PLUM panel adopts motions to tighten oil-well maintenance rules and align housing streamlining with ED‑1

The Los Angeles City Council Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee voted to adopt motions addressing affordable housing streamlining and operations at active and abandoned oil wells, including a motion to move forward on an interim approach to limit or regulate acid “asset maintenance” at wells and amendments to align a housing streamlining ordinance with Executive Directive 1.

The committee approved the package of motions for items 3, 5, 7 and 8 (and item 10) on a 4-0 vote, and later approved a separate related motion on single-stair changes (item 4). The adopted amendments instruct City Planning to update the proposed affordable housing streamlining ordinance to align regulations with the most recent Executive Directive 1 (ED‑1, dated 07/01/2024), to reflect citywide regulations adopted since the Planning Commission transmitted the ordinance in November 2023 (including the Citywide Housing Incentive Program and the Resident Protections Ordinance), and to…