Motions 04.26.2024
Pg. 25 The original VHFHSZ ADU regulations added a crucial step to mitigate the harm and damage caused by fires. These regulations should equally apply citywide along with the Hillside Construction Regulation Supplemental Use District (HCR SUD) and Baseline Hillside Ordinance (BHO). All of these protections combined will ensure safe and thoughtful development in VHFHSZ.
The Council instructs the Planning Department, in consultation with the City Attorney, to prepare and present an ordinance to amend Municipal Code Section 12.22 (Exceptions) to repeal the exceptions located within the Northeast Los Angeles Community Plan or Silver Lake -Echo Park – Elysian Valley Community Plan Area found in Section 33 (Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units) subsection 4 (i) to ensure that all VHFHSZ hillside neighborhoods across the City can equally benefit from fire prevention and safety measures.
Pg. 40 To preserve the character of HPOZ neighborhoods, the Planning Department must ensure that any streamlined one hundred percent affordable housing project is not out of scale, and foremost that it is in compliance with HPOZ Preservation Plans.
The Council instructs the Planning Department, in consultation with the City Attorney, to prepare and present a citywide Interim Control Ordinance (ICO) within 30 days to impose temporary regulations restoring the existing HPOZ discretionary review process on the issuance of permits associated with any demolition, building, use of land, grading, and other applicable permits for the new construction of one-hundred percent affordable housing projects that are currently subject to a ministerial approval process located in a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) neighborhood, and thereby ensure compliance with HPOZ Preservation Plans.
Further, the ICO includes an Urgency Clause, making it effective upon publication, and consistent with California Government Code §65858, the ICO shall run for 45 days, with a 10-month and 15-day extension by Council Resolution, and can be further extended for an additional 1 year, or until the adoption of the appropriate land use regulatory controls have been prepared by the Planning Department, adopted by the Council and become effective, whichever occurs first.
