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Council approves plan amendment and zone change for Avalon Bay site over objections from planning commission and local industry
Summary
The council approved a general plan amendment and implementing ordinance to allow a residential project on a site in an industrial plan area after public testimony from film and industrial users who warned of incompatibility; council supported the change citing housing needs and conditions including affordable units.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to approve a general plan amendment and a zoning ordinance that clear the way for a multi-hundred-unit residential project on a site located within an area designated in the city's plan for industrial use.
The council took two votes as required for a plan amendment and zoning ordinance. The resolution for the general plan amendment passed by a 12-2 roll-call vote; the implementing ordinance also passed by a 12-2 vote.
Members of the public and local businesses urged the council to reject the change. John Moranville, a television producer who said he represented production studios adjacent to the site, argued the project would be "a pure residential play disguised as commercial" and warned that an island of residences surrounded by…
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