OPA Connects Meeting this Wednesday @ 12pm Features Melissa Spagnuolo (Chair of the ’28 Olympics for the City): Melissa will be discussing all things LA28. Here is the Zoom link.
Other OPA Upcoming Calendar of Events:
- Quarterly Mixer (Thursday Aug. 29, 4-7pm): Get to know your neighbors while checking out the new Edgemar Restaurant & Lounge (2435 Main St.).
- FREE OPA Night @ Hollywood Bowl (Thursday Sept. 5): We have 10 tickets to “Carmen and Carnival with Dudamel” that we are raffling off to interested members (each winner gets the option of 1 or 2 tickets). The night is described as “A euphoric evening featuring the sultry streets of Seville and a fantastical circus.” More details here. Thank you LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath for donating the tickets to OPA! Click here to join OPA by Aug. 29 and you get two raffle entries! Reply to this email if you want to be entered into the drawing.
- Main St. Block Party / Day of the Dog (Saturday Sept. 7, 12-7pm): Celebrate the season’s end with live music, vendors, Y2K beer garden and a partnership with the Day of the Dog Festival! More details here.
- Heal the Bay Beach Clean-Up (Sunday Sept. 8, 9am): Meet at at Santa Monica State Beach—Ocean Park Blvd. Click here to contact Dave Tann with any questions.
- Neighborhood Council Candidate Forum (Sunday Sept. 8, 3-5pm @ Lincoln Middle School, 1501 California Ave.): This is the only event to meet and get to know the candidates before the election.
- OPA September Monthly Meeting (Monday Sept. 9, 6 – 8:30pm): Details TBD.
North America’s Biggest Dog Festival to Return to Main St.: This SaMoMirror report details how “Attendees Can Participate in a 100-Foot Pool Party, Dog Races, a Foam Party for Pups and a Dog Surfing Wave Machine.” OPA will have a table at the event and need community help staffing it. Please reply to this email to volunteer to help. Thanks!
The Street Seen – Now on Main Street Main St.: This look at what has happened on Main St. in the last 6 months details the openings of Apollo Tattoo Studio, Triple Beam Pizza, the Edgemar Restaurant & Lounge, Kids haircut Super Awesome, Free People, some sad closings (like PuzzleZoo) and much more.
Retail Center at 1302-1308 Pico Blvd. Sells for $3.9M: This SaMoMirror report details that it is “Situated at the corner of Pico Boulevard and Euclid Street in the Sunset Park neighborhood, the property, built in 1962, occupies a 13,007 square-foot lot that includes a single-story retail building spanning 7,276 square feet and 12 surface parking spaces.”
Renderings Revealed for 18-story Tower Planned at 1437 6th St.: This UrbanizeLA report details what originated as a Builder’s Remedy project that will be mid-block between Broadway and Santa Monica Blvd.
SMPD Seeks a Few Good Men & Women to Become Officers: “Starting salary range is $85,000 to $135,000. If you’d like to become an officer, there are 4 easy steps.” “We are hiring entry levels and laterals. If you’d like to become an officer, there are Four easy steps: A written test, physical test, background & interview: @joinsmpd” More details here.
The Blue Notebook – A Weekly SMPD Recap August 1-11: Here’s the weekly SMPD blog that includes total weekly service calls, Patrol Operations stats, Homeless Liaison Program (HLP) Team stats, and other notable events.
Draft Safety Element Available for Public Review: The Safety Element is one of the required “elements” or components of the City’s General Plan. The purpose of the Safety Element Update is to address natural hazards and human-made hazards in the built environment. The Safety Element focuses primarily on the hazards that are most cited in California State Laws pertaining to the Safety Element of the General Plan and to federal requirements for Local Hazard Mitigation Planning. The draft Safety Element Update is available for a 45 day public review period ending on September 30, 2024. Click here to review the draft Safety Element.
Things To Do This Week:
- Coffee with a Cop (Tuesday 10am – 1pm): Target @ 5th & Broadway; Confirm time & place on their social channels because we have not seen SMPD post the details yet: facebook.com/santamonicapd
- Housing Programs Office Hours at Virginia Avenue Park (Wednesday 4:30pm): Housing staff will be available for monthly “Office Hours” to assist applicants, in English and Spanish, with questions about the City’s Below Market Housing (BMH) and Preserving Our Diversity (POD) programs. These sessions will take place on select Wednesdays at Virginia Avenue Park (VAP) from May to August. The goal of this effort is to better support community members that wish to connect with staff in-person about these programs but are unable to make it to City Hall during normal business hours. More details here.
- Free Walk-In Legal Clinic (Wednesday 4:30 – 7pm): Santa Monica residents can meet one on one with a lawyer from Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles for help with HOUSING issues. More details here.
OPA & City Meetings:
- Commission on Sustainability, Environmental Justice, and the Environment (Monday 7pm): More details here.
- Architectural Review Board Meeting (Monday 7pm): More details here.
- Audit Subcommittee Meeting (Tuesday 6pm): More details here on the quarterly meeting.
- OPA Connects Meeting (Wednesday 12pm): Here is the Zoom link where Melissa Spagnuolo (Chair of the 28 Olympics for the City) will be in attendance to discuss all things LA28.
