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
Proposed Plastic Bag Ban
Tuesday, 29 January 2013 13:29

The City of Los Angeles is proposing to adopt and implement an ordinance to ban single-use plastic carryout bags, charge a fee on paper bags, and promote the use of reusable bags at specified retailers in the City of Los Angeles. They have provided notice that the Draft Environmental Impact Report is complete and the public review period is open.
Significant Environmental Effects of Project:  The analysis in the Draft EIR concluded that the proposed project would not result in any significant adverse impacts on the environment. However, it would result in beneficial impacts on air quality, biological resources, and hydrology and water quality.

Public Review Period: The Draft EIR is available for public review from January 25, 2013 to March 11, 2013.  Please send your written comments no later than March 11, 2013 to Karen Coca, Division Manager, Solid Resources Citywide Recycling Division/Bureau of Sanitation, 1149 S. Broadway, 5th Floor, Mail Stop 944, Los Angeles, CA 90015.

Public Meetings:  The following public meetings would be held to receive comments on the Draft EIR:

February 19, 2013, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Wilmington Recreation Center, 325 Neptune Avenue, Wilmington, CA 90744
February 20, 2013, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Cheviot Recreation Center, 2551 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90064
February 21, 2013, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Ronald F. Deaton Auditorium, 100 W. 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015
February 25, 2013, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Panorama Recreation Center, 8600 Hazeltine Avenue, Panorama City, CA 91402
February 26, 2013, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Shadow Ranch Recreation Center, 22633 Vanowen Street, Canoga Park, CA 91307


Where to Find the Draft EIR: Online Here

The Draft EIR is available for review at the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation at 1149 S. Broadway, 5th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90015, at www.lacitysan.org under What’s new…, and at the following public libraries:

Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Van Nuys Branch Library, 6250 Sylmar Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91401
West L. A. Regional Branch Library, 11360 Santa Monica Bl., Los Angeles, CA 90025
San Pedro Regional Branch Library, 931 S. Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
 

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.