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Citywide Design Guidelines at CPC on Dec 13

Citywide Design Guidelines at CPC on Dec 13

The Citywide Design Guidelines Ordinance is going to CPC on December 13th. The project description is: The proposed ordinance (Appendix A) modifies Section 11.5.4 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code to require that select discretionary projects comply with the Citywide Design Guidelines adopted by the City Planning Commission and makes minor technical corrections. Due to a 150 page attachment (the Citywide Design Guidelines themselves), the staff report is too large to send by e-mail. The direct link to the staff…

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New Staff Report: Citywide Design Guidelines

New Staff Report: Citywide Design Guidelines

Staff report for the Citywide Design Guidelines (CPC-2010-714-MSC) is now available.  The proposed Guidelines will be heard by the City Planning Commission at its June 9, 2011 meeting in Room 350 of City Hall. The proposed Citywide Design Guidelines have been in development since last year. The Planning Department held three public meetings in August 2010, one each in the Valley, Downtown and West LA, and conducted additional outreach subsequent to the meetings. Many of the verbal and written comments…

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City Planning to host Informational Meetings

City Planning to host Informational Meetings

Note: This notice arrived end of day Friday. The Oct. 9 date and time conflicts with PlanCheck’s already confirmed meeting. Also the deadline for comments is the day before the Oct. 9 meeting. We are working to reconfirm these meeting dates and times and will post here when we know. Thank you. Please share with your distribution lists: The Department of City Planning invites you to attend one of four upcoming informational meetings about the proposed Core Findings and Community…

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Zoning Code Simplification

Zoning Code Simplification

The Core Zoning Code case that is going before the Planning Commission on October 14, 2010, is the first of the six components of the Core Zoning Code Simplification work program that was laid out to PlanCheckNC at our June meeting. The original work program flyer is attached. This flyer identifies the six components. As you will note the schedule has been modified. In July were told that it would be late September or early October when the first of…

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Code Findings Draft Ordinance (CPC-2010-1572-CA)

Code Findings Draft Ordinance (CPC-2010-1572-CA)

Dear Interested Parties, Please find attached the staff report and draft ordinance for the Core Findings Draft Ordinance (CPC-2010-1572-CA). Of the six code amendments comprising the Code Simplification Work Program, this is the first to be scheduled for CPC. Due to the size of the attachment, the environmental review has not been attached here, however, copies are available upon request. The draft ordinance updates the zoning code’s common findings for conditional uses, adjustments, and other quasi-judicial land use approvals to…

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Citywide Design Guidelines and CDO Streamlining Amendment

Citywide Design Guidelines and CDO Streamlining Amendment

The Department of City Planning invites you to attend one of three upcoming informational meetings about the proposed Citywide Design Guidelines and Community Design Overlay Code Amendment. For more information about both of these efforts including drafts of the proposals, please see the “What’s New” section of the Planning Department’s homepage: www.planning.lacity.org Meetings will be held on August 30th and 31st at the following times and locations. VALLEY August 30, 6-8 pm Marvin Braude Center 6262 Van Nuys Blvd. Los…

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Request for Support

Request for Support

REQUEST FOR SUPPORT The City Department of Planning has posted the Negative Declaration for the adoption of Citywide Urban Design Guidelines (Guidelines) which has a comment deadline of August 25, 2010. These Guidelines will be an Appendix to the General Plan Framework Element for Multifamily Residential, Mixed-Use, Commercial and Industrial land uses (see project description below). The purpose of the Design Guidelines is twofold: to implement the design values in the 10 Urban Design Principles, a part of the Framework…

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