Neighborhood Council Follow Ups FAA's NextGen Loses In Court with Los Angeles.

NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL UPDATE

LILLY LARSEN

Local Neighborhood Councils are a proactive way to become involved in your relationship with the City of Los Angeles and with your neighbors. Over the past 13 years, our local paper - The Neighborhood News has been providing transparency and insight to your doorstep from the CD10 neighborhood councils within the Neighborhood News borders.

United Neighborhoods Neighborhood Council UNNC Mid-City Neighborhood Council MINC Olympic Park Neighborhood Council OPNC West Adams Neighborhood Council WANC

You may wonder what the NCs have been up to this past year. Like the rest of us, they have adapted to the new restrictions and all meetings have switched to zoom yet they still meet once a month. Here are some of the highlights from their activities...

Steven Meeks, President of the West Adams Neighborhood Council (WANC), and Mel Tillekeratne brought the Shower of Hope Project to the Church on

Adams and La Brea. Shower of Hope provides mobile showers for our unhoused Angelenos. Tillekeratne and Meeks had worked on locating a Shower of Hope unit in the WANC area for the past two years. There are only three Showers of Hope units in all of CD10.

Another outreach effort with Meeks and fellow neighbors is cultivatingthe Good Earth Community Garden on Clyde and Boden by Jefferson. The LA Community Garden

Council and LA Green Grounds Teaching Garden

are the nonprofits that run this garden on DWP property. Luckily, Whole Foods donated $25k to help support the Good Earth.

Let’s head a little east of WANC. Here, we have UNNC. The United Neighborhoods NC advocated to preserve two historic houses and conserve the character of their century-old neighborhoods while at the same time encouraging new housing. Recently, a beautiful historic craftsman was set for demolition - to be turned into an apartment building that would compromise the architectural integrity of the neighborhood. Fortunately,

LOS ANGELES WINS LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

DIANNE V. LAWRENCE

Since it began over four years ago, TNN has been reporting on the nightmare, one lane, air traffic highway called Nextgen which has been flying over residents in Malibu, Santa Monica, Culver City, West Adams and around downtown LA.

These communities woke up to planes flying at low altitudes, single file above their homes every 4 – 5 minutes at its worst, and into the night. The planes coming from the east (Asia, Hawaii) and the north cannot fly directly into the airport from the Santa Monica Bay. They have to fly over LA, turn around downtown and join the landing flights arriving from the east and headed west to the airport. They used to fly in from multiple air paths and at higher altitudes before turning and joining. In anticipation of increased air traffic, the FAA's program Nextgen changed all that by creating one easier-to-manage path and placing the flights at lower altitudes so they could turn sooner to join the lower altitudes of the incoming flights closer to the airport.

Nextgen was rolled out across America to meet the needs of the endlessly growing air traffic and the airlines' bottom line. The only problem is that as the sky becomes more populated with a variety of flying vehicles - increased flights, air taxis, drones, news and taxi helicopters - the

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