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.