On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024 Building a Better Westchester-Playa presented a tutorial to the NC-PLUC** on the current status of Mayor Karen Bass’s “Executive Directive 1.” Transmission of this Mayoral directive was one Mayor Bass’s first acts in office, establishing a new workflow aimed at creating faster Planning Approval and Building Permitting to speed into construction of 100% Affordable buildings.
Covered in this presentation:
- An overview of the important changes made recently (July, 2024) to the text of Executive Directive 1. (page 1)
- Statistics and data overview of ED1 projects from its beginning (Dec, 2022) to July, 2024. (page 2-3)
- A illustrating the # of ED1 projects and units generated across all Neighborhood Council areas of Los Angeles (page 4-5)
- Instructions on how to find the ED1 Planning tracker system (page 6)
- Map, application status and # of units currently being processed by Planning (page 7)
- Details about 8819 Sepulveda Eastway, an example of a “bad” ED1 proposal that Planning has pushed back to the developer for review (page 8)
- Details about 2 ED1 projects developed by Tommy Beadel (original co-founder of Thomas James Homes) (page 9
- Details about 2 other ED1 projects from separate developers (page 10)
- Building a Better Westchester-Playa’s takeaway, given our research to date (page 11)
PDF of the full presentation is a available here: BaBWP ED1 Presentation to PLUC_2024-11-19
** Westchester-Playa Neighborhood Council Planning and Land Use Committee.
