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Request that City Planning Place Hold on Discretionary Decisions

Request that City Planning Place Hold on Discretionary Decisions

Are you seeing approvals fly through City Planning without Public Participation ? The below sample motion is recommended by WRAC.   ALSO.  Another example is below submitted by NC Presidents.  Submit on your own or through your NC/CC. Whereas, prior to the Covid19 Emergency, Neighborhood Councils and Community Councils served as the only notice to the general community of such projects and due to the current Covid19 Public Health Emergency, Neighborhood Councils and Community Councils have not been able to establish…

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New Procedures For Planning Services at the Development Service Centers

New Procedures For Planning Services at the Development Service Centers

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

Sharing the West LA NC Design Guidelines + Checklist

Sharing the West LA NC Design Guidelines + Checklist

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…

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