City News
Several New Housing Laws Take Effect
Multiple state housing bills – passed by the state Assembly and Senate and signed by Governor Newsom last year – took effect at the beginning of this year in what some are calling the most significant wave of pro-housing laws in state history. “The era of saying no to housing is coming to an end,” […]
City News, Planning
Looks like Wildlife Ordinance won’t be back until 2024
The city is running out of time to bring the highly controversial draft Wildlife Ordinance for a vote before the year ends. It’s exceedingly likely that it won’t come back until the new year. As anyone who has been tracking the ordinance knows, if approved, the Wildlife Ordinance will impose more significant limitations on allowable […]
City News, LADBS
Council votes today on updated Al Fresco Ordinance
The City Council’s Planning & Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to recommend approval of the updated Al Fresco Ordinance. A vote has already been scheduled for today (Dec. 6) by the full City Council. Assuming the council votes in favor of the revised ordinance (and there’s been little opposition to the […]
City News, LADBS, Planning
Status of Al Fresco Ordinance (aka Outdoor eating)
One of the few positive things to come out of the recent pandemic was the rediscovery of the joy of outdoor eating. When restauranteurs couldn’t serve more than a few customers inside their eateries because of distancing requirements, they moved the tables outside and Angelenos embraced the chance to eat outdoors, or Al Fresco. Now that […]
City News, Planning
Wildlife Ordinance Moves Forward
Council land-use committee unanimously OKs draft rules that would significantly limit development in key Hillside areas what’s next? The City Council’s Planning & Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee voted earlier this week to endorse the highly controversial Wildlife Ordinance after a raucous public hearing. Hundreds of people attended the hearing, but many were shut out […]
City News, Planning
Draft Wildlife Ordinance May Be Coming to City Council’s PLUM on Tuesday
Process will still take several months to go from committee hearing to effective ordinance, but Tuesday’s meeting is a key step forward Nearly five months after the City Planning Commission unanimously approved a controversial ordinance that would impose significant development limitations on some of Los Angeles’ most affluent neighborhoods, the draft Wildlife Ordinance is finally […]
City News, LADBS
Mayor’s Tolling Order To End Soon
The end is near for the Mayor’s Tolling Order. As a reminder, back on March 21, 2020, then-Mayor Garcetti declared a citywide State of Emergency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. His order included a tolling of City Planning and LADBS deadlines, stating that any project which would normally have an entitlement, plan-check and/or […]
City News, LADBS, Planning
HCR Overlays Being Added
Hillside Construction Regulations likely coming to additional residential neighborhoods in Bel Air–Beverly Crest & NELA While most of the Los Angeles residential development industry has been watching the proposed Wildlife Ordinance make its way through the byzantine review process, two proposed ordinances have quietly reached the precipice of enactment which could impact thousands of residential properties in […]
City News, LADBS
All-Electric Buildings Coming to LA
Citing the global climate crisis, the City of Los Angeles approved an ordinance last month that would require that all newly constructed buildings be “all-electric buildings,” meaning that no gas piping can be provided for cooking (including outdoor barbeques), space heating (including fireplaces), water heating (including pools and spas), and/or clothes drying. Although the law’s […]
City News, LADBS, Planning
CPC OKs Wildlife Ordinance; Effective Date Still Months Out
The City Planning Commission voted unanimously last month to approve the draft Wildlife Ordinance, the controversial ordinance which has pitted neighbor vs. neighbor in the city’s Hillside areas where the Wildlife zoning overlay would be enacted if voted into law. As currently written, the ordinance will impose greater limits on property owners when it comes […]
