Issues

Health & Public Safety

Greg Wright is committed to making the residents, business owners, and stakeholders of NoHo West safer through sound policies and supporting our city’s police and fire departments. We also need to be vigilant and clean up our streets, sidewalks, parks, housing, railroad tracks, and alleyways, turning them from hubs of crime into safe public spaces. A few issues on Greg’s and neighborhood members’ minds as it relates to health and public safety within our neighborhood:

• Tagging. A type of graffiti, tagging is vandalism done to private or public property. Tagging defaces our neighborhood, damaging property values and the aesthetic value of the city. We must find a better way to discourage tagging, while cleaning up property that is already tagged.
• Abandoned Vehicles. Parking is a never-ending problem in Los Angeles, even in our North Hollywood neighborhood. But it takes weeks, and in some cases months, for the city to mark and remove abandoned vehicles from our streets. While the city needs to increase its efforts to identify and remove abandoned vehicles, we must also find a way to protect residents’ and business owners’ vehicles.
• Sidewalks. Like most of Los Angeles, our neighborhood has some poor sidewalks that are dangerous for residents to use. Whether they’ve become worn with age or are uneven and broken from tree roots, they pose a significant legal risk for home and business owners. The city needs to allocate more funds for sidewalk repair and move more quickly to identify and repair our sidewalks.
• Speeding. While traffic remains a problem, drivers are looking for ways to circumvent congested areas. This often results in drivers taking routes through our neighborhood and careless drivers speeding in excess of the speed limit, putting our lives in danger. Speed bumps/humps can be a solution, but we need greater police presence to fix this.
• Homelessness. The country has a significant homeless problem and it fails to be addressed at every level of government. Without the action of our city to provide homeless shelters or to rehabilitate, it falls on the residents and business owners that have to deal with homelessness everyday. While the neighborhood council may not have the funds to combat homelessness, we can start planning and pushing our elected officials to act.

Community

Greg is vocal advocate for neighborhood councils and bringing more community involvement to city government. Our neighborhood council provides a valuable outlet for those concerned and committed to voice their opinions about issues. We need to continue to ensure that neighborhood councils are adequately funded and are able to have their say in city matters.

Greenspace

We need to preserve and protect our natural and human-made greenspaces. Some of our neighborhood parks and facilities are in disarray and need better maintenance. But we also need more safe, public greenspaces, as well as community gardens.

Greg is also a strong advocate for water conservation and believes the drought tolerant landscaping rebate should be further funded and extended.

Arts

As a strong advocate for the arts, Greg believes the neighborhood council should fund public art, protect our historic murals, and preserve our neighborhood’s diverse cultural heritage.