Call to Action: Hollywood Community Plan Must Change

Dear Hollywood Communities,

TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION!

Housing Is A Human Right is reaching out to communities about the update of the Hollywood Community Plan.

Historically, such plans were written to ensure that communities had all the needed resources.

They should cover such important things as INFRASTRUCTURE, Jobs, Schools, and FUTURE NEEDS TO SUPPORT POPULATION GROWTH AND HOUSING.

In the past, these plans WERE WRITTEN WITH INPUT FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS, and Advocacy Groups to envision what the future of an area would look like.

Sadly, community plans are now largely written by the Los Angeles planning department, with only a few public meetings where input is mostly ignored.

The proposed update of the Hollywood Community Plan is a developer giveaway, *BASED ON OUTDATED AND INACCURATE POPULATION DATA to support the narrative that we must build more luxury housing.

*(One of the the main reasons the Judge ruled in favor of three law suits against the 2012 version of the HCP, and threw it out. And they continue to create (as he called it) 'population encouraging' rather than 'population accommodating ' Hollywood Community Plans to justify over densification, but without any infrastructure upgrades.. The Judge told them in 2012 "Hollywood INFRASTRUCTURE cannot withstand the kind of density you want".

I was with 'SaveHollywood', the group of Residential Hollywood communities, and one of the three law suits against the 'higher density, developer accommodating' HCP that won)

The plan doesn’t require lower-income housing that is desperately needed.

It also does nothing to prevent gentrification and displacement, and it largely TAKES AWAY PEOPLE'S SAY IN WHAT'S BUILT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.

The city, planning dept., want to obliterate communities rights to participate in how their neighborhoods develop.

City Hall leadership has clearly ignored the needs of middle- and working-class residents who currently live in Hollywood.

In addition, L.A. City Hall may use a flawed, pro-developer, pro-gentrification Hollywood Community Plan as a template for development in other parts of Los Angeles.

This is our chance to save Hollywood -- and, quite possibly, the rest of Los Angeles.

We need the planning department to supply REAL DATA and POPULATION NUMBERS that include the most recent declines due to COVID-19.

DEVELOPER INFLUENCED CITY DEPARTMENTS SHOULD NOT BE THE ONLY ONES PLANNING.

THE COMMUNITY SHOULD ALSO BE DEEPLY INVOLVED.

We have more information at our website: housinghumanright.org. You can order a lawn sign, call your elected official, and sign our petition.

We also invite you to a special tele-town hall this Wednesday, March 10, starting at 6 p.m.

Susie Shannon, the policy director of HHR, will hold an important conversation about the Hollywood Community Plan.

Sign up for Wednesday's event by clicking here.

Thank you!

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The next Hollywood Community Plan Hearing is March 18th.