Industrial Land Use Policy

Industrial Land Use Policy Gets an Award?

By Eric Richardson — June 18, 2008 — 1 Comment

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Perhaps the Downtown Art Walk shouldn’t be so proud of its L.A. APA Awards win. Curbed has a list of the winners, and one of the awards went to the Planning Department and the Community Redevelopment Agency for their work on the Industrial Land Use Policy. — Continued Inside...


Speakers Tell of Changes in Industrial Use

By Eric Richardson — March 07, 2008
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Not all “industry” is created equal. That’s a fact that seems to get lost in many of the stats brought out by the Planning department to support its Industrial Land Use policy. At Tuesday’s Planning and Land Use meeting several speakers took the chance to clarify. Mark Shinbane, V.P. of Ore-Cal Seafood, told how his company has expanded...


Arts District Expansion Gets Planning OK

By Eric Richardson — March 04, 2008
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Arts District

Appearing before the city council’s Planning and Land Use committee just minutes ago, Planning Chief Gail Goldberg told the committee that she agreed with Councilman Jose Huizar’s efforts to extend the southern boundaries of the Arts District. The PLUM committee passed the motion before it to do so, and that motion will now go to City Council tomorrow...


Industrial Land Use Goes to PLUM

By Eric Richardson — March 04, 2008

In just a minute (I better get moving) city council’s Planning and Land Use committee will begin an agenda heavy in Industrial Land Use items. I’ll be at the meeting and will be posting live updates to blogdowntown’s twitter account. If you haven’t followed along, read up on this Industrial Land Use primer to prep yourself for the full...


Chinatown Lofts Adds Interest to Industrial Debate

By Eric Richardson — February 20, 2008
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First, it’s “L.A. Chinatown Lofts.” Take a look at the render (rotated for clarity) and you’ll see that the building footprint is supposed to look like the letters LA. Clever. Second, it’s interesting to see Planning fully in support of this project while it denies development in the southern Arts District. Unlike, for instance...


After Presentations to CRA and Planning, What Next for Industrial Use?

By Eric Richardson — January 18, 2008
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Arts District

The debate over Industrial Land Use can be a tough one for the mere resident to unravel, delving deep into zoning and city documents. The infamous joint memo delivered to staff by CRA head Cecilia Estelano and Planning chief Gail Goldberg got another two hearings in the past week as the document was presented to the pair’s respective boards. In the meetings...


Council Looks to Set Course for AMP Lofts Approval

By Eric Richardson — January 07, 2008
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The proposed AMP Lofts at 695 Santa Fe has land, an award winning design and the favor of both Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilman Jose Huizar. What it doesn’t have is approval from the city’s planning department. Tomorrow morning City Council will consider a motion by Huizar to take jurisdiction over the case and let the council’s Planning...


The Debate about Jobs

By Eric Richardson — January 04, 2008

Yesterday’s preview meeting for Downtown industrial land use provided more questions than it did answers. Donald Spivack of the CRA and Jane Blumenfield of Planning presented the two departments’ joint results to a packed room that was vocally opposed to both the procedure and the content of the plan to forbid residential use in a wide swath of Downtown...


For the Bored and/or Obsessed: Twittering Industrial Land Use

By Eric Richardson — January 03, 2008
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As mentioned the other day, this afternoon at 3pm Planning and CRA are holding the first preview meeting for their “new” Downtown Industrial Land Use policy. As relevant bits come up during the meeting, I’m planning to give a go to pushing them out via Twitter. To follow along, just check out blogdowntown’s page at Twitter. Afterward...


Industrial Policy Round Two Kicks Off This Week

By Eric Richardson — January 01, 2008

Arts District

Public “preview” meetings on a plan for Downtown’s industrial space kick off this week with a Thursday afternoon briefing at City Hall. The zoning plan would govern the development of a large swath of land southeast of Downtown. Last year the Planning Department created a controversy with Downtown stakeholders and elected officials when it issued...