Next week the mail-in ballots for the Culver City Elections will be arriving at Culver City homes, they need to be returned!
Culver City is running very smoothly — it’s economics are headed in the correct direction; complacency would change the course of Culver City if it resulted in certain people bring their policies into power. Two decades of positive changes have made Culver City one of Los Angeles’ most attractive communities and our surrounding neighbors tell their friends that they live in Culver City adjacent, a great commentary.
Let’s look at history of the 21st century in Culver City where we are versus where we were in the year 2000:
- Culver City ARC Light Theaters thrive where opposed by a small group of naysayers who lost at the ballot box by a 80% to 20% vote.
- ymantec would not have been built if the same people had gotten their way.
- Westfield Culver City, today an ever-changing center of dining and retail, soon to include a Trader Joe’s market, would have remained an old 1970s era failing mall, if those people had gotten their way.
- An investment by the Culver City Redevelopment Agency to build the EXPO Bridge over Washington/National avoided a complete traffic nightmare of an at-grade crossing.
- The current city council voted 4-1 to increased parking on the downtown Parcel B project, a decision against the same naysayers.
- After years of stalling and opposition, new multi-family housing is being built in Culver City instead of just being talked about and opposed by these same naysayers.
- Apple’s Southern California Campus (Beats), Nantworks, Maker Studios (Disney) and NFL Media have all made Culver City home.
I urge you VOTE by mail or to go out on April 12, 2016 to vote at your local polling site. We cannot give up our progress, as the best is still to come our way.
Please VOTE, it is truly important; if you would, I encourage you to vote for Culver City’s tomorrow by voting for Goran Eriksson, Marcus Tiggs and Scott Wyant, leadership with Culver City experience and a vision of our future.
—Steven J. Rose
Former Mayor, and President/CEO
of Culver City Chamber