Countering Coscto

The Westfield Group's plan to build a 146,000-square-foot Costco to anchor its Warner Center expansion is creating quite a stir. Gregory J.Wilcox in the Daily News.

Some members of the Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council are so riled up about the project, they've crafted their own site plan to counter the one unveiled last summer for the 31-acre site bordered by Erwin Street, Owensmouth Avenue and Victory and Topanga Canyon boulevards.

The site plan was designed by Dennis DiBiase, co-chairman of the neighborhood council's planning, land use and mobility committee. He's also a partner at Van Tilburg Banvard & Soderbergh Architects, a Santa Monica-based firm noted for designing retail and commercial office buildings and interiors.