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Wednesday, August 4, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. The Granada Hills North Neighborhood Council Planning and Land Use Management
(PLUM) Committee will be holding a community meeting on the property to discuss JETS’
application to operate a trade school with a residential dormitory that will accommodate up to
250 male students aged 15 to 21plus 58 full-time staff and 30 part-time staff.
Our Next Board Meeting: Our next Regular Board Meeting is Monday, August 30, 2010 at 6:30 pm. Rinaldi Adult Center - Auditorium Parking on the corner of Andasol and Rinaldi. Please join us as we continue the GHNNC Speaker Program. GHNNC invites all stakeholders to bring a can of food with them to our meetings to donate to local food banks.
Interested in Participating on the GHNNC Board? We are actively looking for candidates interested in serving on our board for the following positions:
Board of Water and Power Commissioners Approve Revised Changes to City Water Conservation Ordinance Watering Days to be Based on Street Address, Rebates Increased, and Phases of Ordinance Simplified
The proposed changes will consolidate two phases in the current Ordinance, bringing the total number of phases down from six to five. Phases of the Ordinance correspond with severity of water shortage, with each increase in phase containing stricter conservation measures. The proposed changes will also shift the days on which watering with sprinklers is allowed for odd and even-numbered addresses under Phases I, II and III of the proposed new ordinance. "These changes respond to a direct request from the City Council and are intended to provide greater flexibility to our customers while they continue saving water," said Lee Kanon Alpert, President of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners. "The Commission has requested and staff has agreed to keep us regularly informed on how the changes are being implemented and whether our conservation targets are being met." Presently, Los Angeles is in Phase III of the current Ordinance, restricting LADWP customers to outdoor watering with sprinklers twice-weekly. The proposed new Ordinance would allow watering three times per week on specific days based on street address, and with specific time limits based on type of watering nozzle. Under the proposed new Phase II restrictions, customers whose street addresses end with an odd number – 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 – will be permitted to use their sprinkler systems on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, before 9 a.m.and after 4 p.m. Customers whose addresses end in even numbers – 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 – will be permitted to do so on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Addresses ending in fractions will be treated as whole numbers and observe the same day restrictions as others on their same side of the street, (ie: 4321 ½ would be regarded as 4321, an odd-numbered address.) Sprinkler time limits under the new Phase II restrictions will be based on the type of nozzle used in the system. Spray head sprinklers and bubblers, which are non-conserving models, will be limited to 8 minutes per cycle and one cycle per day per watering station. Standard rotors and multi-stream rotary heads will be limited to 15 minutes per cycle and up to two cycles per day per watering station. The typical single-family home has non-conserving spray head sprinklers. In an effort to better assist our customers, LADWP will increase the rebate on water-conserving sprinkler nozzles to $8/nozzle, which covers the purchase price. Please visit www.LADWP.com/rwr for more details. All other components of the Ordinance, including the prohibited uses of water, will remain the same. Watering with sprinklers will continue to be restricted to hours before 9:00 a.m. and after 4:00 p.m., regardless of the watering day. Hand-watering, using garden hoses fitted with shut-off nozzle devices, remains permissible any day of the week before 9:00 a.m. and after 4:00 p.m. On May 18, the Board approved proposed changes to the Ordinance that recommended shifting watering days based on street address as a means of minimizing pressure fluctuations in the water distribution system. On July 6, the Los Angeles City Council referred the matter back to the Department with motions to merge Phases II and III of the current Ordinance and include three designated watering days per week for even- and odd-numbered street addresses under a revised Phase II in the new Ordinance. The policy changes approved by the Board today respond to the City Council's requests. The proposed changes will go into effect upon approval by City Council and concurrence by the Mayor.
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The Beautification Committee is launching a Graffiti Watch program. Your help is needed to stop graffiti now. When you see graffiti, contact Your Local "Graffiti Watchers" and have graffiti removed in 48 Hours:
FREE Tote Bag | Take the LA Stormwater Survey! The City of Los Angeles Stormwater Program is conducting a customer satisfaction survey and they need your input!
March 2, 2010 Election Results (OFFICIAL) The following results are final results that have been posted on the City Clerks Website. We are now in a challenge period and will be fully certified should we pass the challenge period without and challenges. We will keep you posted. Click here for the Official List at the L.A. City Clerk's website.
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Beginning in February 2010, URS, Corporation, a geotechnical consultant for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), will be performing geologic and geotechnical engineering exploration in a portion of the hillsides on the west side of the Van Norman Reservoir Complex (See map on following PDF link). Geologic and geotechnical engineering data obtained from this investigation will be used to design the proposed Bull Creek Extension Channel realignment and for proposed future work related to the Granada Hills Reservoir and Los Angeles Reservoir Division Dam. For more information, click here.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Board of Water and Power Commissioners today approved a revised proposal to change the City of Los Angeles’ Water Conservation Ordinance. The proposed changes, which were approved by the Board and will now be forwarded to the City Council for review, will simplify the law’s water conservation phases and change the schedules for permissible outdoor watering with sprinklers.
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Some residents in Granada Hills have reported foul odors coming from the area around Sunshine Canyon Landfill.