The City of Los Angeles Planning Department invites you to a Public Workshop concerning proposed Code Amendments to create three new Zoning tools. The potential new zoning tools will be introduced and explained, with a chance for questions, answers, and feedback.

The workshop will be held:

March 19, 2009, 5-7 PM

Los Angeles City Hall, Room 1010
200 N. Spring Street, 90012

The proposed tools are concerned primarily with creating opportunities to improve the City’s commercial corridors. If the enabling language is adopted, the tools would not change any existing Zoning on parcels in the City. The new tools under consideration will enable tailored development standards designed to fit individual community needs. This workshop will explore the addition of these types of tools to the Zoning Code. The actual implementation of these tools will occur when a Community Plan is updated or as part of other neighborhood study, with community input.

Community Plan Implementation Overlay District (CPC-2009-437-CA): The purpose of this tool is to implement supplemental development standards tailored to each Community Plan area in order to ensure that development implements Community Plan policies and enhances the unique architectural, environmental, and cultural qualities of each Community Plan Area while maintaining compatibility in scale, intensity, and density.

Ground Floor Commercial (CPC-2009-439-CA): The purpose of this tool is to create a tool that will prohibit 100% residential uses on the ground floor, thereby ensuring that targeted parcels retain a commercial component.

Pedestrian Street Design (CPC-2009-441-CA): The purpose of the tool is to provide regulations governing the building orientation and visual aesthetics of development projects to promote good urban design, a built form that is compatible with high levels of pedestrian use, and promote walkable neighborhoods.

There is no proposal to implement these tools at this time in a specific location; this workshop is only to provide an overview of the tools themselves. The goal of the public workshop is to share ideas and explain what types of development standards could be implemented through these three tools, and to listen to input from a range of stakeholders.

For more information contact:
Jon Tanury:
213-978-1214
jon.tanury@lacity.org
Christopher Koontz:
213-978-1193
chris.koontz@lacity.org
Jason Chan:
213-978-3307
jason.chan@lacity.org

Please share with interested stakeholders.