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20260825 upzoning: the process of modifying zoning laws to allow for higher-density development in areas that previously had stricter land-use regulations. This might include permitting multi-family housing where only MORE.rtf
20260829 How executive directives reduced sequential clearance ping-pong.rtf
20260829 Neighborhood meetings: related to the public-notification ∕ hearing side of discretionary review rather than to ordinary building-code plan check.rtf
20260829 Understanding Grok’s description of the development process – site plan review hearings, neighborhood meetings, sequential clearance ping-pong.rtf
20260829 clearance ping-pong: a worksheet identifies reqd clearances, reviewed in conjunction w LADBS's zoning plan check. Clearances for LAFD Life Safety, LAFD hydrant, BOE, Bureau of Sanitation, City Planning, ....rtf
20260830 A 100% market-rate building under 50 units is ministerial only when two things are both true: the zone already allows that many apartments at that bulk, and no other permit in the stack requires judgment.rtf
20260830 A 100% market-rate project of 50 or more units (pre-bonus), on a site that is not using CHIP ∕ AB 2011 ∕ Housing Element streamlining ∕ adaptive reuse, and that is not otherwise exempt, still hits Site Plan Review.rtf
20260830 Dept of Planning – Project applications typically fall in one of three categories: 1) by-right, 2) ministerial or administrative, or 3) discretionary.rtf
20260830 Description of Site Plan Review, and how it is a political process, not a completeness check.rtf
20260830 Grok's suggestion to require a published list of required clearances.rtf
20260830 I have read executive directives 7, 19.rtf
20260830 In Los Angeles, a “permit clearance” is an approval from a City department or agency that must be obtained before LADBS can issue a building permit.rtf
20260830 LADBS Standard Plan Program allows homeowners to purchase pre-approved architectural designs for ADUs, single-family homes, […] from private architectural firms. Plan review drops to ~21-30 days.rtf
20260830 Maybe the single-family carve-out made to ED 1 was not correcting an oversight but a response to pressure from NIMBYs.rtf
20260830 Mayoral executive directives remain in effect under subsequent administrations until revised or rescinded.rtf
20260830 Seven-story, 360-unit Winnetka project was on two parcels, one of which was single-family. It seems possible that Bass did not intend for projects like this to go ahead under the original ED 1.rtf
20260830 Site plan review grew out of Friends of Westwood v. City of Los Angeles. … The Court of Appeal held that issuing that building permit was a discretionary act under CEQA, not a ministerial stamp.rtf
20260830 The Department of City Planning is the same thing as the "Planning Department".rtf
20260831 Building-permit plan check for a clean set can be weeks to a few months. The multi-year numbers are driven by discretionary planning, CEQA, clearances, and DWP.rtf
20260831 ChatGPT agrees with Grok that there is no library of pre-approved multi-family plans as there is for single-family.rtf
20260831 Expanding self-certification.rtf
20260831 For a code-compliant 49-unit market building on R4 with no overlay, Site Plan Review never fires.rtf
20260831 State law already puts some clocks on market-rate. The city just doesn’t add a local one.  Still, a market-rate project can be HAA-consistent and still sit in Site Plan Review and CEQA for a year.rtf
20260831 Tenant improvement: custom alterations made to the interior of a commercial space to fit the specific needs of a tenant. When a business rents a storefront, office, etc the space is often just a blank concrete shell.rtf
20260831 What would be needed in an executive directive to exempt from discretionary review market-rate housing, including of 50 units or more?.rtf
20260831 plan check re-stamp: having a City department re-approve and re-stamp a set of plans that it had already approved, after the plans have been modified during the permitting process.rtf
20260831 the legal devices (zoning, deed restrictions, etc) that in practice cap the number of units a multi-family will have.rtf