LA City Planning Transportation Plan unveiled at Must-attend Community Meeting

MUST-ATTEND COMMUNITY MEETING 

When?   Thursday, July 26, 2018.  6:30 to 8:30 PM.

Where?  Pan Pacific Senior Activity Center

             141 S. Gardner Street, Los Angeles, CA 90036 

What?  LA City Planning will unveil a Transportation Neighborhood Plan for the Fairfax, Miracle Mile/Museum Row, Restaurant Row, LaBrea Corridor, and Pico areas at this meeting.  It will substantially up-zone much of the study area above.

Links:  Announcement, called a Public Scoping Meeting:    http://www.latnp.org/purple-line/environmental-review/

Why?  This is a stealth proposal, developed in such secrecy that City Planning won't reveal its contents.

Proposal:  So far, the public only knows the outline of the proposal.  The study area is the western half of the Wilshire Community Plan area: Beverly Hills on the west, Highland on the east, Pico on the south, and Third and Beverly on the north.  Within this area City Hall will increase the height, mass, and density of most commercial and multi-residential properties.  Other properties will be heavily impacted by these changes.

Thousands of parcels will be changed through up-zoning and zoning overlay ordinances, General Plan amendments, re:code LA, and Los Angeles Municipal Code amendments.

Importance:  If you visit, live, rent, work, or shop in the Fairfax, Miracle Mile/Museum Row, Restaurant Row, Pico, or LaBrea corridor, these historic neighborhoods are in City Hall’s crosshairs.  This plan would change their character forever.

Comments:  The comment period on this plan opened on July 12, two weeks before LA City Planning publicly reveals its provisions.  Comments close on August 13, about two weeks after Thursday’s meeting.

Information:  Contact the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association at [email protected].