Month: September 2014

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AB 2556 APPLICATION INFORMATION – Density Bonus

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Housing and Community Investment – AB2556

On September 27, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 2222 as amended by AB 2556 on August 19, 2016, to amend sections of California’s Density Bonus Law (Gov. Code §§ 65915). Major changes to the law are applicable to new density bonus developments resulting in a loss in existing affordable units or rent-stabilized units. The law aims to replace units and ensure rental affordability periods for 55 years.

The first step is to complete an application for an Affordable Unit Determination to find if you have potential affordable units. According to AB 2556, all rental dwelling units that exist at the time of application, or have been vacated or demolished in the five-year period preceding the application date shall be replaced on a one-for-one basis.

We will need tenant income information, among other items, to determine if affordable units need to be replaced. It is the responsibility of the owner to obtain all the required documentation verifying the tenant income and the project’s rental and occupancy.

For density bonus projects in the absence of income documentation, the Land Use staff will make a determination that rental units were last occupied by 50% very low income and 18% low income households pursuant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) database. For transit oriented communities (TOC) projects in the absence of income documentation, the determination breakdown will be 31% extremely low income, 19% very low income, and 18% low income.

 

 

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Hillside Safety – Recommendations to Protect Neighborhoods

Planning Land Use and Management

Consider Council File No. 14-1059 – Motion (Koretz – LaBonge) – That Council instruct the Department of Building and Safety and the Bureau of Street Services, with the assistance of the Planning Department, and in consultation with the City Attorney, to prepare a report in 90 days that provides recommendations relative to directives to keep the residents of hillside  neighborhoods safe; etc.

 

Motion (July 30, 2014)

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City Planning Commission Hearing Scheduled and Revisions to the Municipal Code on Street Design Standards

“The Mobility Plan is currently scheduled for a public hearing with the City Planning Commission on November 20, 2014 and as a companion to this effort, the Planning Department proposes modifications to portions of the Los Angeles Municipal Code: L.A.M.C. 17.05 Design Standards. These revisions can be found on the main City Planning website linked here.

On November 6, 2014, two weeks before the City Planning Commission hearing, the Mobility Plan final draft and staff report will be released. The final draft will reflect changes based on comments received from the public and other city departments. The staff report will address comments received on the Plan during the draft Plan’s public comment period as well as summarize the entire process of the Mobility Plan.

There will be additional opportunities in the future to weigh in again when the Plan gets presented at City Council’s subcommittees : Planning Land Use Meeting (PLUM), Transportation Committee, and finally City Council.”