Month: November 2023

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Council and Committee Referral – Wednesday, November 29, 2023

 

23-0623-S1 Administrative approval of one hundred percent affordable housing projects.
To Housing and Homelessness Committee
To Planning and Land Use Management Committee
Los Angeles City Planning Commission report, dated November 28, 2023, relative to a proposed ordinance amending Los Angeles Municipal Code Chapters 1 and 1A, to establish procedures and performance standards for administrative approval of one hundred percent affordable housing projects.
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Citywide Housing Incentive Program

 

 

Dear Interested Parties,
Friendly reminder! Don’t miss your chance to complete the Concept Explorer Survey and to share your thoughts on the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP). The survey is your opportunity to help shape CHIP’s six core strategies including Adaptive Reuse, Updates to Affordable Housing Incentive Programs, Opportunity Corridors, Affordable Housing Overlay, Missing Middle, and Process Streamlining. With the release of draft ordinances approaching, there is just one week remaining until the survey (corrected link) closes on November 20, 2023. Your input is essential in shaping the future of housing in Los Angeles, so don’t miss this opportunity to provide your feedback today!
Completing the survey is one of many ways to provide your feedback. Comments can also be emailed to housingelement@lacity.org. Outreach will continue throughout the next year during draft release and adoption phases ahead.
Stay tuned for more updates!
About the Citywide Housing Incentive Program
Following the 2022 certification of the 2021-2029 Housing Element, City Planning staff has been working to develop and implement the ambitious programs identified in the Plan to House LA. The Plan identified that there is a significant housing need in Los Angeles, reflected by high rents, overcrowded conditions, and increasing housing instability. The Citywide Housing Incentive Program aims to address Los Angeles’ significant housing needs, for the City to provide greater housing access and meet its state housing obligations. The Citywide Housing Incentive Program will be implemented through one or more zoning code amendments developed simultaneously over a two-year period (2023-2025). To learn more about the program click here.
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Processes and Procedures Ordinance

Dear Stakeholder,
Are you interested in learning more about Los Angeles City Planning’s recently reorganized review procedures?
City Planning is pleased to offer a public webinar to walk through the approved Processes and Procedures Ordinance ahead of its January 22, 2024, operative date. Join us on Thursday, November 30, for a webinar hosted by our staff with a presentation followed by a Question and Answer session from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Zoom.
Processes and Procedures Ordinance Webinar
Virtual Information Session and Public Hearing
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Virtual Overview Presentation: 6 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Virtual Question & Answer Session: 6:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Enter Meeting ID 843 8301 5838 and Passcode 963033
Or join by phone: (213) 338-8477 or (669) 900-9128
The Department will also answer specific questions related to the Processes and Procedures Ordinance at virtual Office Hours on the following dates:
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Thursday, December 7, 2023, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Register for a 30-minute time slot here.
BACKGROUND
The Processes and Procedures Ordinance is part of a larger initiative to comprehensively update the City’s Zoning Code. It aims to create a clear set of administrative procedures for considering and processing requests for Zoning Code entitlements. The Processes and Procedures Ordinance lays the groundwork for a more user-friendly, transparent, and predictable set of zoning regulations.
In December 2022, the City Council adopted Ordinance 187,712, commonly referred to as the Processes and Procedures Ordinance, which is scheduled to be operative beginning January 22, 2024, as established in Ordinance No. 187,930. On September 19, 2023, the City Council approved a proposed ordinance to amend the provisions that regulate development applications and approvals in the City’s coastal zones, as approved by the California Coastal Commission.
A dedicated webpage for Processes and Procedures, which summarizes the upcoming changes in greater detail and provides helpful resources—including the Processes Comparison Table and Fact Sheet—is available at Planning4LA.org/project-review/processes-procedures.
Revised City Planning application forms reflecting updates from the ordinance are anticipated to be released to the public in December. More information will be provided at a later date.
To receive future updates on the implementation of this ordinance, please sign up for the interested parties list: https://planning.lacity.org/about/email-sign-up. Members of the public may also view related documents and sign u
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Administrative approval of one hundred percent affordable housing projects

CPC-2023-5273-CA    CITY PLANNING COMMISSION 11.16.2023

Council District: ALL

CEQA: ENV-2020-6762-EIR; SCH No. 2021010130

Last Day to Act: N/A

ENV-2020-6762-EIR-ADD1

Plan Area: Citywide PUBLIC HEARING – Completed on October 11, 2023

PROJECT SITE: Citywide PROPOSED AMENDMENT: An ordinance amending Chapter 1 and Chapter 1A of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, including Section 12.22 of Chapter 1 and Articles 9 and 13 of Chapter 1A, for the purpose of establishing procedures and performance standards for administrative approval of one hundred percent affordable housing projects.

REQUESTED

ACTIONS: 1. Recommend that the City Council find, the Project was assessed in the Housing Element Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) No. ENV-2020-6762-EIR, State Clearinghouse No. SCH No. 2021010130 certified on November 29, 2021 and the Addendum (ENV-2020-6762-EIR-ADD1) approved June 14, 2022; 2. Recommend that the City Council instruct that the proposed Ordinance be incorporated into the New Zoning Code, subject to changes to conform to the format and style of the New Zoning Code; 3. Recommend the adoption of the proposed ordinance (Exhibit A); 4. Adopt the Staff Report as the Commission’s report on the subject; and 5. Adopt the Findings;

Applicant: City of Los Angeles Staff: Jeanalee Obergfell, City Planner  mailto:jeanalee.obergfell@lacity.org

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Dear Interested Parties, 
Los Angeles City Planning is pleased to announce that the proposed Affordable Housing Streamlining Ordinance will be considered by the City Planning Commission (CPC) on Thursday, November 16, 2023. The meeting commences at 8:30 a.m. and will occur in-person at Van Nuys City Hall located at 14410 Sylvan Street, #215, Van Nuys, CA 91401. There is also an option to virtually join the meeting and provide public comment over Zoom. Additional information on how to participate in the meeting is provided in the agenda, available here. Following the City Planning Commission’s recommendation on the proposed ordinance, it will proceed to the City Council for consideration and possible adoption.
Los Angeles City Planning has prepared this proposed ordinance in response to a City Council Motion (Council File No. 23-0623), amending the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) to create an administrative review process for 100% affordable housing projects, subject to eligibility requirements and performance standards. This proposed ordinance incorporates the streamlining provisions of Executive Directive 1 (ED 1) into the LAMC in an effort to increase affordable housing throughout the City by shortening the time, risk and cost it takes to approve qualifying affordable housing projects.
The Staff Recommendation Report to the CPC is now available for the public and discusses the changes made to the proposed Ordinance in response to public comment and feedback. To view more information regarding the proposed Affordable Housing Streamlining Ordinance, including the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Sheet, please visit the webpage linked here and search for “Affordable Housing Streamlining Ordinance.”
Following consideration by the City Planning Commission, the ordinance would move to the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee of the City Council before eventually heading to the full City Council for consideration and adoption.
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Planning Land Use Fees Update / Annual Inflation Adjustment

CF  09-0969-S4     AT PLUM 11.07.2023

Previously Certified Environmental Impact Report No. ENV-2022-5286-EIR (State Clearinghouse No. 2022040363), pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15164, Addendum, Mitigation Monitoring Reporting Program, report from the Los Angeles City Planning Commission (LACPC), draft Ordinance to permit the establishment of a contiguous and non-contiguous Supplemental Use District (SUD), called the Transportation Communication Network (TCN), on property owned by Metro, as revised by the LACPC to include: a) a minimum distance requirement between signs resulting in the removal of one sign ; b) removal of two signs due to proximity to a State Park ; c) a public art requirement for specific single-faced TCN structures; and d) changes in the takedown provisions, building permit requirement and the number of signs to be removed prior to the approval of Freeway Facing sign structures; and a proposed Metro TCN Ordinance that would establish a new TCN Supplemental Use District (SUD) permitting 46 TCN Structures and 80 digital display off-site signs on specific Metro-owned properties Citywide.

Applicant: City of Los Angeles

Case No. CPC-2022-5401-CA; CPC-2023-3653-ZC

Related Case No. 22-0392

Environmental No. ENV-2022-5286-EIR; State Clearinghouse No. 2022040363

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Council and Committee Referral – Tuesday, December 05, 2023

 

23-1378 AB 2234 (Rivas)
To Council
Motion (Harris-Dawson – Krekorian – Yaroslavsky) relative to adopting a Resolution and findings as required by AB 2234 (Rivas), to extend the deadline to comply with its Internet Permitting Requirements, to allow post entitlement phase permits of housing development projects to be applied for, completed, and retrieved by the applicant on a local agency’s internet website.
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Council and Committee Referrals Friday, November 03, 2023

09-0969-S4     Establish three new planning and land use fees
To Planning and Land Use Management Committee
City Attorney report R23-0415, dated November 2, 2023, relative a draft Ordinance amending Article 9 of Chapter 1 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code to establish three new planning and land use fees and to align the adoption of fees with the Processes and Procedures Ordinance

12-0460-S7 Redevelopment Plan Procedures Reinstatement Ordinance
To Planning and Land Use Management Committee Los Angeles City Planning Commission report, dated November 2, 2023, relative to a proposed Redevelopment Plan Procedures Reinstatement Ordinance, amending Processes and Procedures Ordinance No. 187712, to reinstate Section 11.5.14 in Chapter 1 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code.

20-1074-S4 Streamline zoning code regulations to create a permanent Al Fresco Program
To Planning and Land Use Management Committee City Attorney report R23- 0416, dated November 2, 2023, relative to a draft Ordinance amending the Los Angeles Municipal Code to streamline zoning code regulations to create a permanent Al Fresco Program for outdoor dining on private property.

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Climate Action and Adaptation Plan / City General Plan

CF 22-1566  AT CiTY COUNCIL 11.03.2023

CONTINUED CONSIDERATION OF PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT and AMENDING MOTION 25A (KREKORIAN – PARK) relative to a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan into the City’s General Plan, and related matters.

PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT DATED OCTOBER 12, 2023

Recommendation for Council action:

INSTRUCT the City Administrative Officer (CAO), in consultation with the Board of Public Works (Climate Emergency Mobilization Office), to prepare a report with recommendations as to the cost estimates included in the Department of City Planning (DCP) report dated April 26, 2023, attached to the Council file, relative to a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan; and, the availability of State (or Federal) grant funds, as indicated in the DCP report.

AMENDING MOTION 25A (KREKORIAN – PARK) DATED OCTOBER 20, 2023

Recommendation for Council action:

INSTRUCT the Board of Public Works (Climate Emergency Mobilization Office) and CAO to include in this report an analysis of adopting a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan into the City’s General Plan, including benefits, costs, drawbacks, and potential alternatives.

Fiscal Impact Statement: None submitted by the DCP. Neither the CAO nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.

Community Impact Statement: None submitted

(Continued from Council meeting of October 20, 2023)

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Metro’s Transportation Communication Network

 

Dear Interested Stakeholder,
The proposed Metro Transportation Communication Network (TCN) Ordinance will be considered by the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee of the City Council on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. The PLUM Committee meeting follows the City Planning Commission hearing held on September 14, 2023. The PLUM Committee meeting agenda and live broadcast will be available online at clerk.lacity.org/calendar.
At the direction of the Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles City Planning has prepared ordinances to amend the Zoning Code to allow the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to implement a TCN (Council File: 22-0392). Metro is proposing to erect digital display signs on Metro-owned parcels throughout the City that are adjacent to certain freeways and major streets as part of its TCN program. The proposed ordinances, known collectively as the Metro TCN Ordinance, will create a new Supplemental Use District (SUD) and include a Zone Change to apply the TCN SUD and its regulations to specific parcels owned by Metro. More information can be found on the project website.
The PLUM Committee meeting will provide another opportunity for the public to share their feedback and comments on the proposed Metro TCN Ordinance and project. Written comments may be submitted online to LACouncilComment.com. Public testimony will also be heard during the general public comment portion of the meeting in-person only; there will be no public comment accepted by teleconference during the meeting. To access the proposed ordinance, the City Planning Commission’s recommendation, and to sign up to receive electronic notifications about the project, visit Council File: 22-0392.
Planning and Land Use Committee Meeting
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Meeting begins at 2 p.m.
John Ferraro Council Chamber
Room 340, City Hall
200 N Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Council and Committee Referrals – Wednesday, November 01, 2023

 

12-0460-S4 California Coastal Commission amendments to the City’s Coastal Development Permit processes and procedures
To Planning and Land Use Management Committee
City Attorney report R23-0414, dated November 01, 2023, relative to a draft Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 187712 to incorporate the California Coastal Commission amendments to the City’s Coastal Development Permit processes and procedures in Section 13B.9.1, Chapter 1A, of the Los Angeles Municipal Code.

 

20-1074-S4 Al Fresco Ordinance
To Planning and Land Use Management Committee
Board of Police Commissioners report, dated October 31, 2023, relative to proposed enforcement and response strategies for noise complaints associated with the Al Fresco Ordinance.