Thursday, February 14 from 7 to 9 p.m.
PACIFIC PALISADES COMMUNITY COUNCIL
Palisades Library 861 Alma Real Drive, PP 90272
1. Stop the City of LA from Gutting the Code and allowing Boarding homes in R1 and R2 zones.
(Below, please see proposed COMMUNITY CARE FACILITY ORDINANCE MOTION, recommended by the Land Use Committee in response to the recent City Council Motion by Richard Alarcon, seconded by Bill Rosendahl that will “GUT THE CODE” for our R1 and R2 residential zones by allowing by adding boarding houses as a “by right” use and enabling parolee-probationer homes to proliferate apartment building and all other areas zoned R3 and above without necessitating a conditional use permit.
Please direct all questions and comments to PPCC, Chris Spitz, Jennifer Malaret and George Wolfberg
2. Hear the the Candidates running for Council District 11 and let them know we won't have our quality of life jeopardized.
Please forward question for the CD-11 candidates to pacpalicc@aol.com
Mike Bonin http://mikebonin.com/
Odysseus Bostick http://www.bostick4la.com/pledge
Tina Hess http://hessforcouncil.com/
Fred Sutton http://www.fredericksutton.com/
3. THE 2013 GOLDEN SPARKPLUG NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN NOW
Pacific Palisades Community Council needs your help in finding a special Palisadian who should
receive the 2013 Golden Sparkplug Award. The Golden Sparkplug Award honors those
residents of the Palisades who ignited ideas and projects into community action in the Palisades that
benefit all of us. If you would like to nominate your favorite Palisadian, here are the criteria:
1. The person must have launched a new idea or project benefiting the overall community
during 2012. The project can still be in progress and/or completed.
2. The Project must have a major community impact and/or be a sustainable project.
3. It must have broad community effect and/or affect a large group of persons.
4. It must be a voluntary contribution above and beyond, and not business related or part of
one's business or job.
The nominee may be an adult or youth. But only one member of a group or committee is permitted.
Please send the name of your nominee along with an explanation of their community project, and
why you think they should receive the award in 200 words or less. Include your name, address and
phone number, as well as the phone number and address of the nominee. Your can e-mail your
nomination to Pacpalicc@aol.com, or mail them to Pacific Palisades Community Council, Golden
Sparkplug Award, P.O. Box 1131, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. Deadline for nominations is
Saturday, March 9, 2013. The Golden Sparkplug Award ceremony will be held in the Spring at a
gala event.
COMMUNITY CARE FACILITY ORDINANCE MOTION.
Jennifer Malaret, Chris Spitz and George Wolfberg.
PACIFIC PALISADES COMMUNITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE CITY OF
LOS ANGELES’, DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING, RECOMMENDED COMMUNITY CARE
FACILITY ORDINANCE; COUNCIL FILE 11-0262; REPORT NO. R13-0014 DATED
JANUARY 3, 2013 AND ALARCON-ROSENDAHL- AMENDING MOTION 31B DATED
JANUARY 30, 2013 -
Whereas, for more than six years the City of Los Angeles has deemed it necessary to update the Los
Angeles Municipal Code’s (“LAMC”) existing definitions of family and boarding/rooming houses
to provide effective tools for the City to enforce its zoning laws relative to transient shared housing
operations in low-density R1 and R2 zones.
Whereas, the Pacific Palisades Community Council (“PPCC”) has supported an update to the zoning
code via the enactment of a well-balanced Community Care Facilities Ordinance (“CCFO”),
currently evidenced by Planning’s most recent Report No. R13-0014 (the “January 2013 CCFO”)1.
PPCC has asked for nominal protections as found in other cities that seek to maintain stable single family
neighborhoods by:
• prohibiting unlicensed and illegal boarding homes, as well as parolee/probationer facilities,
• imposing concentration and distance limits from sensitive uses, and
• public notice for larger facilities that serve seven (7) or more residents.
Now Therefore Be It Resolved that the Pacific Palisades Community Council:
(A) OPPOSES the Alarcon-Rosendahl- Amending Motion (“Gut the Code”) because this
proposed amendment would eliminate the historic prohibition of the establishment of boarding
houses in low-density R1 and R2 zones by removing the definitions of “family”, “paroleeprobationer home,” “single housekeeping unit” and “boarding or rooming house” from the zoning code. Alarcon-Rosendahl’s Gut the Code Motion also eliminates the requirement for a conditional use permit for parolee-probationer homes in any residential building located in R3 or more
restrictive zones. Thus, the Alarcon-Rosendahl Gut the Code Motion opens all residential areas of
the Palisades2 to transient boarders by allowing any R1 and R2 property owner to rent to as many
persons, including paroles/probationers, as the code allows without parking requirements, and
performance standards to protect neighbors and limits to protect residential blocks, schools and
churches.
(B) SUPPORTS the proposed Westside Regional Alliance of Councils’ (“WRAC”) Motion written
in opposition to the Alarcon-Rosendahl Gut the Code Motion:
We, the members of the Westside Regional Alliance of Councils, oppose Amending Motion 31B,
submitted January 30, 2013 to Council File 11-0262, on the following grounds: (1) Lack of
1 The January 2013 CCFO was written following four (4) human executions that occurred in an
overcrowded, unlicensed City of Los Angeles boarding home and a unanimous vote of the City Council’s
Public Safety Committee on January 2, 2013 recommending that the Council approve the CCFO subject to
several amendments.
2 PPCC urges all homeowner groups and stakeholders to research and consider that perceived protections
offered by HOAs, CC&Rs, & other covenants may not apply due to federal and state housing laws.
sufficient staff support and lack of a funding mechanism, (2) Inability to presently enforce codes, (3)
Anticipated 10% across the board budget cuts to all City departments slated for FY 2013-2014, and
(4) Complete lack of transparent fiscal analysis. We further strongly oppose the continued gutting
of the R1 and other low-density residential zones in the City of Los Angeles. The General Plan of the
City of Los Angeles protects the residential character of these zones. The City is therefore required
by law to prepare a General Plan Amendment and to produce a full Environmental Impact Report in
compliance with CEQA to establish any ordinance adding boarding houses as a by right use into
low density residential zones.
(C)
URGES THE LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL TO:
(1) Maintain and preserve the definitions of “family”, “parolee-probationer home,” “single
housekeeping unit” and “boarding or rooming house” in the January 2013 CCFO;
(2) Preserve the conditional use permit requirement for Parolee-Probationer Homes as listed in
the January 2013 CCFO;
(3) Maintain and preserve the Parking Requirement, Public Benefit and Performance Standards
as listed in the January 2013 CCFO;
(4) Ensure that the City’s zoning authorities shall have appropriate enforcement resources for all
licensed and unlicensed Community Care Facilities with nuisance, parking, infrastructure
overutilization and zoning problems, and that all landlords of Community Care Facilities
be required to appropriately and sustainably pay into a dedicated fund to ensure all
funding, manpower and other resources to perform such enforcement.
(5) Provide a phase-in period of one year coupled with a reduced [or waived] fee for that year
for the Directors Determination specified in LAMC 12.22 EXCEPTIONS, A. USE #27,
REASONABLE ACCOMODATION to provide a path to legitimacy for existing
unlicensed group homes which do not adhere to the definitions specified in (C)(1) herein
but serve protected populations as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
(6) Include the recommendations of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck set forth in the Chief’s August
14, 2012 letter to City Council [previously circulated/public document; available upon
request].
