With one day to spare before the end of the fiscal year, on June 29 the City Council voted 4-1 to approve a $418.8 million operating expenditure budget for fiscal year 2020/21. Total revenue for all funds is projected to be $452.8 million (including interfund
Wearing a face covering is known to save lives by curbing the spread of COVID-19 and yet, municipalities are challenged when it comes to getting people to cover their nose and mouth. In the wake of the rising numbers of those infected with COVID-19, over 105,000
Following the arrest of more than two dozen protesters last weekend, the National Lawyers Guild says there may be grounds for a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Beverly Hills for detaining them for as long as 24 hours. The protesters, who marched down
At the turn of the 20th century, the tract that is now the dynamic corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards was farmland. In the early 1920s, it housed a nursery that supplied the palm trees and other vegetation that eventually created the City landscape.
The Beverly Hills Cultural Heritage Commission has voted to add two iconic buildings to its local Registrar of Historic Properties. The commission unanimously voted 5-0 at Special Meeting on June 18 to pass resolutions designating the "MCA/Litton Headquarters Complex" by architect Paul Revere Williams and
The Beverly Hills City Council once again revised its COVID-19-related Urgency Ordinance concerning residential and commercial tenant evictions. The Council voted 5-0 just before midnight on June 18 to amend the ordinance so that July will be the final month for commercial tenants to not
Also by John Lambert Pearson, ASLA In this issue, the Courier is pleased to present the third of a four-part series by Mark Rios, FAIA, FASLA and John Lambert Pearson, ASLA. Rios is founder and Creative Director of RCH Studios, a multidisciplinary design practice based in
The first hint of real trouble for the Beverly Hills Fire Department came in February, when one of the firefighters shared that their child's school had been canceled due to COVID-19. The next day, Battalion Chief Scott Stevens received the same news about his child's school.
The Purple Line Extension continues to make headway in connecting the Eastside and Westside, with Beverly Hills' first subway station at Wilshire/La Cienega on track to open in 2023. The high-speed rail project will continue its path through the City with the Wilshire/ Rodeo station set
