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Industrial Sector Paints a Mixed Outlook in 2024 and Beyond

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February 21, 2024

The industrial sector is going to be a mixed picture over the next three years. While development activity remains strong, supply is expected to grow faster than demand, signaling that new development will eventually begin to cool. E-commerce is currently a primary driver of new industrial development, with the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and the corresponding demand for data center space becoming a rising influence, ahead of cold storage and electric vehicle facilities. Drew Emmel, Partner at Allen Matkins, and Chris Rising, Co-Founder & CEO of Rising Realty Partners, discuss the factors influencing these trends as part of the Winter 2024 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey.

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Van Nuys Airport Specific Plan / Zoning Ordinance 177.327 / Community Impact Mitigation

CF 22-1127        AT CITY COUNCIL  03.03.2023

PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT relative to preparing a Specific Plan and/or other land use tools for the Van Nuys airport to replace the Van Nuys Airport Plan and zoning ordinance.

Recommendations for Council action, as initiated by Motion (Martinez – Blumenfield):

INSTRUCT the Department of City Planning, in consultation with the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), to prepare a Specific Plan and/or other land use tools for the Van Nuys airport to replace the Van Nuys Airport Plan and Zoning Ordinance 177327. This plan should:

Look at mitigating noise and other impacts from the airport on the surrounding area; including a barrier between the airport and nearby homes, additional hangar space, tree planting, and setbacks.

Establish a community benefit program for the surrounding area.

Explore how land covered by the plan can continue to be an economic generator by luring new commercial activity.

Have extensive engagement with airport stakeholders and local residents.

INSTRUCT the LAWA and the City Attorney to report on what the City can and cannot do in terms of regulating activity at Van Nuys Airport.

Fiscal Impact Statement:

Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.

Community Impact Statement: Yes

For if Amended: North Hills West Neighborhood Council
For if Amended: Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council

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ZAI – Oil Well Maintence

City Planning has prepared Zoning Administrator’s Memorandum (ZA Memo) 141 and a Zoning Administrator’s Interpretation (ZAI) relating to the implementation of Ordinance No. 187,709. The ZA Memo outlines the steps and procedures for Health and Safety exception requests. Operators are required to submit these requests to the Department of City Planning. The ZAI defines “well maintenance” activities in the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC). Both the ZA Memo and ZAI will serve as guidance for operators and the public regarding oil drilling regulations in the City.

  • Read:  ZA Memo No. 1541 
    • Provides an opportunity for operators to make requests for Health and Safety exception requests
    • Identifies a discretionary process that includes a public hearing and mailing notification
    • Identifies an administrative review process for situations that involve imminent emergency threats to public health, safety, and/or the environment
  • Read: Zoning Administrator’s Interpretation on Well Maintenance
    • Makes a clear interpretation on what “maintain[ing] an oil well” means for operators
    • Clarifies how this interpretation will be implemented under LAMC Section 13.01-H or LAMC Section 12.23-C.4
  • Read:  Ordinance No. 187,709 

 

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Bioscience Industry / Incentives / Chatsworth-Northridge Industrial Core / Innov818 Zone

CF 22-1274   AT PLUM 11/29/2022

Motion (Lee – Blumenfield) relative to instructing the Departments of City Planning, and Building and Safety, to report on the feasibility of creating an overlay zone and/or the use of other land use tools that would streamline the entitlement and permitting processes for bioscience-related uses within the Chatsworth-Northridge Industrial Core, Innov818 zone; and instruct the City Administrative Officer, Chief Legislative Analyst, and the Office of Finance to provide a comprehensive report to include: 1) the feasibility of temporarily increasing the gross receipts tax exemption threshold along with an economic and financial analysis of increasing the threshold; and 2) recommendations on implementing the higher exemption threshold, including cap amounts along with other incentives and/or tax exemptions that could be implemented to assist growth of the bioscience industry in the City of Los Angeles.

 

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  • 11/23/2022 Planning and Land Use Management Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on November 29, 2022.  Motion 10/25/2022
  • 10/25/2022 Motion referred to Budget and Finance Committee; Planning and Land Use Management Committee.  Motion 10/25/2022
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Chatsworth-Northridge Industrial Core, Innov818,

CF 17-0938

CONSIDERATION OF MOTION (ENGLANDER – KREKORIAN) relative to the proposed designation of the Chatsworth-Northridge Industrial Core, Innov818, located in Council District 12.

Recommendation for Council action:

INSTRUCT the Department of City Planning to report back with recommendations to define and designate a Chatsworth-Northridge Industrial Core, Innov818, in the area generally bounded by the following geographical boundaries: Topanga Canyon Boulevard on the west; Lassen Street on the north (between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Mason Avenue); Mason Avenue on the east (between Lassen Street and Plummer Street); Plummer Street east bound to Corbin Avenue (between Mason Avenue and Corbin Avenue); Corbin Avenue on the east (between Plummer Street and Nordhoff Street); and Nordhoff Street on the south (between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Corbin Avenue).

Community Impact Statement: None submitted.

(Planning and Land Use Management Committee waived consideration of the above matter)

  • 09/06/2017 Council Action. Vote Action: Question to Substitute Vote Given: (15 – 0 – 0)   (September 6, 2017), Substitute Ordinance (September 5, 2017)
  • 09/05/2017  Council adopted substitute motion, subject to reconsideration, pursuant to Council Rule 51.   Substitute Ordinance (September 5, 2017)
  • 08/31/2017  City Clerk scheduled item for Council on September 5, 2017 . Motion ( August 18, 2017)
  • 08/31/2017 City Clerk scheduled item for Council on September 5, 2017 .  Motion ( August 18, 2017)
  • 08/29/2017 Planning and Land Use Management Committee waived consideration of item . Motion ( August 18, 2017)
  • 08/18/2017 Motion document(s) referred to Planning and Land Use Management Committee.  Motion ( August 18, 2017)