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  • How to recycle your Christmas Tree in Culver City

    Jan 2, 2025

    Culver city offers curbside collection of your Christmas tree. Residents can put their tree in a green waste bin for collection on their regular refuse, recycling, and organics waste collection day. Curbside collection for Culver City until January 311.Park Your Tree program Residents can drop off their tree at the following parks: Fox Hills Park, Syd Kronenthal Park, Culver West Park, or Veterans Park. Before dropping off, residents should remove all decorations, tinsel, and stand from the...

  • West Basin Announces Six Events To Give Away Free Rain Barrels

    Jan 2, 2025

    The West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) is making water conservation accessible to people who want an easy way to incorporate sustainability into their lives. West Basin will host six drive-through rain barrel pick-up events at locations throughout the service area to give away 1,500 barrels. The program begins on Saturday, November 16, 2024, and concludes on Saturday, January 25, 2025. Interested participants must register at www.westbasin.org/rain-barrels to qualify for up to two...

  • Culver City Unveils New Monthly Residential Development Pipeline Reports

    Jan 2, 2025

    The City of Culver City launched a new, publicly accessible residential development dashboard, providing residents and stakeholders with an up-to-date, transparent view of housing projects currently under development review. This online report, which will be updated monthly, details key information on each project, including its type, status, and the number of units, with a breakdown of affordable versus market-rate housing units. As of November 2024, the pipeline includes 26 active residential...

  • Two Important Development Updates for Fox Hills Residents in January

    Jan 2, 2025

    The 5757 Uplander Development- Community Input Zoom (Project is a 1,077 unit mixed use proposal with three, 7 story buildings). https://bit.ly/5757UplanderScopingMeeting. Comments may be submitted in advance of the meeting at [email protected] 2). Based on the initial study of this project, the city determined that an Environmental Impact Report was required due to the potential for significant impact on several issues including Air Quality, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use,...

  • Fox Hills Mixed-Use Residential & Commercial Project Approved

    Dec 19, 2024

    In November, the City Council approved for a mixed-use residential and commercial development project in the Fox Hills neighborhood to move forward. The 2.23-acre project at 5700 Hannum Avenue and Buckingham Parkway will include 309 residential units and 5,600 square feet of commercial space. Plans include 27 very-low-income affordable units. Developers state the 6-story project creates a vibrant transition between commercial uses to the north and west, and residential uses to the east for...

  • Fox Hills Mixed-Use Residential & Commercial Project Approved

    Dec 12, 2024

    Following a public hearing, the City Council approved for a mixed-use residential and commercial development project in the Fox Hills neighborhood to move forward. The 2.23-acre project at 5700 Hannum Avenue and Buckingham Parkway will include 309 residential units and 5,600 square feet of commercial space. Plans include 27 very-low-income affordable units. Developers believe the 6-story project creates a vibrant transition between commercial uses to the north and west, and residential uses to...

  • Screenland 5K is Back

    Dec 12, 2024

    In preparation for the Screenland 5K on Oscar Sunday training has begun Find some fellow runners at the free workouts 'running' through February, and consider your costume; dressing like an athlete counts, too. Experienced runner May Wu tethers Sonya Chapnick, who has vision impairment, in first public workshop, last Sunday, at Culver City High School's Olympic track. Screenland 5K trainers Hamid Rostamian and Craig Schoenbaum follow behind at right. Guests of all abilities are invited to...

  • Paddle Tennis Courts To Close for Two Days

    Dec 12, 2024

    FYI, sound mitigation panels are currently scheduled to be installed at the Elenda paddle tennis courts starting tomorrow Thursday December 12. The project will take 2 days and the courts will reopen on Saturday, December 14th....

  • New Installation Lights Up Media Park

    Dec 12, 2024

    Downtown just got a little brighter! Walk, ride or bike by Media Park and check out the new lighting installation that highlights the beauty of the existing trees and infrastructure. The project encompasses 11 trees, three pergolas and 682 strands that total 34,100 LED lights! The project was completed by the City's Economic Development Team and is slated to remain for the foreseeable future as a means to connect the park to Downtown Culver City and encourage activation of the space. Stayed...

  • Free Drive Through Hazardous Waste Disposal

    Dec 5, 2024

    Culver City residents can safely dispose of household hazardous waste and electronic items at a free county-sponsored roundup event on Saturday, Dec. 7. The drive-through event will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Wende Museum, located at 10808 Culver Blvd. in Culver City. Attendees should enter the parking lot from Elenda Street. Accepted items include common household hazardous materials and e-waste such as: Paints, cleaners, and other chemicals. Batteries and fluorescent light b...

  • Metro Moves to Cancel Metro-Funding Grant

    Stephen Hadland, Culver City Observer Editor & Publisher|Dec 5, 2024
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    Metro's Board of Planning and Programming Committee unanimously approved a recommendation to punish Culver City by revoking $435,000 in grant funds previously awarded to the city for its Move Culver City transportation project. Metro LA granted Culver City MAT funds in the amount of $1.96 million for improvements related to mass transit in the downtown Culver City area near Metro's E-Line station Studies conducted by the city claimed an increase in biking, walking, and bus travel that did not re...

  • City Works to Create Complete Streets Design Guidelines

    Nov 28, 2024

    The Public Works Department is creating Complete Streets Design Guidelines to ensure that future investment within the public right-of-way is safe, sustainable, and universally accessible. The Guidelines will unify the City's various mobility plans and policies into a consolidated set of design and implementation standards applicable to both public and private development projects in the public right-of-way. Complete Streets Design Guidelines Draft Now Available, go to: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/htt...

  • Culver City Gains Ground in Housing the Homeless

    Nov 14, 2024

    Culver City continues work to address and curehomelessness. This is evidenced by Culver City's reduction in its residents' experiencing homelessness. Since Culver City declared a homelessness emergency in January 2023, the City has taken unprecedented action towards solving homelessness, including opening permanent and supportive housing sites, opening a safe-sleep site, providing shelter at two leased local motels, launching a mobile crisis response team, street-based healthcare, and extensive...

  • City of Culver City Citizen Portal For Online Permitting Service

    Nov 14, 2024

    Culver City is pleased to offer residents, businesses, and visitors access to permitting services online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To use ALL the services we provide you must register and create a user account. You can view information, get questions answered and access limited services as an anonymous user. We trust this will provide you with a new, higher level of service that makes living and working in Culver City convenient and informative. To access the application for to use Culver...

  • Oct 31, 2024

    Help BCR advocate for stronger environmental laws in Culver City to combat the pollution affecting Ballona Creek. It's crucial that the city hears from our volunteers and supporters who care about protecting the environment and reducing pollution in our cherished creek. Make sure to respond by November 1. Survey link:...

  • Bus Detours During Construction

    Oct 31, 2024

    Bus detours have begun and will continue through the end of construction. All transit buses will detour onto Venice Boulevard between Clarington Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard. These detours will affect Culver CityBus Lines 1, 1C1, 5, and 7, LADOT CE437A, Big Blue Bus Route 17, and Metro Line 617. In general, Culver CityBus buses will use existing Metro bus stops on Venice. Use the NextCCBus app or visit the Culver CityBus website for updated bus stops, detours and closure i...

  • City Earns Two Awards for Financial Excellence by Government Finance Officers Association

    Oct 31, 2024

    The City of Culver City is pleased to announce it has once again won a pair of awards for excellence by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for Fiscal Year 2022-2023. For the second year in a row, the City earned the award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting. The Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) continues to make the City's financial statements more accessible to the public. The award represents a significant achievement by the City. In order...

  • Farragut Connector Replacement Project Completed

    Oct 31, 2024

    The Farragut Connector Replacement Project in Culver City is now complete. The Project, which was improving a section of pathway that provides bicyclists and pedestrians access along Farragut Drive between Jasmine Avenue and Jackson Avenue, began in Spring 2024 by the Public Works Division of the City of Culver City. It included demolition of the existing path, improvements and construction of new fencing, pedestrian-oriented lighting, plants and trees with an irrigation system, a combined...

  • City Looks for Input to Streetscape Improvements in Arts District

    Oct 24, 2024

    The community is invited to discuss (and brainstorm!) about potential enhancements to the streetscape medians located in the Culver City Arts District between Helms Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard. The intent of the meeting is to collaborate with local stakeholders to re-envision these medians into a drought tolerant, low maintenance, signature amenity in the District. The meeting will be held on Saturday, October 19th, from10:30 AM to 12 PM. The meeting will be held at The Parks Project,...

  • Tito's Mexicana Raises Almost $23,000 for the Culver City Arts

    Oct 17, 2024

    A record turnout of over 1,200 locals attended the 7th annual Tito's Tacos Fiesta Mexicana was held last Friday, October 4 at Tito's Tacos in Culver City. Reminder that Tito's Tacos and Tito's Handmade Vodka team up for this wonderful fundraiser raising nearly $23,000 to benefit the Culver City Arts Foundation (100% of the profits go to the nonprofit), and this year was an even bigger success than last year! Please see below & you may also find high rez images from the event at this link...

  • Lendlease and Aware Super Close $316M Financing for Habitat a Culver City Mixed-Use Project

    Sep 26, 2024

    Habitat is an office, multifamily and retail project at 3401 S. La Cienega Boulevard. Scheduled for completion in 2026, Habitat will comprise a six-story office building, a 260-unit, 12-story luxury apartment complex and 2,900 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant spaces. Lendlease and joint venture partner Aware Super closed on $316 million in construction funding for Habitat. Habitat, designed by SHoP Architects and Steinberg Hart, will feature a, a six-story creative office...

  • City of Culver City Wins Award for Project Homekey Efforts

    Sep 19, 2024

    The City of Culver City was recognized at 2024 Annual Homes Within Reach Awards hosted by Southern California Association of Non Profit Housing (SCANPH) for its work on Project Homekey, 73 total units of housing for chronically unhoused persons (38 interim housing units and 35 permanent supportive housing units). The Homes Within Reach Awards recognize and honor excellence in affordable housing. Culver City staff, Mayor Yasmine-Imani McMorrin, members of the Project Homekey lead operations...

  • Culver City's Annual La Ballona Coastal Cleanup Day

    Sep 19, 2024

    Culver City's Public Works Environmental Programs and Operations (EPO) Division invites you to the world's largest environmental volunteer event. Culver City's annual La Ballona Creek Cleanup event will take place on Saturday, September 21st, from 9 AM to 12 PM. Every year, as many as 200 volunteers come together at five various sites within the Culver City to take action to remove unsightly and harmful debris from our beaches and inland waterways. California Coastal Cleanup Day is coordinated...

  • Move Culver City Moves Down Boulevard

    Stephen Hadland, Culver City Observer Editor & Publisher|Sep 19, 2024

    Move Culver City enters next phase with signing, stripping, and traffic signal modifications are coming to Culver Blvd between Duquesne Ave and Canfield Ave and Washington Blvd between Canfield Ave and La Cienega Blvd. The improvements include: A protected, 24/7 bus-bike lane on Culver Blvd from Duquesne Ave to Canfield Ave and on Washington Blvd from Canfield Ave to Helms Ave. Extension of the existing bus-bike lanes on Washington Blvd from La Cienega Ave eastward to La Cienega Blvd (approx....

  • Culver City Questions What to do with former Retting Gunstore

    Sep 19, 2024

    The City of Culver City is seeking input from the community on what it should do with the City-owned property at 11029 Washington Boulevard, which it purchased in 2023. • Use the online visioning form to share your ideas with the City. The property is a 0.2777-acre parcel containing a 4,660 square foot, one-story building with a former retail and office use built in 1953. The site is a corner lot with 20 parking spaces. The parcel is zoned Mixed-Use Corridor 1 - 35 dwelling units per acre. G...

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