Adaptive Reuse Ordinance / Update / By-Right Eligible Conversions / Deed Restrictions / Moderate-Income Households

CF 11-1973-S1     

PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT relative to updating the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance to allow eligible conversions by-right beyond those located in the six Specific Plan Incentive areas.

Recommendations for Council action, as initiated by Motion (Koretz – Harris-Dawson):

INSTRUCT the Department of City Planning (DCP), with the assistance of the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department, and the City Administrative Officer (CAO), and in consultation with the City Attorney, to prepare and present an Ordinance to update the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance to allow eligible conversions by-right beyond those located in the six Specific Plan Incentive areas (Ordinance No. 175038), if they meet the following proposed criteria:

All new apartments and condominiums shall be deed-restricted to Moderate income households, 81 percent to 120 percent of Area Median Income.
The ground floor shall remain commercial.
Linkage Fees are waived.
Live/work, Artists-in-Residence, and hotel projects are not eligible for this incentive.
The building is at least five years old.

INSTRUCT the DCP, when moving forward with the policy relative to the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, to take into account the importance of preserving certain industrial zones; and, to work closely with the Council District (CD) 12 Office to ensure that such policy will not affect the ability to get companies to come to the industrial corridor in CD 12.

Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the CAO nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.

Community Impact Statement: Yes.
For: Mid City West Community Council


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  • 03/03/2021 Council action final.
  • 03/03/2021 Council adopted item, as amended, forthwith. Amending Motion (OFarrell – Koretz) 03/03/2021, Report from Planning and Land Use Management Committee 02/16/2021
  • 03/01/2021 City Clerk scheduled item for Council on March 3, 2021.  Report from Planning and Land Use Management Committee 02/16/2021
  • 02/16/2021 Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved as amended . Motion 12/15/2020
  • 02/15/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Mid City WEST Neighborhood Council. Refer to  CF 11-1973-S1
  • 02/15/2021 Community Impact Statement submitted by Mid City WEST Neighborhood Council.
  • Refer to  CF 11-1973-S1
  • 02/11/2021 Planning and Land Use Management Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on February 16, 2021. Motion 12/15/2020
  • 12/15/2020 Motion document(s) referred to Planning and Land Use Management Committee.  Motion 12/15/2020

 

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