Agenda
Meeting Date: December 7, 2021 6:30 pmIN CONFORMITY WITH THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 ENACTMENT OF CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY BILL 361 (RIVAS) AND DUE TO CONCERNS OVER COVID-19, THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF WESTCHESTER / PLAYA MEETING WILL BE CONDUCTED ENTIRELY WITH A CALL-IN OPTION OR INTERNET-BASED SERVICE OPTION.
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- Call to Order
- Salute the Flag
- Introductions
- Consent Calendar: (The following items will be treated as one item and enacted with one vote unless a Board member or a stakeholder requests that an item be placed on the Discussion Calendar.)
- Approval of Minutes of previous November 13, 2021 Special Board meeting
- Motion to receive, file and approve the NCWP Monthly Expenditure Report (MER) for the month of October 2021.
- Motion to receive, file and approve the NCWP Monthly Treasurer’s report for the month of November 2021.
- Motion to approve the Neighborhood Purpose Grant from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Pacific Area Booster Association in the amount of $1,000 to support the annual Christmas toy giveaway.
- Motion in support of a road reconfiguration and safety improvements on La Tijera, including the potential removal of a center turn lane that is under utilized and the removal of one vehicle traffic lane on the Northbound side of the street to make room for protected bike lanes. We also ask that you implement bus platforms in a way that is safe for cyclists and bus riders.
- Motion to accept the resignation of Andrew Watkins, Residential 5 Director Seat and from the Planning and Land Use Committee.
- Motion to appoint Matt Lipschutz to the Residential 5 Director Seat and to the Government Affairs Committee.
- Motion to approve the creation of an Ad-Hoc Community Plan Update Committee.
- Motion to approve appointment of Julie Ross, Chair, to the Ad-Hoc Community Plan Update Committee with the appointment of Tracy Thrower Conyers, Community Member and Cory Birkett, Community Member.
- Motion to support issuing a Community Impact Statement regarding Council File 10-1058S4 to include all of the areas of the City of Los Angeles’ Coastal Zones into the Baseline Mansionization Ordnance. The city recognized that certain areas of the Pacific Palisades, Venice, Playa del Rey and San Pedro have gaps in coverage for protecting Coastal Zone properties located outside of designated Hillside areas from out-of-scale development. As the Baseline Hillside Ordnance applies in the Coastal Zone, so should the Baseline Mansionization Ordnance. Expanding the BMO into the Coastal Zone would bring those properties in line with the rest of the city and prevent mansionization in all single-family residential neighborhoods.
- Motion to approve letter asking Councilmember Bonin to consult, as soon as possible with the Neighborhood Council of Westchester / Playa for adoption of our proposed Motion as to the designation of sites within their districts for enforcement pursuant to LAMC Sec. 41.18(c)(1)-(4) and 41.18(d), including: 1) schools, day care centers, public parks and public libraries, as defined in LAMC Sec. 105.01 (“sensitive uses”) (41.18(c)(1)); 2) overpasses, underpasses, freeway ramps, tunnels, bridges, pedestrian bridges, subways, washes, spreading grounds and active railways, when public health, safety or welfare is served by the prohibition (41.18(c)(2)); 3) designated facilities opened after January 1, 2018 that provide shelter, safe sleeping or safe parking to homeless persons or that serve as homeless services navigation centers (41.18(c)(3)); 4) any locations in public rights-of-way for which there is documentation of a “particular and ongoing threat to public health or safety” (41.18(c)(4)). No enforcement action shall be taken unless the individuals have been offered shelter and have refused the offer.
- Motion to approve letter asking Councilmember Bonin to consult, as soon as possible with the us on our proposed Motion asking for enforcement of the No Overnight Parking Ordinance along Jefferson Boulevard and help to protect the Ballona Wetland Ecological Preserve from unregulated camping.
- Motion to support issuing a Community Impact Statement regarding Council File 21-1071 to instruct PLUM to develop a Coastal Equity & environmental Justice policy in the Coastal Zone that will inform future land use policy, promote greater public participation and engagement with underrepresented and/or underserved communities and be reflected in project determination in the Coastal Zone. With the caveat that public spaces such as beaches and parks are for public use and recreation, not for housing and should be made available to all beach visiting communities.
- Motion to support the proposed resolution for the City Council to prohibit sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public rights-of-way within a radius of 500 feet from all schools listed in Attachment A to the Council File; and further, upon adoption of the resolution, for the City Council to direct the Department of Transportation to post signs giving notice of the restrictions in the radius specified. The Neighborhood Council of Westchester / Playa also requests that the definition of “radius” be clarified to specify a radius of 500 feet from the exterior boundary lines of all schools listed in Attachment A to the Council File. Refers to City Council file 21-0929 – Regarding Council File 21-0929 (Buscaino/Koretz)
- Motion to support calls for the drafting of an ordinance to ban bicycle “chop shops” from public property and the public-right-of-way in Los Angeles. Refers to City Council file 21-1115 – The Westside Regional Alliance of Councils supports Council File 21-1115 (Buscaino)
Motion to oppose the City’s use of Specific Plans that would result in upzoning open space and/or low-density residential neighborhoods. The use of specific plans in this manner creates significant negative impacts for all residential communities, the environment and natural resources. We urge our City Councilmembers to reject land use applications for individual development projects that represent a misuse of the Specific plan process. We ask that the City Council inform Planning not to process these types of requests.Motion to support Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7 (Muratsuchi/Glazer), which would place on the ballot for voter decision a Constitutional amendment to restore local governmental control over land use, zoning and planning decisions. WRAC has expressed support for local land use control in five of its adopted positions (Oppose SB 827, SB 50, SB 9 and SB 10; Support SB 15).
- Announcements from Governmental Representative (limit to 3 minutes please)
- Presentations
- John Heath, Esq, Californians for Community Planning Initiative, a citizen’s initiative establishing the rights of local municipalities to control their own zoning regulations. If approved, this initiative will amend the state constitution and put an end to Sacramento lawmakers establishing one size fits all zoning laws.
- Discussion Calendar and related Public comment
- Public Comment – non-agenda items (limited to 1 minute per speaker unless otherwise declared by the President or presiding director. Public comment on agendized items will be called as each agenda item is brought forward.)
- Announcements or Committee Reports by Board Members
- Adjourn
Next Meeting: 02/01/2022 6:30 pm
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Have a Happy New Year, see you in February 2022.
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