Key Issues

• Violation of the Exposition Specific Plan.
• Violation of the Westwood/Pico Neighborhood Oriented District Overlay.
• Failure to cite any legal authority to build the project.
• Violation of mayoral executive directives.
• Violation of competitive bidding laws.
• Severe neighborhood impacts were ignored.
  • The elimination of a vital parking lot that represents the only parking for small, local businesses will have a severe impact on customer’s ability to visit the businesses after 4pm.
  • The elimination of Lot 707 also eliminates the only street-level ADA parking facility.
  • Local small businesses face damage due to parking loss.
  • Placing a “low-barrier” homeless shelter in a single-family neighborhood creates unnecessary risk of harm to families.
• The “process” used to select the site, select the vendor and select the service provider was fatally flawed, violated the public’s trust and violated city and state law
  • The Project has no application and there was no motion to initiate the project.
  • The project violates the Expo Specific Plan which provides rules, procedures, processes and zoning for the site.
  • CD5 selected the site without any input from the public or even informing the public that the site was being considered.
  • CD5 selected the vendor without competitive bidding, in secret and without making sure the vendor was a registered lobbyist and bidder..
  • CD5 selected the service provider without competitive bidding, in secret, without making sure the vendor was a registered lobbyist and bidder and while including a former employee of the service provider in the deliberative process.
  • The project has not followed any known rule, process or procedure for securing entitlements to build the Project.
  • The local neighborhood council, after being informed only after the project was a “done deal”  has overwhelmingly voted against the project.
  • False information from the council office concerning 41.18 confuses the public. (41.18 enforcement is restricted by the Street Engagement rules)
  • Serious ethics issues have yet to be resolved including the involvement of a CD5 staffer, use of unregistered lobbyists and unregistered bidders.