More housing near transit, with a temporary pause

Unverified speaker · Public comment

Six and seven, but I'll use general. The one minute. Oh, I'm sorry. You said six and seven and but I'll use general., good morning, council members. Andrew Simian representing the Los Angeles Conservancy. Today we're supporting items six and seven, the low-rise ordinance and the delayed effectuation plan for SB79. we support the ordinance as amended by the planning commission and plum committee. There were some changes in there through the planning commission process that reflected interestingly some compromise between homeowners and housing advocates. So, especially the rear setbacks increased to 8 ft are important. we do hope that the city of LA looks at a long-term plan and I do think …

Unverified speaker · Public comment

good morning. I just would like to make a general comment.

Unverified speaker · Public comment

Hello. I'd like to speak to proposed amendments regarding SB79. Okay. Good morning everyone. Courtney Alicia Miles with Abundant Housing LA speaking to proposed amendments for SB79's implementation. We want LA to get ready to implement effectively and maximize its potential in building housing close to its highest resource stations. This includes amend low-rise ordinance to include a low-rise bonus that would allow five floors and form base density in exchange for deeper affordability. Two, allow attached atgrade parking behind units. And lastly, say why you support this because it's important. Thank you. Good morning. What

Matthew · General public comment

Good morning,, cast members. My name is Matthew with Inner City Law Center. I represent,, lowin folks throughout the county and city. we're here today to speak in support of first of all thank all the planning staff for their work on SB79 implementation and the low-rise ordinance. We think it's a really great opportunity for the city to develop mixed income housing throughout areas where historically we haven't done our a significant amount of mixed income housing. we also are speaking in support of asking the council members to support exhibit 2B. council supported and unanimously passed a motion to ask planning to develop options to allow deeper affordability and want to thank planning …

Bobby · Public comment

General comment., members of council,, my name is Bobby Gity. I am a renter., and I'm speaking here today because the cost of housing in Los Angeles is far too high. and that's why I'm asking for a strong full implementation of SB79. SB79 legalizes midrise apartments near major transit stops. it is the state minimum, the kind of bill that we pass to make the suburbs do their share of housing. As the core city and as largest city in the state, we should be far exceeding the requirements of SB79. we should have more highrises near those stops. We should have more midrises close to them and we should be upzoning all parts of the city. There is no way we are going to solve the housing crisis …

Cassuz Roes · Item 11

Hi, my name is Cassuz Roes for the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles. Aglas strongly opposes any further extensions of the citywide emergency restrictions based on the January 2025 wildfires and storms. These restrictions have already greatly exceeded the time when they were necessary and have already been in place for 17 months without serious consideration. The state ended its emergency restrictions as of February 7, 2026. The county ended its emergency restrictions as of March 29, 2026. It is now time for the city's emergency restrictions to finally end to approve any further extensions would be a gross overreach by the city and willful abuse of its emergency powers. While …

Scott · Public comment

General, please. Thank you. Good morning, council members. My name is Scott Epstein. I'm the director of policy and research with Abundant Housing LA. the low-rise ordinance is a really exciting opportunity. Finally, the city is saying we need to make room for more residents to live near high-capacity transit to near to be near high-erforming schools and amenities and jobs. but we need to get the details right. we need to get the conditions right and I urge you to make some key changes to the low-rise ordinance to so that we actually can deliver housing. and those are two. So one, please adopt exhibit 2B, which is responsible responsive to your direction to affirmatively further fair …

Unverified speaker · Public comment

general comment.

Unverified speaker · Public comment

Good morning to everyone, especially Heidi Feldstein. So stood council member Herado, LAN is still waiting for a response to our letter from weeks ago. As you know, constituents in Skid Row face violent sweeps every single day, and unlike everywhere else in the district, do not get sufficient notice. The metal OS signs in Skid Row serve the purpose of allowing city workers along with LAPD to come and destroy people's lives. We need an urgent change in Skid Row. And while we 100% know sweeps should end completely, constituents in Skid Row should get the same notice that others in the district do. While your aid talks about outreach supposedly being done ahead of sweeps at the CCEA meeting, …

Jesse · Public comment

General comment. My name is Jesse and I'm here I'm a member of LA Ken. Why are unhoused folks in Skidro not offered the same warning about these violent sweeps as others across the district and city? Council member Herado, we know that you understand these concerns, though your office never does outreach on Skid Row, and we've never seen your staff at any of the sweeps before, during, or after. I do community watch every week on Skid Row. I witness people being harassed, displaced, and pushed from block to block, their property being stolen, destroyed, and thrown away, all the while trying to survive. While we are 100% against sweeps happening at all, LA Can is demanding that our members …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

good morning, sir. My name is Tommy., be doing general public comment. Yes, sir. My name is Tommy. I'm a proud member of LAN here to speak on general comment., Council Member Herado, it's been three weeks since you received our letter. Following up on our February meeting with you, every day the Operation Healthy Street sweeps are happening in Skid Row with no real warning for your constituents. Every day people are faced the trauma of losing their belongings, watching everything they own get destroyed by city workers under the threat of police violence. This includes tents and sleeping materials, clothes, but also includes critical documents like IDs, birth certificates, photos of loved …

Clyde · Public comment

good morning. Hi, my name is Clyde and I'm a member of LAN here to speak on general comment. A woman member of LA KN came in and told us that she didn't know that a sweep was happening and she lost everything, including the only pictures she had of her dead mother. That the city put out paper signs on series Avenue last month shows that the city is very aware that metal signs don't do anything and that paper signs are required so that people know the sweep is actually coming. Every other part, every other part of CD14 gets paper science warnings. Resident warning residents of an impending sweep. LA CAN members are demanding the same treatment in Skidro. We sent you a letter about 3 weeks …

Unverified speaker · Public comment

Good morning. Just general comment. My name is Christie.

Unverified speaker · General public comment

Public comment. Hello, my name is Rosan. I'm a fast food worker at McDonald's here in LA., we ask that you approve the fast food fair work ordinance without further delay. Yes, us the 50,000 fast food workers, we depend on your support so that we may have access to know our rights so that we may be able to have a fair and just workplace and secure job stability and security by knowing the laws that are in place to protect us. So, please vote in support of this. Thank you. Good morning. What

Samuel Mis Az · Public comment

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Eric · General public comment

Hello. My name is Eric, a photographer who's been documenting the city's response to ICE for what'll be a year this weekend. that's led me to start attending the police commission meetings regularly. So I'm here today to just say something quick about council member Herado's motion about flock safety. First, thank you. I think it is wild how quickly this stuff has grown. and I think it's very important that we educate the community about the fact that this private company has a network of cameras all around the country that they can track everyone's every move. so I did want to come here and say that the motion seems good to me, but I worry that it doesn't go far enough., I want to make …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

general public comment. All right. Gerard Wright with the Greater Los Angeles Realtors., just the conversations around SB79 and housing production spurred me just to put a public comment in to talk about ULA. Three dead dangerous letters that has really hurt housing production as well as tax coffers to the city of Los Angeles. thinking about all the housing production that could have been c created which could have helped our right or our growing deficits and actually helped curb a lot of that would be a great benefit to the city of Los Angeles. I'm just thinking of what happened around downtown Los Angeles before measure ULA where a lot of mid-rise and high-rise buildings were being …

Unverified speaker · Item 11

Good morning. Okay. I'm going under the name Smoke and Scan. It's my shout out to Smoke and Scan. And you know, you didn't call my name first, so we're going by Smoke and Scan today. But anyway, so let's start with the fire emergency thing. the I I want to discuss it a little bit. It's a fire and an emergency that's still going on because a somebody messed up and drained the reservoir. somebody else messed up and didn't have the proper fire equipment ready., and somebody else messed up that they weren't even here for it. So, there a lot of mess ups and then they're still messing up because people can't, you know, bu rebuild. I mean, I think they were able to rebuild like if they want …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

I'm here for item five., for general,, I support SB79, and I will be back for item five,, when that's on the table. So, so hold this time. So, you can speak to item five now during your one minute for general public comment if you would like. I see. Okay. Yes. I represent the ownership and applicant of item five which is respect to a hall route at 1375 Summit Rich Place. I ask the city council deny the appeal. we the applicants and the ownership have agreed to all the conditions set forth in the approval and thank you for your consideration.

Victoria · General public comment

general public comment, please. Wenos Diaz. Good morning everybody. My name is Victoria Gomez. I am an organizer with the housing action coalition as well as a lifelong Angelino. I first just want to start by acknowledging my fellow Latinos, Latinas, Monica Hugo, Unes. Congratulations on your reelection. I am proud to see some Latino representation in the council., I'm also here to talk about SB79 implementation and urge this council to adopt the exhibit 2B recommendations. specifically, we encourage changes that allow for a low-rise ordinance change and atgrade parking. it's time for us to adopt recommendations that allow for more housing units to be built and increase the feasibility of …

Unverified speaker · Item 13

I want to speak to item number 13 first. Yeah. And general public. Okay. So, it says here relative to the special events ordinance which provides that the city council may add or remove events from the list of citywide special events by motion. I would like for you guys to really bring up the fact that Scientology should no longer be on this list of citywide special events. absolutely no reason for them to be on that means that you're giving them a way to recruit children, a way to recruit people from other countries using their R1 visa. This is where we're talking about this city getting infiltrated. And this is where we're asking you remove Scientology or any of its front groups like the …

Pedro · Public comment

Hello people. General comment. All right. Thank you. Hello. My name is Pedro Ramirez. I am a fast food worker here in LA County., I don't really have a script other than just my Oh, my fault. My fault. I don't really have a script other than just like my lived experience. And the way that I see it,, the system kind of just works on dependence. Oh, it's No, it actually here's how it is. I wrote this earlier. The business model is dependent on instability. Workers are kept below the benefit threshold. Schedules change week to week and the burden gets pushed onto workers bodies, families, and public systems. For the most part, it's how it feels. When labor flexibility becomes priority over …

Unverified speaker · Item 11

council president. Those are all the names for public comment. All right, that concludes public comment for this morning's meetings., Mr. Clerk, what's before us? The council may now vote on items 11 through 14. All right, let's open the role on those items, close the roll, tabulate the vote. 13 eyes. And there's a request for item 14 to go forth with. Without objection, that'll be the order. What's next? Item number one called special by council member Rodriguez for comments. Council member Rodriguez. 139. All right. What's next? The council may now vote on items four and 15 called special by council member Price for recusal. All right, we'll give council member Price an opportunity to …

Councilmember Ysabel Jurado · Council discussion

council member Bloomfield seconds. What's next? Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez · Council action

Can we run through our agenda? Thank you, Mr. President. Items 1 through 10 are items for which public hearings have been held. Items 11 through 15 are items for which public hearings have not been held. 10 votes are required for consideration. All right, without objection, those items are before us. Now is the time for specials, members. I see council member Rodriguez on the queue. But before you go, big congratulations to Council Member Rodriguez. I mean, oh, bad.

Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez · Item 15

I mean, we [cheering] kind of look the same, you know. Thank you. [applause] got a lot of work to do. You've got work to do, but we're congratulating you today anyway. Thank you, Council Member Rodriguez. Thank you. Item one for comments and adopt the revised ordinance dated May 22nd, 2026. All right, Council Member Hudado. Thank you, Council President. For item 15, I'd like to move to adopt LHD's May 18th revised report. And is there a second to that motion?

Councilmember Heather Hutt · Item 15

Council member Price. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. President, out of reminiscent of caution, I'm recusing myself from items four and 15. Because my wife's previous employer has worked with an organization listed in this project. All right. Four and 15. Four and 15. Any other specials? Members, look to my left and to my right. All right. Uh, Mr. Clerk, what items are available for consideration at this time? The council may now vote on items 2, 3, and 5 through 10. Let's open the roll on those items. Close the rose items. Tabulate the vote. 13 eyes. All right. What's next? The council may move on may now move on to public comment. All right. Before we go to public comment, she did not request …

Councilmember Monica Rodriguez · Department oversight

Thank you colleagues. Most of us around this horseshoe have worked with our communities to address a number of nuisance properties and we know that the current process can be incredibly cumbersome with a number of delays from timelines that have to be met to ensure that we're meeting the legal obligations that are required before we can actually do anything. that would help to protect many of the neighborhoods that are that are exposed to the public safety concerns that are often associated with these properties. In my district, I have a significant property uh that also presented severe fire danger and that was on Latuna Canyon. And while we had been absolutely diligent working with the …