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The controversial and long-delayed effort to streamline traffic in three heavily traveled Westside communities has taken a tentative step forward with the release of a state study that claims that major improvements on Santa Monica Boulevard would cause little adverse environmental impact.
Oversized signs on stores and office buildings along a stretch of San Vicente Boulevard will have to be scaled down or removed in coming months, according to Los Angeles officials.
The City Councils of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills say the economic well-being and quality of life in the two cities will be damaged if the state Department of Transportation carries out a plan to widen Santa Monica Boulevard.
Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to ban large trucks from Balboa Boulevard between Rinaldi Street and San Fernando Road in Granada Hills.
The La Canada Flintridge City Council is considering forming a community redevelopment agency to finance extensive improvements along Foothill Boulevard, the city's main thoroughfare.
Schickler/Meringoff Properties has purchased a six-story office building and garage at 8455 Beverly Blvd. for about $3.4 million.
Operating on the principle that half a race is better than none, more than 1,500 runners are expected to take part in the San Fernando Valley half-marathon Sunday over a 13.1-mile course that stretches from Woodland Hills to Studio City.
The half-marathon Boulevard Run, the first race of its kind in the San Fernando Valley, produced more than the usual assortment of blisters and shin splints Sunday morning.
Caltrans and the county Transportation Commission have scheduled a June 23 public hearing on proposals for getting traffic flowing on Beach Boulevard.
"Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it," says a character in Ann Beattie's short story, "Snow."
A passenger suffered minor injuries Sunday evening when a twin-engine Beechcraft made a forced landing on Seal Beach Boulevard in Seal Beach, clipped a telephone pole and tree, tearing off its wing as its gear collapsed, and then skidded to a stop over the curb, authorities and witnesses said.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dealt a setback Thursday to an Encino homeowners' group seeking to control the height of signs along Ventura Boulevard.
Design and landscaping controls and a ban on billboards are among the regulations that could be imposed on Ventura Boulevard development under an agreement hammered out Thursday night.
A convicted rapist, a suspected pimp, a 68-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were among the 119 people arrested in a five-day crackdown on prostitution along Sepulveda Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles police said Saturday.
Carson officials are worried that a revised plan to tear up the city's major north-south artery for an oil pipeline would disrupt city beautification efforts and hurt businesses that line the street.