What Was Wrong with Bundy Village

Simply put, Bundy Village would have generated more traffic than the site can handle. Once built, it would have been almost equivalent to placing New York’s Chrysler Building at the corner of Bundy and Olympic.

Such a massive and unprecedented development at the corner of Olympic and Bundy would have created too much traffic and congested streets to the point where 31 Westside intersections could not be fixed, including 22 in surrounding Los Angeles neighborhoods and 9 more in Santa Monica. See the map here.

Below are other significant problems Westside residents and businesses raised:

• Never in the City’s history has a project with this many gridlock producing impacts been approved. Larger developments like Playa Vista and The Grove, when combined, don’t produce one-tenth of the traffic impacts that Bundy Village would have generated.
• The Bundy Village medical uses remained vaguely defined. Despite ongoing requests to detail what medical services would be offered, the project description failed to be clear. The project may have included a psychiatric facility or even hospital if approved.
• The project’s residential component remained undefined. The developer sought a zone change to allow for 385 condominiums which may have included senior units but indicated that these plans may change.
• The developer did not have permanent access rights to the proposed main entrance at Olympic and Centinela where over 43% of the car traffic would enter and exit.
• The project did not comply with the West Los Angeles Community Plan update. The Community Plan proposes that this area remain a media district which would generate far fewer car trips and provide many more high quality and higher wage jobs.