Welcome

NANDC is a self-governed, self-directed and independent organization empowered by the Los Angeles City Charter. This charter offers neighborhood councils a role in the City's decision-making process. We as citizens are given the opportunity and obligation to stay involved with developments in our area that affect us.  Come get involved!  After all, it's your community!

Take a few moments to find out who we are, what we do and how you can become involved.

What We Do

We promote public participation in city governance and decision making processes, to make government more responsive to our local needs and requests,  creating more opportunities to build partnerships with government and private entities to create more opportunities for our neighborhood.  We work with stakeholders to make a difference in the community with such projects as I Hablo U, the Pet Park Project, and the Community Involvement Program.



How To Get Involved

Anyone who lives, works or owns property in our boundaries is welcome to get involved. View the Boundary Map. Opportunities include:

Come to a meeting! We meet First Thursday of the month from 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Park gymnasium, 39th and Western Avenue, the building just south of the Exposition Park Library, entrance on the south side.

Join a committee: Go to the Committee list under What We Do on the top menu

Contact a board member

Contact other elected representatives

Sign up for our newsletter on the right side of this page

Our mailing address is:
PO Box 77367
Los Angeles, CA 90007
USC Community Benefits
Friday, 10 February 2012 09:24

Is there anything bigger happening in our community then the new University Village proposal as a part of the USC Specific Plan?  This plan continues to move forward and NANDC continues to worry about the community voice being lost in the process.  The small benefits package does not even include our entire community but tiny pieces of it.  We CAN NOT let the community voice be muffled!

The USC Specific Plan will bring many much needed updates to our community but currently the draft plan which has been negotiated by the City Council calls for a number of benefits to END at VERMONT, thereby cutting our natural community nearly in half, creating further inequities to the face of our neighborhood. Speak up! Read more on this and use our sample letter to make your opinions known.

 

Sample Letter You Can Send to USC to Make Your Views Known

Dear

 

We are the USC community!  Who are we?  We live within
the boundaries of Western, the110 Freeway, 10 Freeway and MLK Blvd.

 

We believe the USC specific plans offers an opportunity to unite us as a neighborhood and neutralize the beautification disparity that already exists in the area West of Vermont. While we understand there is an old standing agreement for USC not to cross West of Vermont, this agreement was in relation to the expansion of the University and negative impacts to the community residence.  This statute is not relevant to the positive occurrences and USC has often come West of Vermont for positive community programming and we welcome those positive impacts, like Kidwatch and DPS.  On the University’s own website USC defines the University Park Campus Community as “the area bordered by Western Avenue to the west, the Santa Monica Freeway to the north, the Harbor Freeway to the east…"

 

We understand currently there are a number of benefits in the draft agreement that end with a Vermont boundary, and we do not see that as a natural end of our community.  We ask for a small extension of these benefits to incorporate our neighbors who live West of Vermont to Western Ave, and North of Adams to the 10 freeways.

  • STREET BEAUTIFICATION
  • BIKE LANES AND PEDESTRIAN LIGHTING
  • GRAFFITI ABATEMENT
  • TRAM SERVICE
  • SECURITY CAMERAS
  • REVOLVING LOAN FUND

 

We also want to be sure that the park funds set aside are not solely guided by the Council office but from a community advisory board who can best guide the funds to bring the most benefit to our community.

As the community who will be supporting the new UV development with our buying power long after students have returned home for the summer, we want to continue flying our Trojan flags and take this positive step to become a closer more united neighborhood.

Your neighbor,

 

Name:  ___________________________________________

 

Address:  _________________________________________
 

Our Name

The early Eighth District Empowerment Congress, created by now Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas was a community-based education and mobilization program. It has been acknowledged as the model for the Los Angeles citywide neighborhood council system created by the change City Charter.

We still proudly carry the early moniker in our name as the 'Empowerment Congress North Area Neighborhood Development Council'.  You may call us NANDC for short!

Our Community

NANDC is located in West Adams, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with most of its buildings erected between 1880 and 1925. It was once the wealthiest district in the city, with its Victorian mansions and sturdy Craftsman bungalows home to Downtown businessmen and professors and academicians at USC. In the 1990s, three areas of West Adams were designated as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones by the city of Los Angeles, in recognition of their outstanding architectural heritage.