Stop high-rises next to your home
Welcome neighbor! We are concerned for Westchester Playa! We are really concerned for all residential neighborhoods in California but are focused on our backyard.
Sacramento and Los Angeles have been busy in backrooms cooking up plans to overzone for an overstated need and we’re here to shine a light for our neighbors and help them catch up.
Please let us know what questions we can answer and how you can help us get the word out. And please sign our petition!
There is a political movement in this country to do away with single family homes. In California, this movement has been gaining political momentum for several years.
First Accessory Dwelling Units (“ADUs”) were approved on every lot and now the recently passed SB9 allows developers to put multiple units on nearly every single family lot in the state – usually without parking or contributions to infrastructure, and all with zero input from the impacted community.
Against this backdrop, the city of Los Angeles is in the last stages of updating its antiquated zoning code and updating its Housing Element, and they’ve got some surprises for you there, too.
The state also issued a bloated Housing Needs Assessment (“RHNA”) goal and the city is seizing on its allocation to vastly upzone communities for an eye popping number of high-rise apartment buildings.
One tool they are using to implement these high-rise zones is the Community Plan Updates (“CPUs”).
Westchester Playa happens to be deep into its own CPU as all these housing impacts are rolling out across the state and city. And the city hid some very unwelcome surprises in the second draft of our CPU. They haven’t told you about the second draft, but we stumbled on it. You’re not going to like it.
Our Community Plan Update has been underway for three years. The shocking nature of the second draft is getting our community’s attention as they slowly come to realize what is happening. The plan is scheduled to move into its last stages at the beginning of 2024. We need to mobilize quickly and stop the madness.
This website is for our neighbors in Westchester & Playa del Rey! We belong to Community Alliance – Concerned for Westchester Playa, an alliance of neighborhood groups in Westchester Playa and this website is a forum to exchange ideas and shine a light on zoning changes our electeds don’t want us to know about. Got something to say or want to contribute resources or an article? We want to hear from you!
Let’s keep the conversation rolling…. ❤
Buckle up! Long read ahead. 🙂 How We Got Here For almost a year we’ve been in an uproar in our community over our Community Plan Update (“CPU”). For those of us who have lived in our community for a long time, we readily recognized that this CPU was unlike any other in the past.…
A poster on Nextdoor recently asked about status for our Community Plan Update (“CPU”), and the comments surprised me. I saw a deep misunderstanding in our community about housing policy in this state and what is facing us here in LA and more specifically, Westchester/Playa. I’m not really surprised about the widespread misunderstanding. We’re being…
Karen Bass, Mayor mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org213.978.0600Staff Directoryhttps://twitter.com/MayorOfLAhttps://www.facebook.com/MayorOfLAhttps://instagram.com/mayorofla Eunisses Hernandez, CD1 Councilmember.Hernandez@lacity.orgChelsea Lucktenberg, Communications Director — chelsea.lucktenberg@lacity.orgfield office phone – (323) 709-1800city hall office phone – (213) 473-7001Staff Directoryhttps://twitter.com/EunissesHhttps://www.facebook.com/cd1losangeleshttps://instagram.com/cd1losangeles Paul Krekorian, CD2 paul.krekorian@lacity.orgfield office phone – (818) 755-7676city hall office phone – (213) 473-7002Staff Directorytwitter – @PaulKrekorianhttp://www.facebook.com/krekorianhttps://instagram.com/paulkrekorian Bob Blumenfield, CD3 Councilmember.Blumenfield@lacity.orgcity hall office phone – (213) 473-7003field office…
Housing & Then More Housing A few weeks after the Residential Map was discovered, we found the Commercial Draft 2.0 Map, which proposes additional upzoning of residential homes to high density commercial mixed use, affecting hundreds of homes on residential streets lining every corridor of our community: Sepulveda, La Tijera, Manchester and Lincoln. This Commercial…
Traci turned up at last week’s Neighborhood Council meeting to give a personal Government Affairs update from her office. During her remarks she came out strong on her commitment to support us in defining our own community in connection with our Community Plan Update (CPU). She also explained the misinformation being circulated about her recent…
Last week at the community meeting I sat through yet one more presentation by city planners telling us our community hasn’t done its fair share to provide housing in LA and in particular, affordable housing. 7 slides out of 45 were dedicated to fair housing, code for “you’re part of the westside and you need…
Sleepy Kentwood, Big Impacts Kentwood is a place I’ve called home for over 20 years. My husband and I were newlyweds and expecting our first baby when we bought our home. The community is roughly bounded by Sepulveda, the Kentwood Bluffs, McConnell/Georgetown and Manchester. Kentwood is predominantly made up of a 3400 property homeowners association…
Monday was the big meeting with Traci Park and our Community Plan Update planners. We had a great turn out for the Alliance Rally beforehand and the press turned out as well. Unfortunately, only half the people who came could get into the room due to capacity restrictions. Traci Park vowed to support us in…
Our volunteers have been busy distributing 10,000 flyers in our community about Monday’s important meeting. Just as the printer was finishing up, word came that the location had to change. 😳 Please tell your friends and neighbors to come to Senior Center on Monday, not the Rec Center. And a huge thank you to our…
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