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Los Angeles City Council Planning and Land Use Management Committee meeting, August 11, 2026

August 11, 2026, 2 p.m. · Updated October 2, 2026

From official records: On Aug. 11, 2026 the Los Angeles City Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee acted on all 12 items. It approved zoning exemptions for 2028 Olympic projects, a development agreement for up to 466 homes at The Bloc downtown and a new citywide landscape ordinance, and granted an appeal sending a Girard Tract hillside home back for a fire study. Raman was absent throughout; the Council adopted every item by Sept. 22.

As of October 2, 2026, outcomes for the August 11, 2026 meeting of the Planning and Land Use Management Committee of the Los Angeles City Council come from official records posted so far, such as council files, recorded votes and filed statements. Some results may be missing until the full minutes are posted and read.

Committee members, per the committee reports: Bob Blumenfield (chair), Heather Hutt, Adrin Nazarian, John Lee and Nithya Raman. Raman was recorded absent on every item and Nazarian on all but items 9, 10 and 12, so most votes were 3-0.

3. City Planning’s 19 on-call programming contracts extended and raised to $13.5 million

• What it does: First amended and restated contracts with 19 on-call firms, including Psomas, MIG, Urban Insight and SDI Presence, extend programming services 24 months to June 30, 2028 (committee report).
• Who brought it: City Administrative Officer report dated July 2, 2026 (committee report).
• Money: Total maximum compensation rises by $6.5 million, from $7 million to $13.5 million (committee report).
• What happened: Approved, 3-0; Nazarian and Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted it Aug. 26, 15-0 (CF 26-1010).

4. Technical fixes to the new Zoning Code

• What it does: Amends Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13 and 14 of Chapter 1A to correct errors and ambiguous language and align definitions and cross-references, and asks the City Attorney to prepare the ordinance (committee report).
• Who brought it: City Planning Commission (committee report).
• What happened: Approved, 3-0; Nazarian and Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted it Aug. 26, 15-0 (CF 26-0987).

5. Development agreement for up to 466 homes at The Bloc, 700 S. Flower St.

• What it does: Approves a development agreement with NREA-TRC 700 LLC for a residential tower of up to 466 units at The Bloc, with two more parking levels on the nine-story podium; 24,342 square feet of theater and retail space would be demolished. The site would total about 1.9 million square feet on 4.3 acres (committee report).
• Who brought it: City Attorney report and draft ordinance; the EIR was certified Feb. 11, 2025 (committee report).
• Who it affects: Downtown, Council District 14 (CF 25-0778).
• What happened: Approved, 3-0; Nazarian and Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted it Aug. 14 and the ordinance on second reading Aug. 21, 12-0. Ordinance No. 189028 takes effect Oct. 19, 2026 (CF 25-0778).

7. New Landscape and Site Design Ordinance

• What it does: Replaces the existing Landscape Ordinance with Landscape and Site Design Standards scored on a point system and defines outdoor amenity areas, amending more than a dozen Municipal Code sections (committee report; agenda).
• Who brought it: City Planning, Case CPC-2022-4856-CA, with City Attorney reports dated June 29 and July 1, 2026 (committee report).
• Neighborhood council positions: Neutral: North Westwood. Against unless amended: Elysian Valley Riverside. For if amended: Palms and West Los Angeles Sawtelle, per the agenda.
• What happened: Approved, 3-0; Nazarian and Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted it Aug. 26, 15-0, with Amending Motion 14A (Lee - Blumenfield), and acted on a City Attorney follow-up Sept. 22, 13-0 (CF 24-1399).

8. Girard Tract home at 4230 N. Saltillo St. sent back for a fire safety study

• What it does: Grants the Girard Tract Community Preservation appeal, overturns the South Valley Area Planning Commission’s categorical exemption for a two-story, 1,899-square-foot hillside home with a four-car garage and pool, and sends the case back for a study of compliance with state and local fire rules (committee report).
• Who brought it: Blumenfield recommended granting the appeal (committee report).
• Who it affects: Council District 3 (CF 26-0412).
• What happened: Appeal granted, 3-0; Nazarian and Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted it Aug. 26, 15-0 (CF 26-0412).

10. Appeals denied on 6415-6419 W. Selma Ave. expansion

• What it does: Sustains the Central Los Angeles Area Planning Commission’s exemption for a plan approval adding 14,427 square feet of floor area, from 79,376 to 93,803, including 1,450 more square feet of commercial space, and removing all on-site parking (agenda; committee report).
• Who brought it: Appeals by Casey Maddren of Citizens for a Better LA and by Romulus Zamora and UNITE HERE Local 11; the applicant is 6417 Selma Holdings, LLC (agenda).
• Who it affects: Hollywood, Council District 13. A Council District 13 representative spoke for denying the appeals (committee report).
• What happened: Appeals denied, 4-0; Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted it Aug. 26, 15-0 (CF 21-1404).

11. Milken Community School expansion on Casiano Road: appeals denied

• What it does: Sustains the City Planning Commission’s conditional use and design review approvals for Milken Community School at 2785, 2845 and 2791 N. Casiano Road, with modified conditions that add a condition requested by Councilmember Yaroslavsky and include Casiano Road in Condition 19b, as the appellants and applicant agreed (committee report).
• Who brought it: Appeals by Jack and Nilou Zakariaie and by Mona Cohen for Concerned Bel Air Park Homeowners (agenda).
• Who it affects: Council District 5 (CF 26-0861).
• What happened: Appeals denied, 3-0; Nazarian and Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted it Aug. 14, 10-0 (CF 26-0861).

12. Zoning exemptions for 2028 Olympic and Paralympic projects

• What it does: Adds Subdivision 41 to Municipal Code Section 12.22 A and Division 1.7 to Chapter 1A to exempt certain Games projects from Zoning Code planning requirements, under a statutory CEQA exemption for activities needed to host the Games. Nazarian’s amendment asked for a revised ordinance covering both Chapter I and Chapter 1A (committee report).
• Who brought it: City Attorney report and draft ordinance; motion by Traci Park, seconded by Adrin Nazarian (CF 15-0989-S47).
• Neighborhood council positions: Against unless amended: Westside. Against: North Hollywood Northeast, per the agenda.
• Coverage: LAist reported that exempted projects could include training sites, fan zones and security perimeters, and quoted a letter from Casey Maddren of United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles objecting that the ordinance also allows permanent projects (LAist, Aug. 19, 2026).
• What happened: Approved as amended, 4-0; Raman absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Ad Hoc Committee on the Olympics waived consideration. The Council adopted it Aug. 19, 13-0, with Amending Motion 9A and a revised ordinance; Ordinance No. 189027 took effect Sept. 9, 2026 (CF 15-0989-S47).

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