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Missing Middle Housing: You’re Invited! LA Planning Webinar on 06-24-26 @ 4:30pm

In this public webinar, LA Planning will walk us through how it is supporting development of “missing middle” housing —an important tool for addressing our City’s housing challenge.
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Our recent FYI posts

Our City’s Planning and Land Use Policy development process is complex and sometimes opaque, making it hard for Westchester-Playa stakeholders to understand what’s going on. These posts aim to improving public access to important general news and information.

Sites + Minimum Density Ordinance

Quick overview: LA Planning recently shared this information on this draft ordinance (with link) “intended to enact state housing element law for different types …”
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Tutorial: CHIP Ordinance

Quick overview: Planning recently shared this information on this draft ordinance (with link). “The Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP) Ordinance proposes several new programs that…”
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LAX Employee Housing Challenge

Westchester-Playa hosts LAX and manages a number of challenges related to the airport. Passenger traffic impacts are the most obvious. But there are other very significant…
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2024 Housing Applications Down

The LA Planning Department produces a monthly newsletter. In it, they report housing application data, and for the first half of 2024, trends overall are declining…
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Case in LA: Affordable Adaptive Reuse

To get a sense of how much is going with LA’s new adaptive reuse program for creating new housing, one thing you can do is search “Adaptive Reuse” on Urbanize.LA.com…
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Tutorial: Adaptive Reuse 101

In their August 2024 Market Report, the CommercialEdge real estate blog confirms Los Angeles is clocking in at 24-25% vacant rates. That translates to some 83 million sq feet…
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