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CF 16-1468-S1
Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety Report with recommendations relative to identifying and reporting the proper mechanism and documentation necessary for waiving the requirement of a Certificate of Occupancy as the basis for accessory dwelling units (ADU) conversions and the development of an ADU Amnesty Program, and related matters.
Fiscal Impact Statement: No
Community Impact Statement: Yes
Against: Chatsworth Neighborhood Council
Studio City Neighborhood Council
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The Biden administration will take steps to bolster federal programs that produce affordable housing, boost the supply of manufactured homes, and promote fairer rental markets. Among these initiatives, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Treasury will indefinitely extend programs that provide an ongoing source of capital so state and local housing finance agencies can continue to offer Federal Housing Administration-insured multifamily loans.
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State Senator Josh Becker has introduced Senate Bill 1395 to speed up the time it takes to build temporary housing in California. If passed, SB 1395 will put into law that temporary, single-room housing is eligible for streamlined zoning that bypasses CEQA and other red tape approval processes. The bill will also extend the Shelter Crisis Act and the Low Barrier Navigation Center laws, which allow local governments to use emergency powers to provide services and housing to homeless communities.
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Bullet MyNewsLA – February 9
Last Friday, four Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion to incentivize developers to build more large-family housing across the city. Council President Paul Krekorian, alongside council members Nithya Raman, Eunisses Hernandez, and Katy Yaroslavsky are calling for an increase of rental units with three or more bedrooms for multi-generational families, and allow seniors who have adequate care to stay with their loved ones. If the full council approves the motion, the Department of City Planning will prepare an ordinance to establish a new density bonus for large-family units in multi-family buildings.
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In a move aimed at tackling San Francisco’s dire housing shortage, State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill Thursday to cut the city’s red tape on coastal development. SB 951 seeks to carve out developed areas of the city from the Coastal Zone, a swath of land regulated for environmental protection, which currently hobbles urban housing projects with extra layers of permitting. Wiener’s office announced that the proposed legislation would not only expedite the approval process for new housing but also maintain the Coastal Commission’s guard over natural resources.
Nearly a year ago, Governor Gavin Newsom promised to deploy 1,200 tiny homes to help shelter the state’s growing population of homeless residents. Now, the state has chosen who will build those tiny homes and what they will look like — but there’s still no word on when people will be able to move in. Now that the contracts have been awarded, other cities not included in this state program can use their own funds to purchase the tiny homes without going through a lengthy process of seeking bids from multiple vendors.
CF 23-1378
MOTION (HARRIS-DAWSON – KREKORIAN – YAROSLAVSKY) and RESOLUTION relative to extending the deadline to comply with Assembly Bill (AB) 2234’s Internet Permitting Requirements by two years until January 1, 2026, 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
Recommendation for Council action:
ADOPT the accompanying RESOLUTION, and the FINDINGS as required by AB 2234 (Rivas), Chaptered into law in 2022, Government Code Section 65913.3.5(a)(2), to extend by two years, until January 1, 2026, 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.
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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CF 21-1230-S4 AT CITY COUNCIL 11.04.2023
PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT relative to preparing an ordinance amending Section 12.04.09 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code to remove zoning and density restrictions that would limit the amount of housing produced in Public Facilities Zones and any City owned parcels for any project where the majority use of the site is for civic purposes and publicly owned permanent affordable housing, and related matters.
Recommendations for Council action, as initiated by Motion (Soto – Martinez – Harris-Dawson – Hutt):
INSTRUCT the Department of City Planning, and the City Attorney’s Office, as part of the implementation program for the current City Housing Element, to either prepare and present an ordinance which would either amend Section 12.04.09 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code or incorporate new incentives within the Housing Element Rezoning Program and Citywide Housing Incentive Program to remove zoning and density restrictions that would limit the amount of housing produced in Public Facilities Zones and any publicly-owned parcels for any project where the majority use of the site is for civic purposes and publicly owned permanent affordable housing.
INSTRUCT the City Administrative Office (CAO) and Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) to prepare a report identifying the lead department or departments that will lead on the delivery of public housing on public lands, and the roles of each in the design and project management of civic projects which fall under their departmental scope.
Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the CAO nor the CLA has completed a financial analysis of this report.
Community Impact Statement: None submitted
Source: DCP Newsletter
In September, City Planning released a draft of a proposed ordinance that would create an administrative review process for 100% affordable housing projects. The Affordable Housing Streamlining Ordinance, prepared in response to a City Council motion, would incorporate the streamlining provisions of Mayor Bass’s Executive Directive 1 (ED 1) into the Los Angeles Municipal Code.
The proposed ordinance’s administrative review process would significantly reduce the time, risk, and costs associated with reviewing affordable housing projects. If adopted, it would accelerate the approval and production of affordable housing across the City.
City Planning will hold an online public hearing for the Affordable Housing Streamlining Ordinance on Wednesday, October 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Department is accepting written comments on the proposed ordinance by email to planning.housingpolicy@lacity.org through October 30.
Source: DCP Newsletter
On September 5, the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee of the City Council voted to approve the proposed Coastal Development Permit Program Ordinance. On September 19, the City Council adopted the PLUM Committee’s recommendations and referred the ordinance to the Office of the City Attorney for form and legality review. Approved by the City Planning Commission in July, the proposed ordinance would incorporate the California Coastal Commission’s amendments to the City’s processes and procedures for Coastal Development Permits into the Los Angeles Municipal Code. These amendments clarify procedural language to more closely align with the Coastal Act, among other changes previously adopted by the City Council such as increasing the public hearing notification period from 10 to 24 days, extending the public hearing notification radius from 100 to 300 feet, and lengthening the local appeal period from 10 working days to 15 calendar days.
In June, the City postponed the operative date of the Processes and Procedures Ordinance to January 22, 2024, so that it and the Coastal Development Permit Program could take effect simultaneously. The Processes and Procedures Ordinance reorganizes the administrative provisions of the Zoning Code to make the City’s zoning regulations more user-friendly.
The City Council will consider the final Coastal Development Permit Program Ordinance prepared by the Office of the City Attorney at an upcoming meeting.
CF 18-0315
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE REPORT relative to funding to conduct a Phase II of the Citywide Inclusionary Zoning Study.
Recommendation for Council action; SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MAYOR:
AUTHORIZE the Controller to reappropriate the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 uncommitted amount of $162,805 to FY 2023-24, Department of City Planning (DCP), Fund No. 100/68, Account No. 003040, Contractual Services, from the Los Angeles Housing Department Housing Impact Trust Fund, Fund No. 43/59T, Appropriation Account No. 43W168.
Fiscal Impact Statement: None submitted by the DCP. Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.
Community Impact Statement: None submitted
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Department of City Planning report, dated July 27, 2023, relative to a request for reappropriation of funds to conduct a Phase II of the Citywide Inclusionary Zoning Study.
Los Angeles Housing Department report, dated June 2, 2023, relative to a request for approval to conduct a phase II of the Citywide Inclusionary Zoning Study.
City Administrative Officer report 0220-00540-1549, dated June 17, 2021, relative to the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department request for approval to conduct a feasibility study of a citywide inclusionary zoning requirement.
Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department report, dated April 6, 2021, relative to a request for approval to conduct a feasibility study of a citywide inclusionary zoning requirement.
Read: SB 423 CURRENT STATUS 07/18/23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 10).
An act to amend Section 65913.4 of the Government Code, relating to land use. Under SB 423, all of the provisions of SB 35 will be extended to 2036, and will also be expanded to more completely cover mixed-income housing developments. If passed and signed into law, SB 423 will require that cities approve a housing development application if the project fulfills the following criteria:
The bill would authorize the Department of General Services to act in the place of a locality or local government, at the discretion of that department, for purposes of the ministerial, streamlined review for development in compliance with the above-described requirements on property owned by or leased to the state. The bill would extend the operation of the streamlined, ministerial approval process to January 1, 2036. The bill would provide that the streamlined, ministerial approval process does not apply to applications for developments proposed on qualified sites, defined as a site that is located within an equine or equestrian district and meets certain other requirements, that are submitted on or after January 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2025.
This bill would modify the above-described objective planning standards, including by deleting the standard that prohibits a multifamily housing development from being subject to the streamlined, ministerial approval process if the development is located in a coastal zone and by providing an alternative definition for “affordable rent” for a development that dedicates 100% of units, exclusive of a manager’s unit or units, to lower-income households.
The bill would, among other modifications, delete the objective planning standards requiring development proponents to pay at least the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and utilize a skilled and trained workforce and would instead require a development proponent to certify to the local government that certain wage and labor standards will be met, including a requirement that all construction workers be paid at least the general prevailing rate of wages, as specified. The bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce the obligation to pay prevailing wages. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify that the requirements to pay prevailing wages, use a workforce participating in an apprenticeship, or provide health care expenditures do not apply to a project that consists of 10 or fewer units and is not otherwise a public work.
Housing Element Rezoning Program Virtual Office Hours
July 10-11, 14, 17-18, and 21, 2023
RSVP to attend the Google Meet
Dear Interested Parties,
Don’t miss out on your chance to share your thoughts on the Citywide Housing Incentive Program Concepts! Help shape the program by engaging in the Concept Explorer and Survey, joining us at an upcoming office hour, or emailing your ideas to housingelement@lacity.org. Stakeholders can reserve 20-minute one-on-one office hours held virtually via Google Meet. Register today!
CF 23-0490 AT CITY COUNCIL 06.30/2023
HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE REPORT relative to changing the rent schedule for the Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) Incentive Program.
Recommendation for Council action, pursuant to Motion (Raman – Hernandez – Soto-Martinez):
INSTRUCT the Los Angeles Housing Department, with support from the City Attorney, and any other relevant departments, to report within 30 days with a clear plan for changing the TOC Incentive Program from Schedule One, HUD rents, which has been in effect since October 2022, back to Schedule Six or Seven, HCD rents. The report should also include additional options to minimize rent amounts for lower-income tenants of 100% affordable housing projects while ensuring that those projects meet any other funding source requirements.
Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.
Community Impact Statement: None submitted
CF 22-0268 AT CITY COUNCIL 06.30.2023
HOUSING ELEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR) and ADDENDUM; COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY and ORDINANCE FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to amending Sections 16.05 of Article 6.1 of Chapter I of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) to add certain exemptions for affordable housing projects.
Recommendations for Council action, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MAYOR:
FIND, based on the whole of the administrative record, that this project was assessed in the Housing Element 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.
FIND that the adoption of the draft Ordinance is in conformity with the public necessity, convenience, general welfare, and good zoning practice, as required under Los Angeles City Charter Section 558.
FIND that the adoption of the draft Ordinance is in substantial conformance with the purposes, intent, and provisions of the General Plan, as required under the Los Angeles City Charter Section 556.
PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated June 22, 2023, amending Section 16.05 of Article 6.1 of Chapter I of the LAMC to add certain exemptions for affordable housing projects.
Applicant: City of Los Angeles
Case No. CPC-2023-1083-CA
Environmental Nos. ENV-2020-6762-EIR, SCH No. 2021010130; ENV-2020-6762-EIR-ADD1
Read; SB 4 UPDATE 06/28/23 State Asm Housing and Community Development
This bill would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria, including that the development is not adjoined to any site where more than one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. Among other things, the bill would require that 100% of the units, exclusive of manager units, in a housing development project eligible for approval as a use by right under these provisions be affordable to lower-income households, except that 20% of the units may be for moderate-income households, and 5% of the units may be for staff of the independent institution of higher education or the religious institution that owns the land, provided that the units affordable to lower-income households are offered at affordable rent, as set in an amount consistent with the rent limits established by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, or affordable housing cost, as specified. The bill would authorize the development to include ancillary uses on the ground floor of the development, as specified.
22-0600-S54 | Update processes related to low-impact development and stormwater approval for the construction of housing. | |
To Energy and Environment Committee City Attorney report R23-0244, dated June 27, 2023, relative to a draft Ordinance amending the Los Angeles Municipal Code to update processes related to low-impact development and stormwater approval for the construction of housing. |
Read: SB 684
STATUS: 06/21/23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
The Planning and Zoning Law contains various provisions requiring a local government that receives an application for certain types of qualified housing developments to review the application under a streamlined, ministerial approval process depending on the type of housing development, as specified. Existing law, known as the Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021, requires a city or county to approve an application for a small home lot housing development project, as defined, on a proposed site to be subdivided unless the city or county makes a finding related to the development’s compliance with certain requirements or the development’s specific, adverse public health or safety impact.
This bill would require a local agency to ministerially approve, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets specified requirements. In this regard, the bill would require the housing development to consist of 10 or fewer single-family residential units, meet certain minimum density requirements, and be located on a lot zoned for multifamily or single-family residential development that is no larger than 5 acres and is substantially surrounded by qualified urban uses.
The bill would also require a local agency to issue a building permit for a subdivision if, among other requirements, the applicant received a tentative map approval or parcel map approval for the subdivision pursuant to the bill’s provisions described above.
Dear Interested Stakeholders:
We are excited to share that the proposed Site Plan Review Amendment for Affordable Housing is expected to be considered by the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee of the City Council on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. The PLUM Committee meeting agenda and live broadcast will be accessible online at clerk.lacity.org/calendar.
The proposed ordinance would exempt deed restricted affordable housing units from Site Plan Review threshold calculations, as well as certain mixed-use developments that dedicate 50 percent or more of the total project Floor Area to restricted affordable units.
We invite you to continue sharing your thoughts on the proposed Site Plan Review Amendment with the PLUM Committee by submitting written comments online to LA CouncilComment.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 materials and sign up to receive electronic notifications about the project, visit Council File 22-0268.
CD 23-0439 AT CITY COUNCIL 06.14.2023
PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT relative to a report on the volume of calls, the number of boarded up, abandoned or vacant properties and the average length of time from the initial complaint through the resolution of a nuisance at a property, received by each department since January 1, 2022; and, related matters.
Recommendations for Council action, pursuant to Motion (Rodriguez for McOsker – Price):
DIRECT the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, Housing Department, Board of Public Works, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and Department of City Planning, to transmit to the City Attorney within 30 days a report on the volume of calls, the number of boarded up, abandoned or vacant properties and the average length of time from the initial complaint through the resolution of a nuisance at a property, received by each department since January 1, 2022.
REQUEST the City Attorney to submit to Council a report on the number of civil or criminal actions brought by the City Attorney’s Office pursuant to the Vacant Building Ordinance or other nuisance abatement laws against property owners or tenants, and the resolution or status of such actions related to vacant and unsecured or boarded properties in Council District 15.
Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.
Community Impact Statement: None submitted
CF 23-0563 AT CITY COUNCIL 06.13.2023
CIVIL RIGHTS, EQUITY, IMMIGRATION, AGING AND DISABILITY COMMITTEE REPORT relative to requesting an Ordinance which would repeal Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) 14.3.1 (L) which currently imposes a series of requirements to re-establish eldercare facilities that have been abandoned or discontinued for a year.
Recommendation for Council action, as initiated by Motion (Raman – Yaroslavsky):
REQUEST the City Attorney to prepare and present an Ordinance, with the assistance of the Department of City Planning, which would repeal LAMC 14.3.1 (L) which currently imposes a series of requirements to re-establish eldercare facilities that have been abandoned or discontinued for a year so that the City can remove barriers to preserve eldercare facilities.
Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.
Community Impact Statement: None submitted
Read: SB 4 UPDATE 2023-06-08 Assembly Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES.
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 18, 2023
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 28, 2023
AMENDED IN SENATE FEBRUARY 22, 2023
CF 21-1230 AT PLUM 06.06.2023
Related to Council file No. 22-0403-S1
Department of City Planning report relative to providing a verbal report in response to the City Council’s instruction for a 120-day report on progress towards meeting Housing Element 2021-2029 rezoning targets and equity methodologies incorporated into rezoning efforts as well as an annual report on the progress made toward reaching the Housing Element Regional Housing Needs Assessment and affirmatively furthering fair housing.
CF 22-0403-S1 AT PLUM 06.06.2023
Related to Council file No. 21-1230
Department of City Planning report dated April 3, 2023, relative to the 2022 Annual Progress Reports on implementation of the General Plan and the Housing Element.
(Referred to Housing and Homelessness Committee and Planning and Land Use Management Committee)
CF 23-0002-S30
COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHIEF LEGISLATIVE ANALYST and RESOLUTION (YAROSLAVSKY – RAMAN) relative to establishing the City’s position regarding SB (Senate Bill) 4 (Wiener), which expresses the intent to enact legislation to address streamlining the creation of affordable low and moderate-income housing on faith-based lands.
Recommendation for Council action, SUBJECT TO THE CONCURRENCE OF THE MAYOR:
ADOPT the accompanying RESOLUTION to include in the City’s 2023-24 State Legislative Program SUPPORT for SB 4 (Wiener) which expresses the intent to enact legislation to address streamlining the creation of affordable low and moderate income housing on faith-based lands.
Community Impact Statement: Yes
Against:
Tarzana Neighborhood Council
Against unless Amended:
Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council
(Rules, Elections, and Intergovernmental Relations Committee waived consideration of the above matter)
CPC-2023-1083-CA UPDATE City Planning Commission Letter of Determination May 17, 2023
Council District: All
CEQA: ENV-2020-6762-EIR; ENV-2020-6762-EIR-ADD1
CPC HEARING NOTICE AND STAFF RECOMMENDATION
PUBLIC HEARING – Completed March 14, 2023
PUBLIC HEARING REQUIRED
PROJECT SITE: Citywide
PROPOSED AMENDMENT:
The proposed amendment to the Site Plan Review Ordinance would amend Section 16.05 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) in order to streamline the permitting of new affordable housing units. The proposed amendment to the Site Plan Review Ordinance would exempt deed restricted affordable units from the 50-unit Site Plan Review threshold calculations.
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 (SCH) No.
2021010130 certified on November 29, 2021 and the Addendum (ENV-2020-6762-EIR-ADD1)
approved June 14, 2022;
2. Approve and Recommend that the City Council adopt the proposed Ordinance;
3. Adopt the staff report as the Commission’s report on the subject;
4. 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; and
5. Adopt the Findings.
Applicant: City of Los Angeles
Staff: Jeanalee Obergfell, City Planning Associate
jeanalee.obergfell@lacity.org
(213) 978-0092