It was nice to have you come out to Supercar Sunday March 7th at Pierce College and solicit our support for your replacing retiring Los Angeles County 3rd District Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.
As a professional motorsport journalist, motorcycle and sports car enthusiast, I purchased my home in Woodland Hills and moved to Los Angeles and the 3rd District West Valley area 40 years ago, because it is a major hub for the motorsports industry, and for the enjoyment of the beautiful and driver challenging canyon roads in the Santa Monica Mountains. Central to this living and driving enjoyment is legendary Mulholland Highway which runs runs as a beautiful twisting 2-lane pave highway from Topanga Canyon in Woodland Hills, through State Park lands at Malibu Creek, to the Pacific Coast Highway 1 at Leo Carrillo State Beach.
This beloved stretch of Mulholland Highway has become world famous over the last half-century from its appearances in many Hollywood movies, television shows, magazine stores, and more recently on social media. Famous to the point that many motorsports enthusiasts from around the world have made Los Angeles their vacation destination so they can drive legendary Mulholland Highway. And central to any Mulholland drive is the famed film location and diner, the Rock Store, and The Old Place in Cornell, and a twisty road section fondly known as “The Snake.” This is a beloved ride-to destination where celebrities from Steve McQueen in the early years, to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and now Jay Leno frequent it along with hundreds of motorsports enthusiast every weekend.
Then, in the fall of 2018, the terrible Woolsey Fire and the following rains caused minor road damage to Mulholland in sections which were closed for minor repairs indefinitely with prejudice. Those closed sections being Mulholland Highway from The Rock Store / Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park in Cornell to Kanan Road (barried to motor vehicles but open to bicycle riders), and from Highway 23 to Leo Carrillo State Beach (this section is open to residents, but closed to through traffic with stiff fines enforced by the County Sheriff and CHP).
The Troutdale Creek Steel Bridge on Mulholland at Peter Straus Ranch was also destroyed in the Woolsey Fire and rebuilt from new in 3 years. Whereas the minor repairs on these two other sections of Mulholland, which could have been completed in just weeks, have been kept closed by Sheila Kuhn to reduce traffic for the selfish benefit of the few residents along Mulholland Highway in the closed areas.
Mulholland Highway should be designated a State Scenic Highway. It is a major tourist and resident attraction no different than Pacific Coast Highway 1, and should immediately be reopened for the benefit of the people who love it, the taxpayers who built it, and the tourist industry in Los Angeles. We would like to hear your position on reopening all of Mulholland Highway immediately should we help you secure office as the next District 3 Supervisor for the County of Los Angeles. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jim Gianatsis
Woodland Hills, CA
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The Supervisor Election is on June 7th 2022
District 3 Supervisor Candidates:
Craig Brill / info@CraigForSupervisorLA.com
State Assemblyman Richard Bloom / Facebook.com/AssemblymemberBloom
State Senator Henry Stern / Senator.Stern@sen.ca.gov
City Councilmember Landsay Horvath / lindsay.p.horvath@gmail.com
Photo: Mulholland Highway snakes through the Malibu Hills outside of Los Angeles by Michael Darter