LEVEL Venue · 9320 W Pico Blvd · Los Angeles 90035
We’re not at your LEVEL.
We’re across the alley. And we can hear every word.
LEVEL calls itself “the new standard for luxury events on Pico Blvd.” Its neighbors are the people in the apartment buildings behind it: renters, young families, retirees. Most of us will never book a $6,000-minimum night there. We are not at LEVEL’s LEVEL. We just live at the other end of its speakers.
LEVEL has thousands of square feet of climate-controlled indoor ballroom. Night after night it puts the DJ, the singer and the speakers outside instead, on an open-air patio one alley from our bedroom windows.
The petition
Let’s bring LEVEL down.
(The volume. We mean the volume.)
I live, work or own property near 9320 W Pico Blvd. I ask LEVEL Venue to bring the volume down: no DJs, live singers or amplified music on the open-air patio after 9 PM, and a manager's number that is answered during every event.
Hearing it right now?
Call LEVEL. Ask them to tell the DJ to keep it down.
It’s LEVEL’s own published number. Ask for the manager on duty and ask them to tell the DJ to keep it down or take it inside.
“Hi, I live behind LEVEL on [your street]. The music from your patio is inside my home right now. Please move it inside or turn it down.”
LAPD non-emergency, 1-877-275-5273. Report amplified music from 9320 W Pico Blvd audible inside your home. Every call goes on the record.
Then add your name.
One petition, one ask: bring the volume down. Every signature makes it harder for LEVEL to shrug this off.
Keep calls calm, short and about tonight’s noise. The goal is quiet, not a fight.
Look at the block
One alley. That’s the whole buffer.
LEVEL’s patio doesn’t face Pico Boulevard’s traffic. It backs onto the alley, and across that alley are apartment buildings, on both sides of Rexford and Glenville and down past Alcott.
Music played indoors would still be heard. Music played on that patio is heard inside our homes, with the windows closed.
We may not be at your LEVEL. But we are right at your property line.
LEVEL’s open-air patio. Where the DJs, singers and speakers keep ending up.
LEVEL’s indoor ballrooms. Walls, a roof, air conditioning and, per LEVEL, “crystal-clear sound.”
Apartment buildings. Homes on every side of the alley, and more beyond the edge of this map.
How we got here
We started polite. We got ignored.
01 · Earlier this year
We asked nicely.
This site launched praising the venue, wishing it success, and listing five modest requests. We wrote essays on how venues and neighbors coexist. We meant every word.
02 · On a party night
We talked to them.
A neighbor walked over and spoke to the event organizer in person. He was brushed off. The music did not move an inch.
03 · Again and again
The police came. So did the music.
LAPD has been called to LEVEL repeatedly. Residents have watched the volume drop while officers are on site, and climb right back up once they drive away.
04 · Now
Louder, later, still outside.
Months on, the evening parties on the patio have not stopped. DJs, singers, microphones and speakers, aimed at the homes behind the building, on a regular basis.
In LEVEL’s own words
Built to celebrate the community. Run at its expense.
It sells our simchas.
LEVEL's booking form lists Bar Mitzvahs right next to weddings. It markets itself to Pico-Robertson, the heart of Jewish Los Angeles. Then it keeps that same community's families awake across the alley. You don't get to profit from a community's celebrations and ignore its sleep.
It promises the rules.
LEVEL's own FAQ: “All musical performances must comply with our sound regulations to meet local ordinance requirements.” We would love to see those regulations. So would the police officers who keep coming back.
It has a room for this.
The Lounge. The Gala. The Glass Room. By LEVEL's own numbers, about 9,700 square feet of indoor ballroom with air conditioning and “crystal-clear sound.” The DJ could be inside tonight. Keeping him outside is a choice.
It sells the open air.
“Created for open air celebrations.” That's the pitch for LEVEL's Garden, up to 340 guests. For the people behind it, open air means open windows, and a party in every bedroom on the block.
What the city says
Los Angeles Municipal Code, Sec. 112.01
Amplified music “audible to the human ear at a distance in excess of 150 feet from the property line of the noise source, within any residential zone of the City or within 500 feet thereof, shall be a violation.”
The apartments behind LEVEL are not 150 feet away. They are one alley away. Residents across that alley and down the block hear the music inside their homes. We are residents, not lawyers, and we’ll let the code speak for itself.
The Ask
It isn’t complicated.
We are not asking LEVEL to close. We are not asking for silence. Book every wedding, gala and Bar Mitzvah you can.
Just stop aiming the party at the people who live behind you.
- 01Move DJs, live singers and amplified music indoors. Every event.
- 02Keep the patio for cocktails, dinner and conversation, with no speakers and no microphones.
- 03Honor residential quiet hours. On a school night, 10 PM means 10 PM.
- 04Put a manager's phone number on the door that is answered during every event.
- 05Keep the alley clear. Residents should never have to negotiate their way home.
Our offer to LEVEL
Take the DJ inside, and this website comes down.
We don’t enjoy running this site. We’d rather be asleep. So here is the deal, in public, where everyone can see it:
No DJs, no live singers and no amplified music on the patio after 9 PM, and a manager’s number that gets answered during events. Keep that up, and levelwithrespect.com goes dark.
Until then, it stays up, right where anyone who searches your name will find it. To take the deal, write to hello@levelwithrespect.com.
LEVEL with us.Bring it inside.
If you live near 9320 W Pico Blvd and you’ve lain awake listening to someone else’s party, add your name. If you’re thinking of booking LEVEL, now you know who’s on the other side of the wall.