The new board of directors for the Neighborhood Council Valley Village was sworn in a few weeks ago and board membes are inviting residents to let them know their concerns and opinions.

Mansionization in Valley Village was a hot-button issue in the election last October, which saw a record 1,000 stakeholders vote and a board that does not support mansionization was elected.

Last April, the previous neighborhood council board passed a motion to exempt the area west of Laurel Canyon Boulevard from an anti-mansionization ordinance that the Los Angeles Planning Commission later approved and the L.A. Council will consider soon.

Some residents in the Valley Village area have been constructing large, multi-story homes or expanding existing ones, often building right up to their property lines.

The Neighborhood Council Valley Village meets at 6:30 p.m. every fourth Wednesday at Colfax Elementary School, 11724 Addision St., North Hollywood.

For more information, visit www.myvalleyvillage.com.

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BY SUZANNE LEWIS
Member, Neighborhood Council Valley Village

A record number of residents showed up at the polls Oct. 17 to elect eight members to the Neighborhood Council Valley Village who have promised to stop mansionization.

A total of 995 votes were cast, with seven provisional ballots. The polls were at Colfax Elementary School.

The new board of directors – which ran as the “Slate of Eight” - are: member at large- Paul Hatfield; business owners Richard Gauthier, Annalisa Engelback and Andrew Sacher; community service-based organization representative David C. Engelbach; and renters Tony Braswell, Suzanne Lewis and Steven L. Stokes.

The new board members vowed to protect local neighborhoods and put a halt to mansionization, which has been a significant issue in the community.

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