Stop high-rises next to your home
Welcome neighbor! We are concerned for Westchester Playa! We are really concerned for all residential neighborhoods in California but are focused on our backyard.
Sacramento and Los Angeles have been busy in backrooms cooking up plans to overzone for an overstated need and we’re here to shine a light for our neighbors and help them catch up.
Please let us know what questions we can answer and how you can help us get the word out. And please sign our petition!
There is a political movement in this country to do away with single family homes. In California, this movement has been gaining political momentum for several years.
First Accessory Dwelling Units (“ADUs”) were approved on every lot and now the recently passed SB9 allows developers to put multiple units on nearly every single family lot in the state – usually without parking or contributions to infrastructure, and all with zero input from the impacted community.
Against this backdrop, the city of Los Angeles is in the last stages of updating its antiquated zoning code and updating its Housing Element, and they’ve got some surprises for you there, too.
The state also issued a bloated Housing Needs Assessment (“RHNA”) goal and the city is seizing on its allocation to vastly upzone communities for an eye popping number of high-rise apartment buildings.
One tool they are using to implement these high-rise zones is the Community Plan Updates (“CPUs”).
Westchester Playa happens to be deep into its own CPU as all these housing impacts are rolling out across the state and city. And the city hid some very unwelcome surprises in the second draft of our CPU. They haven’t told you about the second draft, but we stumbled on it. You’re not going to like it.
Our Community Plan Update has been underway for three years. The shocking nature of the second draft is getting our community’s attention as they slowly come to realize what is happening. The plan is scheduled to move into its last stages at the beginning of 2024. We need to mobilize quickly and stop the madness.
This website is for our neighbors in Westchester & Playa del Rey! We belong to Community Alliance – Concerned for Westchester Playa, an alliance of neighborhood groups in Westchester Playa and this website is a forum to exchange ideas and shine a light on zoning changes our electeds don’t want us to know about. Got something to say or want to contribute resources or an article? We want to hear from you!
Let’s keep the conversation rolling…. ❤
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Watch This Post On YouTube 📺 🚩 Save The Date! 🚩 The “Pep Boys” project is coming back to the Neighorhood Council Planning & Land Use Committee on October 15th. The agenda and supporting documents will be posted on this page when available. This project is huge and planned for the Pep Boys/Del Taco lots
For more background on the Housing Element and CHIP, read this and this. R-1 is already burdened with ADUs and SB-9 allowing four units on a lot via subdivision. But that isn’t enough for the developers. They are still coming after our R-1 for even denser building, even though the City has acknowledged we don’t
The Planning Department is taking public comments on the Housing Element until August 26th. I wrote more about this topic here, along with instruction for submission. Public comments submitted to the record are the normal way for the public to share their desires, but possibly that method was working too well for those of us
Our fight against high-rises in our low-rise community has consumed us for just over a year now. Every time I think we’ve won, we get blindsided again. First we fought back big time on the Community Plan Update after Draft 2 started dribbling out in secrecy in June of 2023. Heck yes, we were mad!
Buckle up! Long read ahead. 🙂 How We Got Here For almost a year we’ve been in an uproar in our community over our Community Plan Update (“CPU”). For those of us who have lived in our community for a long time, we readily recognized that this CPU was unlike any other in the past.
A poster on Nextdoor recently asked about status for our Community Plan Update (“CPU”), and the comments surprised me. I saw a deep misunderstanding in our community about housing policy in this state and what is facing us here in LA and more specifically, Westchester/Playa. I’m not really surprised about the widespread misunderstanding. We’re being
This list was updated on 12 09 24 Karen Bass, Mayor mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org213.978.0600Staff Directoryhttps://twitter.com/MayorOfLAhttps://www.facebook.com/MayorOfLAhttps://instagram.com/mayorofla Eunisses Hernandez, CD1 Councilmember.Hernandez@lacity.orgChelsea Lucktenberg, Communications Director — chelsea.lucktenberg@lacity.orgfield office phone – (323) 709-1800city hall office phone – (213) 473-7001Staff Directoryhttps://twitter.com/EunissesHhttps://www.facebook.com/cd1losangeleshttps://instagram.com/cd1losangeles Adrin Nazarian, CD2 adrin.nazarian@lacity.orgfield office phone – (818) 755-7676city hall office phone – (213) 473-7002(additional information not available at time of
Housing & Then More Housing A few weeks after the Residential Map was discovered, we found the Commercial Draft 2.0 Map, which proposes additional upzoning of residential homes to high density commercial mixed use, affecting hundreds of homes on residential streets lining every corridor of our community: Sepulveda, La Tijera, Manchester and Lincoln. This Commercial
Traci turned up at last week’s Neighborhood Council meeting to give a personal Government Affairs update from her office. During her remarks she came out strong on her commitment to support us in defining our own community in connection with our Community Plan Update (CPU). She also explained the misinformation being circulated about her recent
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