On Thursday, I attended the City Planning commission workshop for about an hour. It can be difficult for us volunteer neighborhood council leaders to get to public hearings in the middle of the work day but your Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council board and committee members are committed to serving our community and often in attendance along with some very dedicated members of our community.
The most emphatic statement I want to share with you came from the president of the City Planning Commission, Ms. Usher. After all the comments were heard, she reviewed a list of other communities that have limits on the size of homes/structures that can be built. None of the methods in other Southern California communities are even close to how the L.A. City Planning Dept. has drafted their proposal. She said, "There's something in the planning department that is going in a liberal direction that isn't going to save our neighborhoods." Other commissioners agreed, this has been a "disorganized process and not the right guidance....each neighborhood has specific needs ..... there need to be solutions for each ... communication and enforcement in advance and....more public awareness."
Three commissioners are to get together on Friday and go over all the comments and get the staff in a better direction.
For now, it appears this is all back to the drawing board for the City Planning Dept. staff.
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