City of West Hollywood

What would you do if you were the mayor of a city that suffered a severe competitive disadvantage because parking was so horrendous for people who wanted to shop or eat there? Instead of solving the problem, these city leaders have decided to exacerbate the problem. Once you’ve searched for an hour to finally find a place to park on the street in this city, paid your meter, and are now spending money in one of their cool restaurants, they’ll be outside writing you a ticket for a violation like having no front license plate.
Seriously, this is a revenue grab that fattens the parking «services» bank account, but it’s robbing money from the real businesses there because people like me ultimately decide to go to a mall (not in WeHo) where you can actually find a decent spot to park in an actual parking lot/​garage instead of going to WeHo where usually you have to park on the street and subject yourself to the blood-​sucking parking enforcement people.
Want one more example? I parked on a street there recently where there were no less than 10 parking signs with various rules. I totally wish I’d have had a photo of the signs. It was joke! I read them all (I thought) and felt that I was okay to park. I must have missed one that said I needed a permit during at that time. Of course a meter maid was lurking in the darkness and quickly wrote me up!
Only in west hollywood would they think it reasonable to make a CUSTOMER spend so much time reading through all these signs (maybe you should bring your attorney with you) before determining whether they could park there right then. Only in WeHo would they punish a customer for choosing their city to eat or shop by writing a ticket for a violation that real police have never ever pulled me over for — — not once! Other cities aren’t so greedy for parking services revenue. Joking aside, these guys are awful! Go elsewhere.

The City was founded as a place in LA where people could find affordable housing and not suffer from the corrupted city government that was Los Angeles. Isn’t that ironic. Now people need to leave WeHo to the sanctuary of Los Angeles to escape the B/​S that has become this joke of a city. If you work for the city of WeHo you should be ashamed of yourself.
These are the worst people in the world, on par only with loan sharks, bill collectors, and telemarketers. I think they should get real jobs that don’t involve ripping people off, writing bogus tickets and essentially serving as hatchet men for corrupted politicians, enforcing double taxation on citizens to line their own pockets. One day everyone is going to just throw the tea overboard.
Parking enforcement employees: you are culpable and detestable. Get a life. Get a real job.
West Hollywood politicians: you’ve lost your focus and your soul.

Nice area, I just don’t like all the traffic and the lack a good transportation system. Fun to visit, not to live.

If you are a party guy, you like to be nasty to everyone, b**ch about everything, you are angry from anything, don’t know what a gentleman is, you like fake people, you don’t care about having real friends, you don’t want family, you drive like an A**h*le, you like to overpay for everything and yet receive bad service and low quality, you like to show off but you are stinky, and you don’t like reality, then West hollywood is your city.

The city of Hollywood is only concerned about making money off of you.

Back in the day, crooked cities used to raise funds by having their police set up «speed traps,» wherein unsuspecting motorists would be stopped for minor infractions and charged outrageous fines. Nowadays they have a far simpler scam: post obscure parking restrictions on sidestreets, and then send a parking enforcement officer around to write hundreds of tickets to people who have no idea that their car is parked «illegally.» Rather than try to figure out where you can and cannot park in West Hollywood, my advice is this: Don’t go there. Don’t shop there. Don’t eat there.

My hood… only place I’ve lived in LA and only place I want to live (at this point anyway — almost 4 years in!). City Government is very accessible. Great local businesses and a very inclusive community. Parks are improving and the WeHo farmers market is a gem.
This is a very dog friendly city, which I love.
Yes, parking is hard but there are lots of local transpo options including free shuttles. This place is a winner! Home sweet home.

Unilocal’s 365 Review Challenge 2014 #308 — #365
What’s so good about West Hollywood or if the gays call it, «Weho!»
West Hollywood is just like any other city in Los Angeles, what makes it unique is the gay culture that is all around the city. It kind of reminds me of the Castro in San Francisco. Lots of options for gays to go clubbing or bar hopping or what I like to call it, a pilgrimage from the surrounding LA areas to the almighty center of Fabulousness!

I love this city! But I don’t love the traffic.

It probably has the largest proportion of my favorite restaurants in all of Los Angeles within a few miles of each other. It also has some inexpensive clothing stores that I like to browse or buy from on occasion.
It can be difficult to find parking, but if you spend a little time looking and don’t mind walking a few blocks, there are multiple residential streets that offer free parking for evening/​dinner hours.
tip — Friday night my husband and I were driving after dinner on Santa Monica Blvd near San Vicente and there was a DUI check point where police officers were stopping drivers to check ID’s and sobriety. I don’t know if this is an on-​going thing, but be careful!

West Hollywood is Beverly Hill for hipster or gay. There are miles of nightclub and bars in sunset blvd, a lot of upscale and semi luxury retailer in the area. In other world, this area many young people with some money live and party. Doesn’t matter if you are gay or not, young people just love to come here, other than drive all the way to Vegas, this probably the closest thing for party. Traffic can be god-​awful since is after all is close to Beverly Hill and the heart of Hollywood (Chinese Theatre and Walk of Fame). Parking can be difficult to find, there is lack of structure parking and mostly you best bet is finding street parking.
Aware the street parking is only limit to 2 hours and up as late until 2am„ metered system and worst is 4 to 6am will tow your car away. Traffic police patrols this place likes crazy, you will very likely get a parking citation if you meter just expire for few minutes. This place is famous for the Hollywood Halloween Carnival. There is Metro stop around the area, so that would be a great choice to save your some headache finding parking here.

PARKING, ugh! The are always ticket happy too!

West Hollywood’s Parking system is an insult to decency.
Even after providing PROOF that parking was paid for AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT, they denied the contestation.
Because they know that they can do anything they want, and attack people who SHOP in West Hollywood with impunity.
This city is an adversary to its businesses, to its visitors, and to justice.
I am thoroughly DISGUSTED.

UGH! Being the old fogey that I am, I used to come to West Hollywood for Book Soup («An independent brick-​and-​mortar bookstore in the days of tablets and Kindles? What is that?»). But no more. Reinforcing what has already been stated by some previous reviewers, the parking enforcement in West Hollywood is indeed very militant and soulless. A parking enforcer/​meter maid was about to issue a violation on my vehicle as I was standing a stone’s throw away trying to make proper sense of the utterly dreadful signage. Pshaw, really? Whether that individual was on a power trip or simply had mandated quotas to fulfill, I cannot ascertain. Remember they are shamelessly employed by and outsourced to a global private corporation, and you the «outlaw» are needlessly raising their company stock in the process — in addition to raising the City of WeHo’s coffers to keep the public employees’ unions content and complacent. Any wonder?
It is better off avoiding this area whenever possible — but for those with lifestyles associated with this city, that may be a difficult thing to do. Just one less reason to venture anywhere west of the 710 Freeway these days.

Ahhh WeHo, we all know known for its gays.
I am not gay and still enjoy coming here.
Tons of shopping and restaurants and just an overall good atmosphere.
Yes, its crowded, the lack of parking in more than annoying and its expensive, but you are right in the middle of it all.
Would I want to live here?
No, but I enjoy coming here every time and hope it never changes.

The City of West Hollywood is fun by people who couldn’t hold down a real job in the world of business. They don’t return phone calls or emails. If a businessman was so unresponsive and lazy, he’d be fired! Bureaucrats can get away with such poor service because they aren’t answerable to their «customers,» residents of the City of West Hollywood. Whenever I call, sometimes even the switchboard operator/​main number, I get voice mail in the middle of the business day.
The city makes tons of money ticketing cars illegally parked. I wish the city’s compliance code guidelines would devote more time and manpower to more important things. Such as the dangerous cracks in the sidewalks which I’ve stumbled over many times while walking my dogs. I’ve called and left messages with the exact street address of dangerous sidewalk cracks for MONTHS, never got a response.
Typical!
I would move but as a gay man I like living among people where sexual orientation isn’t an issue.
People in my neighborhood discard furniture, trash, whatever, on the grass between the sidewalk and the curb. When I walk my dogs, the entire neighborhood is festooned with people who have left their ugly trash out. Sometimes, it takes days for the discarded furniture to be removed.
Why don’t you ticket the owner of the buildings where trash is dumped? You ticket just about every other source of funding.
Your Section 8 waiting list in a city filled with dying AIDS patients is criminally long. Most people with AIDS have suffered catastrophic financial loss and need Section 8 housing.
Why isn’t the city building more section 8 or paying 70 percent of the rent for apartments where ill AIDS patients would like to remain because moving costs a fortune, and many AIDS patients are too weak or too poor for that drama?
Less bureaucratic make-​work jobs, like that prune who lets you fight a parking ticket, then rejects your claim regardless of how legitimate it is. Why are you wasting money on the prune’s salary when you could be paying AIDS patients’ rent or housing them in Section 8 housing?
Like AIDS Project Los Angeles, the City of We Ho is filled with time-​serving, sinecure-​holding incompetents or just lazy people who won’t exert themselves.
I rarely get my phone calls returned.

Parking and traffic are a pain. The pedestrian crosswalks on the middle of streets are dangerous. I almost ran over people. I’m not used to those since where I live doesn’t have as much pedestrians. Parking can be expensive. Parking signs on streets are confusing. «No parking across the street after 7 pm.» «No parking next to this tree.»
I drive over here every now now and then. It’s a lively place with tons of shops and restaurants. Plus two Trader Joe’s, incredible. Gay owned businesses are awesome.
It’s the Glendale for Armenians, the Monterey Park for Chinese, the Diamond Bar for boring straight families. This is LA and I’m glad there’s somewhere for gays and their businesses. I notice guys giving me sign of interest whenever I take a stroll here. After all, this is my gay getaway.

Very happening place, with great night life. This city is fill of nigh clubs, bars and restaurants at every corner. Lots of people walking around and bars and clubs are pretty much always full. Which means lots of traffic. This city has a traffic problem, specially around the afternoon and you’ll probably see lots of accidents in the area.
The city itself loves transients and homeless people as well and there are plenty of them everywhere.
A great place to hangout over the weekend! Not a good place to live.

great place for dinner, drinks, and clubbing.
Gay, Straight, Inbetween? who cares its all fun.
Lots of amazing restaurants here

Love West Hollywood. You can find everything here from beautiful parks, bars, great food, cool people, gays, commercialized businesses to local.
Writing this specific review on Formosa Park. Beautiful park located on Formosa right before you hit Santa Monica.
Has a bench, a flowing water area, awesome landscaping. Great place for dogs.

10 of my friends took me to dinner tonight in WE-​HO (with much OMG please NO in my head) for a farewell send off for my trip. I said «perhaps something here I like in LB?» «Naw com’on Michael it’s been years since you’ve been, it’s better now.» I can’t even remember the name of the restaurant, except Trunks was nearby and it was so pissy & prissy I won’t even write a review because Unilocal has no ‘effin OH PALEEEEEZE button!
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There was a time when you were fun and you WERE the one. The 18 and under clubs, The Outer Limits, Gino’s, The Bitter End West, The Other Side, Paradise Ballroom and Studio One. Live DJS spinning Sister Sledge ‘Love Don’t You Go Through No Changes On me.“

NOT «We Are Family».
V-​Neck T’s, Skinny Jeans on Twinks, Narcissists, Electrolysized smooth clones, The Abbey and pretentiousness wreaks the air. Hamburger Mary’s is your ONLY saving grace. You will always be my genre just not IMO my scene. Also, you are NOT like the MEN at the Faultline & Eagle (WOOF!!!). So, we’ve come to the end of our road WE-​HO:
The 70’s and 80’s were the decades to come and now I’ve found the truth in this song: