Planned Development Districts Staff Hearing

Planned DevelopmentSupplemental Use District

Revisions

Proposed Code AmendmentCase No. CPC-2010-3315-CA

Staff Hearing, 09.28.11, 1 PM

City Hall, Room 1070

Overview

Code Simplification Background

Intro to Planned Developments& History in L.A.

Trends in PD Regulations

Proposed PD Revisions

Code Simplification

-Workshops – Fall 2007identified opportunity to update

“Planned Development” regulations

-Director’s Reports – Sept. 2008 & June 2010

-Focus groups, staff review, community presentations

-Four Community Workshops – Nov. 2010

Supplemental Use Districts

What are SUDs?:-districts for “uses whose requirements are difficult to

anticipateand cannot adequately be provided for” in the Zoning

Code

Oil Drilling Districts, Animal Slaughtering Districts, Sign Districts,Equinekeeping Districts, Community Design Overlay Districts,

Pedestrian-Oriented Districts, etc.

PUDs, PDs, or RPDs?

Planned Developments = Master-planned Communities

Residential Planned Developments in LA:

-allowed as a conditional use from ’64 - ’71

-RPD district enabling ordinance adopted ’71“greenfield” single-family neighborhoods

“cluster housing”“common open space”

-Only requested three times

ObservatoryVillage

Existing RPD Districts in L.A.

Phoenix’s “Celebrity City”

Trend of PD Ordinance Updates

L.A. Live

NBC / Universal

Playa Vista

W Hollywood Hotel & Residences

Why update PD regulations now?

-Increasing number of specific plansWarner Center, Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment District (LA Live),

NBC/Universal

-Better projects possible than through standard zoning

carrot and stick

-Implement “One Project, One Planner”neighbors & staff can assess “project,” not “bundle of approvals”

-Opportunity to update existing tool for today’s needs

enable infill, mixed-use projects on hard to develop parcels

Sample City Planning Case Process

oBakersfieldoBerkeleyoBurbankoCulver CityoGlendaleoLong BeachoOaklandoOxnardoPasadenaoRiversideoSacramento

PD Regulations in CA Cities

oSan BernardinooSan DiegooSan FranciscooSan JoseoSanta BarbaraoSanta ClaritaoSanta CruzoSanta MonicaoVenturaoWest HollywoodoCounty of L.A.

-Concept Plan & Development Standards(adopted by ordinance)

-Phasing Plan

-Plan Approvalsfor individual phases of construction

Proposed PD Regulations

-Application Requirements

An application for the establishment of a Planned Development District shall only be accepted where the applicant owns or controls

the land subject to the proposed district

LAMC Section 12.32 S

Establishment of PD Districts

Establishment of PD Districts

-Applicable Zoneseach PD District shall include only parcels within C, M, R, and P zones

-Minimum Area RequirementsEach PD District shall contain at least:

- 200,000 gross square feet of non-residential floor area;

- 200 or more dwelling units, guest rooms, or combination of dwelling units or guest rooms;

-or 3 acres of lot area

Concept Plan & Development Standards

-Approval of PD Districts-No PD district may be established until the City Council has

adopted, by ordinance, a Concept Plan and Development Standards for the entire area;

-Findings: result in a district that more fully realizes goals in general plans

-ContentsRegulations applicable to all development within the PD District, including specific details, elements, conditions, and restrictions

related to size, timing, and sequence of development

-Design Standards-Density Standards

-Use Standards

Plan Approvals for Phased PDs

-Plan approvals for phased projects-No building permit shall be issued for any project, and no

person shall perform any construction work on a project, until a PD Plan has been submitted and approved

-Finding-The project shall substantially comply with the adopted PD

District Concept Plan and Development Standards.

Public comment

period through November 7

NEXT STEPS

Thank You

Questions? Comments?

Tanner Blackman

City of Los Angeles | Department of City PlanningCode Studies | Office of Zoning Administration

tanner.blackman@lacity.org | 213.978.1195