February 18, 2025 PLUC Committee Meeting

Agenda

Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
www.ncwpdr.org

Call to Order:

Discussion/Action (Motion):

1.

Public Comment Agenda Items

2.

• 8501 Pershing Drive, Playa Del Rey: Howe Mart Liquor Inc. – Presentation re: upgrade to full line of alcoholic beverages (Type 21) 6am – 12 am Daily
• Motion to Approve/Modify/Deny

3.

• 5494 W Centinela LA 90045:  Presentation re:  existing retail cannabis business
• Motion to Approve/Modify/Deny

4.

• Presentation Gregory Shoop – Owner/Vacant Parcel
• 237  East Montreal St. LA 90293: Presentation re SFR development of a 3523 SF home, 49 feet 11 inches in height with an attached ADU.
• Motion to Approve/Modify/Deny

5.

• 138 Culver Blvd., Playa Del Rey: Presentation re Edward Czuker – Legado Del Mar LLC Project
• Presentation by Building a Better Westchester-Playa
• PROPOSED MOTION
  GIVEN the economic realities of real estate value in the Playa Del Rey community have changed
  dramatically since the original Tract Vacation motion and map referenced in Planning Case CPC-
  2024-7688-CDP-DB-PR-MEL-VHCA was approved by the City Council in 1984. We see no fiduciary
  justification on the City’s part for awarding Czuker the merger of additional street right-of-way
  (Culver Boulevard, Vista Del Mar) and alley land—currently held as public lands—without fair landvalue
  compensation to the public.
  MOVE that
  1.) CD11 operationalize computing the commercial value public lands Czuker is currently
  requesting be merged into his owned parcel at 138 Culver Boulevard;
  2.) CD11 work with Planning to require Czuker purchase the property requested in the project
  application “tract merger,” (Application request: a land-ownership transfer from public to
  private possession for $0 dollars.)
  3.) Further, we request CD11 leadership negotiate with the City that any land sale proceeds are
  redirected back to the community impacted, for use in a public-benefit project at the
  Councilmember’s discretion.
• Motion to Approve/Modify/Deny

6.

• Build a Better Westchester- Playa Presentation
• TOPIC : To protect local businesses and neighborhood character, explore local leadership
  campaign to address small business displacement by future mixed-use commercial higherdensity
  replacement buildings.
• PROPOSED MOTION: Call on CD11 to Champion Public/Private Effort
  GIVEN our community’s character is highly influenced by the presence of small, independent
  businesses currently operating in older commercial spaces throughout Westchester, the Playa’s
  and Ladera.
  And these valued small independent businesses are vulnerable to permanent displacement
  by the next-generation mixed-use commercial redevelopment driven by LA’s need for
  greater housing density.
  MOVE that the NC negotiate with CD11 staff to create and operationalize a public-private
  committee. (Possible participants: Downtown Westchester BID, the Chamber, land use attorneys
  with Westchester-Playa-Ladera experience, etc.).
  That team’s mission: strategy, planning, advocacy and direct action to protect our community’s
  legacy small businesses during the coming period of commercial building densification and
  redevelopment.
  This small business transition team would:
  1 / Profile the current situation on our small business community as a baseline for analysis
  and action planning.
  2 / Propose and advocate for City and/or local policies (legal, informal or both) to protect
  small businesses during this inevitable commercial transitional density development
  period.
  3 / Investigate the feasibility of organizing a “pop up” small business center for relocation
  of displaced businesses during new building development (while they wait to exercise their
  built-in right-of-return.)
  4 / Explore mechanisms for keeping new first floor commercial spaces active, community
  serving, and—where possible—enact an incentive scheme to encourage “affordable” rental
  rate offers for non-chain, small business operators.
  WITH A GOAL OF successfully supporting local small businesses to remain solvent—even
  flourishing—during these significant shifts in land use redevelopment over the next generation of
  our community.
• Motion to Approve/Modify/Approve

Public Comment:

Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items, 1 minute.

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