Keep Infrastructure Reporting in the General Plan and Community Plans
Meeting downtown THIS Thursday (see below): One of the issues that the City lost the Hollywood Community Plan Update lawsuits on was the absence of reporting on the state of the City's infrastructure sufficient to support the projected increase in population. The City Council, feeling stung, is reacting by trying to remove that reporting requirement from the Community Plans and to make it discretionary in the General Plan. It seems so simple that reporting on the state of the infrastructure is a sensible thing to do. Don't we want to know if we have enough police, fire engines, ambulances electricity and water to serve the population? Apparently, the City Council doesn't think so. They want to be able to bury the uncomfortable facts from a concerned citizenry. They are even claiming that reporting was never intended to be required even though the Wilshire Community Plan which the City Council previously approved had this sentence right in the document: "The Framework Element of the General Plan commits the Department of City Planning to develop a monitoring system and prepare an annual report on growth and infrastructure, to be submitted to the City Planning Commission, Mayor and City Council." The City Council has been spending our taxpayer money on their mega-developer cronies instead of on fixing the streets and funding the police and fire department. They committed $1 billion to complete the unfinished Community Redevelopment Agency projects after Governor Brown, to his great credit, abolished those cesspools of corruption. Now the City Council is crying poor mouth and wants to us to approve a bond measure to finally the fix the streets that they should have done so previously using the money wasted on worthless CRA projects. The City filed a California Environmental Quality Act Negative Declaration asserting that removing the reporting requirement would have no impact on public services, transportation and traffic, and utilities and service systems. Who do they think they are kidding? Let's show the City Council that we are disgusted with their continual evasive behavior when it comes to fulfilling their duties. If our infrastructure is inadequate, we want to know it. Let's demand that they keep the infrastructure reporting requirement in the General Plan and the Community Plans. Email your objections to [email protected] specifying the following case in the subject line: CPC-2014-669-CPU; ENV-2014-670-SE Please show up to the meeting to let them know that we want infrastructure reporting. Public Hearing City Planning Commission 200 N. Spring Street, Room 350 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Thursday, March 13, 2014, 8:30 a.m. PROPOSED PROJECT: 1) Rescind, vacate and set aside all actions approving the 2012 Hollywood Community Plan Update (HCPU) and certifying the EIR adopted in connection therewith, and all related approvals issued in furtherance of the HCPU, and thereby revive by operation of law the General Plan elements and zoning regulations that were in place immediately before the City's adoption of the HCPU; 2) Adopt an amendment to the General Plan Framework Element that reaffirms the City's historic interpretation and implementation that the Framework Element's monitoring policies and programs are intended to guide the community plan update process, that the Framework Element does not require, and was not intended to require, the community plans themselves to contain the same monitoring policies and programs set forth in the Framework Element, and that the monitoring programs are discretionary, and dependent upon the availability of resources and competing priorities as the Court of Appeal previously held in Saunders v. City of L.A., Case No. B232415. |