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PLUM directs Building and Safety to pursue options for inactive construction sites and nuisance enforcement
Summary
The committee adopted recommendations asking the Department of Building and Safety to develop reporting categories, examine site‑security and financial accountability options, and coordinate interdepartmental reporting to address prolonged predevelopment and inactive construction sites.
The Planning and Land Use Management Committee voted unanimously to adopt recommendations that ask the Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) to develop new tools to identify and address prolonged predevelopment and inactive construction sites that pose public safety and nuisance risks.
The motion, initiated by Councilmember Hernandez and discussed on the record, directs LADBS to pursue five recommendations: create a reporting category on LADBS’s website for prolonged predevelopment or inactive sites; report on the feasibility of requiring site security and financial accountability mechanisms such as insurance or bonds; work with LAPD on trespass/authorization procedures for enforcement tied to permits (limited to extensions as amended); develop an interdepartmental reporting system with LAPD and Fire; and proactively contact owners, applicants and developers of…
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