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Crenshaw Corridor Specific Plan Overview
What Stakeholders Should Know About the Crenshaw Corridor Specific Plan
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Defining a Specific Plan
• A Specific Plan is an important land use tool that provides a link between the policy goals articulated in the city’s General Plan and specific desires for development and use within a defined geographical area.
• Specific Plans are intended to provide more detailed design guidance and control of local development and uses than the city’s General Plan and the Community Plan
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Brief History of the Crenshaw
Specific Plan• Crenshaw Corridor Specific Plan (CSP) was approved in concept with the adoption of the West Adams-Baldwin Hills-Leimert Park Community Plan in 1998, but languished
• A broad community coalition advocated for adoption of the CSP by the L.A. City Council and it was finally approved in 2003 and became effective in 2004
• CSP is one of only two area specific plans in all of South L.A. (USC is the other)– Comparatively Westwood has four
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Purpose of CSP
• To provide design regulations to guide all future development on the Crenshaw Corridor from the I-10 fwy to the Inglewood city border, while stimulating economic revitalization
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Purpose of the Crenshaw Specific
Plan• To prohibit undesirable uses– Gun shops, pawn shops, motels, swap meets, stand-alone bars, recycling centers, public self-storage
• To limit problematic uses– Fast food drive-thrus, gas stations, & other auto-related uses
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Purpose of the Crenshaw Specific
Plan• To enhance community aesthetics by establishing coordinated and comprehensive standards regulating building & wall heights, signage, façade treatments, building setback, landscape requirements, open space, underground utilities, etc.
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Purpose of the Crenshaw Specific
Plan• To promote an attractive, vibrant and safe pedestrian environment in the area’s designated as “Pedestrian Oriented”
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Pedestrian-Oriented Areas of
the CSP• The Crenshaw Specific Plan designates Subareas E & D (Hyde Park from 52nd to Slauson & Leimert Park Village) as Pedestrian Oriented– Limits the allowable uses
to neighborhood retail or service uses
– Encourages mixed-use development
– Encourages sit-down restaurants with outdoor dining
– Prohibits strip malls– Encourages development of a
continuous wall of retail
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Crenshaw Specific Plan Enforcement
• Dept. of Building & Safety: No building permit is issued without compliance with the Specific Plan
• Design Review Board (DRB): A seven member community board reviews “Project” proposals and makes recommendations to the Planning Dept.– DRB is appointed by the Council Member, and consists of: two architects; two members from the fields of planning, urban design and landscape architecture; remaining community members who need not be design professionals
– DRB only exists for the CSP portion in Council District 8
• The Planning Department Issues a Project Permit
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Definition of a “Project”
• The construction, erection, addition to or structural alteration of any building or structure or a use of land or change or use on a lot located, in whole or in part, with the Specific Plan area, which requires the issuance of a building, grading or sign permit
• The following are NOT considered a Project and thereby exempt:– Interior construction that does not increase the floor area, or number of vehicle trips
– Building permits required to comply with an order from the Dept. of Building & Safety to repair unsafe or substandard conditions
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“Exceptions” from the Crenshaw
Specific Plan• If a Project doesn’t conform with the CSP it must first request a “Exception” from the South L.A. Area Planning Commission (APC)
• Any granted Exception must meet ALL of the required “Findings”:– Compliance would create a hardship on the land owner; property is
exceptional and unique to others in the specific plan area; exception is not detrimental to the public welfare or properties in close proximity; exception is consistent with the intent of the Specific Plan & city’s General Plan
Example of a Project that needs Exceptions from the
pedestrian- oriented requirements of the CSP:
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Legal Authority of Specific Plans
• All Specific Plans have the force of law– The Los Angeles City Charter (municipal code)– California land use and planning laws, and legal precedents
• Any APC decision to approve or deny an Exception (based on the Findings) can be appealed to the City Council
• Any City Council decision to approve or deny an Exception can be appealed to the California Courts– Superior Court > Court of Appeals > Supreme Court