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Council directs planning staff to include CUGO ordinance strategies in community development plans
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council voted to amend instructions to city planning to include strategies for incorporating regulations of the “CUGO” ordinance into community development plans; the motion passed with four votes in favor and one absence.
The Los Angeles City Council on an unspecified date amended its instruction to city planning so the department’s forthcoming report must include strategies to incorporate regulations established in the CUGO ordinance into community development plans.
Councilmember (Padilla) moved the amendment during discussion of the item on the consent calendar and provided the text of the instruction for the department. Councilmembers present voted in favor and the item was approved as amended; one member was recorded absent.
The motion asks the Department of City Planning to identify specific strategies in its report for integrating the CUGO ordinance’s requirements into community development planning documents. Councilmembers and staff discussed that the amendment was meant to ensure the ordinance’s provisions are reflected in planning products and implementation steps rather than only in the ordinance text.
Melissa Plumanat, identified in the presentation as representing the Cleanup Green program at LA Sanitation and Environment, had presented earlier on the program’s work, trainings and an environmental justice action plan; councilmembers referenced that presentation when shaping the instruction to planning.
The council’s action was procedural: it amends the instruction to require inclusion of strategies in the planning department’s report. The motion was seconded and carried with a recorded vote of four in favor and one absence. The council did not adopt any regulatory text at this meeting; it directed staff to include strategies in a future planning report.
The council combined this direction with related consent votes on other items on the same agenda batch and moved the remaining items on consent as noted in the meeting record.
