Will Salao, head of LA/Metro District ABC office, will speak at Land Use and Planning Committee (LUPC) meet Tuesday, 2 December, 7 pm at the Oakwood Recreation Center, 767 California.

Possible motion to be made is:
The LUPC recommends that the VNC Board request the City to prepare a study of cumulative environmental impacts of development on the entire community of Venice over the past ten years, which is necessary because since the environmental analysis for the Venice Coastal Zone Specific Plan was last performed, in 2004, development has been increasing at a significant and unforeseen pace, and also many of those developments are incompatible with and are having significant adverse cumulative impacts on the existing neighborhoods, such that there is a serious concern within the neighborhoods that the cumulative impact of successive projects of the same type in the same place appear to be having a very significant cumulative adverse impact on the character, social diversity, and quality of life of the existing neighborhoods.

Active cases to be considered are the following:

Map shows subareas of Venice according to the Venice Specific Plan. Larger dots show cases being discussed this week.
a. REVIEW OF CASES FOR VNC DE MINIMIS PROJECT CATEGORIZATION (aka VNC Fast Track Project), NOTE: Public Comment is by case, voting is one vote for all cases under consideration.

i. 1774 Washington Way (duplex to SFD), Southeast Venice Subarea DIR-2014-1836-VSO-MEL
LUPC Staff: Mehrnoosh Mojallali Applicant: John Bowman

b. REVIEW OF ALL OTHER CASES
i. 635 San Juan Ave; Oakwood Subarea ZA-2014-2514-CDP and ENV-2014-2515-CE
CITY HEARING DECEMBER 18, 2014, 9:30 AM Project Description:
LUPC Staff: Mark Kleiman and Gabriel Ruspini Applicant: Gary Werner
Public Comment
 FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: Motion

ii. 627 Oxford Ave (SFD); Southeast Venice Subarea ZA-2014-2141-CDP and ENV-2014-2142-CE
CITY HEARING TOOK PLACE ON NOVEMBER 25, 2014 Project Description: Demo/new 3-story SFD
LUPC Staff: Robert Aronson & Mehrnoosh Mojalalli Applicant: Matthew Royce
Public Comment
 FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: Motion

iii. 625 Oxford Ave (SFD); Southeast Venice Subarea ZA-2014-2137-CDP and ENV-2014-2138-CE
CITY HEARING TOOK PLACE ON NOVEMBER 25, 2014 Project Description: Demo/new 3-story SFD
LUPC Staff: Robert Aronson & Mehrnoosh Mojalalli Applicant: Matthew Royce
Public Comment
 FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: Motion

iv. 27-29 Lighthouse St. (change from 2 to 3 units); Ballona Lagoon West Subarea CPC-2014-2654-SPE-SPP-CDP-MEL and ENV-2014-2655-MND
CITY HEARING DECEMBER 15, 2014
Project Description: legalize conversion of storage room into 3rd unit for (E) duplex LUPC Staff: Robert Aronson and Ramsey Daham 
Applicant: Alvaro Ramirez
Public Comment 
FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: Motion

v. 29 Windward (parking lot); North Venice Subarea 
CASE NOT YET SCHEDULED FOR CITY HEARING 
Project Description: add automated/hydraulic car lifts to a surface beach parking lot. Capacity of lot would increase from 38 to 68 spaces
LUPC Staff:
Applicant: Clare Bronowski & Dillon Johnson 
Public Comment FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: Motion

vi. 55 27th Ave; North Venice Subarea ZA-2014-2356-ZAA-SPP and ENV-2014-2357-CE
CITY HEARING DECEMBER 4, 2014, 10:30 AM Project Description:
LUPC Staff: Gabriel Ruspini and Kathleen Rawson Applicant: Peter Ocko
Public Comment
FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: Motion
c. CASES NEEDING RESOLUTION/CATEGORIZATION:
i. 521 Rose Ave. (duplex), Oakwood Subarea
ZA-2014-2166-CDP and ENV-2014-2167-CE and DIR-2014-1120-VSO-MEL
CITY HEARING: October 23, 2014, 1645 Corinth, 2nd floor, 9:00 am
Project Description: CDP in the Single Permit Jurisdiction Coastal Zone for demo of < 50% of (E) duplex and add 3,319 sq ft to create a 3,510 sq ft, 30’ tall duplex, w/4 parking spaces on a 3,139 sq ft lot in the C4-1 zone
Applicant: George Klein & John Reed
LUPC Staff: Robin Rudisill/Maury Ruano
LUPC Staff Report and Supporting Documentation:
http://www.venicenc.org/521-rose-ave/
PUBLIC COMMENT
FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: MOTION

ii. 1214 Abbot Kinney Blvd. (SFD to artist-in-residence & retail), North Venice Subarea ZA-2014-1990-CDP-SPP and ENV-2014-1991-CE
CITY HEARING TOOK PLACE ON OCTOBER 16, 2015, DETERMINATION LETTER ISSUED NOVEMBER 14, 2014 
Project Description: CDP in the Single Permit Jurisdiction Coastal Zone and SPP for change of use fr SFD to 1,502 sq ft artist-in-residence on 3rd floor, 2,300 sq ft retail use on ground & 2nd floors, within (E) 3-story 3,802 sq ft building w/att 864 sq ft garage, located on a 2,700 sq ft lot in the C2-1-0-CA zone; Height = 29’9.5” (RAS/stair tower 38’) 
Applicant: Shannon Nonn, LionGate Global #1, LLC LUPC Staff: Mark Kleiman/Mehrnoosh Mojallali LUPC Staff Report and Supporting Documentation: http://www.venicenc.org/1214-abbot-kinney-ave/ PUBLIC COMMENT 
FOR POSSIBLE ACTION: MOTION Comment