{"id":206,"date":"2015-10-31T18:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fixthecity.org\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:17:38","slug":"city-cites-fix-the-citys-lawsuit-as-reason-to-rescind-mp2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fixthecity.org\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"City Cites Fix The City\u2019s Lawsuit as Reason to Rescind #MP2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city has provided Fix The City <a href=\"http:\\\\fixthecity.org\\docs\\15-0719-S11_Interested_Parties.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">notice <\/a>that it intends\u00a0to hear a motion to rescind the Mobility Plan (MP2035) as amended and then pass a \u201cclean\u201d copy of the original Mobility Plan.\u00a0 They have scheduled a joint Planning and Transportation hearing for November 10<span style=\"font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0px;\">th<\/span>\u00a0at 2:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Should the council actually vote in favor of this <a href=\"http:\/\/clkrep.lacity.org\/onlinedocs\/2015\/15-0719-S11_mot_10-30-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">motion <\/a>it would be <u>rescinding<\/u> and <u>rejecting<\/u> important amendments including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cConsidering community input before any Mobility Plan projects are implemented\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEnsuring that emergency responders can effectively serve the community.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAffirmatively stating equity as an important factor in prioritizing projects for implementation\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIncluding specific steps to address transportation needs in historically disinvested neighborhoods to achieve regional equity regarding mobility in the City of Los Angeles.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fix The City contends in its lawsuit, among other things, that the city council improperly passed MP2035 by amending it \u00a0without \u00a0submitting the amended plan to the City Planning Commission as required by City Charter Section 555. \u00a0The just-released proposed motion specifically states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cAs part of Council deliberations, Council approved three amendments to the plan. On September 9, 2015, a lawsuit was filed challenging the Mobility Plan, and, among other things, specifically contending that the Council\u2019s approval of the amendments did not comply with the procedures prescribed in Los Angeles City Charter Code Section 555. In order to cure the alleged procedural defect, Council would first need to rescind the Mobility Plan 2035 as amended.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a last-ditch\u00a0attempt to rescue MP2035, the city is attempting to fix its first mistake by making the very same mistake again: Namely improperly amending the general plan.\u00a0 In trying to fix their mistake, they city has acknowledged a key claim of Fix The City\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>MP2035 is, for better or worse, a current part of the general plan.\u00a0 The City can amend the\u00a0general plan (which now contains the amended Mobility Plan 2035) only by starting over and obeying Charter Section 555 and other relevant sections.\u00a0 All amendments can be heard at that time by the Planning Commission and Mayor as required.\u00a0 There are no legal short-cuts.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, an attempt to pass a \u201cclean\u201d copy of the Mobility Plan would be improper as the council has, per the charter, 75 days to take action on general plan amendments approved by the City Planning Commission\u00a0and\/or the Mayor.\u00a0 It is long past 75 days.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, MP2035 is not only flawed, but it was improperly amended and passed.\u00a0 The only (legal) solution available to the city is to stipulate to a court order invalidating their approval and then go back through the general plan amendment process for the entirety of MP2035 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">with any amendments council members may wish to add and while respecting the wishes of the voters<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, to revisit MP2035 properly the city would need to update and revisit the flawed environmental impact report which failed to address impacts on congestion, air quality, public safety, growth inducing effects and more.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the ultimate motivation behind the new charter shenanigans is that a new public process would mean that the city would have to face a far more educated electorate, and that electorate is not happy with MP2035.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want congestion.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want more traffic.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want slower emergency response times.<\/p>\n<p>With a new public process, the city won\u2019t be able to slip this so-called congestion-increasing, public-safety-decreasing \u201cmobility plan\u201d past the public, the neighborhood councils and several of its own unhappy councilmembers.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this includes serious concerns and some extreme unhappiness with controversial \u201croad diets\u201d such as the one implemented on Rowena in Silver Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Will the city do the right thing?\u00a0 Will they try to paper over a past mistake with another mistake?\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Fix The City can be reached at MP2035 at FixTheCity.Org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city has provided Fix The City notice that it intends\u00a0to hear a motion to rescind the Mobility Plan (MP2035) as amended and then pass a \u201cclean\u201d copy of the original Mobility Plan.\u00a0 They have scheduled a joint Planning and Transportation hearing for November 10th\u00a0at 2:30 PM. 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