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…. ❤
Westchester is currently undergoing a Community Plan Update (“CPU”) and Los Angeles is using CPUs as a big hammer in it current push to add massive density in housing units. In its blind haste to blight our communities with market rate boxes, the city recently designated a new Transit Oriented Community (“TOC”) designation at Manchester/Sepulveda.*
If you’re not mad about our Community Plan Update and how it’s rolling out, I daresay you don’t know about these 10 things: 1. Our Housing Target Is A Mystery Every planner you talk to at the city thinks we have a dire housing shortage that will only be solved by adding almost 500,000 housing
Stop high-rises next to your home
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