Council File 25-1083 - LA Council Tracker

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Report from Planning and Land Use Management Committee_10-28-25

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What is Being Proposed

The Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee is recommending that the Los Angeles City Council instruct multiple city departments to conduct comprehensive studies and reports on the impacts of California's Senate Bill 79 before implementation. SB 79 is state legislation that allows increased housing density near transit stops. The City is asking for detailed analysis to inform decisions about how—or whether—to implement this law by the July 1, 2026 deadline.

Why This Matters

SB 79 would allow significantly more housing development in areas near transit stations throughout Los Angeles. However, the City is concerned about potential impacts on infrastructure, utilities, emergency services, historic resources, fire safety, and coastal areas. The City wants to understand the full scope of these impacts before committing to implementation, and to explore alternative approaches like developing its own transit-oriented development plan (TODAP) or requesting a delayed effective date from the state.

Key Details and Timeline

The Department of City Planning must report by December 1, 2025 with definitions, detailed maps of affected areas, and implementation options. A more comprehensive infrastructure and impact assessment is due by January 5, 2026. The City Administrative Officer will identify funding and staffing needs, while various departments will analyze effects on rent-stabilized housing, historic districts, fire hazard zones, coastal areas, schools, and job creation. The Committee voted 4-0 to support this analysis (one member absent).

Impact

This affects Los Angeles residents by potentially influencing where and how much new housing can be built near transit. The analysis will determine if the City implements SB 79 as written, creates alternatives that balance development with community needs, or requests state permission to delay implementation.

Communication from Council District Four - Amendments_10-28-25

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What is Being Proposed

Councilmember Nithya Raman is requesting amendments to Item 12 (CF 25-1083) on the October 28, 2025 PLUM Committee agenda. The proposed changes add three sets of additional recommendations requiring detailed analysis of how Senate Bill 79 (SB 79) would affect Los Angeles, along with a new directive for city planning to report on housing compliance within 90 days.

Why This Matters

SB 79 allows certain development projects to be exempt from some local regulations. Councilmember Raman's amendments aim to ensure the city thoroughly understands SB 79's impacts before implementation, particularly on vulnerable communities and historically significant areas. The amendments also seek to verify that the city can still meet its housing production goals while complying with fair housing laws and the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) requirements.

Key Details

The amendments request analysis of SB 79's effects on low-resource areas, rent-controlled units, coastal and fire hazard zones, historic districts, and evacuation routes. They also call for economic impact projections including property tax revenues, job creation, school enrollment changes, and affordable housing production. Additionally, the Department of City Planning must report on capacity modeling in low- and high-resource areas, including Transit Oriented Incentive Areas and Opportunity Corridors, within 90 days.

Impact

These amendments affect residents citywide by ensuring comprehensive planning around SB 79 development, particularly protecting low-income neighborhoods, historically significant areas, and coastal communities from unintended consequences while maintaining the city's ability to address its housing shortage.

Communication(s) from Public_10-28-25

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What is Being Proposed?

The Housing Action Coalition (HAC) is urging the Los Angeles City Council to fully and faithfully implement Senate Bill 79 (SB 79), a state law that expands transit-oriented development throughout California. The letter supports Council File 25-1083 and encourages the city to approach SB 79 as a major opportunity rather than a problem to manage. HAC specifically asks the city to include all high- and highest-resource neighborhoods—including single-family zones near major transit stops—in SB 79's coverage without broad exemptions or delays.

Why?

SB 79 was enacted to address three interconnected goals: increase housing near major bus and rail corridors, reduce carbon emissions, and advance fair housing obligations. The letter expresses concern that the city's motion to study implementation risks treating SB 79 as a threat to mitigate rather than a cornerstone of the city's Housing Element and Climate Action commitments. HAC argues that broad delays or exemptions would perpetuate historic inequities and contradict the law's spirit.

Key Details

Stakeholder: Housing Action Coalition, a nonprofit advocating for more housing and equitable growth across California Author: Jesse Zwick, Southern California Director Date: October 28, 2025 Related Motion: Councilmember Park introduced the motion triggering this response HAC supports limited, evidence-based exemptions only in low-resource multifamily neighborhoods with genuine displacement risks, paired with robust tenant protections

Impact

This affects all Los Angeles residents by influencing housing supply and affordability near transit. The letter advocates that the city's analysis should quantify benefits including increased housing supply, tax revenues, reduced emissions, improved transit ridership, and progress toward the city's affordable housing obligations (RHNA and AFFH requirements).

Communication(s) from Public_09-29-2025

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What is Being Proposed?

The Pacific Palisades Community Council (PPCC) is expressing strong support for Council File 25-1083, which calls for a report back on the impacts of Senate Bill 79 (SB 79) on the City of Los Angeles. Specifically, the motion requests an analysis of infrastructure and utility costs needed to support the housing density mandates from SB 79, plus a confidential report to City Council on potential legal challenges and bases for cost-recovery from the state.

Why?

The PPCC opposes SB 79 due to serious public safety concerns about housing density mandates in fire-prone areas. Pacific Palisades is located entirely within the Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone and was recently devastated by the Palisades Fire. The council argues that SB 79 and similar housing density legislation fail to include adequate funding mechanisms to support the resulting impacts on infrastructure, public safety, and municipal services.

Key Details

The PPCC Board unanimously passed this motion on September 25, 2025, following a recommendation from the PPCC Land Use Committee. The organization, founded in 1973 and representing 52 years of community advocacy, submitted this letter on September 29, 2025. The letter is addressed to City Council leadership, including the Planning & Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee, and was copied to Mayor Karen Bass.

Impact

This affects Pacific Palisades residents and the broader City of Los Angeles' ability to manage housing mandates alongside fire safety and infrastructure concerns. The motion seeks to provide the City Council with critical cost data and legal options before implementing density requirements that may strain municipal services in an already vulnerable community.

Motion (Park - Rodriguez, Lee) dated 9-16-25

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What is Being Proposed?

The Council is directing three city departments—City Planning, Transportation, and Housing—to prepare a comprehensive 90-day report assessing the impacts of Senate Bill 79 (SB 79) on Los Angeles. Additionally, the City Attorney's office will provide a confidential legal analysis of potential challenges to SB 79 and cost-recovery options from the state.

Why?

Senate Bill 79, passed by the California Legislature on September 12, 2025, would fundamentally change zoning and development regulations across California by allowing housing development near transit without local control. The motion's sponsors are concerned that this state mandate could undermine years of community planning work (including the Citywide Housing Incentive Program and Environmental Impact Report) and create significant infrastructure challenges. Key concerns include impacts on parking, traffic, public safety, fire hazards, coastal zones, tsunami areas, rent-controlled housing, and historic preservation.

Key Details

The required report must address: the definition of "transit-oriented development stops," density limits, parking requirements, interactions with local Density Bonus Law, and specific impacts on sites near evacuation routes, fire hazard zones, coastal areas, historic resources, and evacuation corridors. A second report must analyze infrastructure and utility system costs, emergency services needs, property tax revenue increases, and mitigation strategies needed to support new density.

Impact

This affects all Los Angeles residents by potentially reshaping neighborhood character and density citywide. It matters because the analysis will inform whether the city can accommodate new housing while maintaining infrastructure, services, and community safety—and whether legal or policy challenges are possible.

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