Posted Oct 7, 2016, 3:34 AM
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Inveterate Angeleno
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Los Angeles
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I don't know if this was posted yet, but it's news that will warm our hearts:
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Plan That Imagines Downtown’s Future Is Finally Ready
By Eddie Kim
October 3, 2016
DTLA - The Los Angeles Department of City Planning has for years been drafting a major revision of the Downtown Community Plan, which offers guidelines and mandates on land use, construction, neighborhood design, transportation and other key issues.
Finally, the details are ready to be released to the public. City Planning is conducting a week-long effort to showcase the new plan, with an open studio and panel discussions.
The open studio is in the Bradbury Building (304 S. Broadway, Suite #218) and runs from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. every day. It features presentation boards and activities allowing visitors to give feedback. A kick-off meeting from 5:30-9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 3, will include a comprehensive overview of the plan and opportunities to ask questions to City Planning staff.
Other events at the Bradbury include a talk on neighborhood design and character hosted by the American Institute of Architects and the L.A. Conservancy (Wednesday from 6:30-9 p.m.) and the reveal of the city’s Re:Code L.A. plan, which is a revision to the massive and outdated general zoning code (Thursday from 6-9 p.m.). City Planning staff will be available for one-on-one talks on Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
The revision of the Downtown Community Plan is overflowing with concepts ranging from sustainable growth of the housing and jobs market to goals for open and green space throughout the Central City.
Finding adequate space to fit in an additional estimated 125,000 residents, 70,000 housing units and 55,000 jobs between now and 2040 is a primary goal. To achieve that, the new plan suggests raising density limits in a major way in South Park, the Arts District and Fashion District, among other areas, and even creating project size minimums to prevent “under-development” on key plots.
The plan also prioritizes the use of development incentives to push Downtown’s role as a jobs hub, such as allowing people to build higher and denser in return for creating commercial and office space, or requiring a minimum number of job-producing spaces in a given neighborhood or area before approving new housing construction.
City Planning hopes to raise overall design and architecture standards. Options include mandating attractive facades on above-ground parking podiums, and removing common barriers for developers such as minimum parking requirements, which are often difficult to include in projects on small parcels. More design guidelines would protect the scale of “villages” like Little Tokyo and historic parts of the Arts District.
Other elements of the plan delve into open-space requirements and standards, and mobility issues, with one key aspect being the city Department of Transportation’s coming expansion of its Downtown DASH bus program.
More details on the open studio, community meetings and revised plan are at DTLA2040.org.
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