Woodland Hills Neighborhood Council: August 2008 Archives

From the Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighbood Council's Web site -

The Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council held its "Panel of Visionaries" recently and challenged a full house crowd to partner in establishing a "Great Streets!" vision.

Joyce Pearson, chair of the Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council, opened the session by defining "Great Streets!" as "streets that connect us, that get us where we need to go and that are destinations, places that bring us together and create a Great Community."

Paula Daniels, Public Works Commissioner, presented the city's Green Streets program and challenged the community to partner with the City in applying new technologies and skills to the opportunities that face us in improving the quality of life through street design.

Doug Failing, Director of Caltrans District 7, spoke enthusiastically of the Caltrans commitment to local issues and his commitment to addressing the whole system, not simply the streets. "Anything you do, do comprehensively. Nothing happens in a vacuum," he said.

Mott Smith, a self-proclaimed "greedy developer," offered examples from Pasadena to Eagle Rock to Atwater Village on how communities have worked with developers to bring in the "good" partners by addressing parking code, the planning process and the rules regarding parcels.