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IMPORTANT: You are Invited to Help Reform the City’s Development Review Process

IMPORTANT: You are Invited to Help Reform the City’s Development Review Process

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Community Invitation IMPORTANT:  Please share with your neighbors and invite their participation at these upcoming Community Meetings regarding Reforming the City’s Development process.  You can make a difference! Dear Community Stakeholder: The City of Los Angeles is committed to reforming the City’s Development Review Process. Once the Department of City Planning has determined that a homeowner’s remodeling project or a developer’s complex complies with the City’s General Plan, many complain that the design, permitting, and review processes are cumbersome. Therefore,…

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City Planning to host Informational Meetings

City Planning to host Informational Meetings

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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

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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)

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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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Meeting Report for May 8, 2010

Meeting Report for May 8, 2010

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Simplification of the Zoning Code Guest Speakers. Tom Rothmann, City Planning Department. Contact Information: Tom.Rothmann@lacity.org Alan Bell, City Planning Department. Contact Information: Alan.Bell@lacity.org Tom Rothmann and Alan Bell of the City Planning Department provided an update on the four-Phase Code Simplification Program that is presently underway. The goal is to complete this program in September 2010. This streamlining of the Zoning Code has been undertaken to update the outdated Zoning Code now in use. Further, the simplification of the Code…

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CONTROLLER GREUEL RELEASES FOLLOW-UP AUDIT OF CITY’S PLANNING DEPARTMENT

CONTROLLER GREUEL RELEASES FOLLOW-UP AUDIT OF CITY’S PLANNING DEPARTMENT

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                              April 2nd, 2010                                                        CONTROLLER GREUEL RELEASES FOLLOW-UP AUDIT OF CITY’S PLANNINGDEPARTMENTMajority of Recommendations From 2005 Audit Found to be Unimplemented (Los Angeles) –City Controller Wendy Greuel released a follow-up audit today of how the City’s Planning Department handles case processing.  The audit was a follow-up from a 2005 audit which looked at time and efficiency that the Planning Department handles land-use applications from Angelenos. “Out of all of the audits I have done so far, this is among the most disappointing,…

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