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City Planning COVID-19 Update: Public Counter Operations

March 20, 2020 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

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…

Update: Vacation Rental Ordinance

January 15, 2020 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

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…

New General Manager

November 6, 2019 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

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.

Congress 2019 Workshop – Huge Success

October 13, 2019 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

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.

Citywide Design Guidelines

May 10, 2019 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

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/

Planning 101 — Planning for the Environment

May 1, 2019 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

COMMUNITY CORNER • DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING • APRIL 2019 We look forward to seeing you in May at one of our Planning 101 trainings! This year’s theme, Planning for the Environment, will highlight the work of the Department to plan for a healthy and sustainable future and will cover the policies and regulations that guide the Department’s environmental analysis, including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Please invite your colleagues and neighbors and remember to RSVP here: bit.ly/P101Env. If…

CF 18-1222

February 6, 2019 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

To Housing Committee Direct relevant City Departments, in consultation with the City Attorney, to convene a working group with the goal of preparing a report and new departmental procedures relative to alleviating any barriers to expediting housing production.

Restaurant Beverage Hearing Notice

January 22, 2019 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

Restaurant Beverage Program Ordinance Hearing January 31, 2019 6:30 p.m. Marvin Braude Building, 1st Floor 6262 Van Nuys Blvd., Van Nuys Staff contact: Esther Ahn, City Planning Associate To create an administrative clearance process for certain types of restaurants to serve alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption subject to a standard set of limitations and requirements. HearingNotice_2(1)

CF 14-0268-S13

January 3, 2019 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

SB 50 – Potential Impacts to the City’s Land Use & Zoning

December 20, 2018 plancheckncla Comments 0 Comment

Council File 18-1226 You can read SB50 here: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50 Introduced by Senator Wiener (Coauthors: Senators Caballero, Hueso, Moorlach, and Skinner) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Burke, Kalra, Kiley, Low, Robert Rivas, Ting, and Wicks) December 03, 2018 An act to add Chapter 4.35 (commencing with Section 65918.50) to Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, relating to housing. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST SB 50, as introduced, Wiener. Planning and zoning: housing development