PlanCheck Report on the August 8 meeting – Lisa Webber, Deputy Director at L.A. City Planning Department presented the latest updates at City Planning. A copy of her PowerPoint presentation will be posted later. In the meantime, here are notes from the meeting Min PlanCheckNC 15.8 Here is the link to the latest updated PlanCheckNC Matrix PLANCHECK MATRIX SUMMER 2015 UPDATE 4
SAVE the DATE Saturday, May 12 10:00 a.m. -1:00p.m. Annual CEQA Program Update Current Issues in City Land Use and Planning Networking with Citywide Neighborhood Council and Community Representatives PlanCheckNC Programs are held at the The Community Exchange* 114 W 5th Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 Mark your calendars and watch for more information Please share with interested stakeholders. Maggi Fajnor, Chair maggi4f@gmail.com Cindy Cleghorn, Communications & Outreach PlanCheckNCLA@gmail.com Russell Brown, Educational Programs PlanCheckNCLA@gmail.com *Parking available on Spring Street $5
Upcoming meetings regarding SR-710 http://www.metro.net/projects/sr-710-conversations/
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,…
Westside Subway and Regional Connector Take Big Steps Towards Reality One of the Westside Subway Extensions under consideration. There’s still a long way to go on these projects, but they took a big step this week. The Federal Transit Administration last week signed off on Metro’s draft environmental documents for the Westside Subway Extension and downtown’s Regional Connector. The news means the documents will soon be available for a 45-day public review period, including a series of public meetings, before…
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…
Environmental notices are usually allowed comment up to and including the public hearing before the City Planning Commission met with surprise.
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…
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,…
The Department of Transportation is conducting a transit service analysis toexamine all its transit services (DASH, Commuter Express, Cityride, CharterBus) and to determine what measures can be taken to meet the approximate$350 million budget shortfall over the next decade, $23 million in thefiscal year beginning July 1, 2010. Part of the analysis process includespublic comment and suggestions. Details about the analysis and the public hearing process are attached.Please share these brochures with your colleagues, neighbors, and othertransit users.