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Los Angeles City Council meeting, October 28, 2026

October 28, 2026, 10 a.m. · Updated October 25, 2026

On the agenda: The Los Angeles City Council's Oct. 28, 2026 agenda lists 32 items. It asks the Council to approve an updated bed plan for the Alliance homelessness settlement, to move $7,849,362 into the 2026-27 Clean Corridors Program and to approve a $90.33 million transportation construction projects report. It also lists a request that City Planning draft an ordinance to speed up approvals for new condominium projects, a report on Entertainment Zones in downtown Los Angeles, reports on a mitigation fund for the Lineage Logistics fire in Boyle Heights and 17 closed-session lawsuit items.

Agenda only. As of October 25, 2026, minutes for the October 28, 2026 meeting of the Los Angeles City Council had not been posted. This summary is based on the agenda and does not report what was decided.

The City Clerk posted the 32-item agenda on Oct. 23, 2026. Public hearings have been held on items 1 to 6. Items 7 to 15 had no public hearing, so the Council needs 10 votes to take them up. Items 16 to 32 are closed sessions (agenda).

Routine items, from the agenda and the council files linked below:

• 2: confirm the Mayor’s reappointment of Wendy Greuel to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission for a term ending June 30, 2029. The Homelessness and Health Committee approved it 5-0 on Oct. 14 (committee report, CF 26-1200-S59).
• 3: note and file the Chief Legislative Analyst’s Sept. 23, 2026 report on the 2026-27 advance payment model for homelessness contracts. The committee noted and filed it 5-0 on Oct. 14 (committee report). The file began with a March 13, 2026 motion by Nithya Raman, seconded by Hugo Soto-Martínez (CF 24-0536-S1).
• 5: have Building and Safety waive all current fees, charges and accumulated interest on the property at 2331 South 6th Avenue in Council District 10, on a motion by Heather Hutt, seconded by John S. Lee. Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has done a financial analysis. The Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved it 5-0 on Oct. 13 (Journal, CF 26-1371).
• 7: approve the Fire Department’s new fee categories for Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act inspections, from a Board of Fire Commissioners report dated Aug. 6, 2026, and ask the City Attorney for an ordinance to put them in the Municipal Code. The board says the change is revenue neutral (agenda, Public Safety Committee report, CF 26-1093).
• 10: let LADOT apply for and accept $922,191 in 2026-27 State of Good Repair funds from Caltrans for electric bus charging equipment at the City-owned Sylmar Bus Maintenance Yard, 12776 Foothill Boulevard, and adopt the resolution Caltrans requires. LADOT says the grant needs no local match (agenda, CF 17-0739-S4).
• 12: let Recreation and Parks accept $950,743 from the California Department of Education, if awarded, for 2026-27 subsidized preschool under Contract No. CSPP-6167 (agenda, CF 25-1210).
• 13: approve Refund Claim No. 181410 for $85,488.41 in linkage fees to Villard LLC for 2333 North Nottingham Avenue. The Budget and Finance Committee approved it 3-0 on Oct. 20 (committee report, CF 26-1472).
• 14: use $200,000 from the General City Purposes Fund account for added homeless services in Council District 10 to extend Homies Unidos Inc.’s outreach at encampments under Contract No. C-200495 from July 1, 2026 to Dec. 31, 2027. The motion is by Heather Hutt, seconded by Adrin Nazarian (CF 26-1512).
• 16 to 32: closed sessions with the City’s lawyers under Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(1). Item 16 covers two suits by Angels Landing Partners, LLC that the agenda says arise from its Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with the City for two acres of land Downtown (CF 26-1436). Item 32 is a federal suit by Nasco Petroleum LLC against Ordinance No. 187,709, which bans new oil and gas extraction and makes existing extraction a nonconforming use in all zones (CF 26-1264). Items 17 to 30 are injury and collision cases, and item 31 is a federal police tort case against the LAPD (CF 26-1317). The agenda gives no settlement amounts. The Budget and Finance Committee took up items 16 to 31 in open session and item 32 in closed session on Oct. 20 (agenda).

1. Updated bed plan for the Alliance homelessness settlement

• What it does: The agenda asks the Council to approve the updated bed plan for the Alliance settlement agreement. It also asks the City Administrative Officer to report in 60 days on the cost of keeping every housing and shelter solution in the plan, and to recommend ways to restructure the City’s housing and shelter portfolio for June 30, 2027 through June 30, 2029, using data on project outcomes and use (agenda). The CAO’s report says a 2026 agreement in the case raised the City’s obligation from 12,915 to 14,000 housing and shelter solutions by June 30, 2027, with at least 12,915 kept through June 30, 2029. Not counting solutions first created under the Roadmap Agreement, it counts 9,143 solutions in the plan open as of June 30, 2026 (CAO report).
• Who brought it: The file began with a June 27, 2025 motion by Nithya Raman, seconded by Curren D. Price Jr. (CF 23-1022-S18).
• Money: The CAO reports no immediate General Fund impact from the recommendations (agenda).
• Neighborhood council positions: None submitted (agenda).
• Committee vote: The Homelessness and Health Committee approved the CAO report 5-0 on Oct. 14, 2026 (committee report).

4. Faster approvals for new condominium and ADU condominium projects

• What it does: The agenda asks the Council to instruct City Planning, with Building and Safety and the Bureau of Engineering, to draft within 30 days an ordinance using the City’s authority under state law to simplify and speed up approvals for eligible new-construction condominium and ADU condominium projects. The ordinance would include an administrative way to waive parcel, tentative and final map requirements under Government Code Section 66428(b), cut duplicate reviews, and coordinate subdivision, condominium plan, building permit and certificate of occupancy steps (agenda). The motion says an otherwise by-right project becomes discretionary once it is a condominium (motion).
• Who brought it: Katy Yaroslavsky, seconded by Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Imelda Padilla, on Sept. 16, 2026 (CF 26-1329).
• Money: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has done a financial analysis (agenda).
• Committee vote: The Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved the motion 5-0 on Oct. 13, 2026 (Journal, CF 26-1329).

6. Entertainment Zones in downtown Los Angeles

• What it does: The agenda asks the Council to have City Planning, with Transportation, Street Services, Engineering, Building and Safety, the City Attorney and the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, report within 60 days on SB 969 (Wiener), a 2024 state law. The law lets cities set Entertainment Zones where people can buy alcohol from licensed businesses and drink it outdoors on streets or plazas. The report would recommend one or more zones in downtown Los Angeles. Planning would also hold public hearings with Council District 14 stakeholders, small businesses, cultural groups, business improvement districts and neighborhood councils (agenda).
• Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado, seconded by Hugo Soto-Martínez, on May 20, 2026 (motion, CF 26-0756).
• Money: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has done a financial analysis (agenda).
• Neighborhood council positions: None submitted. The agenda lists public communications on the file from May 22 to Oct. 14, 2026 (agenda).
• Committee vote: The Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved the motion as amended, 5-0, on Oct. 13, 2026 (Journal, CF 26-0756).

8. 2026-27 Clean Corridors Program

• What it does: The agenda asks the Council to move $7,849,362 from the Unappropriated Balance to the Bureau of Street Services, the Bureau of Sanitation and the General Services Department for the Clean Corridors Program, and to authorize positions starting Jan. 1, 2027. It asks for quarterly progress reports, filling all positions by Feb. 1, 2027, letting City and Council office contractors drop trash at Sanitation facilities, and a report on splitting service by equal street mileage per Council district or by need (agenda). The departments’ plan calls for weekly sweeping of all 800 miles of commercial corridors, Sanitation crews for illegal dumping and bulky items, and 500 trash receptacles (joint report).
• Who brought it: The three departments, under the Council’s 2026-27 budget action (CAO report).
• Money: The CAO splits the $7,849,362 into $3,461,480 for Street Services, $3,948,123 for Sanitation and $439,759 for General Services, funding 81 positions for five months (CAO report). The CAO puts the General Fund cost at $1,565,730 for health benefits in 2026-27 and up to $1,088,914 for retirement benefits in 2027-28 (agenda).
• Committee vote: The Public Works Committee approved the CAO’s Oct. 9 recommendations as amended, 3-0, on Oct. 13, and the Budget and Finance Committee concurred 4-0 on Oct. 20, 2026. The Personnel and Hiring Committee waived consideration (joint committee report, CF 26-1334).
• What’s next: The action is subject to the Mayor’s approval (agenda).

9. First transportation construction projects report for 2026-27

• What it does: The agenda asks the Council to let the Controller move $15,744,041 between departments and funds, move $2,826,519 between accounts and appropriate $6,614,198, as set out in the City Administrative Officer’s Oct. 1, 2026 report. It would reauthorize up to $4,000,000 in MICLA funding for electric vehicle chargers and $59,686,000 in MICLA front-funding for the Glendale-Hyperion Complex of Bridges, rescind a $1,500,000 transfer for the Sylmar Channel project, and move $1,120,099 from Measure M Local Return money to General Services for bicycle path maintenance (agenda, CAO report).
• Who brought it: The City Administrative Officer (CF 26-1392).
• Money: The CAO puts the total at $90.33 million. Of that, $63.73 million is MICLA funding already in the 2026-27 budget, $21.94 million is from special funds and $3.4 million is from the General Fund. For the charger project, the CAO estimates $4.0 million in borrowing at about 5.5 percent over 10 years, with $5.3 million in total debt service (agenda).
• Committee vote: The Transportation Committee approved the report with amendments, 4-0, on Oct. 7, with Traci Park recused, and the Budget and Finance Committee concurred 3-0 on Oct. 20, 2026 (joint committee report).
• What’s next: The action is subject to the Mayor’s approval (agenda).

11. State child development grant for park preschools

• What it does: The agenda asks the Council to let Recreation and Parks enter, retroactively, the California Department of Social Services’ 2026-27 child development contract No. CCTR-6104 and accept $2,531,358 for subsidized preschool at its licensed preschools (agenda).
• Money: The Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners says the grant needs no matching funds and has no General Fund impact (agenda).
• Committee vote: The Arts, Parks, and City Facilities Committee approved it 2-0 on Oct. 7, and the Budget and Finance Committee concurred 3-0 on Oct. 20, 2026 (committee report).

15. Mitigation Response Fund for the Lineage Logistics fire

• What it does: The agenda lists reports from the City Administrative Officer (Oct. 16), the Bureau of Sanitation (Oct. 22) and the Community Investment Department (Oct. 23, 2026) on whether the City can set up a Mitigation Response Fund for the effects of the June 17, 2026 Lineage Logistics cold storage fire. The Ad Hoc Committee for Boyle Heights Fire Recovery report is to be submitted in Council (agenda). That committee has the reports on its Oct. 27 agenda.
• What the reports propose: The Community Investment Department asks the Council to set up a Lineage Fire Response Assistance Program with $2.5 million the CAO identified in the Unappropriated Balance: $1,897,000 for six months of payments to affected businesses in ZIP codes 90023, 90033 and 90063, $228,000 for six months of payments to Lineage employees who live in the City, and $375,000 for administration and three outreach and application contracts (Community Investment Department report). Sanitation asks to work with the CAO and the Chief Legislative Analyst to report on whether more money can be found for pressure washing, debris and illegal dumping removal, and rodent and fly control around the site (Sanitation report).
• Background: The Council adopted the request for these reports 14-0 on Sept. 16, 2026, with Heather Hutt absent. It asked about a fund of up to $10 million, Sanitation’s odor, vermin and pest work, Family Resource Centers and aid to small businesses (joint committee report, CF 26-0906-S12).
• Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado, seconded by Katy Yaroslavsky (CF 26-0906-S12).
• Money: Neither the CAO nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has done a financial analysis. The Budget and Finance Committee waived consideration (agenda, CF 26-0906-S12).
• Who it affects: Boyle Heights, in Council District 14 (CF 26-0906-S12).

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