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Wilmont Organization

Category: 'Correspondence'

2006-06-24

Few cities offer an organized opportunity for ongoing resident participation in community issues.  Santa Monica, however, is a notable exception and the Wilshire Montana Neighborhood Coalition (WILMONT) has become recognized throughout the community as a leader in providing a voice for residents living in our neighborhoods. 

WILMONT consists of a group of neighbors that has organized to work with the City of Santa Monica and local businesses to ensure that the voices of our residents are heard. Our purpose is to facilitate the exchange of ideas so that all residents can more fully participate in the decisions that affect us all.  By addressing issues such as population density, parking, development, affordable housing and crime, WILMONT provides an opportunity for residents to develop positive solutions that impact the quality of life in our community. 

WILMONT has now been addressing the concerns of its members for more than a decade.  The focus of our organization is to expand residential involvement in community issues, increase visibility of residential concerns, and improve communication between residents, businesses and community leaders.  By speaking as a group, we can more effectively protect our residents and our neighborhoods from special interests, projects or policies that negatively affect our community, and work to institute positive changes instead.  Some of WILMONT’s recent accomplishments include:

·         Submitting a plan to the City Council to alleviate parking problems in the  Wilshire-Montana district. 

·         Working with other neighborhood groups to develop a “residents’ portal.”   The Web site will facilitate communication, education and activism for all  citizens of Santa Monica and will be on-line in the near future

·         Organizing neighbors to defeat the installation of a wireless telecommunications  facility on a residential building on Fourth Street.

·         Creating a WILMONT website to share relevant news, information, event  calendar, official communications, and much more information for our neighbors.  We encourage you to come visit us on the web at one of the following links: www.wilmont.org or www.wilshiremontana.org

WILMONT will continue to identify and address the issues that directly affect the  quality of life in our neighborhood and do all we can to preserve and improve it.   Some of the issues with which we are presently concerned include:

·         Responsible development and controlling excessive growth 

·         General plan: land use element and zoning ordinances

·         Maintaining rent-controlled apartments

·         Traffic, parking and pedestrian safety 

·         Recycling, energy conservation and pollution concerns

·         Partnering with other neighborhood groups on issues that affect all  residents of Santa Monica.

WILMONT serves community members residing between Montana Avenue to the north,  Pacific Coast Highway to the west, 21st Street to the east, and Wilshire Boulevard to the  south.  If you reside within these boundaries, we encourage you to become involved with  WILMONT.

To get involved, attend one of our WILMONT board meetings held the third Monday of  every month at 7 p.m. in the Ken Edwards Center at 1527 Fourth Street, across the  street from Santa Monica Place Mall.  To make sure the date has not been changed  or to identify an issue WILMONT should address, call us at 310-840-2257.  In addition,  all residents in the WILMONT neighborhood are invited to our annual meeting on Saturday, June 24, 2006 at Christine Emerson Reed Park.   More information will be available on our Web site in the upcoming weeks.

To join our organization, please call or visit our Web site for more information.  As a  WILMONT member, you will receive our newsletter, periodic updates on important  issues and notices of meetings and/or special events occurring in our neighborhood.   Please join us because with every new member, our voice becomes that much stronger.

 

 

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