The City of West Hollywood will host a virtual West Hollywood Housing Symposium on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. via the Zoom platform. The Housing Symposium will bring together policy makers and policy experts in the areas of housing and land use in the State of California.
In addition to participating via Zoom, the Symposium will also be viewable on the City of West Hollywood’s WeHoTV YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/wehotv. Community members who are interested in submitting questions during the panel discussion may do so; registration is required in advance via Zoom. For updated information about the West Hollywood Housing Symposium, please visit www.weho.org/calendar.
As the State of California continues to respond to an unprecedented housing affordability crisis, and as thousands of residents continue to fall into homelessness, it is imperative that cities and counties throughout the state work to accommodate the creation of additional housing units. To meet this challenge, though, the California State Legislature has enacted some laws that preempt local ordinances. As a result, this can have the effect of curtailing the ability of local municipalities to make decisions that best fit community characteristics.
The West Hollywood Housing Symposium will feature a moderated panel discussion to provide the community with information about recently approved state legislation and pending housing legislation under consideration in Sacramento that may impact the City of West Hollywood. Panelists will discuss the challenges that exist in balancing a broad vision to accommodate higher-density developments with the desire of many local communities to protect local control with fewer restrictions.
Symposium panelists include: Aaron Eckhouse, Regional Policy Manager for CA YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard); Alex Fisch, Culver City Councilmember and Westside Cities Council of Government representative to Southern California Association of Governments; Peggy Huang, Yorba Linda Councilmember, and proponent of a statewide ballot initiative to protect local control; Jason Rhine, League of California Cities Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs; and Marcel Rodarte, California Contract Cities Association Executive Director. The West Hollywood Housing Symposium will be moderated by Hernán Molina, City of West Hollywood Governmental Affairs Liaison.
For more information, please contact Hernán Molina, the City of West Hollywood’s Governmental Affairs Liaison, at [email protected] or at (323) 848-6364. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.
The Planning Commissioners should be required to attend or watch a recorded version so as not to violate the Brown Act. The laws in place currently are the law! The City flaunts the, however, the City should obey the current laws. The City Attorney doesn’t advise the City’s commissions of the liabilities they will incur if they get caught because guess who gets to defend the City for extra $$$ when there is a lawsuit? More backdoor graft! Oh and Ms. Yorba Linda–it is too late this year to get something on the ballot. On another note Brandon Garcia is… Read more »
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Community members expect and deserve clear, honest answers,
Community members may submit questions in advance however without direct interaction they may be deftly sidestepped as our planning department often does. If you watch carefully you will see it as though carefully scripted to avoid direct answers.
A self fulfilling prophesy.
Local control of community planning needs to remain in place,otherwise the state will ride roughshod over residents who have legitimate concerns on what is being built in their community.
You have a continuing drought that will not go away.There needs to be a relook at the growth mantra that has been in existence since the end of the second world war.You can’t continue to build housing that is ultimately unsustainable.