{"id":73521,"date":"2021-07-15T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=73521"},"modified":"2021-07-14T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:54:43","slug":"opposition-to-los-angeles-burbank-blvd-street-widening-project-burbank-widening-citizens-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/opposition-to-los-angeles-burbank-blvd-street-widening-project-burbank-widening-citizens-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to Los Angeles&#8217; Burbank Blvd Street Widening Project &#8211; Burbank Widening Citizens Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 15, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Burbank Widening Citizens Group. (\u201cBWC Group\u201d) announced today that it is organizing in opposition to the Burbank Blvd. Street Widening Project. The Group consists of businesses and residences situated along the affected Burbank Blvd., between Lankershim Blvd. and Cleon St. The BWC Group states, \u201cOn the heels of Covid, eighteen businesses are required to spend tens of thousands of dollars on property abatements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/21-0715-Burbank-Widening-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Burbank Widening Citizens Group\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/21-0715-Burbank-Widening-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/21-0715-Burbank-Widening-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><br \/><em>PHOTO CAPTION: Burbank Blvd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis highway project takes our property, parking, fencing, gates, and improvements and subjects the neighborhood to two years of noise, traffic disruption, and lost business, all for a highway nobody wants or needs. The call for public comment on this project occurred in 2009, as was the Project Impact filing. With the passing of twelve years since the Project CEQ Impact filing and public comment, it is mandatory that a Project Impact Re-evaluation and a re-opening of a period of public comment. The neighborhood description in the 2009 Impact statement looks nothing like the 2021 neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BWC Group also notes that \u201cthe Planning Department has targeted many businesses as scofflaws who have \u201cbuilt in the city right-of-way\u201d despite City permits on the improvements. There has been a lack of transparency and a failure of communication between the neighborhood and Planning Commission.\u201d The BWC Group continues, \u201cthe bottom line is nobody wants this highway, and the neighborhood feels it\u2019s unnecessary. The neighborhood wants a road that fits the neighborhood, not the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BWC Group has a petition in opposition on <a href=\"http:\/\/change.org\/burbankblvd\">http:\/\/change.org\/burbankblvd<\/a> and the Burbank Widening Citizens Group website at <a href=\"https:\/\/burbankwidening.com\/\">https:\/\/burbankwidening.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information: Burbank Widening Citizens Group <a href=\"mailto:Committee@BurbankWidening.com\">Committee@BurbankWidening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 15, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Burbank Widening Citizens Group. (&#8220;BWC Group&#8221;) announced today that it is organizing in opposition to the Burbank Blvd. Street Widening Project. The Group consists of businesses and residences situated along the affected Burbank Blvd., between Lankershim Blvd. and Cleon St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9053,"featured_media":73485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[906,12804,1,10,48,513],"tags":[16496,16497],"class_list":["post-73521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protests-marches-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-california-news","category-government-news","category-hollywood-news","tag-burbank-blvd-street-widening-project","tag-city-planning","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3733,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}