Fix The City has reviewed the decision concerning the Expo Overlay Zone. FTC will be appealing the ruling.
Project Description
The City of Los Angeles (the “City”) has willfully ignored its own mandatory policies created to provide for the availability of adequate infrastructure and public services and to maintain the quality of life for City residents. This lawsuit seeks compliance with the City’s self-imposed mandatory policies included in the creation, approval, and adoption of its General Plan Framework Element and its Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) and mitigation measures. In the City’s own words, its policy “requires that the type, amount, and location of development be correlated with the provision of adequate supporting infrastructure and services,” (GPF FEIR Section 2.10.5.1) and that “allowable increases in density through community plan amendment would not occur until infrastructure and its funding was available”
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Issues & Rationale
Key Issues
- The City approved an increase in allowable density without first providing for adequate infrastructure and services.
- LAFD Response times are inadequate in the Expo Overlay Area despite heroic efforts by our LAFD.
- LAPD Response times are inadequate in the Expo Overlay Area despite heroic efforts by our LAPD.
- Traffic congestion in West L.A. diminishes quality of life and street capacity is well short of adequate.
- The Expo Overlay approval ignores binding commitments made by the City.
- Street condition in West L.A. is far from adequate.
Rationale
- Increasing allowable density in the absence of adequate infrastructure and services violates a binding commitment contained in th eCity’s General Plan Framework.
- Public safety is compromised by inadequate first responder response times.