Effective: Monday, March 23, 2020 Consistent with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Executive Directive on COVID-19 to limit in-person contact, all City Planning staff will be interacting with customers and project applicants online, through email, and by phone. To facilitate the exchange of documents and plans, a new “drop-box system” is being implemented for all City Departments that staff the Development Services Centers (DSC) at th
Neighborhood Council Alliances are calling for action from the City — check back for updates. SLAANC Funding Rollover letter 2020.03.16 LANCC 2020.03.20 NCSA letter re suspension of meetings 2020 03.21 VANC Rollover Letter 2020.03.23
The West LANC approved these Design Guidelines at their Feb. 2020 meeting. Feel free to use as a guide if you are developing your own guidelines. WLANC will post this on their website for developers to see, and send to their CD11 office, so they can give to developers when they first inquire about new projects. Documents in Google Drive
This article appeared in CityWatch PLANNING WATCH-I am indebted to Hydee Feldstein, Chief Legislative Director of Better Way California, for her detailed analysis of Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 902. After three previous defeats of his Senate Bills 827 and 50, this is Wiener’s last minute, Hail Mary pass to preempt local planning and zoning laws so Sacramento can bestow billions in untaxed upzoning gifts to fortunate property owners. At a time when the U.S. economy is in free fall…
COVID-19 Important Notices Regarding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) City Planning greatly appreciates your flexibility as we adjust our practices to balance the needs of serving you while also complying with the Mayor’s directives to slow the spread of COVID-19. Unfortunately, these extraordinary measures to safeguard the health and safety of us all have resulted in the postponement of all regularly scheduled Commission and Board meetings, as well as community meetings, from now until at least April 16. However, hearings will resume…
Vacation Rental Ordinance: On Thursday, December 19th, the City Planning Commission considered a citywide ordinance to regulate Vacation Rentals or secondary residences. As proposed, the draft ordinance would allow a non-primary residence to serve as short-term lodging for visitors. In order to be permitted to list a home as a Vacation Rental, the home must be occupied on an occasional or intermittent basis by the owner, the dwelling unit must not be reserved for affordable or rent-stabilized housing and may…
Department of Neighborhood Empowerment New General Manager Raquel Beltran to visit PlanCheckNC’s November 9, 2019 meeting. Join us to hear the latest updates and some Q&A.
HOW TO RUN A PLANNING COMMITTEE Coordinator: Cindy Cleghorn, Chair, PlanCheckNCLA Speakers: Ron Ziff, Past President & Land Use Committee Chair, Sherman Oaks NC; Kevin Davis, President, Foothill Trails District NC Workshop included the history and overview of the Planning Pilot Program with City Planning; Planning & Land Use Committee member certification, sharing land use committee best practices including NC board approval.
Today I heard that our great friend and PlanCheckNC Steering Committee member Ed Hunt passed away on Monday, June 24, 2019. Over this past weekend he was communicating with the City on quality of life issues in his neighborhood and as Ed would often do, he shared them with me. I have thought all day about the many times I’ve talked with Ed about the issues that never seem to be handled effectively by the City. At our second Saturday…
Comment period is open til May 24. Thank you Claire Bowen, Sr. City Planner, for fielding a lot of great questions from our PlanCheckNCLA participants at our April meeting. Do you have photos of building designs that YOU like? You can submit them to the Urban Design Studio and they may be included in the final document. https://planning.lacity.org/urb…/citywide_design_guidelines/