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Judge halts mega-resort in California wildfire zone, says residents could die trying to flee BY RYAN SABALOW AND DALE KASLER UPDATED JANUARY 06, 2022 1:36 PM Development of a $1 billion resort and housing project in one of the state’s most wildfire-prone communities has been placed on hold after a judge ruled developers didn’t adequately plan for what might happen when a wildfire erupts and thousands of people have to run for their lives. The Lake County judge’s ruling on the Guenoc Valley Resort could…

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PlanCheckNC is sharing this important information: Happy 2022 to you! As you know, Livable California is a serious voice on housing,  planning and equity in the State Capitol, and we work with many statewide allies in major cooperative efforts such as the 1,100 person Town Hall to Stop SB 9.  Affordable housing is vanishing, and the State’s dozens of “trickle down” bills adopted since 2017 override local planning and local knowledge. As a result, California is producing pricey market-rate housing for top earners but…

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Thank you to Ariel Jones for her time and updates from the Department of City Planning. Google Drive Link to 12-11-21 Zoom Audio, Video and Chat. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bul3NCU7zuMo03ZuJhIukXZ_xjLDpSNZ?usp=sharing Sign Up to receive notices from the Department of City Planning https://planning.lacity.org/about/email-sign-up

Please be advised that City Planning has modified its mailing procedures to require submission of notification materials when they are ready to be used, rather than at the time of case filing. This will prevent applicants from having to update mailing lists and labels as the date of a public hearing or issuance of a Letter of Determination (LOD) approaches. Starting December 1, 2021, one hard copy and electronic copy of the notification map and Perjury Statement will be required…

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HI All,Just a quick update on our draft motion for the implementation of SB 9.  Starting in late October, we worked hard and quickly with several council member’s planning staff to get this motion voted on by the City Council. The motion was finally moved and seconded on Dec1 by  Koretz, Blumenfield, and Raman.  It was assigned to the PLUM committee which quickly waived it out of committee and it went to CM Nury Martinez on Monday.  We felt we…

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Sharing this important update and message from Maria Pavlou Kalban regarding draft ordinance regarding SB9. Please review with your land use committees and boards: The draft Ordinance on SB 9 that we wrote and presented to CM Koretz has been presented and moved by CM Blumenfield and seconded by CM Raman!  We are very pleased. We now need all the neighborhood groups and neighborhood councils to send in letters of support or Community Impact Statements asap.  We are now trying to…

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Council File Numbers are: 20-0668-S7 (LA City) and 20-0668-S6 (LAUSD)