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Week in Review: Rapper Tyler the Creator Arrested, Norwich Community Garden Closing and Winter Solstice

In other news, City Council commissions a new design for Plummer Park's $41 million renovations and Councilman John D'Amico calls for a serious revamp to Weho's annual Gay Pride festivities.

Gardeners at at San Vicente Boulevard and Norwich Avenue began packing up Monday, the arrived Wednesday night, signaling the moment when the North Pole tilts away from the sun at its furthest point and the sun makes it most southerly arc across the horizon, and on suspicion of vandalism after performing at the Roxy Theatre in the early morning hours on Friday.

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The Protect Plummer Park movement got an early Christmas present at Monday night’s City Council meeting when the city announced it had commissioned architects to come up with and will reactivate an internal subcommittee dealing with the park redesign.

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Patch's James Mills reported tourism generates $750 million in revenue each year in West Hollywood. According to a West Hollywood Marketing and Visitors Bureau economic impact study, about 1.2 million tourists visit Weho each year, generating three-quarters of $1 billion in revenue.

Tenants who smoke in Los Angeles will not have the same protection against eviction as smokers in West Hollywood when a . West Hollywood City Council finalized an ordinance earlier this month protecting its smokers from eviction.

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The annual Gay Pride parade and festival held every June in West Hollywood will get a . At Monday night’s City Council meeting, he called for changes to the event put on by Christopher Street West.

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The West Hollywood City Council passed a resolution at its regularly scheduled Council meeting Monday. Previously, the City has condemned violence against LGBT demonstrators in Russia and violence against the LGBT community in Honduras.

The for emergency pool deck repairs to take place through Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. The public facility will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2011.

Reminders:

City Hall will be closed Monday, Dec. 26, according to the City of West Hollywood website calendar. Permit parking, parking meters, associated time limits, as well as peak hour towing restrictions will not be enforced in the City of West Hollywood. There will also be no street sweeping.

Friday is a modified schedule at West Hollywood City Hall. Transactions will only be available at the first-floor Permit Parking and Cashier Counter.

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