Your Questions Answered

La Venta clients are required to consider parking as part of their event plan. The available options are: 

1. Hire a valet company to stack cars in the La Venta parking lot.

2. Hire a shuttle service to bring guests up from a designated gathering area outside the immediate neighborhood – usually the hotel where the majority of guests are staying.

The La Venta staff parks on the north side of Via Del Monte (bordering La Venta) where there are no homes. This gives our guests room to use the La Venta lot and has our team quickly exiting the area after an event.

We have made a number of decisions that will prevent potential disruption from shuttles:

• Shuttles are permitted for guest transportation. However, shuttles are NOT allowed to idle on Via Somonte as previously allowed. 

• Shuttles are 14-passengers or less. Shuttles over this size are required by law to be equipped with backup beeping mechanisms. Keeping shuttles smaller eliminates the potential for backup beeping disruption to neighbors.

• We contract with one transportation company that understands our required rules and wants to work in accordance so they may return for the next event.

Currently, there are no existing limitations on sound. We are committed to being responsive and gracious neighbors and so have worked with the most well-respected sound engineer in the world, Veneklasen Associates, to conduct a sound study. After that thorough study, we are proposing a 55 decibel (dB) limit, measured at the property perimeter.

Great question!  55 dBs is between the sound of moderate rainfall and conversation. Our sound study showed the neighborhood sounds measured between 34 dBs and 57 dBs, without any noise from La Venta.

We have a parking lot attendant stationed at the driveway entrance and property line at every event to direct guests and measure sound throughout every event. Measuring the sound, they communicate levels via walkie-talkie to the team closer to the event epicenter. If the sound starts reaching its limit, the team inside is notified immediately. Our commitment to being a good neighbor means that our policy is to fix any issues as they happen - not wait until we hear complaints.  

We want happy neighbors and don’t want to be reactive in our solutions. 

Please call or email any concerns directly to our venue manager, Duncan Blount. His cell phone is 310.504.4347 and email is manager@laventa.com. 

Call during events, during the week, anytime. If you believe we are mismanaging noise or any other issue – please reach out. 

We want to work with our neighbors to foster and maintain a great relationship.

Absolutely. We can be issued violations from the Code Enforcement Officer, the police can come to the property during an event to turn off the music, we can be called into the city government process once again. There are many mechanisms of accountability.