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Pursuant to Charter Section 555, the City’s comprehensive General Plan may be adopted, and amended from time to time, pursuant to Sec. 13B.1.1 (General Plan Adoption/Amendment) of Chapter 1A of this Code, either as a whole, by complete subject elements, by geographic areas or by portions of elements or areas, provided that any area or portion of an area has significant social, economic or physical identity.
A. Initiation of Plan Amendment. As provided in Charter Section 555
, an amendment to the General Plan may be initiated by the Council, the City Planning Commission or the Director of Planning. Initiations by the Council or City Planning Commission shall be by majority vote. If an amendment is initiated by the Council or City Planning Commission, then it shall be transmitted to the Director for report and recommendation to the City Planning Commission.
Whether initiated by the Director, the Council or the City Planning Commission, the Director shall prepare the amendment and a report recommending action by the City Planning Commission. The report shall contain an explanation of the reasons for the action recommended.
After the Director prepares a Plan amendment and report, the Director shall transmit the file to the City Planning Commission for its action. Nothing in this section shall restrict the adoption of a General Plan amendment which permits the development of a project if:
1. The project (a) is located in an area classified on January 1, 2016, as a Regional Center, a Downtown Center, in an area zoned as Industrial, or a Major Transit Stop including all land within a one- half mile radius of a Major Transit Stop; or (b) each residential unit in the project, exclusive of a manager’s unit or units, is affordable to, and occupied by, either a Lower or Very Low Income household;
2. All building and construction work on the project will be performed at all tiers by contractors which (a) are licensed by the State of California and the City of Los Angeles; (b) shall make a good-faith effort to ensure that at least 30% of all their respective workforces’ construction workers’ hours of Project Work shall be performed by permanent residents of the City of Los Angeles of which at least 10% of all their respective workforces’ construction workers’ hours of Project Work shall be performed by Transitional Workers whose primary place of residence is within a 5-mile radius of the covered project; (c) employ only construction workers which possess all licenses and certifications required by the State of California and the City of Los Angeles; (d) pay their construction workers performing project work the wages prevailing in the project area determined pursuant to California Labor Code § 1770; and (e) have at least 60% of their respective construction workforces on the project from: (1) workers who have graduated from a Joint Labor Management apprenticeship training program approved by the State of California, or have at least as many hours of on-the-job experience in the applicable craft which would be required to graduate from such a state-approved apprenticeship training program, and (2) registered apprentices in an apprenticeship training program approved by the State of California or an out- of-state, federally-approved apprenticeship program; and
3. If the General Plan amendment results in increased allowable residential floor area, density or height, or allows a residential use where previously not allowed, projects with ten or more residential dwelling units shall also provide affordable housing consistent with the provisions of Section 5 of the Build Better LA Initiative.
For the purposes of this Section the following terms have the meaning shown:
“Economically Disadvantaged Area” means a zip code that includes a census tract or portion thereof in which the median annual household income is less than $40,000 per year, as measured and reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2010 U.S. Census and as updated by the parties upon the U.S. Census Bureau issuing updated Median Annual Household Income data by census tract in the American Community Survey.
“Extremely Economically Disadvantaged Area” means a zip code that includes a census tract or portion thereof in which the median annual household income is less than $32,000 per year, as measured and reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2010 U.S. Census and as updated by the parties upon the U.S. Census Bureau issuing updated Median Annual Household Income data by census tract in the American Community Survey.
“Transitional Worker” means an individual who, at the time of commencing work on the project, resides in an Economically Disadvantaged Area or Extremely Economically Disadvantaged Area and faces at least two of the following barriers to employment: (1) being homeless; (2) being a custodial single parent; (3) receiving public assistance; (4) lacking a GED or high school diploma; (5) having a criminal record or other involvement with the criminal justice system; (6) suffering from chronic unemployment; (7) emancipated from the foster care system; (8) being a veteran; or (9) being an apprentice with less than 15% of the apprenticeship hours required to graduate to journey level in a program.
The Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration shall bear administrative responsibilities for the labor standards required by this section.
A. Definition, Purpose and Objectives. See Div. 13B.4. (Specific Plan Implementation) and Sec. 13B.1.2 (Specific Plan Adoption/Amendment) of Chapter 1A
of this Code.
B. Relationship To Provisions of Specific Plans. See Div. 13B.4. (Specific Plan Implementation) of Chapter 1A
of this Code.
C. Project Compliance Review. See Div. 13B.4. (Specific Plan Implementation) of Chapter 1A
of this Code.
D. Modification of a Project Permit Compliance – Director of Planning With Appeals to the Area Planning Commission. See Div. 13B.4. (Specific Plan Implementation) of Chapter 1A
of this Code.
Project Adjustments shall be limited to:
1. Adjustments permitting project height to exceed the designated height limitation on the property involved by less than ten percent;
2. When the calculation of the maximum number of permitted multiple-family dwelling units results in a fraction, the number of total dwelling units may be rounded up to the next whole number, if the lot area remaining after calculating the maximum number of permitted dwelling units is at least 90 percent of the lot area required by the specific plan regulation to permit one additional dwelling unit;
3. Adjustments permitting portions of buildings to extend into a required yard, setback or other open space a distance of less than 20 percent of the minimum width or depth of the required yard, setback or open space;
4. Adjustments to minimum landscaped area requirements of less than 20 percent, or minor adjustments to required types of landscape materials;
5. Adjustments to permitted signs that:
(a) exceed the maximum sign size (area) limitation by less than 20 percent;
(b) exceed the limit on the maximum number of signs by no more than 20 percent; or
(c) exceed the maximum sign height by no more than 2 feet;
6. Adjustments from the minimum or maximum number of required parking spaces associated with a project of less than 10 percent; and
7. Minor adjustments from other specific plan development regulations, which do not substantially alter the execution or intent of those specific plan regulations to the proposed project, and which do not change the permitted use, floor area, density or intensity, height or bulk, setbacks or yards, lot coverage limitations, or parking standards regulated by the specific plan.
F. Project Exception. In addition to the applicability provisions of Sec. 13B.4.5.A.2. (Specific Plan Implementation; Project Exception; Applicability; Project Exception Relationship to Other Entitlements) of Chapter 1A
of this Code, the following describes when Project Exceptions are needed:
1. Exception for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities. Notwithstanding the provisions of the first unnumbered paragraph of this subdivision, the installation of wireless antennas and associated equipment cabinets on the rooftops of buildings in the C and M Zones when established in conformance with the standards contained in Section 12.21 A.21. do not need a Project Exception, except that rooftop antennas located within a scenic parkway specific plan, scenic corridor specific plan, or a roadway designated as a scenic highway within a specific plan area shall be subject to a Project Exception. Any application involving the use, height, installation or maintenance of wireless telecommunication facilities that do not comply with the provisions of Section 12.21 A.21. and which are located within specific plan areas shall be filed pursuant to Section 12.24 W.49. of this Code and considered by the Zoning Administrator as the initial decision-maker, except that applications located within a scenic parkway specific plan, scenic corridor specific plan, or a roadway designated as a scenic highway within a specific plan area shall be subject to a Project Exception.
2. Eldercare Facilities. An applicant who files an application involving Eldercare Facilities seeking relief from specific plan regulations need not apply for a Project Exception pursuant to Subsection F. of this section but need only apply for and receive an approval pursuant to Section 14.3.1 of this Code.
G. Amendments to Specific Plans. See Sec. 13B.1.2 (Specific Plan Adoption/Amendment) of Chapter 1A
of this Code.
H. Interpretations of Specific Plans. See Div. 13B.4. (Specific Plan Implementation) of Chapter 1A
of this Code.
A. Planning Areas. The City is hereby divided into 37 planning areas. Each planning area constitutes an area for which either a community plan, a district plan, or other portion of the Land Use Element of the General Plan has been adopted by the City. The boundaries of each planning area shall be those of the applicable adopted community or district plan, or other portion of the Land Use Element of the General Plan as they existed on enactment of this section. These boundaries may be only changed by amendment to the General Plan pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 11.5.6 of this Code. No amendment to a plan for any of the 37 planning areas, including reduction in the number of such areas, changes in their respective boundaries, land uses permitted within or at any particular location in any such area, or any other material change, may be made until the completion of a comprehensive assessment of such proposed changes by the Planning Department to ensure that such changes do not:
1. Reduce the capacity for creation and preservation of affordable housing and access to local jobs; or
2. Undermine California Government Code Section 65915 or any other affordable housing incentive program; and
The changes must include a program to create and monitor an inventory of units within the Community Plan Area that are: subject to a recorded covenant, ordinance or law that restricts rents to levels affordable to persons and families of Lower or Very Low-Income; subject to the City Rent Stabilization Ordinance; and/or occupied by Lower- Income or Very Low-Income households.
B. Action on Proposed Amendments. The City Planning Commission shall receive the assessment by the Planning Department and shall by vote make a recommendation to accept or reject the amendment. The Commission’s recommendation will be received by City Council and the Council shall vote to either accept or reject the proposed amendment. The current plans for the 37 planning areas shall remain in full force and effect until or unless the City Council votes to amend them in accordance with this section.
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