Welcome to the Brentwood Hills Homeowners Association home page. The purpose of this site is to provide our local homeowners with information relevant to the community as well as easy access to our association. Regular BHHA board meetings are generally held on the first Wednesday of each month and are always open to members. Please contact us if you are interested in attending. If you live in Brentwood Hills we invite you to join us.
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Community members may be familiar with the large retail development proposed by Charles Munger for a site on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood, at the location of the former Dutton's Books (aka, the Barry Building). BHHA has followed this issue since the Draft Environmental Impact Report was issued last year. Now that the Final Environmental Impact Report is completed, community input is needed to help the city determine the appropriate course of action for development of the project site.
The Barry Building is a Cultural Historic Landmark, and only one of the four options presented in the FEIR would preserve it. The preservation option, although proposed by the developer, is not his preferred option. In addition, there has been a proposal to implement cuts to the San Vicente median near the project, which would entail the removal of a number of Coral trees. The Coral trees and median, like the Barry Building, are also designated a Cultural Historic Landmark. Cutting the median and/or trees for the access to this or any other project would be unprecedented. Finally, all of the options proposed by Mr. Munger in the FEIR will increase traffic along San Vicente Boulevard, a street upon which we all routinely experience extremely heavy traffic under existing development conditions. Studies have not shown that cutting the trees or median for vehicle access would significantly reduce congestion in the area.
For all of these reasons, the BHHA board adopted a position at our regularly scheduled April meeting to support preserving the Barry Building, preserving the median from current or future cuts, and urging that a downsized project (compared to current proposals) would be the most appropriate option for the project site.
On May 1, 2012, BHHA President Michael Leslie sent a letter to Councilmember Bill Rosendahl to express our position. At Brentwood Community Council's May 1st meeting, interested stakeholders will have the opportunity to provide their views on the matter before the BCC decides what recommendations it will make with respect to the project at a special meeting on Wednesday, May 10. BHHA is a member, and we will present our view, already shared with Councilmember Rosendahl. We urge all interested stakeholders to attend in order to participate and make their individual views known to the BCC board, our council office, and the developer's representatives. Both BCC meetings will begin at 7pm at the Kaufman public library on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood (11820 San Vicente Blvd.). If you are unable to attend, please communicate your views directly to Councilmember Rosendahl's office prior to the May 14 public hearing on the project.
Recently delivered to the community, here is the Spring 2012 BHHA Newsletter.
Community members, please read BHHA's important letter regarding Palisades Patrol.
A very useful disaster preparedness guide is available here.
Thank you to Palisades Post and the numerous donors (see page three of the guide) who made it available to our community.
Please support the work of BHHA by paying your annual dues. Our dues remain extremely low by comparison with other homeowners association, only $40. More information regarding dues payment, including paying dues online through PayPal, is available here.