Community Voices

  • SB-79: LAST CHANCE – Please Help

    SB-79 Passed By The Barest Of Votes On the very last day of the legislative session, Scott Wiener finally scraped together the last votes he needed in the Senate to pass SB-79 by one vote. Now the bill heads to Newsomโ€™s desk for signature. If youโ€™re still catching up on this bad bill, head over

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  • Watch This Post On YouTube ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿšฉ Save The Date! ๐Ÿšฉ The โ€œPep Boysโ€ 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Our fight against high-rises in our low-rise community has consumed us for just over a year now. Every time I think weโ€™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!

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  • The Housing Element – Your Cliff Notes Version

    Buckle up! Long read ahead. ๐Ÿ™‚ 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.

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  • Why Is Everybody So Quiet About the CPU?

    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

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  • The Ultimate Contact List For Our Los Angeles Mayor & City Council Members

    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

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  • More Housing Surprises In The Commercial Map

    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

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  • Traci Park Explains Her Recent Housing Motion

    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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