We’ve been working mightily over here to catch our neighbors up on the craziness with our Community Plan Update. We described the plan as we know it. We outlined all the problems we’ve discovered with the plan (here and here).
What if I told you there was more??
Yes, friends, there is another housing plan on a parallel track to our CPU with yet more housing implications.
In addition to our CPU, the city is also updating its Housing Element and proposing a raft of rezoning proposals for that initiative, including six program concepts: adaptive reuse, updates to affordable housing incentive programs, opportunity corridors, the affordable housing overlay, missing middle and process streamlining. 😳
The schedule to adopt this program is even more aggressive than our Community Plan Update.
If we’re not careful, we’re going to be slammed by a boatload of densification from the Housing Element while we’re all distracted and concerned by our CPU.
Why does the Housing Element matter to us? Because it’s core objective is to “focus new housing capacity in Higher Opportunity Areas” and the westside, including us, is who they’re looking at.
This is the developer giveaways piled on top of the CPU developer give aways. Can you say high-rise next door?
We might have missed our initial opportunity to provide the loudest input on the first draft of the element, but they will share/publish soon and listen again.
Meanwhile, each of us still has an opportunity to individually share our thoughts and hopefully the city is still listening. Fill out the survey here.
I know it’s confusing. We’re under assault from several angles. Stay tuned. We’re working overtime at the Alliance to keep you up to speed on developments.
In the meantime, sign our CPU petition and we promise to start following and providing updates on the Housing Element.
Concerned For Westchester Playa 