Hollywood sign tourism sparks public safety concerns among Los Angeles residents

CBS News California Investigates Hollywood sign tourism sparks public safety concerns among Los Angeles residents: "I live in constant fear" .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-cbs-news-losangeles.jpg'); } By Jeff Nguyen, Jeff Nguyen Jeff Nguyen covers breaking news and contributes to the CBS News California Investigates franchise. Read Full Bio Jeff Nguyen, Amy Corral, Amy Corral National Investigative Producer Amy Corral is an award winning investigative journalist based in Los Angeles. She joined CBS News & Stations as a national investigative producer in 2022. Read Full Bio Amy Corral, Chelsea Hylton Chelsea Hylton Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining CBS in 2024, she worked at NBC LA, Telemundo 52, The Los Angeles Times and KOMO 4 News in Seattle. Read Full Bio Chelsea Hylton Updated on: May 28, 2026 / 7:12 AM PDT / CBS LA Add CBS News on Google Living beneath one of the world's most famous landmarks, the iconic Hollywood sign, Rhoda Coleman and her neighbors are fed up with the traffic, chaotic scenes and harassment that comes from visitors. She and others in her community are calling on city leaders to take action and help fix the problem. CBS News California Investigates obtained data from traffic cameras posted in the area, which recorded 14,300 vehicles in the area during a 14-day period in February 2024. In 2025, the number during the same stretch grew to 25,000. In 2026, it was 32,300. The spike over the last two years: 124%.Coleman and some of her neighbors said their Hollywood Hills neighborhood is constantly overrun with tourists crowding their yards, choking their streets and even relieving themselves in the bushes, they believe it's for social media fame. Neighbors said people will come take pictures and film videos with the sign in the bac...