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Last week at the community meeting I sat through yet one more presentation by city planners telling us our community hasn’t done its fair share to provide housing in LA and in particular, affordable housing. 7 slides out of 45 were dedicated to fair housing, code for “you’re part of the westside and you need
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Sleepy Kentwood, Big Impacts Kentwood is a place I’ve called home for over 20 years. My husband and I were newlyweds and expecting our first baby when we bought our home. The community is roughly bounded by Sepulveda, the Kentwood Bluffs, McConnell/Georgetown and Manchester. Kentwood is predominantly made up of a 3400 property homeowners association
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Monday was the big meeting with Traci Park and our Community Plan Update planners. We had a great turn out for the Alliance Rally beforehand and the press turned out as well. Unfortunately, only half the people who came could get into the room due to capacity restrictions. Traci Park vowed to support us in
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Our volunteers have been busy distributing 10,000 flyers in our community about Monday’s important meeting. Just as the printer was finishing up, word came that the location had to change. 😳 Please tell your friends and neighbors to come to Senior Center on Monday, not the Rec Center. And a huge thank you to our
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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
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The CPU Process Starts Draft 1 of our Community Plan Update from City Planning was a very straightforward affair with lots of community meetings and community input back in 2020. Then COVID happened and everything stopped. Post-COVID, the city seems to have forgotten it has community stakeholders, at least in Westchester Playa. The CPU Process
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The maps! Back in 2020 when the CPU process started, we got one draft plan that was easy to wrap our brains around. And in fact, one community group did just that and came together to create a community response to the draft. Fast forward three years and the city has turned the process of
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Residential and Commercial and Industrial, Oh My! Many of you are already aware of the City’s Draft GPLU “Residential” Plans to rezone many parts of Westchester, including the entire Osage neighborhood – WPDR 6 and 7 (from R1 Very Low Residential single-family housing) and WPDR 8 (from R2 Low-Medium Residential) to High-Density Multi-Family zoning. Westchester’s
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Community Alliance – Concerned for Westchester Playa was out in the community today gathering signatures for our petition. Today it was the Senior Picnic at Westchester Park. Members Lisa Gaines and Kiki Shishido gathered 100 signatures and helped spread the word about high-rises planned for Westchester Playa. Great work ladies! And they bumped into a
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