Motions – Westside Regional Alliance of Councils

Support for Council File 21-1115 (Buscaino)

Formally adopted by WRAC in January 2022

Passed by

Brentwood Community Council
Del Rey Neighborhood Council
Mar Vista Community Council
Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
Pacific Palisades Community Council
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council
Venice Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council

Motion

Refers to City Council file 21-1115

The Westside Regional Alliance of Councils supports Council File 21-1115 (Buscaino)

Request for Revisions to SB 330

Passage deadline: February 2022

Passed by

West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council

Motion

The Westside Regional Alliance of Councils requests that the City of Los Angeles, through the Council’s Government Affairs Committee, include in its Sacramento legislative priorities the following request for revisions to SB 330, and implement local regulations in conformance with such revisions, if enacted, as follows:

When RSO units are demolished and replaced pursuant to the provisions and protections in SB330, any units that must be provided pursuant to a density bonus under SB1818 or SB1222A shall be additive to those numbers of replacement units that are required pursuant to SB330 (instead of “inclusive”).
All replacement units shall be of comparable size and configuration (i.e. they shall have the same number of bedrooms and at least the same square footage).

Support for Council File 21-0002-S186 (Koretz)

Passage deadline: February 2022

Passed by

Brentwood Community Council
Palms Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council

Motion

Refers to City Council file 21-0002-S186

The Westside Regional Alliance of Councils supports Council File 21-0002-S186 which seeks to support any Sacramento legislative or administrative action that will allow the City to include SB 9 sites in an addendum to the Housing Element thus allowing for the inclusion of these SB 9 sites in the Adequate Sites for Housing inventory.

Oppose Misuse of Specific Plan Process

Passage deadline: January 2022

Passed by

Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council
Mar Vista Community Council
Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council
West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council (modified version)
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council

Motion

The __________ Neighborhood/Community Council opposes the City’s use of Specific Plans that would result in upzoning open space and/or low-density residential neighborhoods. The use of specific plans in this manner creates significant negative impacts for all residential communities, the environment and natural resources. We urge our City Councilmembers to reject land use applications for individual development projects that represent a misuse of the Specific plan process. We ask that the City Council inform Planning not to process these types of requests.

Support for ACA 7 (Muratsuchi/Glazer)

Formally adopted by WRAC in December 2021

Passed by

Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council
Brentwood Community Council
Mar Vista Community Council
Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
Pacific Palisades Community Council
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council
West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council

Motion

The Westside Regional Alliance of Councils (WRAC) supports Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7 (Muratsuchi/Glazer), which would place on the ballot for voter decision a Constitutional amendment to restore local governmental control over land use, zoning and planning decisions. WRAC has expressed support for local land use control in five of its adopted positions (Oppose SB 827, SB 50, SB 9 and SB 10; Support SB 15).

Support for CF 21-0929 (Buscaino/Koretz)

Formally adopted by WRAC in December 2021

Passed by

Brentwood Community Council
Mar Vista Community Council
Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
Pacific Palisades Community Council
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council
Venice Neighborhood Council
West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council

Motion

Refers to City Council file 21-0929

Regarding Council File 21-0929 (Buscaino/Koretz): [_____ NC/CC] supports the proposed resolution for the City Council to prohibit sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property, in or upon any street, sidewalk, or other public rights-of-way within a radius of 500 feet from all schools listed in Attachment A to the Council File; and further, upon adoption of the resolution, for the City Council to direct the Department of Transportation to post signs giving notice of the restrictions in the radius specified.

[_____ NC/CC] also requests that the definition of “radius” be clarified to specify a radius of 500 feet from the exterior boundary lines of the schools listed in Attachment A to the Council File.

Request for Councilmembers to Cooperate with Member Councils re Designation of Sites Under LAMC Sec. 41.18

Formally adopted by WRAC in December 2021

Passed by

Brentwood Community Council (modified version)
Mar Vista Community Council
Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa (modified version)
Pacific Palisades Community Council
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council
Venice Neighborhood Council
West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council

Motion

{____ NC/CC] urges Councilmembers Bonin, Koretz, Raman and Ridley-Thomas (Councilmembers representing WRAC Member-Councils) to consult as soon as possible with their respective WRAC Member-Councils for input as to the designation of sites within their districts for enforcement pursuant to LAMC Sec. 41.18(c)(1)-(4) and 41.18(d), including: 1) schools, day care centers, public parks and public libraries, as defined in LAMC Sec. 105.01 (“sensitive uses”) (41.18(c)(1)); 2) overpasses, underpasses, freeway ramps, tunnels, bridges, pedestrian bridges, subways, washes, spreading grounds and active railways, when public health, safety or welfare is served by the prohibition (41.18(c)(2)); 3) designated facilities opened after January 1, 2018 that provide shelter, safe sleeping or safe parking to homeless persons or that serve as homeless services navigation centers (41.18(c)(3)); 4) any locations in public rights-of-way for which there is documentation of a “particular and ongoing threat to public health or safety” (41.18(c)(4)). No enforcement action shall be taken unless the individuals have been offered shelter and have refused the offer.

[____ NC/CC] further requests that 1) Councilmembers bring resolutions in Council pursuant to LAMC Sec. 41.18(c)(1)-(4) and 41.18(d) as soon as any sites meeting the requirements of such sub-sections are identified to them by their respective WRAC Member-Councils; and 2) the distance of the radius prohibition set forth in such resolutions shall be as requested by the relevant WRAC Member-Councils, consistent with the distance set forth in such sub-sections

Request for City Attorney Opinion re Consideration of Developer’s Financial Interest

Formally adopted by WRAC in December 2021

Passed by

Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council (modified version)
Mar Vista Community Council
Palms Neighborhood Council
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council
Venice Neighborhood Council
West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council

Motion

The Westside Regional Alliance of Councils requests that the City Council direct City Attorney Mike Feuer to provide a legal opinion as to whether or not the City Planning Department and commissions have the legal right under State and City laws and ordinances to consider the financial interest of the developer when considering entitlements.

Request for Revision of Proposed Amendments to DONE Code of Conduct

Formally adopted by WRAC in October 2021

Passed by

Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council (modified version)
Del Rey Neighborhood Council
Mar Vista Community Council (modified version)
Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
Pacific Palisades Community Council (modified version)
Palms Neighborhood Council (modified version)
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council (modified version)
Venice Neighborhood Council
West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council (modified version)

Motion

Whereas, the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners has before it consideration of proposed amendments to the Code of Conduct Policy applicable to Neighborhood Council Board and Committee Members;

Whereas, the existing Code of Conduct applicable to Neighborhood Councils should be amended to create a greater enforcement mechanism; and

Whereas, the proposed amendments to the Code of Conduct submitted by the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (“DONE”) to the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners (“BONC”) grant too much discretion to DONE in determining guilt and imposing penalties.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that:

BONC is advised against approving the proposed amendments to the Code of Conduct in their current form;

The [_____ NC/CC] requests that the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, in consultation with an ad hoc group of Neighborhood Council members, revise the proposed amendments to ensure they afford Board and Committee members adequate due process rather than granting the Department sole discretion to immediately suspend a Member based on an alleged violation of applicable rules;

Any amendments to the Code of Conduct must take into account varying degrees of conduct when considering suspension and appropriate penalties, if warranted;

The Code of Conduct shall require that the minimum correction necessary to address any issue be used;

The Workplace Equity Policy shall be incorporated into the proposed amendments to the Code of Conduct only if formally adopted by the City prior to the Neighborhood Council City Department Review process, and in the alternative, the Code of Conduct shall incorporate the City’s Workplace Violence Policy and Guidelines.

Abate and Correct Unsafe and Unhealthy Conditions in Homeless Encampments

Formally adopted by WRAC in October 2021 | Download the WRAC position letter

Passed by

Bel Air-Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council
Brentwood Community Council
Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
Pacific Palisades Community Council (modified version)
South Robertson Neighborhoods Council (modified version)
West LA-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council
Westside Neighborhood Council
Westwood Neighborhood Council (modified version)

Motion

The Westside Regional Alliance of Councils calls on the Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti to immediately direct the Los Angeles City Bureau of Sanitation (“LA Sanitation”) to undertake site clean-ups, trash collection, and sanitizing of all homeless encampments located in the neighborhoods represented by WRAC on the Westside of Los Angeles, in order to abate, correct, and remove hazardous, unsafe, unhealthy, and unsanitary conditions at all homeless encampments forthwith.