WHPOA History Timeline

1958

Newly organized Westwood Hills Property Owners Association successfully opposes a city plan to tax Westwood Hills residents to widen Montana Ave. in order to accommodate traffic exiting from the new 405 Freeway then under construction. Stanley Brown is the founding president.

1960s

Westwood Hills Property Owners Association joins other neighborhood associations to oppose the Beverly Hills Freeway “red route” which threatened homes in the Sunset/Thurston/Glenroy area. George Hamilton is president.

1970s

Association forces UCLA to abandon plans for parking lot and baseball stadium at Veteran and Montana; UCLA agrees to restrict use of land east of Veteran Ave. Association facilitates renewal of CC&Rs. Harriet Miller becomes president in 1976 and serves for 25 years.

1980s

Effort to obtain freeway soundwall on east side of 405 south of Montana succeeds. UCLA yields to WHPOA demand for a Long Range Development Plan to chart campus growth. Community plan amended to prevent upzoning of apartments on Veteran Ave. and widening of Veteran Ave. between Strathmore Ave. and Montana Ave. Getty Oil Company agrees to change route of pipeline proposed for Montana Ave. New land use plans adopted for Westwood Village and North Village. Permit parking district established. VA land sale opposed.

1990s

UCLA is on the move and developers have their sights on Westwood Village. WHPOA joins community fight for reasonable growth plans for both. Developers seek changes in new plans to allow massive development near Bullocks but fall to community opposition. Association seeks traffic calming measures from LADOT.

2000s

Association organizes successful “Stop the Off-Ramp” petition drive in response to Caltrans proposal to build a freeway off-ramp that would take homes and dump 405 traffic directly onto Montana Ave at Glenroy. Email network launched. Neighborhood Watch Program becomes a prototype for Westside programs. Long period of opposition to Caltrans plans to widen 405 through Sepulveda Pass saves private property and wins mitigations in key areas. Plans to add one million square feet of building at Veteran and Wilshire and commercial use of Veterans Administration Property opposed. Association celebrates 50th Anniversary!!