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
Mount Hollywood Congregational Church justice. In 1941 it came to the aid of Hollywood Independent Church, a Japanese-American congregation, by safeguarding the church's property and homes of its members after they were sent to internment camps. All of the ministers in Mount Hollywood's history have been pacifists. The church's altar has a wooden cross made from camphor wood off of a tree in the yard of a church that had been bombed in Hiroshima. The cross is inscribed with "He is our peace." The Rev. Anne Cohen was installed as the church's pastor on Nov. 3, 2013. Mount Hollywood Congregational Church Mount Hollywood Congregational