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City Contact Information
Here is a link to a list of contacts to send your comments to regarding the potential upzoning of Mar Vista: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsioattachments/76037/76422602/4/0?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1600804471&Signature=f2aKs3LJFC8NRtbZjhA2znmD7BY%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3D%22Screen+Shot+2020-08-25+at+9.43.44+PM.png%22
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Meeting with Historic Resources Office 1/14
Chris McKinnon, Head of the North Oval Association, secured a meeting tomorrow (Thursday 1/14) at noon with Ken Bernstein in the Office of Historic Resources to discuss our ask to include the north side of Pacific Ave in the North Oval historical designation. Please reach out if you'd like to participate and need the dial in information. Jamia jbigalow2@...
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Do It Today - 10/15! One Day Community Plan email campaign
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Just passing along a message from the WLA Neighbors Network: "The Westside Los Angeles Neighbors Network is hosting a one-day email campaign today, October 15, 2020, to get comments to the Department of City Planning (DCP) regarding the draft concepts for both the Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey Community Plan update. Please join them here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/feedback-to-dcp-re-draft-concepts-for-the-palms-marvista-delrey-community-plan-update The deadline is today at 11:59 PM, but you can still submit comments to DCP after this soft deadline. But why wait? WLA Neighbors has created a super easy online tool that you can customize - both the subject and the body - based on the comments of volunteer land use and planning minded folks associated with our local Neighborhood Councils. As always, thanks for your help. Have a good, and safe, day!"
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October 15 Deadline Approaching
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The deadline to make comments on the proposed Community Plan upzoning on Pacific Avenue and adjacent McLaughlin Avenue is next Thursday October 15th, unless extended again. Use these links to learn more and reach out to city officials. Draft Concepts Open House Website (by DCP) Draft Concepts for Westside Plans Webinars (videos) Draft Concepts for Palms - Mar Vista - Del Rey (slides) Mar Vista Draft Concepts Presented to MVCC (slides) E-MAIL ALL NOW BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK There is also a Department of City Planning survey about the Palms - Mar Vista - Del Rey Community Plan where you can also make comments about the Plan in its entirety and can reiterate your thoughts: Click Here.
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Meeting w/ the LA City Planning Office
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Diego from the City of Office Planning is holding virtual office hours to hear from constituents regarding the draft upzoning plan. I grabbed a meeting time from 1-1:45 on Monday, September 21 to discuss the Pacific zoning and North Oval concerns. Please message me if you are interested in attending and I will send you the Zoom link information. Jamia
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Thank you to everyone who participated in tonight's Mar Vista Community Council Community Plan Sub-Committee meeting. Kinkia Gardner and Diego Janacua from the planning office fielded questions for over two hours. The proposed upzoning of the North side of Pacific Ave. was brought up three times throughout the call - thank you Angel and our Zone 5 director, Michelle Krupkin. Additionally, frequently discussed topics of the evening were density requirements and building heights in the proposed draft plan. For those of us in this area and throughout Mar Vista, we are at risk for Venice Blvd and surrounding areas to be built up to 2 - 5+ stories, overshadowing the privacy of those on the North side of Pacific Ave and creating traffic and parking issues for our entire neighborhood. I urge those opposed to these two issues to voice your concerns via email to Diego, Kinikia and to Mike Bonin's office (all email addresses in the flyer delivered to your door and attached to this message) by September 15. Additionally, Diego mentioned that he and Kinikia will host office hours in a couple of weeks where they will open up times for groups to speak with them about their concerns of the plan. If you are interested in getting a group together from our neighborhood, please let me know (I assume this will be on Zoom). Thank you.
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Zoom Meeting, Tomorrow, August 25
Full agenda in link for a meeting tomorrow to present concerns and ask questions of people involved with the Draft Concept Plan process. It is my understanding that there will be representation from the City of LA as well. Community Plan Sub-Committee Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020, at 7:00pm Zoom Electronic Meeting Meeting ID : 978 7032 9234 https://zoom.us/j/97870329234 for instructions on how to join, see https://bit.ly/2yhhvGS Join by phone: 720 707 2699 Meeting ID: https://www.marvista.org/docs/34486185-11159.pdf
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Draft Letter
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Here's a version of what I wrote to the city. Feel free to copy, edit if you'd like. Dear ___________, I am writing to share with you my concerns regarding the Draft Concept Plan and the pending upzoning of certain areas in Mar Vista. As you are closely involved with this project and our community, I wanted to share the following concerns with you regarding the North side of Pacific Ave between Marcasel and East. This area of Pacific is a one way street that is adjacent to the North Oval Historical District, in fact our neighbors on the South side of our small street are included in the historical designation. Currently the north side of Pacific is marked for upzoning. I would like to appeal on two fronts: 1) why the north side of a one way street is not included in the historical designation while the south side of the street is, my neighbors in the Oval seem to feel this may have been an error on the map and/or omission that should be corrected and 2) the proposed upzoning of one side of a street when the other side of this quaint, one way street is part of the historical district. I kindly ask you to support our opposition to the upzoning of the North side of Pacific Ave between Marcasel and East. Please let me know any next steps or information you require for your reconsideration. Sincerely,
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Hello & Introduction
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Hi - My name is Jamia and my husband, Jeff, and I live at 11921 Pacific Ave. You've likely heard that the City of LA is undergoing an upzoning exercise and that the current draft directly impacts the one-way stretch of Pacific between Marcasel and East. Check out the Draft Concept Plan and map at the link and/or image below that designates our block to be subject to upzoning. Meaning, zoning would allow duplexes or perhaps even more dense building on the north side of our quaint, one-way street. Also, the south side of our street is protected within the North Oval Historical designation but the north side of our street is not. We are not sure if this omission is an error or how that happened, but there are folks in the neighborhood investigating and will post more information here once I have it. Since this plan is still in draft phase, you can VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION by September 15 by emailing the following people: (UPDATE: I think this platform is truncating the email addresses for privacy. You can find full email contact info in the pdf flyer that is attached.) Los Angeles City Planning Office: Diego Janacua: diego.janacua@... Kinikia Gardner: kinikia.gardner@... Councilman Bonin's Office: Councilman Mike Bonin: councilmember.bonin@... Len Nguyen in Bonin's office: len.nguyen@... Link to map, or view below: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dd98923bbac845dd895eaa39148c61a1
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