Enforcement of Conditions on City Planning Cases
Enforcement of Conditions on City Planning Cases San Fernando Valley Regional Congress Panorama City High School -- May 29, 2009 Please send comments and corrections to :
Dick Platkin E-mail: rhplatkin@yahoo.com 213-308-6354 cell, 323-938-7027 FAX Blog: www.plan-itlosangeles.blogspot.com
Senior Planner and Policy Analyst, Tierra Concepts
I have five major points to make today about the enforcement of conditions on approved City Planning discretionary actions: 1) The historic weakness of the overall planning process in Los Angeles has encouraged the proliferation of discretionary actions to side-step the city’s legally adopted zones and plan designations. 2) Few applications for discretionary actions are ever denied, and few are ever approved out-right. The Planning Department’s general approach to these applications for discretionary actions could be summarized as “Approve with conditions.” 3) The weakness of the Departments of B