6/23 a steady stream of pedestrians (today and all week) with large groups gathering in the middle of the road and sidewalks in front of the last house on Beachwood house cars doing ranch business are streaming past. The guard does nothing to move these people along. Resident had to reschedule two business meetings due to chronic noise outside of home Office. Implemented new protocol for the security company is not operative. Pictures show the front of this house has been turned – without permits or EIR – into a public park entrance. This report by Kent- Theft of gardening supplies from edge of house, Westshire. (report by Kerk).
parking violations that pose a safety risk. Illegal shoot in middle of hairpin curve. reported by Breen about weekend of June 18-19. Breen wrote Ryu office.
one more illegal van on upper Beachwood, June 17. Reported by Veltri.- June 17 before 10AM: armed, masked confrontation on Rogerton–an airbnb house: the one with the long, long (illegal) wall with the peek-holes in it. No final word on this strange incident.
- official LAPD stats from April 1-June 14: 4 burglaries or thefts from vehicles
- June 14 Big Safeway bus up here twice this morning. Talked to the driver and got office number 323 719 9131. They plead ignorance even though the street is clearly posted. Report by J.Conrad
- June 14: spent condom on street on 2800 block of Beachwood
- June 11 Just caught a VERY aggressive tourist climbing my back fence trying to get pics of the Hollywood Sign. reported by B. Faix.
- Early June: damage to front fence in front of Schwartz home on Upper Beachwood.
- June 3: Deronda – many passers-by at 9PM, entering open gate at Deronda end. Report by Alexis
- Many tresspassers get around the gate at end of Beachwood after it is closed – one comes out, others go in. Report by C. Kent
- Memorial Day Weekend. Upwards of 3000 pedestrians per day according to resident counts. Cacophony of noise at the “gate” at the dead end of Beachwood
- Emergency rescue little boy hiker who fell on Mem Day weekend
- Cars completely blocking Canyon Lake Drive for photo ops
- Last week May: Prankster climbs “D” of sign for self-promotion. Copters overhead for 60 min. Arrest but then no further information.
- Fence broken by visiting car: Schwartz home upper Beachwood
- May 15: two long Arcadia Busses block entrance for over an hour while trying to turn around. Residents and Stable blocked – no egress – for over an hour while 100 school kids frollicked on the easement. These two busses then park, illegally, for more than half a day. about 100 school children were left off to walk the trail
- May: 4 copters and 9 fire trucks to rescue a woman hiker-turned-rock-climber in Hollywoodland Gifted Park. 90 min copters overhead at dinnertime
- 2nd Wednesday in May: Market burglarized. Serious taking!
- Two burglaries this weekend: one at My Fair Lady Flowers and one on Hollyridge at Doron’s construction site where a LOT of material and tools were taken.
- Second to last week in April: a burglary foiled.
- Last week in April: Charlie the dog wounded by a tourist drone in Hollywood Dog Park. How do we know for sure they were tourists? They could not speak English – or did not – before they ran off. Dog had to be taken to the Vet.
- skipped a few weeks here, but incidents continue: cars parked in driveways, litter, people in the streets, animosity created by “bandaids” city applies
- nearly every weekend: illegal drones fly over from “the vista”. a crash would cause a fire from the lithium ion battery
- Sun Mar 6: unlucky British visitor in a Rolls left his trunk unlocked up on Durand only to return and find the leather bag in there – complete with laptop – gone! Vanished. He said he thought it was a nice neighborhood. Sad.
- Sat Mar 5: walkers 5 abreast in Upper B’wd: that is Jwalking. Skateboarders careening down curves, and one smoking. Report by S. Schwartz
- Sat Mar 5 – 3-4 boys absconded with a UPS package off Laura and “T”‘s door stoop on B’wd. Jeff from the Antique Store was brave in confronting said boys and the package was retrieved and returned! Jeff showed amazing bravery and the boys showed amazing chutzpah, high fiving one another at that Market and tossing the Amazon box on the ground. Alex helped, too.
- Week of Feb 28: car vandalized. Report by Peter Desberg.
- Tues, Feb 23 At approximately 11:15 this morning, a northbound car on the 2800 block of N. Beachwood Drive decided to pass the car in front of it and jumped into the oncoming lane of our narrow, two lane street. The southbound driver, who narrowly missed being hit head-on, screamed “Are you out of your fucking mind? This is a residential neighborhood—there are children here!” Much honking and screaming ensued. Report by Hope Anderson.
- Mon, Feb 22, Gate at top of Beachwood being propped open and just seemingly shut with a string. Reported to Mike Shull
- Sat-Sun Feb 20-21: 1000s of visiting people passing through Beachwood. Counts beginning. 1000s!
- Thur, Feb 18, Sprinter vans and no TCP numbers illegal and, on top of that, illegally parked at Canyon Lake Drive lookout
- Tues, Feb 16, a resident as far down as 2700 block of Hollyridge reports that visitors circle back down Hollyridge to get out and, since his driveway slopes down, it appears to the visitors as a chute for their trash. He is constantly picking up trash now.
- Sun, Feb 14 report on last night’s crowd: over a dozen people jumped the fence on the south side of the ad hoc “Vista” on Canyon Lake Drive to watch the sunset (report by Rio Phior)
- Sat., Feb 13 at 12PM noon: 104 people in the street between Village and upper Rogerton (report by Sarajane Schwartz)
- Sat., Feb 13 11:45AM: 30 hikers and guide in the street up Ledgewood (report by Rose Ware)
- Tue., Feb 9 day: trespassers all the way to the sign, video’d, but not ticketed. Announced on channel 5 news. (report by Rose Ware)
- Sat, Feb 6: driver swerved and honked to avoid skateboarder zooming into middle of intersection at The Village. Yelling ensued, then laughter among 4 skateboarders (report by Soren Kerk)
- Early Feb.: neighbor had their little girl spat on by a tourist who parked in a resident’s driveway and was asked to move. (report by Rio Phior)
- 2015: Residents being told by visitors that they (visitors) would return and burn down their home
- 2015: one man was struck- need more detail
- Feb 8: resident reports that neighbor got into a physical altercation with a visitor who parked in his driveway and refused to move by saying he could park wherever he wanted.
- Continual: people knocking on doors to ask for a bathroom
- Continual: people sitting on/in residents’ yards
- Upper Beachwood uniqueness & distinction from official GP entrances: no sidewalks on majority, no legally constructed park entrance; no parking for visitors; no bathrooms; no assigned Park Ranger (just a solitary non-uniformed person sitting adjacent his personal vehicle who is not instructed to collect data or distribute informative city-produced maps pointed to the official entrance to GP, and who has thus far cost taxpayers $$$$$).
- Result of 5 years of non-contested GPS + City promotion results in more than a mile of visitor street walking, making the residential street resemble a national park.
- Sat., Feb 6: 20 min late afternoon walk count: 95 visitors walking in the street
- openly smoking marijuana smoking witnessed, with pipe passing, reported, and ignored by witnessing Ranger
♦ PAST Suspicious, dangerous, and expensive events (in addition to routine law violation)
- 2 report of physical altercations
- 2 fires set in the past 4 years. No arrests.
- 2-5 (exact number please) helicopter rescues of hikers in the HOLLYWOODLAND gifted park
- One careening truck without breaks causing much damage and clean up on Beachwood, but in the early morning hours so no one was walking
- several (report please) cases of property damage to residents vehicles and homes
♣ Suggestions to the City –
- City to lead approach to Google and other GPS services permanently to route visitors to official entrances to GP
- City to lead approach to private websites that appear to drive tourists to these streets