Los Angeles
City Council
Agenda Item 15
(15) 220617 CDs 1, 9, 14 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR), NO. ENV2017433EIR, STATE CLEARINGHOUSE (SCH) NO. 2017021024; ADDENDUM, MITIGATION MONITORING PROGRAM (MMP), PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT d ORDINANCES FIRST MITIGATION MONITORING PROGRAM (MMP), PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT, and ORDINANCES FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to implementing the Downtown Community Plan and New Zoning Code Project. Recommendations for Council action, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MAYOR: 1. FIND, in the independent judgment of the decision maker, after review and consideration of the entire record, including EIR No. ENV2017433EIR (Project EIR) and the Addendum, the draft Ordinances for the Downtown Community Plan Update and the New Zoning Code were analyzed in the Project EIR, and pursuant to Sections 15162 and 15164 of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, no supplemental or subsequent EIR is required; and, ADOPT the MMP. 2. ADOPT the FINDINGS contained in the Department of City Planning (DCP) Staff Recommendation Report, dated October 18, 2022, attached to the Council file, and identified as, Exhibit A Staff Recommendation; and the FINDINGS dated October 18, 2022, attached to the Council file, and identified as Exhibit B City Charter, Los Angeles Municipal Code, and General Plan Findings, as the FINDINGS of Council, as well as the DCP Staff reports, Memoranda, and Reportbacks related to draft ordinance modifications. 3. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 4, 2024, amending Chapter 1A of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) to establish a new Zoning Code, with all of the DCP Optional Modifications for Council consideration from the DCP’s November 4, 2024 Supplemental Report, attached to the Council file, and to modify the new Zoning Code to clarify the City Attorney’s ability to utilize the legal tools available to the City Attorney’s Office to enforce all Zoning Code provisions. 4. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, establishing the Downtown Community Plan Implementation Overlay District for the Downtown Community Plan Area. Downtown Community Plan Area. 5. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, adding Article 35 and Section 5.115.19 to Chapter 5 of Division 5 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code to create the Downtown Community Benefits Trust Fund for the receipt and use of Downtown Community Benefit Fee monies. 6. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, adding Section 19.20 to the LAMC to create the Downtown Community Benefits Fee Ordinance. 7. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, amending Section 12.04 of the LAMC and Ordinance No. 183144, to remove certain properties from the Los Angeles River Improvement Overlay District and amend the Zoning Map. 8. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, amending Ordinance No. 179076, and amending the definition of “Greater Downtown Housing Incentive Area” in Section 12.03 of the LAMC, and to remove areas of the Downtown Community Plan from the Greater Downtown Housing Incentive Area. 9. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, repealing Ordinance No. 182576, adopted on May 28, 2013, to establish the Bunker Hill Specific Plan for the area bounded generally by the I110 Freeway on the west, Fifth Street on the south, Hill Street on the east, and First Street on the north. 10. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, repealing Ordinance No. 181557, adopted on January 21, 2011, which added a definition for “Downtown Design Guide Project Area” to Section 12.03, added Subdivision 30 to Subsection A of Section 12.22, and added Subdivision 7 to Subsection D of Section 16.05 to the LAMC to implement the standards and guidelines in the Downtown Design Guide LAMC to implement the standards and guidelines in the Downtown Design Guide. 11. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, adding Paragraph (z) to Section 12.21 A.4 of the LAMC to remove minimum parking requirements in the Downtown Community Plan area. 12. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated November 6, 2024, adding Subsection C to Section 11.5.8 of Article 1.5 of Chapter 1 of the LAMC to recognize the consolidation of the Central City Community Plan and the Central City North Community Plan areas into the new Downtown Community Plan area, and to update the LAMC references from 35 to 34 community plan areas. 13. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying ORDINANCE, dated June 17, 2021, amending Section 12.04 of the LAMC by amending the zoning map. 14. INSTRUCT the Director of Planning, DCP, to adopt the Existing Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Spectrum Act Compliance Handbook of the New Zoning Code pursuant to Section 4C.12.5. (Existing Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Spectrum Act Compliance Handbook), attached to the Council file, as transmitted by the DCP on or after November 4, 2024. 15. REQUEST the City Attorney to make the amendments previously requested in the proposed Process and Procedures Maintenance Ordinance (Council file No. 12 0460S8) without overriding the language adopted in Article 13 through Council file No. 220617, and make any adjustments to the text to maintain the primacy of this version. 16. AUTHORIZE the DCP, as the City is adopting an entire new Zoning Code (Chapter 1A of the LAMC), and as DCP will be taking on a new role as publisher of Chapter 1A of the LAMC, to update Chapter 1A of the LAMC within a year of the operative date of this ordinance, as follows: p a. As deemed necessary by the Director of Planning, DCP, may prepare technical corrections to this ordinance that would correct citations and typographical errors that do not result in substantive changes to the policies adopted by Council through Council file No. 220617 in their approval of this final ordinance, in consultation with the City Attorney. Such technical corrections may include: i. Corrections to typographical errors and citations ii. Stylistic and formatting consistency edits iii. Corrections to ensure consistency between provisions iv. C o r r e c t i o n s t o c l a r i f y t h e implementation of a provision v. Updates to illustrations or graphics to align with the text of Chapter 1A of the LAMC b. The DCP will bring those corrections to Council for final approval. 17. INSTRUCT the DCP to prepare an amendment to the Zoning Code to allow for: a. Limited authority for the DCP to make minor nonsubstantive corrections and errors in the Zoning Code necessary to preserve the original meaning and in no case changing the effect of the original ordinance. b. A streamlined technical correction process to Zone Change, Zoning Code Amendment and other similar Sections of Article 13 to ensure errors in adopted ordinances and zoning maps are dd d i ffi i t d ti l adopted ordinances and zoning maps are addressed in an efficient and timely manner. Applicant: City of Los Angeles Case Nos. CPC2017432CPU and CPC20141582CA Environmental No. ENV2017433EIR; SCH No. 2017021024 Fiscal Impact Statement: None submitted by the DCP. Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report. Community Impact Statement: None submitted (10 VOTES REQUIRED FOR ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES NOTED IN RECOMMENDATION NOS. 3, 4, 5, 6)