City Council

(11) 22-0536 CD 9 FIRST ADDENDUM AND JOINT ANALYSIS TO THE PREVIOUSLY CERTIFIED CONVENTION AND EVENT CENTER PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR), and RELATED CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) FINDINGS; PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT (PLUM) COMMITTEE REPORT and ORDINANCE FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to amending and restating the Convention and Event Center Specific Plan and Convention and Event Center Sign District. Recommendations for Council action, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MAYOR: FIND, based on the independent judgment of the decision-maker, after consideration of the whole of the administrative record, the project was assessed in the previously certified Convention and Event Center Project EIR No. ENV-2011-0585-EIR, certified in October 2012; and pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Sections 15162 and 15164 and the Addendum and Joint Analysis, dated December 2021, that no major revisions to the EIR are required and no subsequent EIR, or negative declaration is required for approval of the Project. ADOPT the FINDINGS of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission (LACPC) as the Findings of Council. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying Specific Plan ORDINANCE, dated November 8, 2022, authorizing the amending and restating of the Convention and Event Center Specific Plan, including renaming it the Convention Center. REQUEST the City Attorney to revise the Convention Center and Arena Sign District draft ordinance, to include language to authorize inflatable signs and captive balloon signs that was inadvertently not included in the proposed ordinance considered by the PLUM Committee on June 21, 2022 and by the Council on June 29, 2022, inasmuch as the Convention Center regularly uses these types of signs to advertise events, as noted in the November 10, 2022 City Attorney Report, attached to the Council file; and as further described and recommended in the Communication from the Department of City Planning dated November 16, 2022, attached to the Council file. Applicant: City of Los Angeles, City Tourism Department, Doane Liu Representative: Kevin Rieger, AEG Plenary Conventions LA, LLC Case No. CPC-2019-4572-GPA-VZC-HD-SP-SN Environmental Nos. ENV-2011-0585-EIR-ADD1; SCH No. 2011031049