Tuesday, November 19th is the day to STOP Exhibit D!
The City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee is meeting tomorrow in a Special Early Session (Tuesday Nov. 19th @ 1 pm) to consider Draft #3 of the CHIP/Housing Element Rezoning. We are asking them to approve Draft #3 without Exhibit D that threatens single family neighborhoods. Exhibit D was added at the last moment without public scrutiny, comments or hearings.
Of note, CD 13 Council Member Hugo Soto-Martinez, who is on the record favoring some level of upzoning of single family neighborhoods, committed at the Windsor Square Town Hall last week that he will not support Exhibit D at this time, based on the insufficient vetting and outreach that Exhibit D has received. He indicated he will vote Yes on Draft #3 without Exhibit D, exactly what we are asking PLUM Committee Members and eventually the whole City Council to do.
Please see below for two important actions you can take right now to save single family neighborhoods.
Thank you,
The Windsor Square Association
Call to Action 1:Attend the PLUM Meeting / Special Meeting Time of 1 pm
The PLUM Committee Meeting starts at 1 pm. If you are able to attend and wish to make public comment, it is highly recommended you arrive by 10 am in order to register at a kiosk to make public comment and to be in line for a seat. Lots of groups will be trying to speak both in favor and against adding single-family homes to the rezoning plans of the city. The meeting was moved up an hour from its normal 2 pm start-time so that it will be able to conclude by 5 pm.
Location: City Hall, 200 N. Spring St, Rm 340.
If you choose to make public comment, you will have 1 minute to do so – that’s six or seven sentences. Introduce yourself, include your Council District (CD13 for Windsor Square), your neighborhood, any neighborhood group affiliation and note you are part of United Neighbors.
Here are some basic talking points:
1. Thank the Department of City Planning for its hard work, taking public input, crafting, and approving Draft #3 without Exhibit D.
2 Thank the Planning Commission for approving Draft #3 without Exhibit D.
3. The Department of City Planning and the City Planning Commission both support Draft #3 without Exhibit D in part because Draft #3 has been fully vetted by Planning and the public. Exhibit D has not been.
4. CHIP should be the Planning Umbrella and Community Plans should address the types of decisions Exhibit D seeks to impose.
5. City Planning has identified enough areas throughout the City in Draft #3, without rezoning Single Family Neighborhoods, to satisfy State-mandated housing requirements by a factor of 4 to 5 times.
Call to Action 2: Post a Comment to the Council File: 21-1230-S5
(This is our second request — if you already posted a comment in response to our October 22nd email, there’s no need to post again.)
Follow these steps:
1. Click here: https://cityclerk.lacity.org/publiccomment/?cfnumber=21-1230-S5
2. Fill in Name (optional); email address (required)
3. Copy and Paste the comment text immediately below into the field Comments for Public Posting; add your name and address / block / neighborhood / zip code where the yellow highlighted text appears.
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I am writing to protect single-family neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles and in support of Draft #3 of the CHIP/Housing Element Rezoning ordinance without the Exhibit D “options” (Council File 21-1230-S5) that would open single-family neighborhoods to rezoning and redevelopment.
The Planning Department, in its report, clearly states that they have identified enough opportunities throughout our city to rezone to meet the State’s mandate for housing without the need to rezone our single-family areas.
Here are some facts to consider.
1. The Department of City Planning has already acknowledged that rezoning single-family neighborhoods is not necessary to achieve the City’s ambitious housing goals CHIP set out to reach.
2. State law already allows a duplex and two ADUs on each and every residential property. Single-family zones do and will continue to contribute to the housing inventory with thousands of ADUs.
3. An unholy alliance of housing ideologues and greedy corporate investors and developers are collaborating to rezone R1 neighborhoods. Allowing apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods will not right past wrongs that prevented people from buying homes. Instead, it keeps more people as renters. Individuals need the opportunity to buy single-family homes so they can build generational wealth. Ending single-family zones will take away upward economic mobility from current and future generations of Angelenos.
4. Draft # 3 without Exhibit D options already includes a comprehensive plan for adding housing in all our high resource areas on our commercial corridors. If planned correctly new, vibrant neighborhoods can be created in each of our communities that include new affordable single-family homes for sale along corridors that abut existing single-family neighborhoods.
We must help families, who have lost hope of owning their own home, achieve that goal. Please respect the diversity of housing which makes Los Angeles the remarkable city that it is.
Please vote to Approve Draft #3 without the options contained In Exhibit D.
Respectfully,
(Add Your Name)
(Add Your Address / Block / Neighborhood or Zip Code)
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4. Click “I am Not a Robot”
5. Click Submit
6. You will receive a Verification Email. You must respond to the email as instructed – Comment will post to the file within 24 hours.