Here's
one of our current issues:
Do Neighborhood Councils support Inclusionary Zoning?
EDITOR'S
NOTE: Recently the Pacific Palisades Community Council took up
this issue. Click here to see their letter regarding inclusionary
zoning, which was unanimously approved by its board:
Pacific
Palisades Community Council IZO letter
Background:
In briefly reviewing the position paper on Inclusionary Zoning
by the Silver Lake group the thought occurred to me that we should
provide each council not 2 but 3 choices when we request their
vote on a position as complex as Inclusionary zoning;
I suggest something along these lines:
1]
Support fully
2] Support with conditions
3] Against |
Joe
Vitti
(please
see message forwarded below)
Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Statement on
Inclusionary Zoning
Hello fellow NC officers and Boardmembers:
Many of you have asked for copies of other NCs’ position papers
on the proposed Inclusionary Zoning ordinance. The attached was
adopted by the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Governing Board
at last night’s meeting. Kudos to members of our Urban Design &
Preservation Advisory Committee and our Governmental Affairs Committee
for all their hard work – particularly to Kurt Rademaekers, who
provided the initial draft.
While much of the SLNC’s position is specific to hillside communities,
there are also some principles (such as removing the offsite option)
that are of more general interest. If any of our amendments to the
program elements (i.e “the matrix”) interest you, please feel free
to crib liberally from our statement. It seems to those of us who
worked on the position paper that the only way we’re going to be
able to get any citywide traction for NCs on an issue as broad as
Inclusionary Zoning is to develop as much common language as possible.
We only ask that if you do pull any language from our position paper,
that you let us know so we can keep track of who is weighing in
with similar positions on certain issues.
How are most councils doing with their IZO statements?
Best,
Jason Lyon, Co-chair
Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
jason@jasonlyon.com
http://www.silverlakenc.org
