Over ten weeks, a collective group of UCLA Master of Urban and Regional Planning students pulled population counts, designed maps, and held community meetings with the Westwood Village Improvement District. From there, we established four guiding themes through which to organize recommendations to the Westwood Village Specific Plan:

1)    Vision: an opportunity to work toward consensus on what you want Westwood Village to be now and into the future;

2)    Subareas: which are not meant to be prescriptive, rather, they should recognize the different intensities of use and patronage throughout the village, where these differences can be translated into strategic restriction reductions;

3)    Access and circulation: this is pretty simple, stop building parking and revisit the requirements, while also recognizing the value in a multi-modal community that prioritizes bike and pedestrian access; and last

4)    Built form: which encourages Westwood Village to leverage its incredible historic architecture by revising the design guidelines to reflect the aesthetic qualities desired by those in the Village, while also working to encourage pop-up and contemporary installations and programming that further showcase the Village’s cultural assets.