Warner Center Plan to Curb Traffic Extended

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously and without discussion extended for six months an ordinance requiring developers of buildings in bustling Warner Center to reduce the traffic that their projects add to streets.

Councilwoman Joy Picus, whose district includes Warner Center, won approval of the measure in March, 1988. It requires builders to pay an unspecified fee that will finance street widenings, shuttle buses and other traffic improvements in Warner Center.

The fee, which would vary based on how much traffic a project generates, will be determined by a traffic plan for Warner Center, expected to be completed this summer.

The measure applies to the area roughly bounded by Topanga Canyon Boulevard on the west, Vanowen Street on the north, De Soto Avenue on the east and the Ventura Freeway on the south. It allows developers to seek exemptions from the council.