There’s something about Pink Trumpets that doesn’t work with Pink Taco. ET Legg & Associates, owner of the property at 8225 Sunset Blvd. near Roxbury Road where Pink Taco is located, is asking the City of West Hollywood to alter a plan approved in 2010 that required that Pink Trumpet trees be planted on city property at that location.
Legg, which also owns lots at 8240 and 8228 Sunset, argues that the 13 Pink Trumpets haven’t managed to bloom. It wants to replace them with Mexican Fan palm trees, moving the Pink Trumpets to another location.
That would effectively restore the arborial look of the area, which was dotted with palm trees until the city removed them in 2010 and established a “Flowering Tree District” as part of an effort to beautify Sunset Boulevard. Before that, palm trees of various types were the standard along Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood and Los Angeles.
ET Legg says it sees restoration of palm trees to its property as part of a plan to renovate what it regards as a major gateway to West Hollywood. In a memorandum to the Public Facilities Commission, it says it also intends to full re-landscape most of the property, add a public art space, add “an artistic, greenscaped, transparent parameter fence that will line
much of the subject property,” repave the parking lots, provide more of a buffer between the property and adjacent residential buidlings and redesign its “Welcome to West Hollywood” sign.
The Public Facilities Commission meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the community meeting room at West Hollywood Public Library, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd. south of Santa Monica.
ET Legg offers rendering of its proposed palm project on the pages that follow:
This whole “let’s get rid of the palm trees” thing is idiotic and will eventually have political repercussions once folks realize what’s going on. Yes palm trees have their problems, but they are iconic to Los Angeles (and don’t uproot sidewalks like other trees).
Save West Hollywood’s and Los Angeles’ palm trees!!! Bravo Pink Taco!
Palm trees are a signature for Los Angeles yes. But they provide zero shade for the pedestrians on the street, which seems as the drought continues is something we need to consider. But then….how much water do these “flowering” trees require? Palm trees are drought tolerant. Water conservation should be the priority.
We have tree zones? Oh lord…
How about this as a concept worth considering! Plant all kinds of fruit trees all around West Hollywood, everywhere a tree can be planted. The public could then have access to free fruit from them. I bet somewhere in City, County, or State Government there are funds to do something like this.
Now this is a first world problem if I ever saw one. But for the record, I’m #TeamPalm