Re-Boot and Marry the Hollywood Community Plan Update and the Re-Code Project

Hopefully someone has already thought of this but just in case no one has I'm putting it out there.

With the chaos in Hollywood over new projects versus neighborhood preservation, it seems there is an opportunity to re-think two City efforts--the Hollywood Community Plan Update and Plan Re:Code  (Re-Code LA).

HOLLYWOOD

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VERBATIM FROM CITY DOCUMENTS:

The purpose of the Hollywood Community Plan is to provide an official guide to future development . . . for the use of the City Council, the Mayor, the City Planning Commission; other concerned government agencies, residents, property owners, and business people of the community . . .

The purpose of  Plan Re: Code (Re-Code LA) is to establish a new zoning structure that will include clear and predictable language . . . to more effectively meet the goals and objectives of the General Plan . . . allow each neighborhood to maintain a distinct sense of place, while improving the sustainability, economic vitality, and quality of life for all residents.

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The resources of these two efforts could be combined in a single program that can address the concerns of all Hollywood stakeholders.  The Hollywood Community Plan Update program could work with community stakeholders to define the size and scale of development on each block.  When this is defined the Re-Code LA program could codify it into legal code based on the defined size and scale of development for each block in Hollywood.

This is the definition of a form-based code that Re-Code LA is attempting.  It is what Re-Code LA want to do for downtown LA.  However, there is more reason to do this in Hollywood considering the recent effort to update it's community plan was overturned by the Courts.  Instead of focusing on downtown LA, where there is no lawsuit, why not do it for Hollywood?