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The Lindberg Park Neighborhood Association would like to invite you to a Community Meeting at the Stone House on Tuesday, May 13th, 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Besides covering regular Lindberg Park and Association-related business, we are honored to have the following city officials coming to speak and answer questions:

Captain Andrew Bellante and other officers from the Culver City Police Department
Mayor Dan O’Brien
Christine Parra, Culver City Fire Department Emergency Preparedness Coordinator to discuss general Emergency Preparation and emergency-evacuation preparation.

If you have any specific questions for our guests, please feel free to email them to us beforehand at lindberg.park@gmail.com and we will do our best to ensure they are addressed at the meeting.

We hope you can join us on May 13th!

2024 News

Oct 6: Lindberg Park Community Meeting: City Council Candidate Forum

On October 6, 2024, the Lindberg Park Neighborhood Association Board will sponsor a City Council candidate forum in advance of the November 5th election. The forum will take place at 3:30pm in the Stone House at Lindberg Park. We are very excited for our community to have an opportunity to hear how the candidates, if elected, will address the issues that matter most to us.

Due to practical and time considerations, we will be asking the candidates predetermined questions and each will have an opportunity to respond in a set amount of time. It is very important to us that Lindberg Park community members have an opportunity to provide input into what these questions will be.

The LPNA Board will be taking your responses to our online survey that was live until September 23rd and synthesize them into a group of questions which encapsulate your primary areas of concern. While we won’t be able to cover every topic, we hopefully can address the issues of most importance to you.

Thank you for your input and we look forward to seeing you on October 6th at the Stone House!

Aug 24: City Parks Plan Community Meeting (Lindberg Park on 10/2)

Save the dates for our next Community Meetings this fall!

Come join us to learn about the Draft Culver City Parks Plan, get updates on the community survey findings and feedback, and the next steps in the planning process. RSVP to a Community Meeting.

Fall 2024 Meeting 2

Meeting Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 (Save to your Calendar)

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Location: Lindberg Park (5041 Rhoda Way, Culver City, CA 90230)

Format: In-Person

July 4: Lindberg Park Block Party

Our neighborhood 4th of July celebration with food, music, and good fun!

https://lindbergparkblockparty.com

Lindberg Park Block Party

Aug 18: Sidewalk Around Lindberg Park Not Funded

Please see the message below from the Assistant City Manager regarding the proposed park sidewalk.

Dear Neighbors,

Thank you for your previous comments on the proposed new sidewalk around Lindberg Park (both in favor of and against the sidewalk). The City has been notified that we did not win the grant that would have funded the project. At this time, the project does not have any funding and is not part of the City’s planned capital improvement projects.

You can checkout all the City’s planned capital improvement projects on the City’s new online portal. Please fill out our Budget Input Box Suggestion Form if you have ideas for capital improvement projects for the City to consider in future budgets.

Please let me know if you have any additional comments or questions.

Best,

Jesse Mays | Assistant City Manager | City of Culver City | * jesse.mays@culvercity.org | ( 310-253-6000

Jun 2: Community Meeting

Here are summary minutes from the 06/02/2024 Lindberg Park Community Meeting:

Dave Winslow: Dave, with assistance from the Block Captains, rated all damaged sidewalks in the neighborhood and submitted the list to the City for repairs of the most dangerous spots. The City has replaced four damaged sidewalks to date and will re-start the project this July.
Sara Alexander reported that the July 4th Parade and Block Party is on schedule. Residents can go to the Block Party's website, https://lindbergparkblockparty.com/ to volunteer or donate.
Ted Stevens, Director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services: Ted stated that the new AC in the Stone House has been installed ahead of the hot summer, and that the vegetation on Ocean Drive between Westwood and Overland has been removed to eliminate illegal camping, etc., and will be maintained. He said that all City playgrounds will be redesigned in the coming years and that there will be community meetings (probably this summer) to gather our input on any Lindberg Park redesign. Finally, he mentioned that the City will be sponsoring a Father's Day event at Vet's Park on 06/15/2024. Click here for details: https://www.culvercity.org/Events-directory/2024-Fathers-Day-Lunch-and-Games
CCPD: Captain Andrew Bellante spoke about the success of the City's Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Project in stopping dozens of stolen vehicles and vehicles that have been connected to a violent crime. Please see the attached CCPD presentation that Capt Bellante, Lt Michael Van Hook, and Officers Kieran Rock and Jaime Zuckerman reviewed with us.
Arames White-Shearin, Assistant to the City Manager on Homelessness. Arames talked about the City's Mobile Crisis Team (https://www.culvercity.org/Services/Housing-Homeless-Human-Services/Mobile-Crisis-Team). Go here for more information regarding City Homeless Services: https://www.culvercity.org/Services/Housing-Homeless-Human-Services
Vice Mayor Dan O'Brien and Councilman Freddy Puza: Councilman Puza spoke about the Drone Light Show that will be held Downtown on July 5th and the need for greater equity and inclusion for seniors in Culver City. Puza and Vice Mayor O’Brien fielded questions, and addressed concerns around the Better Overland bike path project. O’Brien committed to emphasizing to the City Council that the neighbors in our area are very much in favor of keeping the center turning lane in order to minimize Overland traffic congestion. He also said that the upcoming City budget will most likely include funding to install a sidewalk on the north side of Ocean Drive, extending from the footbridge to Overland. This will facilitate a safer school drop off and pickup. He emphasized that no trees would be removed for this project.
Ross announced a Culver City City Council candidate forum being held on June 26th at the Elks Lodge on Washington Place. Use this link for details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nonpartisan-culver-city-council-candidate-forum-tickets-857080580087. Note that LPNA is also planning to hold our own City Council candidate forum in the fall – most likely in late September/early October.
With Nina Harvey leaving the Lindberg Park Neighborhood Association Board (thanks for serving Nina!), we now have a Board seat opening. If you're interested in joining the LPNA Board as an at-large member, then please send an email reply to this address.

CCPD 06-02-24 Presentation.pdf

Lindberg Park Block Party

Apr 2: Lindberg Park Picnic Area Rehabilitation

Source: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CACULVER/bulletins/395e571?reqfrom=share

The Culver City Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department has begun the picnic shelter upgrade project at Lindberg Park.

Demolition of the existing shelter (pictured) will begin the week of April 14, 2024 and we can look forward to a new picnic pavilion in a few months.

Lindberg Park is located at 5041 Rhoda Way, Culver City 90230. For more information, please email Dani Cullens, Parks, Recreation and Community Services Manager or call her at (310) 253-6471. Be sure to follow us on Facebook for more news of upcoming PRCS Department programs and events.

Jan 3: End of Slow Streets Temporary Program

In response to questions that we’ve received about the city’s Slow Streets program and the recent removal of the temporary street signs around Lindberg Park, here is a letter that was sent to the homeowners on or adjacent to the Slow Streets corridors. If you have any further questions or concerns about the Slow Streets program, please direct them to Andrew Maximous in the CC Traffic Dept (Andrew.Maximous@culvercity.org).

Slow Streets Temporary Program Termination 11-29-23.pdf

2023 News

12-15 LPNA End of Year Summary

LPNA End of Year Summary

10-08 Community Meeting

The Lindberg Park Neighborhood Association (LPNA) would like to extend a big THANK YOU to our special guests who spoke and answered questions at our Community Meeting this past Sunday – CC City Councilmembers Göran Eriksson and Dan O’Brien and CCUSD School Board Members Dr. Kelly Kent and Stephanie Laredo. We also want to express our appreciation to Lt. Michael VanHook, Sgt. John Tropeano and Officer Kieran Rock of the Culver City Police Department for presenting their comprehensive crime report and answering questions. And lastly, we want to thank Arames White-Shearin, Assistant to the City Manager on Homelessness, for providing a lot of valuable information and updates on how the city is currently approaching the homelessness crisis. As always, we really appreciate everyone sharing their valuable time, energy, and knowledge to allow our community to better stay connected to city government and the policies that shape our everyday lives.

And a big thank you to those who donated to LPNA. Your generosity will help to make Lindberg Park an even better place to live.

As promised, attached is an electronic copy of CCPD’s presentation with the latest crime statistics and other valuable information. We’ve also attached the informational sheet that Arames provided on the city’s current homelessness initiatives.

Also, as discussed at the meeting, here's the link where you can subscribe to Culver City Committee and Department notifications: City of Culver City

In other news…

Public Works let us know that the sidewalk and lighting repair work that we mentioned was scheduled to begin this week, will now be starting in two weeks.
In answer to the concerns raised about knowing who Block Captains are throughout the neighborhood, we are in the process of revamping how information about our network of BCs is shared with the community and hope to have updates on this soon.

Have a spooky Halloween, a great rest of the year and, remember, in terms of safety in our neighborhood, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING and don’t be afraid to call CCPD.

Links:

CCPD Lindberg Park Community Mtg.pdf

One Page Homeless Services Services.pdf

07-04 Lindberg Park 4th of July Parade and Block Party

Our neighborhood 4th of July celebration with food, music, and good fun! And T-Shirts!

06-08 CCPD at our Community Meeting

For those of you who were not able to attend Thursday evening’s Lindberg Park Neighborhood Association’s Community Meeting with CCPD Chief Jason Sims, attached is a digital copy of the presentation that he and members of his team reviewed with us.

Thank you to all our community members who came out to participate in this important meeting. Thanks again to Chief Sims, as well as Lt. Andrew Bellante and Lt. Brent Arney, for being proactive about setting up the meeting in the wake of recent crimes in/around our neighborhood. And thank you to the large number of officers who were in attendance. CCPD’s interest in meeting with LP residents and answering our questions is very much appreciated and speaks to the solid partnership that has developed between the CCPD, LPNA and our whole community.

Lindberg Park-CCPD community meeting 6-8-23.pdf

Meeting Slides

We’ll see you all at our amazing 4th of July event and remember…IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.

04-23 Safe Routes to School Project Status

After several years of LPNA engagement with the Culver City Traffic Department to improve traffic and pedestrian safety issues caused by the Culver schools-generated traffic, we are happy to announce that the proposed, citywide Safe-Routes-to-School Project is moving forward. Our neighborhood's improvements will include well-defined crosswalks at most intersections, curb extensions at Westwood and Ocean, and also at Ocean and Rhoda, bright-yellow crosswalks at the intersection of Westwood and Ocean, and marked bike lanes. The Project overview and detailed plans for each school location can be found at the Safe-Routes-to-School Project website listed below.

https://www.culvercity.org/City-Hall/Departments/Public-Works/PW-Mobility-Traffic-Engineering-Division/PW-Project-MTE-Safe-Routes-to-School-Signing-Striping-Project

The Traffic Department will finalize this design and send it out for bids in May, submit the winning bid for City Council approval by mid-to-late summer, and commence work soon after. If you have any questions, concerns, or proposed changes, then please contact Andrew Maximous, Mobility & Traffic Engineering Manager at 310-253-5628 or via email at andrew.maximous@culvercity.org.

03-05 Community Meeting

Guests:

Culver City Mayor Albert Vera
Board of Education President Paula Amezola
CCPD Partner Andrew Ballente

Ross Piro, LPNA President

Safe-Routes-to-School

By this time next year the Culver City Traffic Department hopes to complete a Safe-Routes-to-school project in the neighborhood, as part of a proposed, citywide initiative. The project would include well-defined crosswalks at most intersections, addition of the word "STOP" and the foot-wide stop-line delineator in front of all existing Stop signs, curb extensions at Westwood and Ocean, and also at Ocean and Rhoda, and bright-yellow crosswalks at the intersection of Westwood and Ocean. Once the plan is finalized and if the funding is approved by the City Council for fiscal year 2023-24, work would likely commence in August/September.

Park Upgrades

Based upon our neighborhood survey results, two upgrades selected by the community are in process for Lindberg Park. The latest on them from CC Parks & Rec Director Armando Abrego is:

Two bids have been received for the new HVAC system at the Stone House; contract to be presented to City Council for approval; install date is TBD.

Parks & Rec is securing the prefabricated picnic shelter and finalizing the RFP to select a General Contractor to install; the contract will then go to City Council for approval; install date is TBD.

LPNA Donations

While the financial needs of the Lindberg Park Neighborhood Association are not substantial, we do need funding to cover event space rentals and other miscellaneous costs to support our efforts to advocate for the community. Cash donations were solicited at the meeting (many thanks to those who gave!!!) and the board is working on a way to donate online, and we will let you know when this is live. We hope that as many people who are able to will help support us to make Lindberg Park an even better place to live.

Culver City Police Department

The following items are from Lt. Andrew Bellante, our Neighborhood CCPD Partner:

“See something, say something”. We are a “no call to small” agency and we will respond to any call for service. 911 for emergencies and 310-837-1221 for non emergencies.

CCPD has one of the fastest response times in LA county: 3 ½ minutes for emergencies and 10 min for non-emergencies.

We have implemented a Special Enforcement Team which was deployed in early February. It is a 5-officer team on bike patrol specifically designed for creek, business, and residential safety. They have made a significant impact in the creek at Overland, which has positively impacted quality of life, by making about 10 arrests since last month for drug possession, warrants, stolen property and 1 stolen vehicle.

Lindberg Park is probably the safest neighborhood in Culver City. There have only been 3 reported crimes: 1 burglary and 2 catalytic convertor thefts, in the first 2 months of 2023.

There were catalytic convertor thefts on 03/27/23, which led to a vehicle pursuit. Due to unsafe speeds the pursuit was cancelled and the suspects got away. It was a white Dodge Charger. The CCPD is working on acquiring automatic license plate readers (ALPR) which would have more than likely provided us with an investigative lead in this case and other cases around the city. I am the lead on the ALPR project and we are having a community meeting at council chambers on 3/30/2023 at 6:30 PM to answer questions and discuss the benefits of ALPRS.

Lastly, follow the CCPD on social media and check out our website www.culvercitypd.org. There is a lot of information in our monthly report.

Mayor Albert Vera

Mayor Albert Vera engaged in a Q & A where he responded to questions about 1. the City's engagement with the homeless, including discussions on the recent no-camping ordinance, the development of Bridge Housing (hotel conversions) and the Safe-camping site that's being developed at the City-owned parking lot on Virginia Avenue (view Culver City’s Safe-Camping Site for details). Note that both Mayor Vera and Lt. Bellante emphasized that the Safe-camping site will have its own, on-site, private security and that the CCPD will maintain high-visibility patrols in the area to ensure a safe environment for all; 2. neighbor's concerns about the large pine trees on Dobson Way and 3. the current status and impact of the downtown traffic MOVE program.

CCUSD School Board

CCUSD School Board President Paula Amezola discussed (and took questions on) removal of English Honors classes at CCMS and CCHS, school safety, school infrastructure and the potential for increased Science and Engineering (STEM) classes.

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