viceroy L’Ermitage: Avec Nous will offer a three-course Champagne dinner with options like lobster consume, Hamachi tartare, venison osso

buco and more, from 5-11 p.m. at $75/person, $55/child.

Call 310-860-8660.

Spago: Wolfgang Puck’s Spago will host a special Masquerade party, with a prixfixe dinner menu, and a stylish Masquerade mask contest during the second seating. First seating, from 5-6:30 p.m. is $150/person. Second seating, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., is $298/person. Call 310-3850880.

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by Wolfgang Puck will present a special four-course menu

designed by Chef Hilary Henderson. Call 310-2768500.

Avalon Beverly Hills: Viviane will serve two prix-fixe New Year’s Eve dinner menus, with a four-course early bird menu at 6:30 p.m. for $65/person. Second eating, beginning at 9 p.m., includes a fivecourse menu and Champagne toast. Call 310-407-7791.

Caffe Roma: A la carte and prix-fixe menu will be served all night, along with a live DJ to help ring in the new year. Call 310-274-7834. (see ‘NEW YEAR’S EVE’ page 11)

more than $100,000 after a smash-and-grab burglary on Monday at a pop-up apparel shop in the Beverly Grove area.

The Amuze.com shop, which sells high-end purses, shoes and other accessories, was broken into around 3 a.m. on Monday, in the 100 block of South Robertson Boulevard, according to Officer Drake Madison of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Amuze.com, typically an online retailer offers deep discounts on designer apparel

Around 10 burglars, all in dark clothing and masks, broke in using a sledgehammer, made off with more than $100,000 worth of items, and then fled the scene in a black Dodge Charger, a black Volkswagen and a Toyota of an unknown color.

Store owner Chay Chesner told KTLA5 news that he estimated the burglars took between $100,000 and $200,000 worth of items.

The LAPD is asking anyone with information on the burglary to call 800-222-TIPS.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Beverly Hills 5K-10K Run/Walk On Jan. 27 To Raise Money For Schools

#BHHEALTHYCITY — Health-minded Beverly Hills walkers kicked off a reinvigorated Monday morning walk this past week. The community is invited to gather at the Lily Pond every Monday at 8:30 a.m. until the upcoming Beverly Hills 5K Run/Walk on Jan. 27 to exercise and walk the upcoming course. Pictured (from left): Charles Young, Phil Savenick, Dion Jackson, Angie Yamini, Harry Kiernan, David Leiserowitz, Sharon Lippman Kwechansky, Karen Hurley, Rita Ortiz, Richard Paddor, and Jeff Harmon.

By Laura Coleman As school districts throughout the nation struggle to balance budgets in an era where investing in education is far from primary, the importance of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation (BHEF) and PTAs are critical to ensuring that this City’s public schools can maintain and augment critical programs.

Donating to the BHEF, the primary fundraising arm for the Beverly Hills Unified School District for the past 40 years, is particularly important because the non-profit looks holistically at the school district to thoughtfully curate a giving strategy with the money it raises.

Allocations are then equally divided between the four K-8 schools with a bit more funds for the high school.

Last year’s inaugural Beverly Hills 5K Run/Walk & Fitness Blast, which

was held on the City’s 104th Jan. 28 birthday, raised $30,000 for BHEF–and the next one, slated for Sunday, Jan. 27, is poised to raise even more for the organization.

“All of the money goes to the schools [and] it’s giving the City and the community, a chance to come together,” described celebrity trainer Dion Jackson, whose company All Seasons Fitness Media is once again partnering with BHEF, the City of Beverly Hills and local race management organization Run Racing to make the event happen.

In anticipation of the next month’s race, this past Monday Jackson helped reinvigorate the “Walk with the Mayor,” (albeit sans the mayor), which began during Councilmember Lili Bosse’s first term as mayor. In the intervening years (see ‘BEVERLY HILLS 5K’ page 16)

COURIER IN STOCKHOLM — Beverly Hills resident Nobel Laureate Dr. Lou Ignarro and wife Dr. Sharon Ignarro were invited to participate in the 2018 Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lou Ignarro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998 and is celebrating the 20th anniversary. Back in 1998, the Ignarro’s invited Mayor Julian Gold and his wife Michele Gold to the Nobel Prize event. Pictured above are the Ignarro’s with the Courier in the lobby of the famous Grand Hotel in Stockholm. To join the Ignarro’s in the Carry the Courier Club, snap a photo of yourself holding the Courier on your next trip and email it to mlopez@bhcourier.com.

MWD Repairs On Water Main Leak May Be Completed By Monday, Dec. 24

By Victoria Talbot Metropolitan Water District (MWD) crews have been working around the clock to repair a main water delivery pipeline serving Beverly Hills that has interrupted traffic on Sunset Boulevard since Saturday and elicited a Citywide call for water conservation.

“If we don’t run into any additional challenges, the pipeline repairs should be completed in the next few days,” said Jim Green, MWD’s water system operations manager.

Since Sunday, the City of Beverly Hills has asked residents and businesses to conserve water, including the elimination of all outdoor irrigation.

Though the City has taken measures to shore up available water storage and procure alternate sources of water

through the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, as a precautionary measure, residents and businesses are being asked to continue to conserve water until the repairs are completed.

“Turn off irrigation. Turn off the water when you are doing dishes. If you have any questions call 310-285-2467,” said Beverly Hills Water Conservation Manager Debbie Figoni. She encouraged residents to use the water tracker tools provided by the City to monitor their water use.

The water main leak was first detected last Friday at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Alpine Drive.

Metropolitan Water District determined conclusively Sunday night that the leak originated in one of their pipes. (see ‘WATER MAIN’ page 16)

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Zina Beverly Hills To Close On Christmas After 35 Years

By Matt Lopez When Zina Sherman and her family moved to Los Angeles nearly four decades ago, there was no doubt about what kind of business she wanted to open.

“Jewelry was all my family has ever known, so it made perfect sense,” Sherman told the Courier.

From there, Zina Beverly Hills was born, and has gone on to serve the Beverly Hills community with highend jewelry for 35 years.

But all good – and shiny – things must come to an end, and after 35 years, Zina Beverly Hills will be closing its doors on Christmas Day. Zina Beverly Hills originally opened its doors in Beverly Hills in 1983 at the corner of Charleville and Beverly Drive. Five years later, Zina moved its operations to its current location at 470 S. Beverly Dr. At that time 30 years ago, Zina had the foresight to purchase the building outright, rather than renting.

Zina Sherman with son Andrew, his wife Dorian, and the family (and store) dog Ranger.

Now, with changing retail trends that are pushing more and more shoppers online, the family has decided it’s (see ‘ZINA’ page 16)

WE WANT WILLIE — Willie is a darling 2-year-old Maltipoo mix who weighs 8 pounds and loves to cuddle. He arrived at Shelter Hope Pet Shop after being seized from a horder in Downtown Los Angeles.

Willie is anxious to find his forever home. For more information on how to adopt Willie, visit www.shelterhopepetshop.org or call 805-379-3538.

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onsequently, in years following they chose a classic film to spoof. As they have this year with Billy Wilder’s classic, Sunset Boulevard (1950).

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adelyn portrays the fabled Gloria Swanson in the iconic Norma Desmond role of a faded Hollywood star.

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he Hammonds’ image of the movie leads this layout of other films that they’ve cleverly and attractively spoofed as our Christmas card treat.

Online at www.bhcourier.com/category/george-christy

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Council of the City of Beverly Hills, at its regular meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, will hold a public hearing to consider: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS AMENDING THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE TO MODIFY THE FINDINGS FOR CERTAIN MINOR ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ACCESSORY STRUCTURES IN THE CENTRAL AREA OF THE CITY AND TO MODIFY THE LANGUAGE PERTAINING TO THE FINDINGS FOR CENTRAL R-1 PERMITS The proposed Ordinance would include modifications to existing code language to add a finding for consideration by the reviewing authority for Minor Accommodation requests for certain accessory structures over 14’ in height located in the Central Area of the City and to change the language regarding findings for Central R-1 Permits. The proposed amendments included in the Ordinance would not represent changes to development standards. The proposed language changes would include: Amendment of BHMC § 10-3-2414(E) to add a finding for consideration by the reviewing authority when considering minor accommodation requests for certain accessory structures over 14’ in height located North of Santa Monica Boulevard. With the proposed amendment, the reviewing authority must find that the potential additional height would not adversely impact adjacent properties or the public welfare, in addition to the existing findings outlined in this code section, in order to approve the request.

Amendment of BHMC § 10-3-2413(E), 10-3-2414(F) and 10-3-2453 to make minor modifications to the language pertaining to the findings for Central R-1 Permits to ensure uniformity of language across various findings sections for entitlements in the code.

The Ordinance has been assessed in accordance with the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the State CEQA Guidelines, and the environmental regulations of the City. The adoption and implementation of the Ordinance represents minor semantic changes to the existing code. It can therefore be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the proposed amendments may have a significant effect on the environment.

Accordingly, the City Council will consider the staff recommendation to find the Ordinance exempt from the environmental review requirements of CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.

All interested persons are invited to attend and speak on this matter.

Written comments also may be submitted and should be addressed to the City Council, c/o City Clerk, 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Please note that if you challenge the City’s action in regards to this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at a public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or prior to the end of the public hearing.

If there are any questions regarding this notice, please contact Timothea Tway, Senior Planner, Community Development Department, at (310) 285-1122 or ttway@beverlyhills.org. The case file, including a copy of the proposed ordinance, is available for review in the Community Development Department, 455 N. Rexford Drive, 1st Floor, Beverly Hills, California 90210.

LOURDES SY-RODRIGUEZ, CRM, MMC Assistant City Clerk In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Council Chamber is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with audio equipment for the hearing impaired. If you need special assistance to attend this meeting, please call the City Clerk’s Office at (310) 285-2400 or TTY (310) 285-6881.

Please notify the City Clerk’s Office at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting if you require captioning service so that reasonable arrangements can be made.

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DATE January 10, 2019 TIME 1:30 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard LOCATION Room 280A – 2nd Floor Beverly Hills City Hall 455 North Rexford Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90210 PROJECT ADDRESS 152 South Camden Drive The Planning Commission of the City of Beverly Hills, at its REGULAR meeting on Thursday, January 10, 2019, will hold a public hearing beginning at 1:30 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard to consider: A request for a Development Plan Review (DPR) and a Tentative Parcel Map (TPM) to convert a four-unit apartment building, located at 152 South Camden Drive, to for-sale townhomes. The proposal includes a request for designation as a Character Contributing Building for exemptions from current zoning and building code regulations.

This project has been assessed in accordance with the authority and criteria contained in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA, Public Resources Code Sections 21000 et seq.), the State CEQA Guidelines (California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Sections 15000 et seq.), and the environmental regulations of the City. Upon review, the project appears to qualify for a Class 1 Categorical Exemption (Existing Facilities) in accordance with the requirements of Section 15301 of the state CEQA Guidelines. This exemption is applicable to the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use. Accordingly, the Planning Commission will consider a recommendation to find the project exempt from the environmental review requirements of CEQA pursuant to Section 15301 (Existing Facilities).

Any interested person may attend the meeting and be heard or present written comments to the Commission. Written comments may also be submitted prior to the public hearing to the Planning Division via mail at: attn. Juan Arauz, 455 N. Rexford Drive, 1st Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Comments may also be submitted via email at: jarauz@beverlyhills.org. Any written comments received by Monday, December 31, 2018 will be attached to the agenda report regarding this item. Any comments received after Monday, December 31, 2018, but prior the public hearing, will be distributed to the Commission under separate cover.

According to Government Code Section 65009, if you challenge the City’s action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City, either at or prior to the public hearing. Please note that any comments received prior to or during the public hearing will be considered as part of the public record.

If there are any questions regarding this notice, please contact Juan Arauz, Associate Planner in the Planning Division at (310) 285-1127, or by email at jarauz@beverlyhills.org. Copies of the project plans and associated application materials are on file in the Community Development Department, and can be reviewed by any interested person at 455 North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Sincerely: Juan Arauz, Associate Planner In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Council Chamber is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with audio equipment for the hearing impaired. If you need special assistance to attend this meeting, please call the Planning Division at (310) 285-1127 or TTY (310) 285-6881.

Please notify the Planning Division at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting if you require captioning service so that reasonable arrangements can be made.

HOW DO YOU FEEL?

PARTY TIME—At the Friars Foundation’s Annual Holiday Party were (from left): trustee Linda Schwartz, Marilyn Stambler board chair, Robbie Britt as Santa Claus, trustees Lou Zigman and Lissa Roth Harrison and Fran Zigman who organized the event.

Friars Charitable Foundation Holds Annual Holiday Luncheon And Program For At-Risk Children “This is the best day of my life” a young child told Lou Zigman, trustee of the Friars Charitable Foundation. Rain would not dampen the spirits of the children for the Friars’ Annual Holiday Program for At-Risk Children held earlier this month.

The program is more than 50 years old and connects many L.A. County community groups together enjoying an afternoon of lunch, dancing, and games and, of course, Santa. Added treats are popcorn and cotton candy carts along with other surprises.

Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills annually hosts the event for children, 5-14.

The children come from L.A.’s community centers: LA’s All-Stars, Catholic Big Brother Big Sisters, Eastmont Community Center, L.A. County Sheriff’s Youth Activity League Foundation

(Compton, Norwalk, Palmdale, South), Para Los Niño’s and Variety Boys and Girls Club.

Joann Roth of Someone’s In The Kitchen catered a lunch of fried chicken drumsticks with hot dogs and treats.

Entertainment included Hart 2 Hart DJ, singer Robbie Marge Graf, Britt as Santa Claus and Silly Friars ChariSally’s’ clowns with a man on table Foundstilts. ation VP Each child received a new special holiday toy plus $5 cash, “giving them something extra special for the holiday season,” said Marilyn Stambler, foundation president. “The children are so appreciative; they would not leave until hugging all the volunteers.”

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H E A LT H & W E L L N E S S

Red Cross Seeking Donations To Meet Holiday Blood Shortage Since emergencies don’t take a holiday, the American Red Cross urgently needs blood and platelet donors to make an appointment now to give and help ensure patients can get the treatment they need at a moment’s notice. All blood types are sought.

Now is an important time to give blood and platelets. A seasonal decline in donations occurs from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day. Local donation opportunities include: Culver City - Veterans Memorial Complex, 4117 Overland Ave. • Dec. 22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., • Dec 27, 2-7 p.m.

• Dec. 29, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Jan. 7, 1-7 p.m.

Los Angeles • Dec. 24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Westside Pavilion, 10800 W. Pico Blvd.

Los Angeles Fire Department, Fire Station 59, 11505 W. Olympic Blvd.

• Jan. 10 - 1-7 p.m.

• Jan. 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Santa Monica - American Red Cross, 1450 11th St. • Dec. 24 and 31,10 a.m.-4 p.m.

• Jan. 7 and 14, 1-7 p.m.

West Hollywood - L.A. County Sheriff Department, 780 N. San Vicente Blvd.

• Jan 9. - 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

To make an appointment donors, 17 and older who weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health, can download the free American Red Cross Blood Donor App, by visiting RedCrossBlood.org or calling 800-RED CROSS (800733-2767).

Blood and platelet donors, can save time at their next donation by using RapidPass to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, before arriving at the blood drive. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in.

To get started, donors can follow the instructions at RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass or use the Blood Donor App. Another way to support the Red Cross is to become a volunteer transportation specialist and deliver lifesaving blood products to local area hospitals.

For more information and to apply for a volunteer transportation specialist position, visit rdcrss.org/driver.

ARTS & E N T E RTA I N M E N T Stan And Ollie Is Trip Down Memory Lane, Remembering Penny Marshall At long last, here is a tribute to another of England’s brilliant exports, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. I was, and am, a huge fan of their persona and outrageous comedy. The two were poetry in comedic motion and a joy to behold.

Starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, Stan And Ollie will give millions of young movie goers a chance to see the forerunners of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Laurel and Hardy’s comedy, whose bits were written by Laurel, is more subdued although pratfalls were always a part of their humor.

The film, written by Jeff Pope and directed by Jan S. Baird, is especially welcomed when politics and the world conflict can use a respite—brief as it is.

Working from 1926 to 1940 starring in 27 features and a plethora of short films for Hal Roach, the pair achieved international fame. We are treated to a behindthe-scenes look at two infectious comedians, whose antics and brilliant pairing brought gales of laughter to a generation.

After a series of events leaves the pair’s relationship estranged, in 1953, they are offered a tour in their beloved England. They jump at a chance to get together one more time. Initially, they are disappointed at their lodgings and the small turnouts at their shows. Slowly, they build momentum and start to pack the theatres. Although in failing health, Ollie continues with the tour with his

impeccable timing and hysterical glances of condescension, intact.

Coogan and especially John S. Reilly are excellent as both exhibit their skills as comedic performers and pathos when their relationship strains. However, the underlying respect and love they share, always overcome their personal difficulties.

Special mention must be made to Nina Arianda who plays Ollie’s wife who nearly steals the movie with her

Jerry Cutler On Film hilarious asides and acerbic observations.

Stan And Ollie is a must see for film buffs as well as those unfamiliar with these two giants of movie lore.

3 bagels with a schmear out of 4 • • • • • I was saddened with this week’s passing of Penny Marshall, along with millions of others, I was a fan of her antics on TV and her incredible talent as a director. However, the world wasn’t aware of the fact that she was also an extremely talented cheerleader.

Years ago, when I came to California, I was honored to pitch softball competition for a team consisting of actors, writers, producers, directors and (see ‘CUTLER,’ page 14)

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Bobbi Kornblit’s Red Carpet Rivals Takes ‘Best Novel’ From Beverly Hills Book Club

By John L. Seitz “Red Carpet Rivals is to the movies what The Devil Wears Prada is to fashion,” was how journalist Mickey Goodman described Bobbi Kornblit’s newest creation which captured the 7th annual Best Novel Award from the Beverly Hills Book Club.

This savvy, sexy and funny novel provides an inside look about how studios and their stars act and react in their quests to win one of Hollywood’s more prestigious honors, not the Oscars or Golden Globes in this case, but the fictitious Movie Constellation Awards. The plot enfolds amid such familiar locales as Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills, Bel-Air and international film festivals with the main characters being divorced superstars Coop and Sirena, a female movie executive named Charlie, and a leading publicist Francine.

For author Kornblit, this represents a trip down memory lane as she spent years traversing dozens of red carpet venues at award shows, film festivals and movie openings accompanying her late husband, Simon, who was executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Universal Studios.

After attending UCLA and graduating from the University of Texas, Kornblit spent 20 years working as an advertising production manager in Los Angeles. She currently resides in Atlanta where she and her husband moved after the Northridge earthquake.

Bobbi Kornblit and Gigi

Red Carpet Rivals has also won Best Novel at the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, following up Kornblit’s first effort, Shelter From The Texas Heat, which captured NABE’s Best Women’s Fiction Book and the Indie Excellence Multicultural Fiction Award.

It was also selected as one of the top 50 books by the American Library Association.

For more information, visit these websites: RedCarpetRivals.com or BobbiKornblit.com.

RED CARPET READY—Lukas Hass, Rico Simonini, Robert Forster and Armand Mastroianni at the premiere of Frank And Ava. Photo by Bill Devlin

Film Version Of Local Playwright Willard Manus’ Frank And Ava Premieres In Beverly Hills The premiere of Frank And Ava earlier this month at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills featured a red carpet with the cast, crew and celebrity guests.

The film, based on long-time Beverly Hills resident and playwright Willard Manus’ play of the same name is a 1950’s story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, when they fell in love, traveled the world, suffered divorce and campaigned for Sinatra’s role of a lifetime as Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity that would lead to his Academy Award.

Producer and star Rico Simonini (Frank Sinatra), cast the nearly 100 characters in the film with his friends, associates, colleagues and patients he come to know as a Beverly Hills’ cardiologist.

Simonini and Manus collaborated on the screenplay. The two also worked on the play Joe and Marilyn, written by Manus and starring Simonini, based on the lives of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe.

Directed by Michael Oblowitz, the film has music composed by Misha Segal and performed by Luca Ellis, with a spe-

cial performance, included in the film, by Dionne Warwick.

Shot in California and Italy, the main cast includes Simonini, Emily Elicia Low as Gardner, Eric Roberts as Studio Head Harry Cohn, Maria Paris as Nancy Willard Manus Sinatra and Ron Pritchard as Sammy Davis Jr. Actresses Terry Moore and Shirley Jones, who knew the couple, make cameo appearances in the film.

The late Harry Dean Stanton, who appears as a sheriff who held the famous couple in jail, receives a special tribute in the credits.

The film has been recognized by the American Movie Awards, and won awards at festivals including the Mexico International Film, Los Angeles Independent Film, European Independent Film and Reel Independent Film. For more information, visit wwwfrankandavathemovie.com.

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WHITE ELEPHANT PARTY – El Rodeo PTA and Hawthorne PTA Executive Boards held a festive, and silly, White Elephant Party, embracing the holiday spirit. Pictured (back row, from left): Maria Bennett, Sarah Kaber and Ellie Yadegar; (middle, from left): Stella Sarraf, Molly Corey, Christina Romani, Carrie Hebroni, Tammy Golan, Robin Strug, Sali Lewally, Carrie Ucer, Doreece Artal, Rachelle Marcus and Anita Naiman; (front row, from left): Shirin Lavi, Isabel Hacker, Hillary Hartman, Rusti Banagas and Tristan Walker Shuman.

NEW YEAR’S EVE (Continued from page 4)

Il Cielo: Il Cielo will offer two delicious dinner seatings, featuring fourcourse prix-fixe menus. The first seating, for $125/person, offers main course options like grilled sword fish or baby butternut squash with truffle infused red quinoa. Second seating, at $225/person, includes options such as grilled prime beef filet mignon or roasted pistachio encrusted lamb chops. Call 310-2769990.

La Dolce Vita: Four-course prix-fixe menu will include classic Northern Italian dishes with a Champagne toast. $95 per person. Call 310-278-1845.

Mastro’s: The Penthouse at Mastro’s will offer a four-course menu, with com-

plimentary Champagne toast at midnight. Call 310-888-8782.

Spago: Wolfgang Puck’s Spago will host a special Masquerade party, with a prix-fixe dinner menu, and a stylish Masquerade mask contest during the second seating. First seating, from 56:30 p.m. is $150/person. Second seating, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., is $298/person. Call 310-385-0880.

The Henry: West Hollywood’s new food hot spot will offer a special New Year’s Eve prix-fixe menu for $75/person. Entree options include rotisserie prime rib and center cut beef filet, among much more. Call 424-204-1595.

The Ivy: The Ivy will offer its regular à la carte menu to help ring in the new year. 310-274-8303.

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B E V E R LY H I L L S R E A L E S TAT E Report: Beverly Hills Boasts Three Of The Four Priciest Neighborhoods In Los Angeles

By Matt Lopez It should come as no surprise to anyone who lives in Beverly Hills that they reside in one of the priciest areas of Los Angeles.

That was confirmed, however, this week in a report by online real estate database Property Shark, which released its full list of L.A. County’s 50 most expensive neighborhoods.

Beverly Hills claimed three of the top four spots on the list, although missed out on the No. 1 spot to Malibu’s Malibu Road/Malibu Colony Beach neighborhood, which ranked first with a median sale price of $10.6 million.

That $10.6 million price tag makes Malibu Colony Beach/Malibu Road 2.75 times more expensive than New York City’s priciest neighborhood, TriBeCa, which posted a $3.8 million median sale price in 2018.

After Malibu, Beverly Hills checked in at No. 2 with the Beverly Hills Gateway ($10 million median sale price), at No. 3 with Trousdale ($8.5 million) and fourth with Beverly Hills Flats ($7.4 million).

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With Mayor Julian Gold anxious to push an ordinance through by the end of the year, Wunderlich’s firm statement at the opening of council comments may have lowered his expectations, especially when followed by Bosse’s declaration that she would not vote for this ordinance.

Among the amendments were several proposals that had first been suggested during a lightening round of questions at the Nov. 20 City Council Study Session, though they had never been discussed during the two years of facilitated dialogues between renters and landlords.

The ordinance openly discriminates against tenants in their first year.

Among those proposals is a probationary no-cause eviction for first-year tenants, which seems antithetical to the Urgency Ordinance to Prohibit No-Cause Evictions passed by the City Council last month.

“Tenants should be especially concerned about two RSO provisions,” said Mark Elliot, Founder of the Renters Alliance. “Probationary tenancy is nothing less than a return to no-just-cause. The landlords themselves made the point: the probationary tenancy provision will do in instances where they would have used no-just-cause

The Beverly Hills Gateway made a massive leap, up 31 percent yearover-year from 2017. Trousdale was down 5 percent, while the flats were even with last year.

Malibu rounded out seven of the next six slots in the top 10, with Santa Monica’s North of Montana neighborhood being the only other entry on the list, ranked seventh.

Beverly Hills checked in again on the list at No. 36, with the South of Santa Monica Boulevard neighborhood, which had a median sale price of $1.6 million.

Nearby Bel-Air checked in at No. 13 on the list, just behind the Manhattan Beach Sand Section, with a median sale price of $2.8 million.

In compiling the list, Property Shark defined the Los Angeles area as neighborhoods in Beverly Hills, the City of Los Angeles, Malibu, Santa Monica, Topanga, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Long Beach, West Hollywood, Culver City, Inglewood, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Lomita, Lawndale and Hawthorne.

to get rid of a tenant anyway.

We are talking about a home, after all, not a car lease. The new tenant who complains — or even requests something of the landlord — risks losing her home at the landlord’s discretion. And the rent stabilization office will have nothing to say about it.”

Probationary tenancy was first proposed Nov. 20 by Vice Mayor John Mirisch. Mirisch likened a probationary tenancy to a job interview, and to tenure for teachers. “Who gets vested rights after the first day of anything,” he wrote in an email. “There is absolutely nothing wrong with a probationary period or the notion that a contract.”

However, in both of Mirisch’s examples, the employee is not paying three month’s rent and moving expenses to get hired.

Mirisch was able to persuade Mayor Gold and Councilmember Les Friedman to vote for the amendment, though Bosse and Wunderlich opposed it.

Another amendment that surprised tenants was a change to the annual maximum rent increase, which was set at CPI or a low of three percent to a high of seven percent. That was arbitrarily changed on Nov. 20, and agreed to again last week, at 3.5-7.5, with no explanation for the change in rate.

“The proposed 3.5 percent

U.S. Existing Home Sales Rise For Second Month Sales of U.S. existing homes rose unexpectedly in November, posting their second straight gain after an extended bout of weakness, according to an industry report on Wednesday.

The rebound could help ease concerns that the vital housing market has peaked.

However, sales remained sluggish and prices continued to rise while inventories shrank, the National Association of Realtors said.

Sales increased everywhere except in the fire-stricken West, where buying sentiment has weakened amid tight supply.

Sales of town homes, condos, coops and single-family houses, rose 1.9 percent to an annual rate of 5.3 million units after seasonal adjustment.

Economists had forecast a slight decrease to 5.2 million.

NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said inventory pressures were easing, as the stock of available homes seems to be stabilizing, helping to slow price increases.

“The market conditions in November were mixed, with good signs of stabilizing home sales compared to recent months, though down significantly from one year ago,” he

floor and 7.5 percent cap on the maximum allowed annual rent increase is a time bomb that will blow up a tenant's household budget.,” said Elliot.

“In 20 of the past 25 years consumer prices rose at a rate below the 3.5 percent floor. In half of those years the price rise was 2 percent or less. Yet the floor means that tenants will likely get socked with a 3.5 percent annual rent increase even when costs stop rising.

And it compounds every year.”

Elliot argues that the floor should be eliminated.

“The concept behind linking the increase to CPI is that the city allows an owner to cover his costs as they rise with inflation. There is simply no need for a floor at all. As one councilmember suggested, it’s intended to pad the margin.

The allowed increase at 100 percent of CPI already returns more profit to the landlord than is allowed by half of all rent control cities in California,” said Elliot.

Tenants can also be subjected to eviction in the event that an owner wishes to move a family member, including grandparents, children and grandchildren (four generations) into a unit.

As proposed on Nov. 20, landlords would not be required to provide relocation fees for tenants of under one year of occupancy. For each of the following years, the propos-

said in a statement.

Despite the increase compared to October, sales were still seven percent below November of last year.

Median prices posted a 4.2 percent gain year-on-year to $257,000, the 81st straight increase.

Inventories of homes for sale fell 5.9 percent from October to 1.74 million, but that still was an increase from 1.67 million units in November 2017.

At the current sales pace, this stock of homes on the market represented 3.9 months supply, down from 4.3 months in October but up from 3.5 a year ago.

Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics said the market had been due for a short-term rebound, given a recent rise in mortgage applications, which should continue in the coming months.

“This will reduce excess inventory in the market and support prices but we don't expect the revival to last beyond the spring, because we expect mortgage rates to rebound,” he wrote in a client note.

“Still, anything which interrupts the 'housing is collapsing’ narrative is welcome because it isn't.”

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al would have added 10 percent of relocation fees to 100 percent after ten years of occupancy.

Wunderlich and Bosse were also in agreement that they would not support the tenpercent per year relocation fees. Bosse argued forcefully against the 10-percent-per-year proposal and was able to get unanimous support for full relocation fees for family-member evictions.

One element that was fleshed out which had the full support of both landlords and tenants is a Rent Stabilization Commission. The commission will be comprised of three atlarge members, one landlord and one tenant, and perhaps two alternates to ensure that one landlord and one tenant shall be always be present.

Bosse asked the staff to review the current relocation fees, which are significantly lower than Santa Monica and West Hollywood. She also asked that the staff examine the significant passthroughs that could add hundreds of dollars to a monthly rent and show the combined effect of the annual rent increases.

The City Council expanded on a proposal to allow students and teachers to remain in their units when evicted through the end of the school year and was expanded to include all schools within Beverly Hills and families with special needs

children. Evictions would only be permitted during the summer months.

Other proposals including setting habitability standards, rent subsidies and a luxury unit exemption have been tabled to collect more data.

Tenants in attendance who spoke in public comment expressed a frustration at the backpedaling the proposed ordinance seems to have taken.

They also expressed a frustration that so much of their hard work was jettisoned at the Nov. 20 meeting, and replaced with provisions that seem to undermine the original stated purpose of the ordinance – to protect tenants.

Landlords were equally frustrated. They expressed concern that they will not be able to make a profit if they could not raise the rent enough, seismic retrofitting and other costs and they were concerned about the steep increase in RSO Fees from $56 to $197 per unit, of which half can be passed through to the tenants.

Council approved the increase in fees and approved funding $357,632 to fund staffing the Rent Stabilization program through the end of the fiscal year.

With Gold pushing to move the needle forward, the RSO is expected to return to the City Council at the end of January.

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LET’S READ – The Beverly Hills High PTSA held its first Book Salon event of the year last month, featuring the book Pachinko by author Min Jin Lee. Beverly Hills High School Julie Goler moderated the discussion. More than 100 book salon attendees filled the room and enjoyed the discussion, conversation, and book signing with Min Jin Lee. Pictured, from left: April Jergens, Jeannine Ramer, Min Jin Lee, Julie Goler, Monique Gibbons and Emily Wolf.

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY (Continued from page 4)

The distracted pedestrian campaign, which wrapped up for BHUSD middle schoolers this week, is slated to be presented to the school district’s five PTA’s at the beginning of next year, as well as at a future Beverly Hills Police Department Town Hall.

“We really need to educate each other,” said BHPD Sgt. Sean Smollen, who worked together with Schwartz to help make the campaign a reality. “The thought was to educate the kids, who can then educate their parents or friends.”

He emphasized how important vigilance is an era where people are glued to their phones while walking down sidewalks and crossing the streets.

“This is a unique time when we talk

about society,” Smollen observed.

“Obviously we’re very enthralled in our phones for many reasons... the internet is at our fingertips.”

As part of the campaign, Beverly Hills Cable produced a compelling fiveminute video, which can be viewed online at vimeo.com/305121265, emphasizing the importance of “heads up, phone down.”

From walking into someone else to stepping in front of a car at a crosswalk without making eye contact with the driver, perils abound in this digital age – and the key to ensuring that you’ll live to have more days to simply gaze at your phone screen may just be to lift your eyes up while crossing the street.

“Talk to anyone who’s being distracted to remind them not to be and to be as safe as possible,” Schwartz suggested.

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Due to popular demand, “King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh” has been extended through Jan. 13 at the California Science Center (CSC) in Exposition Park at 700 Exposition Park Dr. Presented by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, IMG and the CSC, the immersive exhibition features more than 150 real artifacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb. The largest King Tut collection to tour outside of Egypt, the showcase includes 60 artifacts making their international debut.

Guests learn the role of the burial objects in guiding King Tut on his quest for immortality and how cutting-edge tools and scientific analysis of King Tut’s 3,000 year-old mummy reveal new information about his health and lineage.

Beginning Wednesday, Dec. 26 and continuing through the final day of the exhibition, the last ticket time will be 5 p.m., with the exhibit closing 90 minutes after the last ticket time. All other Science Center exhibits will be open during the museum’s regular hours, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

For tickets and more information, visit www.californiasciencecenter.org or www.kingtutexhibition.com.

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by African American Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, known as SAPCs, which are a hallmark of the Crescent City.

In custom-tailored suits and gowns, matching hats and shoes, and colorful accessories, Second Lines weave their way through the city accompanied by local musicians playing trombones, trumpets, tubas and drums.

The museum is open from noon-8 p.m., Wednesday and from noon-5 p.m., ThursdaySunday.

For more information, visit fowler.ucla.edu.

• • • • • A new exhibit, “Mammoths and Mastodons: At La Brea Tar Pits” opens at 9:30 a.m. today at the excavation site and museum, 5801 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. The exhibit looks into the world of titans that lived across Asia, Africa, Europe, and more locally in North America, including the L.A. Basin and Channel Islands, before they disappeared thousands of years ago.

A new gallery focuses on the family to which mammoths and mastodons belong, and features animals ranging from a juvenile bull-sized mammal from 35 million years ago to a replica of Lyuba, the baby woolly mammoth found in Siberia in 2007, to modern day elephants.

Visitors will encounter a 13foot Columbian mammoth and several new 3D replicas will loom as they did during the Ice Age on the museum’s floor.

Hands-on stations and installations will allow visitors to experience the dynamics of a mechanical trunk, experiment with grabbing objects, feel what it’s like to balance two large tusks, and see how a big ligament helps keep a mammoth’s skull level.

The accompanying 3D film Titans of the Ice Age plays in the Tar Pits Theater.

Set to run for a year, the exhibit was created by Chicago’s Field Museum.

For tickets and more information, visit TARPITS.org/titans.

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Features will include a cocoa bar with elftenders, a holiday craft zone for gingerbread house making, a kids’ zone with a reindeer toss and snowball slam, and an ugly Christmas sweater contest with prizes.

Guests can also enjoy free cotton candy from the Hollywood Candy Girls and selfies with Santa.

For more information, visit unionstationla.com.

• • • • • Marcos Cohen and his trio will be featured in a “musical extravaganza and tribute” at noon, Saturday, Dec. 29 at Hollywood Temple Beth El, 1317 Crescent Heights, West Hollywood.

The program will honor the late temple Rabbi Joseph Wagner, who served the congregation in the 1960s and ‘70s, and his widow, Betty Wagner, founder of the Wagner Program at the American Jewish University.

Cohen, noted for his fusion of Latin and Ladino music, started his career in musical theater.

He wrote the music and book of more than 10 plays including Al Jolson, The Show Must Go On and The Creation.

Tickets, $22 for adults and $12 for children 15-18, are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/marcos-cohenheadlines-musical-tribute-at-hollywood-temple-beth-el-tickets53676034464.

For more information, call 323-656-3150 or email temple@htbel.org.

• • • • • With the theme LA Dreams, Grand Park + The Music Center’s N.Y.E.L.A., will be from 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 31 through 1 a.m. New Year’s Day at the park from Grand Avenue to Spring Street and from Temple Street to Second Street, L.A. Attendees will enjoy the work of L.A. County fifth graders who were asked to conceptualize the best of what Los Angeles can become, expressing their ideas in more than 70 drawings, 60 essays and 10 poems.

A 3-D animated countdown to midnight has become a signa-

ture element of the event. This y e a r ’ s countdown will feature art and imagery inspired by student dreams, projected on the west-facing side of City Hall, in a show created and designed by Garson Yu, artistic director, and his Emmy awardwinning design agency yU+co.

The actual student work will be projected onto the south wall of the County Hall of Records throughout the event.

Following the event, student entries will also be included on Grand Park’s website.

Entertainment will be provided on two stages.

The “Countdown Stage” will feature L.A. native rapper/singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc, Maya Jupiter, with a blend of Latin-American rhythms and hip-hop; jazz, soul and hip-hop vocalist Georgia Anne Muldrow, Dominican singer Irka Mateo and DJ Day. The “Get Down Stage” will be an all-female lineup of DJs. For more information, visit grandparkla.org/nyela or musiccenter.org/nyela.

• • • • • Local pianist Marina will perform a medley of hits on Monday, Dec. 31 at a New Year’s Eve Champagne dinner at 7:30 p.m. at a private home in Brentwood, benefiting the Save A Heart Foundation.

In addition to a performance by Marina and a midnight Champagne toast, donations will be collected to go toward the foundation, which was founded by Dr. Yzhar Charuzi.

The foundation strives to make advances in research in all areas of cardiology, stroke prevention and pediatric congenital heart disease.

Anyone interested in attending the New Year’s Eve bash may contact Sandra at sahf@saveaheart.org.

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least qualified player on the field.

At any rate, our first game was held at a Sherman Oaks park. As we were about to begin, two lovely and attractive cheerleaders appeared and started dancing and chanting for our team. One was Cindy Williams and the other Penny Marshall, sister of Garry.

Penny was a most gracious and funny person who excelled as a first-rate and highly soughtafter motion picture director.

Her brother, who pre-deceased her, didn’t do too bad either.

Incidentally, Garry was an outstanding first baseman.

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Lil’Mo and the Dynaflos

R&B and rockabilly players Lil’Mo and the Dynaflos will close out Union Station’s Cocoa Concert series from 6:30-8:30 p.m. today at the historic station, 800 N. Alameda St., L.A. The group’s classic doo wop and original tunes have been featured in films like The Winning Season.

The free family-friendly event, presented in collaboration with Metro Arts Presents,

one rabbi.

Backing me up on the field, as I recall, were actor (and soon to be award-winning director) Rob Reiner, TV director Peter Baldwin, Mickey Rose, a close friend who wrote Take The Money And Run and the classic Bananas with Woody Allen; an up-and-coming actor Tom Selleck, producer/actor/director/writer Garry Marshall, a Beverly Hills pharmacist and wannabe actor Michael Zaifert, a bit actor Neil Kaz….I can’t recall the others.

Just so you know, I was the

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Courier, Nov. 24, 2017).

The letters, like the lawsuit

by Capt. Mark Rosen, accuse Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli of misconduct, sexual trysts and additional scandalous behavior. Others who were accused of misconduct included former Beverly Hills Mayor Nancy Krasne, members of the Courier staff and several City employees, including law enforcement retired and active.

“In the case of the Beverly Hills Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli,” begins one letter, “She… wasted no time in destroying the department…”

The anonymous letters share many of the same complaints as Rosen’s lawsuit. They also share the common element of making scandalous allegations that have not been proven.

The point of a lawsuit is to prove these allegations in court. However, statistics show that 95 percent of lawsuits are settled, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Cost and risk are factors.

A common element in the letters and the lawsuit includes accusations of sexual misconduct between Lt. Scott Dowling and the chief.

For example, Rosen’s lawsuit contends that “Spagnoli spends significant time alone most days in her locked office with [then-] Sgt. Dowling, who is not Jewish…”

Both the letters and the lawsuit allege the two meet behind “closed doors.” One letter says, “Sgt. Dowling is running the police department.”

Dowling, who is a dedicated family man, has been married for three decades to Laurette. Together, they have raised four kids, including one adopted child. In addition, 14 other kids have lived at their home. Laurette, who worked at a high school in administration, regularly helps out kids in need with some financial assistance, including for example, a prom dress and a year book.

Rosen’s lawsuit alleges that Spagnoli violated Rosen’s “right to privacy,” “defamed” him, and “violated POBR as well as Penal Code §832.7 et seq” regarding confidential police officer personnel records which she “provided to the media, which published false information in the press against Rosen about an Internal Affairs Investigation.”

The letters go further, claiming the reporter “slept with members of the Sergeant Ceja Clan including Richard himself” and that “the [President and Publisher Marcia] Hobbs team worked with Sgt. Scott Dowling to meet with and prepare Spagnoli to make it through the selection process for chief… The process was completely rigged.”

The lawsuit names the Vela decision, “in which Spagnoli poorly portrayed Rosen.”

The Vela decision, however, was a Snowden-era arbitration. At the time, Spagnoli was San Leandro’s chief. And though Rosen’s lawyer calls the article on the Vela decision “a defamatory article about Rosen, holding him in a false light,” the article simply quoted the conclusions of the arbitrator.

Though Rosen never filed a defamation lawsuit, his lawyer did subpoena the Courier twice for the case. Both subpoenas were ultimately, withdrawn.

“The arbitrator [Joe H. Henderson] found that Capt.

Rosen was “’not a credible witness.’ His actions in the matter on more than one occasion was [sic] an ‘abuse of discretion.’”

Rosen’s lawsuit claims that he was reassigned to a position “where his job duties were taken away because of his religion, age and retaliation.”

Sources say that, in fact, reversals in the firings of Ceja, Shen and Vela in three arbitrations when Capt. Rosen had oversight for the Professional Standards Unit, and the Vela arbitration when he was described as “not truthful,” played a role.

In the Vela arbitration, according to sources, “abuse of discretion” compromised his role as a supervisor.

Spagnoli has said that Rosen was given an executivelevel assignment that matched his skill set, and that he did not receive a cut in pay or a demotion.

In both the letters and the lawsuit, there are allegations that Spagnoli prevented Rosen from promotion to assistant chief because he is Jewish and over 40.

In the letters, the writer impugns the selection process for the chief of police that led to the City hiring Spagnoli and accuses Dowling of colluding with “a City Council person” to contact Spagnoli, “to give her a leg up on the competition.”

The writer also says that because one of the applicants was an African American woman, “she had no chance of getting this job.” It goes on the say, “At some point, City Council and the Beverly Hills Courier decided they wanted a female chief. That took care of the male applicant,” which was Rosen.

Director of Human Resources Shelly Ovrom says “that is not accurate.” She reports that the selection of the chief’s position was managed

by Human Resources and structured so as to be objective.

The search for a chief was conducted by an executive search firm.

They sought candidates who had the best qualifications for the job, according to Ovrom. There were 84 candi-

dates, and only one of them was internal – Rosen.

Rosen’s professional experience has been exclusively in the City of Beverly Hills where he served in the Explorers, as a cadet and later, in Traffic Bureau, as lieutenant, ex. officer as PIO and oversight for the Professional Standards Unit.

His law enforcement career absented for nearly a decade while he joined his family business and then returned to the BHPD. He was promoted to captain and served as division commander, according to his own LinkedIn profile.

Spagnoli has served twice as chief; in Benicia and in San Leandro. Her professional experience includes past president of the California Peace Officers’ Association and chair of the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Advisory Board. Currently, she is the chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s (IACP) Midsize Agency Division and has served on the board of directors.

Another letter assailed the process of selecting Assistant Chief Marc Coopwood, accusing Chief Spagnoli of having a relationship with him, which could be an implication of favoritism. “It should be noted that Sgt. Dowling, Detective Coulter and Lt. Hill were on the interview panel…

Chief Spagnoli handpicked them to achieve the desired outcome.”

In fact, said Ovrom, the process was handled by her office. There were 13 people seated on the three panels to select the assistant chief.

Interviews were conducted by each panel with each candidate. Each “rater” (the term Ovrom uses to describe their function) assigned each candidate a ranking. They looked for agreement in the top three rankings among the raters.

There was discussion, as well.

Coulter and Dowling responded to a request for members of the Police Officers Association Board to join the panels, according to sources.

They were selected because they were the only two board members available in the time frame, and they were selected prior to Capt.

Rosen’s application for the position was submitted.

Here is the timeline, according to Ovrom: • Dec. 30, 2016: Position opened to the public online • Jan. 9, 2017: Chris Coulter, Michael Hill and Scott Dowling were identified for the interview panel • Jan. 16, 2017: Mark Rosen submitted application • Jan. 17, 2017: Last day to apply for the position • Feb. 6, 2017: Interviews before three panels (professional, community and department head) Here is Ovrom’s statement: “Open recruitment processes, meaning both inter-

nal and external candidates can apply, were conducted for both the chief of police and assistant chief of police positions. These selection processes consisted of an application review to screen for minimum qualifications and to identify the most qualified candidates, and multiple interview panels consisting of various individuals, including police professionals from other police agencies, community members and internal staff at various levels.

This process is designed to identify and evaluate the competencies needed for success in the position, and recommend the most qualified candidates for consideration in making a hiring decision.”

Prior to Jan. 16, 2017, Rosen had stated publicly he was not going to apply for the position, say sources.

As for Coopwood, he served as police captain in Sacramento, with over 1,000 employees, and supervision over 200 directly. He is the first-ever two-time president of the California Police Officers Association, with 32,000 members. Coopwood studied at the FBI Academy and Command College, earning the title Most Inspirational Student.

In an interview in the Beverly Hills Weekly (Dec. 13, 2018) Rosen again visited this complaint, repeatedly stating that his lawsuit was not a case of “sour grapes.” With so many applicants for the chief’s position, he says he “had no sour grapes… Now, the assistant chief spot was different because I felt very strongly that the assistant chief should have come from within the department.”

Of the 34 applications, only two were internal for the position, including Rosen’s.

Compared to Coopwood, who was ultimately selected as the assistant chief, Rosen never commanded more than 75 officers at most as patrol, traffic and investigations combined, as division commander. His experience is entirely within the 5.5 square miles of Beverly Hills, whereas Coopwood served as captain in Sacramento, with 100.1 square miles. Rosen claims he has valuable contacts with departments in West Hollywood, LA and Santa Monica.

By contrast, Spagnoli is one of 15 chiefs worldwide that sit on the board of the IACP. Her contacts are with chiefs across the state, the country and the world.

Documents show that nearly every officer who is currently involved in litigation against the chief and the City of Beverly Hills was also a signatory on the petition to remove the 2014 POA Board.

The petition was precipitated when then-POA President Michael Publicker went to the LA County District Attorney (JSID) over Sgt. Brian Weir’s

allegations that Lt. Terry Nutall removed a sheet covering the body of Whitney Houston and made inappropriate comments, his subsequent allegations of retaliation and the actions surrounding the Ceja arbitration.

There appears to be a pattern.

Rosen says the conclusions in the Management Partners Report are wrong. He says the conclusions in the Vela report are wrong. He says that despite appearances, his lawsuit is not “sour grapes.” He says he was discriminated against by Chief Spagnoli. He says that he should have been selected as assistant chief. He identifies himself as a “victim.”

In the Beverly Hills Weekly article, Rosen tried to equate his lawsuit with the #MeToo movement, saying that his lawsuit to fight alleged discrimination made it possible for so many other officers to come forward.

He called out Mayor Julian Gold and Councilmember Lili Bosse for supporting Spagnoli.

“I am so disappointed in Mayor Gold,” he said, pointing out that his parents were Holocaust survivors. “I’m very disappointed in Lili Bosse, who is also a child of Holocaust survivors.”

With #MeToo, if there is a perception of inauthentic claims of victimization, it diminishes the legitimate claims.

According to sources, Rosen’s lawsuit did not provide a mantle of authenticity for other claims of discrimination, but instead, provided a lucrative way out of the Department for Snowden loyalists who may have looked at the road ahead and realized there was a new chief in town.

Correction Last week, in the article titled Beverly Hills/Rosen Settlement, Part II: Spagnoli Inherits A Department In Disarray, BHPD Sgt. Giovanni Trejo was reported to have testified during arbitration and was described as having his testimony be untruthful.

Both are incorrect – Trejo was not called to testify.

In an email to the Courier, Trejo said “I have worked in law enforcement for over 24 years and my integrity and honesty have never been questioned by anyone in an official capacity… My reputation is something I have worked very hard for.” The Courier regrets the error.

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time to close its large physical storefront and lease the building out to a new tenant.

“This is really just about the changing times we’re in and adapting to new shopping landscape,” said Zina’s son Andrew, who along with his wife Dorian, runs the business with Zina. “I don’t want this to come across as bitter at all, because it isn’t, but we’ve had so many people coming in and telling us how sad they are to see us go and how they are shocked. The truth is, if people in any community want small businesses, or mom-and-pop stores to thrive, they need to support those businesses.

Don’t wait until it’s too late.”

Jewelry has always been a family business for Zina. A child of Polish immigrants, Zina grew up working in her father’s jewelry store in New York.

After stops in El Paso, Texas and Europe, Zina eventually found her way out to Los Angeles – Encino, to be exact – before finally settling down in Beverly Hills.

“I knew I was going to open a store, it was just a matter of where,” Zina said.

“Beverly Hills just felt right. It was such a small town back then; in some ways it still is, but it was even more so in those days.”

Over the decades, Zina Beverly Hills has become known for its vast selection of top of the line bracelets, earrings, necklaces, pendants and rings, among much more.

“I love to help customers pick the absolute perfect piece,” Zina said. “We always have customers say ‘I don’t

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know if I need that’ and I tell them, look jewelry isn’t a ‘need’ purchase, it’s a ‘want’ purchase. Decide what you want, and treat yourself.”

Zina attributes the store’s ability to survive for nearly four decades to a “personal touch” with customers. Zina, Andrew and the rest of the staff make it a point to learn about their customers, and the customers in turn do the same for the family, right down to bringing in the favored snack of the official store mascot, the family dog Ranger – cheese sticks.

“Ranger is a big hit here, our customers love him,” Zina said. “But that’s really what this whole thing is about, those relationships and that family feel.

We like to think of ourselves as this little neighborhood best kept secret.”

Zina Beverly Hills has major sales over the next week until Christmas, with a majority of items half-off, or more, until it’s Christmas Day closure.

After that, the family will take a muchneeded vacation, then return in January to reassess the future of the business.

Andrew said the business will likely continue on in some form, and that the company website (www.zinabeverlyhills.com) will remain online. He said the goal is to find a new, smaller location where Zina can display a more concise, curated collection of jewelry.

“We love our customers and we love what we do, so the idea is just to find a way to keep it going somehow,” Andrew said. “We think it’s important, even with the changing shopping trends, to have that physical footprint somewhere, no matter how big or small it may be. So we’re closing now, but we’re definitely not disappearing.”

Jewish Community Foundation Of L.A. Awards $1.2 Million In Israel Grants

By John L. Seitz The Jewish Community Foundation of L.A. has awarded $1.2 million to six organizations through its annual Israel Grants program focused on strengthening the country’s Jewish identity and advancing economic development and self-sufficiency, including programs supporting at-risk youth.

Since 2010, the foundation has distributed grants in Israel totaling more than $10 million to 60+ organizations.

The grant recipients include for Jewish identity: • Ethiopian National Project –– $200,000 for after-school programs for Ethiopian-Israeli students; • Meitarim Network for Inclusive Jewish Education–$240,000 for student curricula in mixed religious and secular schools; • Panim: the Israeli-Judaism Network for HaMovilim: Leadership Development Program–$190,000 to

provide Beit Midrash (house of learning) facilitators with professional-development opportunities that focus on Jewish values.

The grant recipients for economic development/self-sufficiency: • Amutat Kaima for Employment as Education–$230,000 to provide hands-on agricultural and job training for at-risk youth (ages 15 to 18); • Crossroads for Create Your Future Employment Center–$140,000to provide at-risk first and second-generation immigrant teens and young adults (ages 15 to 22) from the U.S., Canada and Europe with job training and therapeutic services to help them prepare for the workforce; •Achotenu (Our Sisters)–$200,000 to help train Ethiopian-Israeli men and women in an academic nursing program, empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and establish a stable financial future.

Pictured: Crews have been working hard to repair the water main break at Sunset Boulevard.

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The pipe is 32 inches in diameter with a flow of 20-50 cubic feet per second, called the Santa Monica Feeder.

The pipe, which was built in 1941, supplies water to Glendale, Burbank, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. The Santa Monica Feeder is 24 miles long and flows from Eagle Rock to Santa Monica with treated water. Currently, MWD is searching for the precise site of the leak.

Only Santa Monica and Beverly Hills are effected. The two cities took the time over the weekend to fill their

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between Bosse’s two terms as mayor, and subsequent to her last one, a group of around a dozen so-called “Walkie Talkies” have continued to meet every Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. to exercise, walk, talk and continue to devote themselves to Bosse’s mantra of creating a healthy city (#bhhealthycity).

This past Monday, Jackson said he led some 75 attendees in stretching and warm-up exercises before leading the group on a 5K walk of the upcoming course. (Participants in the 10K will walk the course twice.) Jackson said that he plans to continue the pre-race push for the next five Mondays until the race, with community members encouraged to join starting at 8:30 a.m. at the Lily Pond.

“I’m training people [and trying to make] Beverly Hills the healthiest city in America,” he said in a nod to Bosse’s ambition.

reservoirs prior to shutting down the water main.

However, crews could begin repairs until they pinpointed the exact location of the leak. Work began Wednesday to repair the pipe.

“We are very grateful to our residents and businesses who heeded our call to reduce their water use during this emergency,” said Mayor Julian Gold.

“Thank you.”

Residents can visit www.bewaterwise.com for water saving tips or mail askPW@beverlyhills.org for more information.

In addition to the race, which begins at 8 a.m. and will go through the City’s business district, including up and down Rodeo Drive, the event includes a free fitness blast of a variety of activities such as dance, yoga, pilates and stretching from 7:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

And of course, since this is a community event, expect lots of old friends to come to support each other–even several sporting vintage letterman jackets.

“Last year individuals, families, businesses and our school community came together to walk, run and cheer on others to help raise funds that directly benefit all our schools. This event showcases Beverly Hills at its best,” said BHEF President Cindy Trost. “We are a community that invests in our children and makes their education our top priority.“ To register or for more information, visit www.beverlyhills5krunwalkandfitnessblast.com.

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This week we’re going to be catching up with a number of recent holiday events and here’s hoping you and your family have or will have the happiest time ever!

HELLO DOLLY–Legendary songstress Dolly Parton (right) is welcomed to the Four Seasons on North Doheny Drive for the screening of Dumplin for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her song Girl In The Movies. She is greeted by Beverly Hills philanthropist Suzan Hughes (left) and songwriter Carol Connors.

BENEFACTORS DINNER–The John Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary's Benefactors at the Montage Beverly Hills brought together donors from the highest levels of giving to personally thank and recognize all that has been made possible through the decades because of their support. Attendees enjoyed a reception with dinner and dancing in the company of Institute faculty and researchers, leadership, Wayne family members and other friends. From left are: Ilene Eisenberg, dinner co-chair/auxiliary director; Lois Rosen and Ruth Weil, committee members/auxiliary directors.

Photo by Magdalena Bleu Briggs HAPPY HOLIDAYS–A gala holiday luncheon for 60 people at Wolfgang’s Steak House on Canon Drive was hosted by Gail Dauer (left) of Beverly Hills along with her husband, Roger, and daughter Jennifer. All guests dressed to the nines for the festive event which included entertainment.

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MEALS ON WHEELS–A benefit for St Vincent Meals on Wheels was held at Petrossian’s on Robertson Boulevard where guests tasted offerings of caviar and smoked salmon, and participated in art auctions, conducted by Petrossian host Christopher Klapp. Pictured (from left): Daryl Twerdahl, director of development for St. Vincent Meals on Wheels; Beverly Hills resident Betsy Rosenfeld-Vargas, president of Cuisine a Roulettes, the fundraising arm of St. Vincent Meals of Wheels; Lynda Barnes of Beverly Hills’ Beauty Realized; and Dr. Roger Tsai. This charity serves nearly 3,000 meals daily to hungry, homebound seniors throughout the area. Photo by Maura McCarthy

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Santa Claus will be making an additional stop this Christmas Eve, bestowing the Desert Palm Achievement Award on the “naughty but nice” Olivia Colman for her show-stopping performance in The Favorite, of a frail and aloof Queen Anne whose attention is being sought by two scheming cousins.

The award will be presented

by Colman’s co-star, Emma Stone, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) lavish Gala on Jan. 3, hosted by Mary Hart. and Entertainment Tonight, and presented by American Express.

The list of PSIFF programming announcements has risen by two: the festival’s opening night screening will be All Is True, directed by Kenneth Branagh on Friday, Jan. 4, and will close with Ladies In Black, directed by Bruce Beresford on Sunday, Jan. 13.

A total of 223 screenings will be featured during the festival’s 10-day run. The line-up includes a focus on cinema from France, India and Mexico.

There will be a new honor: the Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award, named for actor/magician Ricky Jay, and in honor of a film made by a master filmmaker still to be named.

Two other new, special programming notes have also been announced: one with a focus on Jewish cinema and the other on “Queer” cinema.

The PSIFF is one of the largest film festivals in North America, garnering with more than 150,000 attendees.

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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS ESTABLISHING MANDATORY STANDARDS FOR EARTHQUAKE HAZARD REDUCTION IN EXISTING WOOD-FRAME BUILDINGS WITH SOFT, WEAK, OR OPEN-FRONT WALLS, AND AMENDING TITLE 9 OF THE BEVERLY HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE A.

Recitals and Findings.

(i) Health and Safety Code Section 19160 provides, in part: “In order to make building reconstruction economically feasible for, and to provide improvement of the safety of life in, seismically hazardous buildings, building standards enacted by local government for building reconstruction may differ from building standards which govern new building construction…. Soft story residential buildings are an important component of the state's housing stock and are in jeopardy of being lost in the event of a major earthquake. Soft story residential buildings were responsible for 7,700 of the 16,000 housing units rendered uninhabitable by the Loma Prieta earthquake and over 34,000 of the housing units rendered uninhabitable by the Northridge earthquake. During an earthquake, soft story residential buildings may create dangerous conditions as illustrated in the Northridge Meadows apartment failure that claimed the lives of 16 residents. The collapse of soft story residential buildings can ignite fires that threaten trapped occupants and neighboring buildings and complicates emergency response….Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to encourage cities and counties to address the seismic safety of soft story residential buildings and encourage local governments to initiate efforts to reduce the seismic risk in vulnerable soft story residential buildings.” (ii) Health and Safety Code Section 19161 provides, in part: “Each city, city and county, or county, may assess the earthquake hazard in its jurisdiction and identify buildings subject to its jurisdiction as being potentially hazardous to life in the event of an earthquake…including wood frame, multiunit residential buildings constructed before January 1, 1978, where the ground floor portion of the structure contains parking or other similar open floor space that causes soft, weak, or open-front wall lines, as provided in a nationally recognized model code relating to the retrofit of existing buildings or substantially equivalent standards.” (iii) Health and Safety Code Section 19162 provides, in part: “Notwithstanding …any other provision of law, the governing body of any city, city and county, or county may, by ordinance, establish building seismic retrofit standards applicable to the seismic retrofit of any buildings identified [in Recital (ii), above] by the city, city and county, or county as being potentially hazardous to life in the event of an earthquake.” (iv) Health and Safety Code Section 19163(b) provides: “Any seismic retrofit of any building identified [in Recital No. (ii), above] as potentially hazardous shall comply with a nationally recognized model code relating to the retrofit of existing buildings or substantially equivalent standards.

If the city, county, or city and county adopts local amendments to those provisions, it shall determine that the amendments are consistent with Section 17958.5. (v) Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 17958.7, before making any changes or modifications pursuant to Section 17958.5, the Council shall make an express finding that any changes or modifications to the building standards contained in the California Building Code are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological or topographical conditions. (vi) To the extent the provisions of this Ordinance constitute a change or modification to the building standards contained in the California Building Code, or to the provisions of any nationally recognized model code relating to the retrofit of existing buildings, then, in accordance with Health and Safety Code Sections 17958.5 and 17958.7, the City Council hereby expressly finds that such amendments and modifications are reasonably necessary due to the following local geological conditions: (a) The City is bounded on the east by the San Andreas Fault and is in close proximity to various other earthquake faults, and therefore the City is susceptible to the geological conditions of earthquake faults; and (b) The City of Beverly Hills is located within the most seismically active area of the country.

(c) Seismic experts predict a massive earthquake on one of these faults within the next 30 years and several earthquakes similar in intensity to the Northridge Earthquake during the same period; and (d) The 1994 Northridge Earthquake, which was a moderate size (6.8 magnitude) earthquake, caused extensive damage to buildings and structures, including damage to more than 115,000 buildings, moderate to major damage to more than 3,000 buildings and the vacating of about 21,000 residential units including 2,000 homes, and resulted in the loss of human life; and (e) Massive earthquakes pose unusual and extraordinary stresses on buildings and structures requiring more stringent building regulations than would otherwise be required; and Based upon the foregoing, any amendments to building standards contained in this Ordinance, including building standards related to all wood-framed multi-story buildings with soft, weak, or open front walls, are reasonably necessary due to the local geological conditions described above. Furthermore, the City Council finds and declares that existing wood-framed multi-story buildings with soft, weak, or open front walls present a substantial risk to the public health, safety, and welfare thereby justifying the need to require the seismic retrofitting of such buildings, within the time periods set forth herein.

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Ordinance.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEVERLY HILLS DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1.The facts and findings set forth in the Recitals, Part A, above, are true and correct.

Section 2. The City Council hereby amends Chapter 5 (“SEISMIC SAFETY PROGRAM”) of Title 9 (“BUILDING AND PROPERTY HEALTH AND SAFETY”) of the Beverly Hills Municipal Code by adding a new Article 4 to read as follows: “ARTICLE 4. STANDARDS FOR SEISMIC STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING WOOD-FRAME BUILDINGS WITH SOFT, WEAK OR OPEN FRONT WALLS 9-5-401: Purpose 9-5-402: Definitions 9-5-403: Scope 9-5-404: Compliance Requirements 9-5-405: Time Period for Compliance/Prioritization 9-5-406: Administration 9-5-407: Occupancy and Tenant Advisory 9-5-408: Historical Buildings 9-5-409: Analysis and Design 9-5-410: Information required on plans 9-5-411: Quality Assurance 9-5-412: Violation/Penalty 9-5-401: PURPOSE: The purpose of this Article is to promote the public welfare and safety by reducing the risk of death or injury that may result from the effects of earthquakes on existing woodframed multi-story buildings with soft, weak or open front walls. Generally, this type of structure consists of partial tuck under parking on the first floor level with living space in the floors above. In past earthquakes many of these types of structures have performed poorly and collapsed causing loss of life, personal injury, and substantial property damage. This Article creates minimum standards intended to mitigate the risk of collapse and improve the performance of these buildings during earthquakes, reducing, but not necessarily preventing, the loss of life, injury and damage to property.

9-5-402: DEFINITIONS: Notwithstanding the applicable definitions, symbols and notations in the Building Code, the following definitions shall apply for the purposes of this Article: BUILDING CODE: is the current Building Code adopted by the City of Beverly Hills.

CRIPPLE WALL: is a wood-framed stud wall extending from the top of the foundation wall to the underside of the lowest floor framing.

GROUND FLOOR: is any floor within the wood-frame portion of a building whose elevation is immediately accessible from an adjacent grade by vehicles or pedestrians.

The ground floor portion of the structure does not include any floor that is completely below adjacent grades.

OPEN-FRONT WALL LINE: is an exterior wall line lacking sufficient vertical elements of the lateral force-resisting system, which then requires tributary seismic forces to be

resisted by diaphragm rotation, or requires excessive cantilever beyond parallel lines of shear walls. Diaphragms that cantilever more than 25 percent of the distance between the first two adjacent parallel lines of lateral force resisting elements from which the diaphragm cantilevers shall be considered excessive. Cantilevers shall not exceed more than six feet. Diaphragm cantilevers or exterior balconies of 6 feet or less in width shall not be considered excessive cantilevers.

OWNER OR BUILDING OWNER: is the person, individual(s), agent, firm, corporation, or entity having legal possession, equitable interest in the property, or rights to sanction evaluation or retrofit of a building.

QUALIFIED HISTORICAL BUILDING: is any building designated or currently in the process of being designated as a “qualified historical building” as defined in Part 8, Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.

RETROFIT is an improvement of the seismic lateral force resisting system by alteration of the existing structural elements or addition of new structural elements.

SEISMIC DESIGN GUIDELINES: are current guidelines developed by the Building Official, which are intended to calibrate, delineate and detail technical requirements to be used for the retrofitting of buildings subject to this Article.

SOFT WALL LINE: is a wall line, the lateral stiffness of which is less than what is required by story drift limitations or deformation compatibility requirements of this Article. In lieu of the engineering analysis required by this Article to determine whether a wall line's lateral stiffness is less than the aforementioned story drift limitations or deformation compatibility requirements, a soft wall line may be defined as a wall line in a story where the wall stiffness is less than seventy percent (70%) of the stiffness of the exterior wall above for the direction under consideration.

STORY: as used in this Article, is defined as the portion of a structure between the tops of two successive finished floor surfaces and, for the topmost story, from the top of the floor finish to the top of the roof structural element, but also includes any basement or underfloor space of a building exceeding four feet in height.

STORY STRENGTH: is the total strength of all seismicresisting elements sharing the same story shear in the direction under consideration.

WALL LINE: is any length of a wall along a principal axis of the building used to provide resistance to lateral loads.

WEAK WALL LINE: Weak Wall Line is a deficiency of a Wall Line at the Ground Floor in which the wall strength is less than eighty percent (80%) of the strength of the wall above in the direction under consideration.

9-5-403: SCOPE The provisions of this Article shall apply to all existing buildings of wood-frame construction, or wood-frame portions thereof, where: 1. A permit for Construction of a new building was applied for before January 1, 1978, or if no permit can be located, the structure is determined by the City Building Official to have been built under building code standards enacted prior to January 1, 1978, and 2. The ground floor or basement portion of the structure contains parking or other similar open floor space that causes Soft, Weak, or Open-Front Wall lines and there exists one or more stories above.

Notwithstanding any provision of the Building Code, compliance with this Article shall not require existing electrical, plumbing, mechanical or fire-safety systems to be altered to comply with existing code unless they constitute a hazard to life or property. The existing electrical, plumbing, mechanical or fire-safety systems shall comply with the current Building Code if the seismic retrofit interferes or alters any of these systems.

9-5-404: COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS The Owner of each building within the scope of this Article shall cause an investigation of the existing construction and a structural analysis to be made of the building by a registered civil or structural engineer in the State of California, or a qualified architect licensed by the State of California, and if the building does not meet the minimum standards specified in this Article, that shall cause it to be structurally altered to conform to such standards within the time limits stated in this Article.

The Owner of each building within the scope of this Article, which has been analyzed to demonstrate compliance or structurally altered to comply with the minimum earthquake standards in this Article, shall maintain such

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Buildings within the scope of the Article may not be added to or structurally altered or otherwise remodeled without first complying with the provisions of this Article unless the Building Official determines that the alterations are minor in nature.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code to the contrary, a building that is found to be within the scope of this Article and is not brought into compliance with this Article in the time frame indicated in Table A, shall be declared unsafe and subject to the requirements of Section 203 of the Uniform Administrative Code.

This provision shall not apply if alteration or repair work has commenced to bring the building into compliance with requirements of this Article, and such work is proceeding in accordance with the time limits set forth in any order of the Building Official.

9-5-405: TIME PERIOD FOR COMPLIANCE/ PRIORITIZATION A. Engineering Report. Within the time limits shown in Table A below, the Owner of any building that may be subject to the provisions of this Article shall engage an Engineer or Architect to submit a properly completed screening form to the Development Services Division.

The screening form is intended to demonstrate whether the structure conforms to the earthquake design provisions contained in this Article. Minimum form requirements shall be as specified by the building official.

Buildings determined to be outside of the scope of this Article based on the screening form, shall not be required to retrofit.

B. Plan, Permits and Construction. If the screening form concludes the structure is within the scope of this Article, the structure shall be strengthened to comply with the standards of this Article within the time periods shown in Table A below. Minimum plan requirements and necessary permits shall be as specified by the building official.

TABLE A TIME LIMITS FOR OWNER

C. Priority Designations. The Department shall prioritize its enforcement of this Article as defined in Table B. TABLE B PRIORITY DESIGNATION

9-5-406: ADMINISTRATION A. Issuance of Order. When the City determines that a building is within the scope of this Article, the City shall issue an order as described in section B to the Owner of the building.

B. Contents of Order. The order shall specify that the building has been determined by the Building Official to be within the scope of this Article and, therefore, is required to meet the seismic strengthening provisions of this Article. The order shall specify the building type classification and shall set forth the Owner’s alternatives and time limits for compliance.

of the date of the determination being appealed. The building official shall promptly forward the written appeal to the appointed Hearing Officer who shall schedule a public hearing to occur not less than fifteen (15) days, nor more than sixty (60) days after receipt of the written appeal. The appeal shall contain a statement of the facts on which the appeal is based sufficient to enable the Hearing Officer to understand the nature of the controversy, the basis of the appeal and the relief requested. Upon receipt of such appeal, the building official shall, by USPS certified mail, provide notice of the hearing to adjacent property owners having common boundary line with the subject building. The Hearing Officer shall conduct the hearing in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 1-3-318. The building official, or legal representative, shall present the City’s case. Within thirty (30) days of the hearing, the Hearing Officer shall prepare and serve

by USPS certified mail, a written decision regarding the appeal stating all determinations and findings thereof in a clear and concise manner. The Hearing Officer shall sustain the appeal, with or without conditions, or deny the appeal. The Hearing Officer’s decision shall be final. If the appeal is denied, it is the appellant’s responsibility to immediately comply with this Article. If the appeal is sustained with conditions, then, in addition to any other applicable violations of this Article, it shall be a violation of this Article for the appellant to fail to comply with those conditions. The compliance periods set forth in Section 9-5405, Table A, shall not be deemed tolled or extended as a result of filing any appeal that is denied.

F. Recordation. Once a building that was determined to be within the scope of this Article has failed to comply with the requirements of this Article within the time limits provided in Table A, the Building Official shall record in the office of the Los Angeles County recorder a certificate stating that the subject building is within the scope of this Article and requires seismic retrofit. The Certificate shall also state that the Owner thereof has been notified of the need to retrofit the building. Once the building has been retrofitted to comply with this Article, the Building Official shall record a Certificate indicating that the subject building no longer is in violation of this Article.

G. Extensions. The Building Owner may request an extension to the time period for compliance set forth in Table A of Section 9-5-405. An application for extension may only be filed after the Owner has submitted a Screening Report to the City and the Retrofit Plans have been approved by the City. The Building Owner has the burden of proof to establish with substantial evidence that good cause for the extension exists. The Building Owner must also provide a new proposed schedule for compliance, and plan to comply with the provisions of this Article during that timeframe. Upon good cause shown, the Building Official may approve, approve with modifications or deny the extension request for an extension that is commensurate with the justification for the extension.

9-5-407: OCCUPANCY AND TENANT ADVISORY A. Notification to Tenants and Occupants. When the Building Official determines that a building is within the scope of this Article per field survey, the Owner shall advise in writing all current and prospective tenants, subtenants, lessees, sublessees, or any other person(s) entitled to the use and/or occupancy of the building of such determination. With respect to current and prospective tenants, subtenants, lessees, sublessees, or other person(s) entitled to the use and/or occupancy of the building, the property Owner shall advise such persons of the Building Official’s determination in writing. Upon compliance with this Article the Owner shall provide a letter of notification to the tenants indicating the current status of the building. The language of the written notifications shall be as specified by the Building Official.

B. Construction Means and Method Plan. The building owner shall comply with section 9-1-108 L. of the Administrative Code of the City of Beverly Hills.

9-5-408: QUALIFIED HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

C. Service of Order. The order shall be in writing and shall be given by USPS Certified mail in a sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to the Owner as shown on the last equalized assessment roll.

Buildings designated as historical or architecturally significant landmarks on national, State or local historical registers shall also comply with the provisions of this Article.

At the Building Official’s discretion, modifications to the standards set forth in this Article may be permitted when such modifications are consistent with the provision of the California Historical Building Code.

D. Failure to Receive Order. Failure of any Owner to receive such notice shall not relieve the Owner from compliance with this Article.

9-5-409: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

E. Appeal from Order. The Owner of the building may appeal the building official’s determinations relative to the application and interpretation of this Article to an Administrative Hearing Officer appointed pursuant to Section 1-3-317 of this Code. Such appeal shall be filed with the building official within the earlier of sixty (60) days from the service date of the notice or within sixty (60) days

A. Scope of Analysis. As required by this Article, the alteration, repair, replacement or addition of structural elements and their connections shall meet the strength and stiffness in conformance with the Building Code except as modified herein. The lateral-load-path analysis shall include the resisting elements and connections from the wood diaphragm immediately above any soft, weak or open wall lines to and including the foundation. Stories

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above the Weak Wall line shall be considered in the analysis but need not be modified. Engineer shall investigate existing conditions as applicable for the required analysis, including performing initial material testing and as-built of existing conditions. Minimum investigation requirements shall be specified by the Building Official.

B. Design Base Shear and Design Parameters. The design force in a given direction shall not be less than 75% of the design base shear as determined based on the seismic provisions of ASCE 7 and design provisions as specified by the current Seismic Design Guidelines.

The structure shall be analyzed and/or strengthened in order to mitigate the Weak, Open-Front, and/or Soft Wall Line deficiencies defined in Section 9-5-402.

Exception: Alternatively, the structure may be retrofitted per Appendix A4 of the California Existing Building Code, provided the entire Story is analyzed and/or strengthened in order to mitigate the Weak and/or Soft Wall Line deficiencies defined in Section 13.28.030.

C. Limitations to Lateral Force Resisting System.

Strengthening systems with concrete walls or masonry walls, or steel braced frames shall not be permitted unless a full story analysis considering proper diaphragm stiffness and torsional behavior is performed.

D. Horizontal Structural Irregularities in Buildings with Three or More Stories. Structures with three or more stories having horizontal structural irregularities of either type 2, 3, 4, or 5 listed in ASCE 7, “Horizontal Structural Irregularities” Table, shall be altered to meet the additional requirements of those sections referenced in the table for the weak or open wall lines being considered.

E. Alternate Analysis, Base Shear and Design Parameters. The Building Official may approve alternate analysis and/or design methodologies that meet the same performance intent as those prescribed by this Article and that achieve the objectives established by this Article.

Design criteria shall be submitted to the City for review and approval prior to submission of plans.

F. Story Drift Limitations. The calculated story drift for each retrofitted wall line shall not exceed the allowable deformation compatible with all vertical load-resisting elements and 0.025 times the story height. Drift calculations shall be in accordance with ASCE 7 requirements and design provisions as approved by City Building Official.

G. Cantilever Column System. The effects of rotation and soil stiffness shall be included in the calculated story drift where lateral loads are resisted by vertical elements where required depth of embedment is determined by pole formulas or as specified by an approved geotechnical investigation report.

H. Elements not Part of the Lateral Force Resisting System. The requirements of the Building Code shall apply, except as modified herein. All Structural framing elements along the retrofitted line and immediately adjacent to the retrofitted line and their connections not required by the design to be part of the lateral force resisting system, shall be designed and detailed to be adequate to maintain support of design dead plus live loads when subject to the expected deformations caused by seismic forces. The stress analysis of cantilever columns shall use an effective length factor of 2.1 for the direction normal to the axis of the beam.

I. Ties, Continuity and Collectors. All parts of the structure included in the scope of analysis shall be interconnected and the connection shall be capable of resisting the seismic force created by the parts being connected as required per the Building Code.

J. Anchorage of masonry/concrete structural walls to diaphragms. When using new masonry or concrete walls to meet the requirements of this Article, proper in-plane and out-of-plane anchorage of walls into the diaphragm shall be provided per the Building Code.

9-5-410: INFORMATION REQUIRED ON PLANS A. General. For existing and new construction, the plans and specifications shall be of sufficient clarity to indicate the nature, design methodology, and extent of the proposed work and to show in detail that it will conform to the provisions of this Article and other applicable section of the Building Code.

B. Engineer’s or Architect’s Statement. The responsible engineer or architect shall provide the following statements on the approved plans: 1. I am responsible for designing this building’s seismic strengthening in compliance with the minimum standards of the Mandatory Earthquake Hazard Reduction In Existing Wood-Frame Buildings with Soft, Weak or Open-Front Walls (Title 9, Chapter 5, Article 4).”

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C. Owner or Owner’s Representative Statement. Unless the entire building has been evaluated and retrofitted as needed to meet the full intent of the current Building Code, the Owner shall provide and sign the following statement on the cover of the drawings: “I ________________ understand the seismic evaluation and strengthening performed under this project complies with the Mandatory Earthquake Hazard Reduction in Existing Wood-Frame Buildings with Soft, Weak or Open-Front Walls (Title 9, Chapter 5, Article 4) which is intended to improve the performance of the building during a seismic event. I understand the entire building has not been evaluated nor strengthened for other potential structural deficiencies that may cause a life safety concern, injury, or property damage risk resulting from a seismic event.”

D. Quality Control and Assurance Requirements. General notes shall show the requirements for material testing, special inspection, structural observation and the proper installation of newly added materials.

9-5-411: QUALITY ASSURANCE A. Structural Observation. All structures regulated by this Article require structural observation during construction.

The Owner shall employ the engineer or architect responsible for the structural design, or another engineer or architect designated by the engineer or qualified architect responsible for the structural design, to perform structural observation as defined in the Building Code.

B. Special Inspection. Special inspections shall be provided as required by the Building Code. Additional inspections shall be noted on drawings as required by Building Official.

9-5-412: VIOLATION/PENALTY A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for person or business entity receiving the order described in Section 9-5-406, to: (i) fail to comply with any of the time limits set forth in Section 95-405, Table A, including bringing the affected structure into full compliance with the minimum seismic standards specified in this Article; and/or (ii) maintain, use or occupy any such structure that has not been brought into full compliance within the time limits set forth in Section 9-5-405, Table A. Any person who violates or causes or permits another person to violate this Article is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to prosecution and/or administrative enforcement under the City of Beverly Hills Municipal Code. For purposes of this paragraph, “any person” includes an Owner, lessor, sublessor, manager or person in control of a building subject to this Article. This term shall not include any person who is merely a tenant or other individual occupying any dwelling unit, efficiency dwelling unit, guest room or suite in a building. The legal Owner of a building is that person, firm, corporation, partnership or other entity whose name or title appears on the record with the Office of the County Recorder, as well as all successors or assignees of these persons.

EXCEPTION: This section shall not apply to any building on which work is proceeding in compliance with the time limits set forth in this Article, or in compliance with any extensions of time granted by the Building Official; or any action, order or determination made by the Building Official in the implementation of this Article.”

Section 3. Environmental Compliance. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the Guidelines thereunder exempt certain classes of projects from its provisions through statutory and categorical exemptions.

Pursuant to CEQA, an Initial Study was conducted concerning the adoption of this Ordinance. Based thereon, the City Council has determined that adoption of this Ordinance is exempt from CEQA pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines, Sections 15061(b)(3) in that it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the adoption of this Ordinance may have a significant effect on the environment, 15301 (Class 1 - Existing Facilities), and 15302 (Class 2 - Replacement or Reconstruction).

Section 4. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the final decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.

Section 5. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 19165, the Building Official shall cause a copy of this Ordinance to be filed with the California Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Building Standards Commission.

Section 6. Publication. The City Clerk shall cause this Ordinance to be published at least once in a newspaper of

general circulation published and circulated in the city within fifteen (15) days after its passage in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code, shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause this Ordinance and the city Clerk’s certification, together with proof of publication, to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of the Council of this city.

Section 7. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall go into effect and be in full force and effect at 12:01 a.m. on the thirty-first (31st) day after its passage.

Adopted: December 11, 2018 Effective: January 11, 2019 JULIAN A. GOLD, M.D. Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills ATTEST: LOURDES SY-RODRIGUEZ (SEAL) Assistant City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: LAURENCE S. WIENER City Attorney APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: MAHDI ALUZRI City Manager SUSAN HEALY KEENE Director of Community Development VOTE: AYES: Councilmembers Wunderlich, Friedman, Bosse, Mirisch, and Mayor Gold NOES: None CARRIED FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018296284 The following is/are doing business as: KARLEE’S WORLD 514 N. Hayworth Ave. #101, Los Angeles, CA 90048; Karlee Lauryn Muth 514 N. Hayworth Ave. #101, Los Angeles, CA 90048; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed November 2018: Karlee Lauryn Muth, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: November 28, 2018; Published: December 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018302578 The following is/are doing business as: PM FINANCIAL 9701 W. Pico Blvd. #115, Los Angeles, CA 90035; Pearl Candles, LLC 9701 W. Pico Blvd. #115, Los Angeles, CA 90035; The business is conducted by: A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed January 2017: Stephen Perl, Member: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2018; Published: December 14, 21, 28, 2018, January 04, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018302566 The following is/are doing business as: OLIVE STREET APARTMENTS 1440 N. Hayworth Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90046; David J. Bailey 1440 N. Hayworth Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90046; Allyce Balson 1440 N. Hayworth Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90046; The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed July 2010: David J. Bailey, General Partner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2018; Published: December 14, 21, 28, 2018, January 04, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018302568 The following is/are doing business as: HAYWORTH APARTMENTS II 1440 N. Hayworth Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90046; David J. Bailey 1440 N. Hayworth Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90046; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed November 2018: David J. Bailey, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2018; Published: December 14, 21, 28, 2018, January 04, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018302574 The following is/are doing business as: 1) HILGARD HOUSE HOTEL 2) HILGARD HOUSE WESTWOOD VILLAGE 927 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024; Hilgard Management Company, Inc. 927 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: William P. Edwards, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2018; Published: December 14, 21, 28, 2018, January 04, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018302576 The following is/are doing business as: 1) TOP HOMES LA 2) TOP HOMES LOS ANGELES 3) GEORGE MORALES REALTY 439 N. Canon Dr. #300, c/o-Keller Williams, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Silvano Jorge Morales Shipman 439 N. Canon Dr. #300, c/o-Keller Williams, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Silvano Jorge Morales Shipman, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2018; Published: December 14, 21, 28, 2018, January 04, 2019 LACC N/C

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018302570 The following is/are doing business as: YM STUDIOS 443 N. Palm Dr. #101, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Yarden Mesica 443 N. Palm Dr. #101, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Yarden Mesica, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2018; Published: December 14, 21, 28, 2018, January 04, 2019 LACC N/C –––––– FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018302572 The following is/are doing business as: 1) GIAN FRANCO TORDI ACTOR 2) FLIGHT BROKER 3) ACTION ACTING 4) SNOWFLAKE ENTERTAINMENT 4250 Coldwater Canyon Ave. #302, Studio City, CA 91604; T Entertainment, LLC 4250 Coldwater Canyon Ave. #302, Studio City, CA 91604; The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed: Gian Franco Tordi, Manager: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 06, 2018; Published: December 14, 21, 28, 2018, January 04, 2019 LACC N/C

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name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14400, et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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ACCOUNTING/ BOOKKEEPER

PERSONALS

BEAUTY SERVICES

IN-HOUSE BOOKKEEPING SERVICES

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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Work Work and Investment Visas!

Green Card through g employment p y inn approx. pp 18 Months!

Representing Religious Religious Workers Workers for o schools/synagogues/churches scchools/synagoguess//churcches around around the t country!

After Construction Detail Cleaning Move-in • Move-out

310-970-4713 310-294-1040 www.APlusCaresLA.com LEGAL PROBLEMS? TOP “A/V” RATED BEVERLY HILLS LAW FIRM CAN HELP YOU. Specializing In:

Personal Injury Auto & Motorcycle Accident Cases, Collection of Delinquent Support, Divorce, Civil, Real Estate & Construction Law.

No Recovery, No Fee! Free Consultation.

LAW OFFICES OF BRADFORD L. TREUSCH

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW & Beautiful INDOOR DEER STATUE 4 SALE!

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JEWISH WOMAN COMPANION/ CAREGIVER/ Personal Assistant

25% Off Cut or Shave! st

For 1 Time Clients!

Just In Time For The Holiday’s Call or Text:

310/990-8727

If u paint his nose red, it’ll be RUDOLPH!

Tutoring by a teacher with many years of experience at the Lycee Francais of Los Angeles and The BH Lingual Institute Call Mme. Newman at

310/838-7749 or e-mail

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• Companions • Live-In / Live-Out

Experienced • Compassionate • Fully Screened

310.859.0440 www.exehomecare.com

BBB A+ Rated

Referral Agency

Beverly Hills resident, USC college graduate,

310/909-3684

Instagram Pics:

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• Cut / Style / Color • Straight Razor Shaves • Mobile Private Appts.

Available, Home/Office

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Once a week, three Hour session $35/hr plus gasoline fee.

Send Resume To:

TamirMusic@verizon.net

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At least 5 years in home experience. Speak fluent English and can also speak Farsi, Russian, Hebrew, Armenian or Polish. Must have car and available for live-in positions.

Call 323/655-2622 Mon.-Fri. • 10am-5pm DO NOT APPLY IF NOT EXPERIENCED

• • • • • • •

Please Call Ann:

310/274-2764

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We can help YOU!

1 & 2 - PERSON RESIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM

We provide experienced Cargivers, CNA’s & HHA’s

Call Lisa 24hrs.

323/877-8121 323/806-3046

Windows savvy, organize sheet music, phone calls, handle & organize CD'S.

For Fashion Items.

ARE YOU A SENIOR AND NEED ASSISTANCE?

for seniors needing companions to drive them to doctors, prepare meals, light housekeeping, etc...

We offer responsible and nurturing care. Our staff is thoroughly screened and we care.

Live In/Out.

Known Composer of Pacific Palisades • SEEKS • OFFICE HELPER:

SEEKING EXPERIENCED E-BAY SELLER • • • • • • •

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Please Call or Text,

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Seeks Employment 1 to 5 days per week.

15 years experience, references, own car.

311 N. Crescent Dr. Beverly Hills, 90210 1-Hour Free Parking!

Antlers reach 7ft. stands independently hard frame covered with faux fur Disassembles easily into original box Paid $400, asking $280

• Caregivers • CNA • CHHA

Live-In or Live-Out

Treat Yourself for The Holiday’s!

• Robby Lopez •

SCHOOLS & INSTRUCTIONS

Personal care assistance, companionship, meal prep, medication reminder, light housekeeping. With car+ insurance for Dr’s. appts, errands & shopping.

• ELDERCARE • IN-HOME SPECIALIST

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• 310/557-2599 •

• Bradford L. Treusch •

4-Hours.

Friday’s Only. $25 per Hour.

Must speak English, must have car (no bus route) and references.

Call: 323/822-9418

(Regular Price $260)

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Age 65 - 75.

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FURNISHED APT’S/CONDO’S

PRIME WEST HOLLYWOOD LOCATION!

KELEMEN

9000 CYNTHIA STREET

REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900 License 00957281

all listings are on CenturyCityLiving.com

NOW AVAILABLE

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OFFICES & STORES FOR LEASE

GATED 5 STAR LUXURY PROPERTIES *BEL AIR *WESTWOOD *CENTURY CITY

MEDICAL MEDI CAL A BUILDING BU UILDING

CENTURY PARK EAST CONDOMINIUM

FOR LEASE LEA ASE 852 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035

• Approximately 1805 Sq. Ft. Medical Space Available • Asking $4.00 + NNN of $1.10 • 6 parking in rear of building 2 lanes 3 deep

• Reception & Waiting Rooms • 9 Treatment Rooms • X-ray room and Lab area • 2 additional offices and 2 restrooms

Please contact the Exclusive Agents

Cory Schaffel S & Sy Schaffel

THE

SCHAFFEL GRO GROUP RO R O UP

DRE Lic #0842890/01220690

Office: 310-289-7855 Sy Direct: 310-550-8710 sschaffel@theschaffelgroup.com cschaffel@theschaffelgroup.com www.theschaffelgroup.com

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1 BED+DEN, 2 BATHS $1,080,000 Corner High Floor Unobstructed Views Jumbo Balcony Renovated Hardwood Floors Large Closets DOHENY & BURTON WAY

Light & Bright Quiet Location CENTURY PARK EAST $671,000 TO $1,050,000

CENTURY TOWERS

11295 Washington Bl. 90230, X-St. Sepulveda Upstairs 3-Private Interior Offices with kitchen.

3-Tandem parking, plenty of street parking.

2,350sf. • $6,200/Mo. 2-4 Year Lease.

$935,000 TO $1,139,000

• 310/202-1752 • pauline.windman@ sbcglobal.net Adj. 405 freeway.

Fully Furnished Recently Remodeled Large Corner Office In Boutique Building

Adj. Beverly Hills PRICE REDUCED $1,500

323/782-1144

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Attorney Suite

ADVERTISE YOUR LISTING

BEVERLY HILLS SINGLE OFFICE

Bank of America Building Wilshire Bl./Beverly Dr. Shared reception / kitchen areas.

Call 310/277-4662

TO

Call us at 310-278-1322

FULLY FURNISHED 3 BDRMS + 3 BATHS 2000 SQ. FT. (818) 571-1508

Rare Private Doggy Park with Dog Park Parties!

N/S Tennis-Tennis Anyone?

6-Lane pool, fitness center, valet too. A Great Lifestyle!

$750,000 • 6th Fl. 2+2 Beautiful Garden Setting, treetop views, light/bright.

Great location in building. $875,000 • 18th Fl. 2+2 Corner Condo, 270 degree City Views, Bev. Hills, Downtown & Ocean!

2-Lrg. balconies, 2-prkg., bright / open floor.

Quiet Luxury Penthouse Double Suite located right in the heart of West Hollywood and the Westside. Amenities include Pool, Sauna, Spa, Two Side by Side Secured Parking Spaces. Comes fully Furnished and will come ready to move right in and enjoy! $8,000/MO.

For inquiries contact: Kevin Pike (818) 571-1508 Coldwell Banker • CalDRE #01990544

• DIANA COOK • 468 N. Camden Dr., Beverly Hills, 90210

440

• 310-203-8333 •

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405

BEVERLY HILLS

2DianaCook@gmail.com

WANTED TO RENT

Beverly Hills Courier Reporter

With pet.

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RENTAL TO SHARE

$699,000 TO $1,099,000

PARK PLACE LE PARC

$2,099,000 TO $2,895,000

CENTURY HILL

$1,250,000 TO $2,390,000

ONE CENTURY

$3,400,000 TO $10,099,000

CENTURY WOODS

$1,369,000 TO $2,799,000

BEL AIR CREST

WEST HOLLYWOOD Beautiful 2 Bedroom Apartment to Share.

FULLY FURNISHED Private Room & Bath $1,250/MO.

Some Complexes include Heated Pools, Sundeck, Tennis, Doorman, Houseman, Staff Engineers, Switchboard, Security Staff, Switchboard, Saunas, Business Center, Pet PlayLand, Restaurant, Acres of Flower Gardens and Grassy Lawns.

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221 S. Doheny Dr.

• FREE RENT • TEMPORARY HOUSING SINGLE ROOM WESTWOOD VILLAGE

In exchange for helping English speaking senior.

Great opportunity for senior, student or visitor.

Non smoker.

For info contact Judith: 872/985-7329

BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. 309 S. Sherbourne Dr. ( • • • ----- • • • )

LARGE ONE BEDROOM 1 Bd.+Den+1.5 Ba.

washer and dryer, A/C. Beautiful French Normandy building close to market, shops and restaurants.

Call 310/475-9311

—————–––– Spacious, hardwood flrs.,

to Cedars/shops/trans.

310/247-8689

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904-908 Granville Av. 2 B d . + 1 1/ 2 B a .

Includes:

Air conditioning unit, huge closets, built-in BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. laundry facility, a/c, dishwasher, pool, 120 S. Swall Dr. subterranean prkg. elevator, controlled • • • • • • • • • Near Whole Foods. access, laundry • • 310/592-4511 facilities. No pets.

• 1 Bd.+1 Bath •

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Great Location!

• • • • • • • • • • •

BEVERLY HILLS GREAT LOCATION!

Very Spacious, A/C, balcony, intercom entry, Most Spectacular Apartments on-sight laundry, prkg.

120 Granville Ave. Close to Cedars-Sinai,

424/343-0015

————— •• • • • • • • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • •

•• • All utilities included • • with TV, A/C and Wifi. French doors in bdrm.

Call 323/656-1805 or open to large balcony •• wenecja741@hotmail.com overlooking pool •

$1,788,000 TO $9,500,000

440

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Old World Charm! BEAUTIFUL MASTER BATH • • • • • • Bright, intercom entry, Guest powder room, hardwood Good closet space, a/c, fridge, stove, laundry fac. elevator, dishwasher, CLOSE TO RESTAURANTS floors, separate dining room, stainless steel appliances, controlled access. Close

up to $1,500/Mo. • gle in S • 424/901-9942 • • • • • •

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B E V E R LY H I L L S 218 S. Tower Dr. •• 1 Bd.+1 Ba. •• 9549 OLYMPIC BL.

••••••• & SHOPPING. SEEKING to RENT 323/651-2598 1 BEDROOM/1 BATH G u e s t h o u s e ————— $620,000 or Room with 3rd Floor Front Unit Private Entrance BEVERLY HILLS

CULVER CITY *** FOR LEASE *** OFFICE SPACE ATTORNEY’S FOR LEASE

OFFICE

• Century Park East •

Beverly Center, shops, cafes & transportation.

424/303-7142

————— Border of BEVERLY HILLS

Grand Opening BRENTWOOD ’s

* * * * * * * *

• 3 B d . + 2 1/ 2 B a .

• 2 Bd.+Den+21/2 Ba. • 2 B d . + 2 1/2 B a .

* * * * * * * *

Large units, walk-in closet, custom kitchen, built-in 321 S. Sherbourne Dr. washer/dryer, all appli• • Spacious • • ances, hardwood floors • GORGEOUS UNITS • •• Jr. 1 Bdrm. •• throughout, some units w/ skylights+high ceilings.

Hardwood flrs., central • • • • Health club, wifi, sauna, air, pool, elevator, Balcony, controlled on-site laundry, access, a/c, stove, heated pool, controlled intercom entry. acess, parking. elevator, laundry Easy Move-In! *1+1 only facility, parking.

424/272-6596 • 320 N. La Peer Dr. • 310/247-8689 • Close to Brentwood • 310/246-0290 • Close to Cedars-Sinai, Village, Restaurants, C LOSE TO Beverly Center & UCLA, Mt. Saint Mary’s, S HOPS & D INING Trendy Robertson Bl. & Transportation.

A PA R T M E N T / C O N D O R E N TA L S

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• BRENTWOOD • • BrentwooD • 922 S. Barrington Av.

11815 Mayfield Ave.

• 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • < < < < <

Newly Remodeled

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**C **CENTURY CITY** W E S T L . A .

2220 S. Beverly Glen 1433 Brockton Ave.

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Fireplace, balcony, • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • SINGLE • wet bar, dishwasher, CenturyCityLiving.com •• Hardwood floors, •• laundry facility, • • impressive living room, • • N O W AVA I L A B L E elevator, parking. dining room, balcony, • • L o t s o f • • GATED 5 STAR Close to shops+dining. a/c unit, fridge, dish- Character & Charm!

LUXURY PROPERTIES 310/826-0541 Glass Fireplace F URNISHED & U NFURNISHED washer, walk-in closet, Newly Remodeled. *BEL AIR intercom entry, laundry *WESTWOOD B R E N T W O O D facility, carport parking. New hardwood flrs., *CENTURY CITY granite counters, 11730 SUNSET BLVD. 310/312-9871 stainless steel appl., NEWLY REMODELED Close: great restaurants, alcove fireplace, CENTURY PARK EAST •••••• shops, UCLA, beach. fridge, laundry facility, 3 BED/2 BATHS • gated parking, intercom $5,950/MONTH • Jr. Executive GRAND OPENING entry, WiFi and more. all listings are on

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Spacious 1 Bdrm+1 Bath

2 BD/2 BA./ DEN $4,950/MONTH

Exciting High Floor. Great Views Magnificent Newer Renovation. Chic European Kitchen. Custom Cabinetry Quartz Counters. Luxurious Baths. Fireplace. Hardwood Floors. Lots of Fitted Closets Air Cond. Heating Paid

entry, on-sight laundry, 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath 3 Bdrm.+ 21/2 Bath gym, parking.

• Free WiFi Access •

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~ 310/476-3824 ~ Open floor plan, high BRENTWOOD & U.C.L.A. CLOSE

• WESTWOOD •

PARK PLACE $4,200 to $4,950/month

CENTURY TOWERS $6,500 to $7,000/month

CENTURY HILL $4,950 to $8,900/month

LE PARC Sorry

ONE CENTURY $16,500 to $27,000/month

CENTURY WOODS Sorry

• • • • • BRENTWOOD • 1 Bdrm.

519 S. Barrington Ave.

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2 Bdrm. + 1 1/ 2 Bath Bright unit.

Dishwasher, On-site laundry, parking.

Close to Brentwood Village.

+

1 Bath •

Upscale, Bright, Gorgeous & Spacious.

• • • • •

Everything Brand New

covered parking, Hardwood floors, laundry facility. appliances, washer/ 213/385-4751 dryer in each unit, Close to transportation, * * downtown & central air. Pool, jacuzzi 310/473-1509 * * great restaurants. * * spa, fitness center, L ARGE , U NIQUE W E S T W O O D rooftop garden patio+ AND G ORGEOUS .

LAFAYETTE PARK fire pits, courtyard, Fireplace, balcony, 1 0 9 0 5 O h i o A v e .

274 LAFAYETTE PARK PL. •• controlled access, prkg. dishwasher, intercom •• • 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • entry, elevator, gated 310/209-0006 • 2 Bd.+2 Ba.• • •••••• parking, gym, pool. • • • Steps to UCLA & Granite counter tops, • • Close to Beach • Single • Westwood Village. stainless steel appliances, • 310/394-7132

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Sunset Marquis Hotel In-Unit Laundry Gated Parking

—————–––– WESTWOOD 1409 Midvale Ave.

•••• ••• •••• • • • 2 B d . + 1 1/ 2 B a . • • ————— •• • • • ≈ WEST ≈ • • • LOS ANGELES • • • Call 310-728-1788

Upscale, Bright, Gorgeous & Spacious.

With Pool, hardwood WiFi, a/c, intercom floors, balcony, central 11305 Graham Pl. entry, laundry facility, air, fireplace, stainless elevator, parking, pool.

310/472-8915 steel appliances, 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath CLOSE TO U.C.L.A., elevator, intercom Intercom entry, a/c, SHOPPING & 1 BLK. BRENTWOOD entry, parking. gym. dishwasher, on-sight TO WESTWOOD PARK. 11640 Kiowa Ave. • 310/476-2181 • laundry & parking.

310/478-8616 • • • • Close to shopping, C L O S E TO S C H O O L • •• • dining & schools.

• WESTWOOD • Newly Updated & F R E E WAY S

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air conditioned, new hrwd. flrs., designer finishes, balcony, ceiling L.A.’S FINEST, MOST LUXURIOUS fan, elevator, controlled access. Fitness ctr, yoga APT. RENTAL * * * * * * room, wi-fi, skyview lounge w/ outdoor fire“The Mission” place, laundry facilities.

• Westwood • 213/382-102 1 Easy freeway access • • • • •

• 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • • • • 6-Month Lease Avail.

2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath CULVER CITY 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath 3830 Vinton Ave.

310/477-8171

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Some Complexes include WEST L.A. •••••••• Heated Pools, Sundeck, 1343 Carmelina Ave. • • Balcony, dishwasher, Tennis, Doorman, • Single • - 2 Bdrm.+2 Bath a/c, heated pool, Houseman, Staff •• • - 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath WiFi, elevator • • •• Engineers, Switchboard, • Bright Unit • controlled access, Pool, sauna, Security Staff, On-site laundry, on-site laundry, prkg. intercom entry, Switchboard, Saunas, on-site parking.

Close to elevator, on-site Business Center, Pet Close to Brentwood Village, laundry, parking.

PlayLand, Restaurant, transportation.

Shops & Restaurants. All Utilities Paid.

Acres of Flower Gardens • 310/826-4889 • • 310/442-8265 • 310/841-2367 and Grassy Lawns.

550 Veteran Ave. • • • • • • SI NG • LE • • • • • • Very spacious, granite counters, microwave, intercom entry, on-sight laundry, parking & WiFi. Very close to UCLA & Westwood Village.

310/208-5166

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401 S. HOOVER St.

• • • • • • • • • 1 Bd. + * * * * * * Every Extra Luxury • 1 Ba. custom cabinets, granite countertops, • • • • • • • • stone entry, pool, health club, spa.

• Free WiFi Access • • Close to UCLA •

1350 S. MIDVALE AVE. L.A., 90024 Contact Mgr.:

• 310/864-0319 •

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controlled access, on808 4th St. * * sight laundry, parking. * 1 Bd.+1 Ba. * C l o s e t o U . C . L . A .

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* HOLLYWOOD * WESTWOOD 1134 N. SYCAMORE AV. 10751 HOLMAN #5 * * * * * LARGE 2 BEDROOM, • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. 2 FULL BATHROOMS • S i n g l e

• • • • • • The Clarige • KOREATOWN • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. 670 Kelton Ave. 423 S. Hoover St. Single Brand New Building • Single • 2 Bd. + 2 Ba. • 2 Bd. + 2 Ba. • 1 Bd. +1 Ba. • • Balcony, air conditioning, • • • • • • 3 Bd.+3 Ba. controlled access bldg.,

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$4,000 to $5,300/month

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ceilings, French oak flrs+porcelain tiles, x-lrg. walk-in closets, stainless steel appliances, BRENTWOOD quartz countertops, pool, ~ VILLAGE ~ state of the art gym, 968 S. Barrington Av. laundry hook-ups, 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • controlled access, prkg, Hardwood floors, 2 BED/2 BATHS •• free WiFi. Close to •• parking, laundry facility, $4,550/MONTH •• Brentwood Village.

•• WEST HOLLYWOOD controlled access.

High Floor. Ocean Views Wifi, Bright, controlled • 310/477-6885 • 8-Unit Bldg.

EMPIRE VIEW HOMES Separated Suites. Hardwood VERY UNIQUE • MUST SEE access, balcony, 310/826-0541 Fully Renovated 1920s Floors. Renovated pool, e levator, Very close to Brentwood Historic Building • BRENTWOOD • Large Balcony. Lots of Closets laundry facility, prkg.

Village’s dining, shopping 125 N. Barrington Av. LUXURY 1 bedroom Close To U.C.L.A. & transportation.

N E W LY U P D AT E D Near 310/477-6856 CENTURY PARK EAST

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Laundry facility, * * * * * parking. Balcony, huge walk-in closet, Newly Remodeled Close to shopping, Great Views hardwood floors, stainless dining & Great views, controlled steel appliances, washer and transportation. access, balcony, dryer, A/C, close to market, elevator, lrg. pool, Please Call: shops, restaurants & UCLA prkg, on-sight laundry.

310/477-6885 Call 310/475-9311 H IKING IN R UNYON C ANYON , H OLLYWOOD WESTWOOD B OWL /N IGHTLIFE .

1380 Midvale Ave. 323/467-8172

Largest Size Condo. Lower 1 Bdrm.+1 Bath • • 310/552-8064 • Brand New • Floor. City & Garden Views 2018 Construction Rooftop jacuzzi • • • • • • • = BRENTWOOD = with panoramic Renovated. Hardwood Floors city views.

Rooftop pool, The Sanremo 2 Jumbo Balconies deck, central air, 417 S. Barrington Av. WiFi, pool, elevator, : : : : : : : : : : : : : : SANTA MONICA elevator, intercom

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BEVERLY HILLS

Control access, pool, dishwasher, elevator, on-site laundry and parking.

213/385-4751

439 S. LE DOUX

LE DOUX / BURTON WAY

CORRIDOR

10530-10540 Wilshire Bl.

• 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • Luxury Living • with valet, lush garden surrounding pool, gym, elevator, etc.

Hardwood flrs., granite counters, dishwasher, central air, balcony, laundry facility.

1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH

Call: 310/470-4474

Call 310/425-9070

• Free WiFi •

Upstairs, granite, A/C, parking, laundry on-site, stove, fridge and pool.

$1,995/MO. By appointment only

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ANTIQUES / JEWELRY BUY & SELL

ANTIQUES / JEWELRY BUY & SELL

MOUNT SINAI, HOLLYWOOD HILLS Side-by-Side, Maimonides $40,000 Firm INCLUDES ALL FEES Contact Owners: Benita 818-522-4280 or benj56@sbcglobal.net Susan 818-274-1262

468

FASHION WANTED

WANTED

CHANEL, HERMES, GUCCI, PRADA EXOTIC SKINS, AND ALL HIGH-END DESIGNER HANDBAGS, CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES.

WE PA AY Y TOP DOLLA AR FOR YOUR TREA ASURES

We buy your jewelry, diamonds, gemstones, watches, coins, gold, antiques...

Cash on the spot

No appointment necessary

Antiques, Fine Art, Sculpture, Porcelain Silver, Arrt Glass, Furniture, Clocks & More!

310-858-7666 • 310-467-1338 9000 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA CA 90211 Artela@aol.com | Ar rteantiques.com Lic #19101157

201 South Beverly Drive • Beverly Hills • 310-550-5755 store license # 19101172

NEW, USED OR VINTAGE.

BUY/SELL TOP DOLLAR PAID Call (310) 289-9561

476 Miscellaneous For Sale

NEW & Beautiful INDOOR DEER STATUE 4 SALE! Antlers reach 7ft. stands independently hard frame covered with faux fur Disassembles easily into original box Paid $400, asking $280

Just In Time For The Holiday’s

Call or Text:

310/990-8727 If u paint his nose red, it’ll be RUDOLPH!

TO ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS Call us at 310-278-1322

310-273-8174

WWW.MIZRAHIDIAMONDS.COM

LIC#0789

S E R V I C E

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ELECTRICIAN

D I R E C T O R Y

HANDY PEOPLE

MARBLE

www.careelectric.net

CLOCK REPAIR

CONCRETE

GOLD COAST ~ MARBLE ~

Nichols’ Clock

G.C. CONSTRUCTION M A D A N

& Watch Repair • Antique Clock Repair • House Calls Available • Complete Watch Repair Specializing in grandfather clocks, mantle clocks, wall clocks, cuckoo clocks

• Any Concrete Flatwork • Concrete Walls • Resurfacing of Old Concrete • Natural Stone Specialist

818.207-8915

Competitive Prices Call 310/562-3698

ncwrepair@yahoo.com

Lic. #841143

Mark Nichols

ELECTRIC

All Your Electrical Needs at Low Rates!

Specializing in lighting designs, service upgrades, and rewiring low voltage.

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December 21, 2018 Page 27

Chairman 2014 Paula Kent Meehan President & Publisher Marcia Wilson Hobbs Senior Editor John L. Seitz Special Sections Editor Stephen P. Simmons

Another Phobia From Roger Lefkon

THE FEAR OF EMPTINESS Taking a lunch break while visiting the zoo during the current holiday season, I decided to forgo the burgers, hot dogs and chicken tenders in favor of something more in keeping with my menagerie surroundings--a box of Barnum’s Animal Crackers.

I consumed the entire contents of the circus cage except for a monkey and a lion which I separated with a hastily built wall of cookie crumbs. The next day I looked into the box and was devastated to observe that Curious George had let his curiosity get the better of him swinging over the makeshift wall and then being dispatched by the king of the beasts. Without hesitation I picked up Simba and devoured him in a single bite. To my astonishment I was left with an empty box of animal crackers and an empty feeling that would result in a lifetime fear of all things empty.

Being claustrophobic, I’m unable to enter an empty elevator so my options are to wait until someone arrives to keep me company or use the stairwell though I’m too physically challenged to step onto the stairs.

Time passes and I’m getting hungry which triggers another phobia, riding in an elevator on an empty stomach. Finally someone arrives and I follow him into the car. As the lift begins its ascent, he removes his overcoat. I introduce myself and go to shake his hand. To my horror.

I discover that he is empty handed and that my traveling companion is in reality an empty suit.

The enclosure holding me captive is rising so fast that my cries for help are drowned out by the elevator’s Muzak system playing the 5th Dimension’s recording of Up, Up And Away. Finally, the fire department comes to my aid and as I’m handed a glass of Kool Aid, I ponder the age old question: “Is the glass half full or half empty?”

History tells us that empty nesters date back to the stone age when Fred and Wilma Flintstone’s daughter Pebbles flew the coop to attend Bedrock University. Fast forward to the present and my fear of emptiness was never more evident then when my daughter left home to attend college. I suddenly became a victim of Empty Nest Syndrome.

To make matters worse, my dog Piper was constantly going on sleepovers with her canine friends leaving me alone in an empty house but not before reminding me that, if you’re not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

I had not been this depressed since I was unable to get tickets for Hamilton. My little girl had grown and flown but unlike eagles, hawks and falcons, I could not be certain if my offspring would ever return to the empty nest.

Concerned about her wellbeing, I did the fatherly thing by quitting my job as a clinical

psychiatrist for the post office in order to move into an apartment across the street from her dormitory so I could keep an eye on Susan through my Orion SkyQuest telescope when I wasn’t viewing life on Pluto, a dwarf planet populated with Disney characters including, Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Bashful, Doc and Grumpy. It was a scene right out of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window.

Commenting on emotional emptiness the Dalai Lama had it right when he confided to me, over a dinner of yak dumplings and lamb curry: “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to and reasons to stay” to which I replied: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

I have a constant fear of emptiness because I know what it’s like to be running on empty while driving on a deserted country road with a serial killer on the loose; attempting to squeeze, flatten or pinch one more goop of paste out of an empty tube of toothpaste; going to pick up my tax refund and being greeted by an empty mailbox: striking out with runners on 1st, 2nd and 3rd and failing to empty the bases; or having my computer crash with all of my empty files, including the unlisted phone numbers for all of my doctors, floating around in cyberspace. I later learn that I am afflicted with the same issues that caused my computer to go down--not enough memory; compatibility problems and malfunctioning hardware.

I have had to face up to empty jars of my favorite things my entire life. As a baby it was Gerber’s apple sauce followed by the dynamic duo of Skippy peanut butter and Smuckers jelly in my teens, then as an adult it was Beluga caviar, and, in my golden years, an empty jar of Ensure is enough to bring tears to my eyes.

The trepidation I experience with emptiness also includes writing checks against an empty bank account; trying to find an empty parking spot in Beverly Hills; emptying the trash and then finding out that the garbage collectors are on strike; or sailing along in a high altitude balloon and then suddenly hearing hot air escaping from my airship. As a painter turned writer, I have always stressed over starring at an empty canvas and a blank sheet of paper; and then there is the anguish of emptying out in preparation for a colonoscopy.

I am always thinking outside the box as evidenced by the fact that inside my empty bottle I am busy constructing a lighthouse while all the others are making ships.

Beverly Hills resident Roger Lefkon is a veteran TV writer/producer, former senior executive of Merv Griffin Entertainment, and author of The World Is A Really Scary Place.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR I want to bring to your attention a situation that’s a fallout of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) construction work.

When original construction started,it lasted about two years.I thought that’d be the end of it.

But (for example) the bus route #14 (which used to have a short jag down Canon Drive) was not changed back as expected!

Instead, busses now go all the way down Beverly Drive. And they don’t stop at Dayton Way....the main access to the 24-hour Rite-Aid drugstore in Beverly Hills. This is a major inconvenience for bus drivers who need to use this drug store.

I’ve contacted the MTA, but it passes the buck... insisting the City of Beverly Hills is restricting this line. This means a painful walk several blocks away from Wilshire/Beverly Drive every day just to reach Dayton Way/Canon Drive. I contacted City Hall, but no answer.

I’ve also heard that “Beverly Hills doesn’t want busses,or trains!” Sure enough, there are few bus benches and bus shelters in this town...and a box for a restroom.

Can’t somebody do something about this situation? My complaint is just the tip of the iceberg.

Ronald Vaughan

Cartoon for the Courier by Janet Salter

Astrology

By Holiday Mathis TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 21). The truer you are to yourself, the more everyone else benefits. You express yourself, solve problems, join groups and things get better for all. Other highlights include: an intriguing phone call from out of the blue, an intense and immediate connection with a new friend and a health-favoring lifestyle shift. Aquarius and Cancer adore you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Expectation hinges on imagination.

The bigger the imagination, the higher the expectation. So if your fantasy has proven outsized for reality, maybe it’s because you've augmented powers of vision.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll create an atmosphere to people to enjoy. It reflects your style, appetites and intentions. Music will be an important part, an element that’s a shortcut to putting people at ease.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s a puzzle of a day, but you can handle it. There’s a way to make this whole thing work out with many smiles.

Most important is to stay cool and keep your inside voice on the inside.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). It takes a minute to get to know a situation well enough to figure out how you’re going compartmentalize all that goes along with it. Take it all in. Later you can decide what to pay attention to and what to tune out.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). When it’s your turn to take a bow, you’ll be brief and then hand over the moment to the many others who helped.

You’ll do this because it feels comfortable. You can’t help that it also makes you socially unstoppable.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). There are certain people you feel so connected to that it’s as though, unbeknownst to you, your souls signed a contract to be intertwined. Autonomy is still important though, perhaps even more so with this type of closeness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You're incomparable really, but if you must compare yourself, and it’s hard not to on a day like today, then at least make a favorable comparison and move quickly on from that. It’s no place to dwell.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Head in the clouds? That’s okay. You’re at your best when combining your reality with your dream of it. And you will dream more beautifully with pretty things around you to inspire you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You made contributions either overlooked or taken for granted. Reintroduce them as times have changed. Now they need what you’re contributing and will be much more appreciative.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Fun day—a playful mood takes hold.

Relationships are better with humor. Your affectionate joking around will land perfectly as long as you keep it light and positive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You always feel better about yourself after you do a round of excellent hard work. So why would you rob others of that self-esteem boost? They want to work for you. Let them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If the path seems to offer no challenge, then it’s a lie. You’ll look for the hard parts, the possible pitfalls and motives. This you’ll do not out of cynicism, but rather in an effort for optimum preparation.

POLICE BLOTTER The following assaults, burglaries, robberies, and grand thefts have been reported by BHPD. Streets are usually indicated by block numbers.

ASSAULTS 04/30 400 N. Palm Dr. 11/30 400 S. Rexford Dr. 12/13 Olympic Blvd./S. Palm Dr. BURGLARIES 12/07 200 N. Robertson Blvd.

12/09 300 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/10 700 Hillcrest Dr. 12/10 9600 Wilshire Blvd.

12/10 200 N. Robertson Blvd.

12/11 400 S. La Peer Dr. 12/12 9500 Brighton Way 12/14 9500 Wilshire Blvd.

12/14 0 N. La Cienega Blvd.

12/14 0 N. La Cienega Blvd, 12/14 400 S. Oakhurst Dr. 12/15 200 Lasky Dr. 12/15 400 N. Beverly Dr. 12/16 Lomitas Ave./Foothill Rd. 12/16 Lomitas Ave./Foothill Rd. 12/16 100 N. La Cienega Blvd.

GRAND THEFTS 12/10 9900 S. Santa Monica Blvd.

12/11 9900 Durant Dr. 12/13 400 N. Rodeo Dr. 12/13 300 N. Canon Dr. 12/15 200 S. Beverly Dr. 12/16 200 N. Rodeo Dr.

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