A public effort to study a new city
Safer neighborhoods. Cleaner streets. Faster city services. Clear accounting for every tax dollar.
City of Westside is a public effort to determine whether Westside communities should leave the City of Los Angeles and form a safer, cleaner, more responsive, and more accountable city of their own.
City of Westside is an exploratory civic initiative, not an existing city, government agency, ballot measure, service provider, emergency service, or official source.
The case for local control
Residents care about results, not a new layer of government. Each concern below has a possible local answer—and a hard question that must be settled before a vote.
A standard residents can use
A proposed city should earn trust through daily results and honest limits. These are design commitments, not guaranteed outcomes.
Lawful, accountable safety work that residents can see, question, and improve.
Help people leave the street while restoring parks, sidewalks, libraries, and business districts for everyone.
One request, owner, deadline, status, reason, and appeal—online or through a real person.
Budgets, contracts, invoices, obligations, and results tied back to the public decision.
Leaders who are easier to reach and clearly responsible for Westside outcomes.
Useful technology and responsible AI that assist people without hiding authority or removing appeal.
Current experience / proposed standard
Proposed model, not a guarantee. This comparison explains the design goal. It does not rate every current Los Angeles service or claim that a future city can deliver the model before legal, fiscal, operational, and public review.
| Resident need | Current Los Angeles context | Proposed City of Westside model |
|---|---|---|
| Getting help | Residents may need to find the right Los Angeles department or outside authority. | One public front door identifies the owner, opens one case, and helps with a lawful handoff when another authority is responsible. |
| Following a request | Status, timing, and responsibility can vary by service and system. | Every city service publishes an owner, expected date, status, delay reason, decision reason, and escalation path. |
| Seeing the money | Budgets, contracts, spending, and results can live in separate records. | Adopted authority, contract, invoice, cost, owner, change, audit, and result are linked in one searchable public record. |
| Reaching decision-makers | Los Angeles leaders balance priorities across a very large city. | A smaller council and city team focus on Westside communities, with districts and oversight still to be designed and approved. |
| Using city services | Each department may have its own forms, accounts, language, and process. | One accessible website and common case standard, with equivalent phone, counter, mail, language, and representative options. |
| Using AI | Rules and visibility can differ across departments and vendors. | A public AI bill of rights, use register, source display, human review, records, testing, incident reporting, and suspension authority. |
Institutions and capacity
Neighborhoods, public-safety facilities and systems, hospitals, schools, UCLA, Century City, the West Los Angeles VA campus and federal corridor, business districts, transportation, utilities, parks, libraries, and cultural places already shape daily life here.
That does not make them municipal property or prove a city can run. Ownership, authority, service area, capacity, cost, emergency coordination, and any future relationship must be verified separately.
Explore Westside capacityEducation, medicine, research, culture, and employment—with partnership opportunities under separate University of California authority.
A major business and employment district with high-rise, transportation, public-realm, utility, and emergency demands.
Veterans health and services, federal buildings and land, and the national cemetery—requiring coordination, never implied municipal ownership.
Your City Hall, online
Apply for a permit. Report a problem. Pay a bill. Contest a citation. Follow an inspection. Read a contract. Track a council vote. Prepare for an emergency.
One clear public front door, one case from beginning to end, real people responsible for the result, and equivalent phone, counter, mail, language, accessibility, and trusted-representative options.
Try the service designDesign demonstration only. Nothing is submitted, tracked, or connected to a government system.
Fiscal truth before promises
We do not know yet. A credible answer needs an independent public review that tests good years, hard years, and a range of reasonable assumptions.
The review must show uncertainty, one-time start-up costs, long-term obligations, and what happens if a contract, revenue source, public-property assumption, or timetable changes. The initiative does not promise lower taxes or better financial results.
Which taxes, fees, grants, and other lawful funds would support the city—and how stable are they under conservative cases?
What would police, fire, EMS, streets, planning, parks, administration, technology, insurance, and contracted work actually cost?
Which streets, facilities, equipment, systems, land, records, and rights would be involved, who owns them, and on what terms?
Which debt, pensions, claims, deferred maintenance, labor duties, environmental duties, and other obligations follow or remain?
Which services must be contracted, with whom, under what authority, price, standard, data rules, mutual aid, oversight, and exit terms?
What must be paid, built, hired, transferred, insured, tested, and kept running before an approved city can responsibly begin?
A lawful public process
No website, private group, or announcement creates a city. Incorporation would require current law, LA LAFCO review, affected-agency work, public proceedings, and a resident decision at the point required by law.
Name the problems, desired results, limits, alternatives, and reasons to study a city without claiming public agreement.
Produce parcel-accurate scenarios and independent fiscal work covering revenue, cost, assets, liabilities, contracts, and risk.
Identify who performs every service, with what authority, people, assets, systems, contracts, mutual aid, safeguards, and fallback.
Submit and review the required record, hear affected agencies and communities, test feasibility, and follow current law.
Eligible voters make the decision at the lawful point on a disclosed plan—not on this website and not through this form.
No launch until legal conditions, funding, people, agreements, essential services, records, security, access, and public oversight are ready.
For an emergency, call 911 and use alerts and instructions from official public agencies.
This initiative is not connected to any police, fire, EMS, 911, utility, or agency system. Any future connection would require legal authority, written agreements, privacy and security protections, and emergency coordination agreements.
Turn a public idea into organized work
Volunteer, lend professional expertise, explore a partnership, or start a donor or sponsor conversation. There is practical work for people who want to ask hard questions and build a credible public case.
Choose how to helpThe organizing hub opens prefilled drafts in your email provider. An inquiry is not a vote, endorsement, petition signature, official filing, or confirmed role or relationship.
This is an initiative, not a city. City of Westside is an exploratory civic initiative, not an existing city, government agency, ballot measure, service provider, emergency service, or official source.
Map status. The maps are illustrations, not legal or property-by-property boundaries. No boundary is settled. A lawful proposal would require detailed property, service, financial, and environmental review through LA LAFCO, the county agency that reviews proposed city boundaries.
Optional private reflection