Hollywood Sign homeowners. Many public space advocates have contended that the city should not restrict access points to the sign from the public, suggesting that other avenues be explored to alleviate the challenges that tourism presents to the surrounding communities. They have also argued that the streets, sign, and parkland are public property and should be accessible to all since they are funded by public tax dollars. An aerial tramway to the top of Mount Lee and the sign has been proposed numerous times. In June 2018, Warner Bros. proposed to fund an estimated $100 million tramway that would run from their
Community newspapers in Hollywood, California year to $5 million. Revenues were going to another group of weeklies that Copeland owned in Northern California, and he was paying himself a "consulting fee" of $13,000 a month. The "Citizen-News" was merged with the "Valley Times", which ceased publishing under its own name in spring 1969. The Hollywood newspaper changed its name to "Los Angeles Evening Citizen News" in March 1970 and attempted to gain readers by switching its editorial policy from conservative to liberal. At one point in August 1970 a finance firm that was owed about half a million dollars sent in a team of security