Last week’s City Planning Commission hearing of the highly controversial draft Wildlife Ordinance lasted about 5 minutes. The CPC voted unanimously to postpone the hearing one month to its regularly scheduled Dec. 8 hearing.
The draft ordinance has pitted neighbor vs. neighbor in the city’s Hillside areas where the Wildlife zoning overlay would be enacted if voted into law. The ordinance has been called too over-reaching to many neighborhood groups, property owners, Realtors and others.
Meanwhile, other neighborhood groups, environmentalists and even the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board have come out in support of the ordinance.
As currently written, the ordinance will impose greater limits on property owners when it comes to lot coverage, building height, grading, and fences, to list a few. PCC provided an initial review of the currently proposed ordinance previously (link here).
The initial Wildlife Ordinance would only impact property owners in the area roughly bordered by Ventura Boulevard to the north, the 405 to the west, Sunset Boulevard to the south, and the 101 through the Cahuenga Pass to the east. However, if approved as currently proposed, the Wildlife overlay could be added to the city’s other Hillside areas in the future.
