NELA Hillsides Work Program - Please Distribute

July 2, 2008

Dear Neighbor,

For more than a year, many of you have participated in public meetings and workshops held by the Planning Department to provide input on issues related to the appropriate scales of development in the hillsides throughout Northeast Los Angeles. These included a recent series of small group workshops held in April at the CD14 Constituent Center in El Sereno and a number of others. Thanks for your participation.

The Planning Department has put their materials for the Northeast LA Hillsides Ordinance on their website. The direct link is:

http://planning.lacity.org/code_studies/NELA/Toc NELA.htm

As your Councilmember, protecting hillsides and sensitive natural resources is of great importance to me. I strongly supported the NELA Hillside Interim Control Ordinance (ICO), which led to the Hillsides Work Program, intended to better control development in environmentally sensitive areas.

The purpose of the Hillside ICO was not to prohibit private development, but rather to determine how the hillsides could best serve the public and be developed safely and legally, if developed.

For further information on this issue, please do not hesitate to contact Edel Vizcarra on my staff at (213) 473-7014 or by e-mail at Edel.Vizcarra@lacity.org.

Again, please feel free to share this information with your neighbors, community organizations, and any other interested parties.

Sincerely,

José Huizar
Councilmember, District 14