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City Planning warns cuts would stall community plans, environmental justice work and implementation of housing rezoning
Summary
Planning staff told the committee that proposed cuts would eliminate about 25% of filled positions, jeopardize community-plan updates already underway and slow or stop long-range work including the East San Fernando Valley transit neighborhood plans and the Venice Local Coastal Program.
City Planning officials told the Budget and Finance Committee on May 2 that proposed deletions of 35 positions and a 25% reduction in filled staff would sharply curtail long-range planning, community-plan updates and technical work that the department said it has spent years and public money to complete.
Why this matters: Planning enacts and updates the General Plan, prepares community plans and zoning, and handles environmental review. Several major projects and plans on the departments workplan are midstream and the department warned that pausing them now would both waste prior investments and risk statutory noncompliance that could cause legal or financial liabilities.
What Planning reported: Director Vince Bertone and staff described work delivering the Housing Element rezoning program (CHIP), the recently adopted Downtown Community Plan and several community-plan…
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