Month: April 2014

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ENTERPRISE ZONE LAMC REGULATIONS

The Departments of Building and Safety and City Planning will continue to apply zoning incentives to those areas that had been previously designated as Enterprise Zones. The Department implements several zoning incentives that furthered State Enterprise Zone goals. Such LAMC regulations include reduced parking requirements – Section 12.21-A,4(x), increased building or structure height – Section 12.21.4, and exemptions from conditional use permits for major projects – Section 12.24-U,14(c)2. In adopting these regulations, the City provided additional incentives in designated areas beyond those provided by the State.

Regardless of the status of Enterprise Zones, City zoning regulations pertaining to those areas, which were approved by City Council resolution, are still valid. This is further supported by a City Council motion to “continue and increase city-level incentives” in Enterprise Zones (Council File 13-0934).

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Affordable Housing

Mark Brown, formerly Brown and Muschle ()

The Housing Department has prepare a draft ordinance amending the Municipal Code to establish fees for the preparation and enforcement of the affordable housing land use covenants and regulatory agreements. This is another way to generate more income…on the back of affordable housing!  I wonder if there will be monitoring and posting of how fast the covenant processing and other work will be completed.  (Select to follow)

 

 

 

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Expanding the Permit Compliance Function – City Council Motion

INSTRUCT the General Managers, Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS), Department of City Planning (DCP), and Public Works, Bureau of Engineering (BOE), or their designees, with the assistance of the City Attorney, City Administrative Officer (CAO), and Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), to develop Memoranda of Agreement (MOA).

 Link: E:\Resources\Planning Processes\Permit Compliance\CF13 0046 Permit Compliance Functions.pdf

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Permit Compliance

Los Angeles City Planning staff responsible for clearing conditions related to Zoning Administrator cases will collect clearance fees according with the attached table. A table is created that shows a reduced clearance fee of $199.00 for specific instances which may be considered “minor projects”. In addition, staff will collect this fee anytime verification of substantial compliance with older cases or deemed-approved status is requested.

The reduced fee can be selected as a “Standalone Fee” from the Application Fees Module, if related to a case, or from the search tree when verifying deemed-approved status for a property where there is no Planning Case related to the request.

Note that Plan Approvals (MPA, PA1, PA2, etc.), for each tenant where there was a Master Conditional Use approved, is subject to the $1722.00 clearance fee for the first round of individual approvals. Subsequent Plan Approvals may be subject to the reduced fee provided said criteria is met.

If you have any questions, please contact the staff in the Condition Compliance Unit at (213)978-1914.