We Are Making A Difference!
This publication first appeared as a Concerned For Westchester Playa newsletter
We Are Making A Difference!
Our sensible Peripheral Plan was endorsed by five community groups. Together we created a unified letter to Councilwoman Traci Park which was sent on September 12, 2023, outlining our plan for our community.
Our Peripheral Plan was endorsed by the Westchester/Playa Neighborhood Council and a support letter was sent to our Councilwoman on October 5, 2023.
We met with the City Planners on three occasions to get clarity on what their plans mean to our residents from both the Community Plan and state housing law perspectives (details to come).
We met on several occasions with Jeff Khau, CD 11 Planning and Transportation Deputy and Sean Silva, Westchester/Playa Field Deputy, to discuss CD 11’s position and to emphasize the benefits of our Peripheral Plan.
We have a commitment from the City Planners to physically tour our community by November 15 to better understand our community, its LAX burdens, and why new density must be added to the periphery of community, if it needs to be added at all.
We supported our neighbors at the Neighborhood Council’s Planning and Land Use Committee meeting, objecting to discretionary extra density for the Pep Boys project.
We have expanded our signed petitions, adding another 500 names.
We continue to work everyday for our community and can use your help! Find out how to support the movement here.
The Peripheral Plan
Our community, as gateway to LAX, has unique challenges when it comes to traffic. And that is without adding a single additional housing unit. The city’s draft Community Plan Update is proposing to rezone our community for 10’s of thousands of new units and that is unworkable, for us and for LAX.
For this reason, we developed the Peripheral Plan, recommending density, if any absolutely has to be added to our community, on the periphery of our community.
The map is shown below. These are the benefits:
No upzoning for any residential lots;
No upzoning for multi-unit lots along our corridors with high RSO and Section 8 housing (to preserve the affordable housing we already have in our community);
Reuses existing office buildings for mixed use housing (close to transit and environmentally preferred);
Provides new affordable housing in areas on the periphery where affordable high density housing can easily be developed without impacting residential zoning and our gridlocked corridors; and
Prevents further demise of “F” rated intersections from high density housing in communities close to these corridors. Sepulveda, La Tijera, Lincoln and Manchester are used by the 65 million Los Angeles World Airport passengers (expected to double in the next ten years).
Recent Developments
Help us welcome Kevin Ivey as our new Westchester/Playa Field Deputy on Traci Park’s team, with many thanks to Sean Silva who will become the new Venice Field Deputy
Kentwood Home Guardians recently hosted the City Planners and sussed out important new information (details to follow)
January is the target date for the City Planners to submit new Community Plan maps (we want the existing maps scrapped and the Peripheral Plan adopted)
Sign the petition so that we can drop thousands of petitions on our city officials’ desks to show our unity on this plan
AB2097 went into effect in January and new guidance was just released by the city; this bill prohibits municipalities from imposing or enforcing minimum parking requirements for projects within 1/2 mile of a major transit stop; read more here
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