LCI Updates
Send an Email to State Legislators in Support of AB835
We’re excited to announce that we just got a state bill introduced that can help us realize the LCI vision. AB 835, sponsored by Assembly Members Alex Lee and Chris Ward, and Senator Scott Wiener, calls for the state to study a building code change to make housing more affordable, sustainable and safe. It has a wonky title – vertical shared access or single stairway reform. But the bill would help make it feasible to build beautiful mixed-use buildings on smaller sites above shops in walkable communities – the types of buildings that make cities like Barcelona and Paris so appealing. Building this way also improves access to sunlight, cross ventilation and shared green space in apartments and make it easier to build family-size units more affordably.
Submit a Written Comment in Support of LCI at the L.A. City Council
The Los Angeles City Council’s Housing Committee unanimously passed a motion to help implement the LCI vision for a more walkable, affordable, sustainable L.A. Then the Transportation Committee and the Planning and Land Use Management committees followed soon after.
“I’m so inspired to see such broad and passionate support for this vision of hope for a new, more livable Los Angeles,” said LCI co-founder Lindsay Sturman. “So many L.A. residents want a beautiful city that’s affordable for their children to live in when they grow up, a city that fosters community and doesn’t force us to spend hours of our lives sitting in traffic everyday.”
We still have more work to do to get the motion passed at the full city council, so stay tuned for more actions, and if you still have not submitted a written comment in support of the LCI, you can do that here. But let’s take a moment to celebrate our first public meetings at the L.A. City Council, which were resoundingly successful. You can listen to the amazing public speakers who started the Housing Committee meeting here.
Thanks to the grassroots advocacy of our movement, the Livable Communities Initiative was included in the Los Angeles Housing Element, the city’s eight-year plan to build more housing. Scroll down to page 113 to read about the LCI, which is Program 131 in the Housing Element.