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1 PLANNING DEPARTMENT TRANSMITTAL TO THE CITY CLERK S OFFICE CITY PLANNING CASE: ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: COUNCIL DISTRICT: APCSV ZC-BL-ZAA ENV CE 6 - Matinez PROJECT ADDRESS: West Roscoe Boulevad APPLICANT TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: Byan Coggins Matt Hamilton Peface Goup, LLC New/Changed APPLICANT S REPRESENTATIVE TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: Sheyl Bady, The Pemit Place APPELLANT TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: N/A APPELLANT S REPRESENTATIVE TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: N/A PLANNER CONTACT INFORMATION: TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: Coutney Schoenwald coutnev.schoenwald@lacitv.og ENTITLEMENTS FOR CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Zone Change (ZC); Building Line Removal (BL) Tansmittal Rev 04/05/17 1

2 FINAL ENTITLEMENTS NOT ADVANCING: N/A ITEMS APPEALED: N/A ATTACHMENTS: REVISED: ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE: REVISED: 7 Lette of Detemination 7 Findings of Fact 7 Staff Recommendation Repot Conditions of Appoval 7 Odinance 7 Zone Change Map GPA Resolution Land Use Map Exhibit A - Site Plan 7 Mailing List Land Use Othe NOTES / INSTRUCTION(S): 7 Categoical Exemption Negative Declaation Mitigated Negative Declaation Envionmental Impact Repot Mitigation Monitoing Pogam Othe FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT: 7 Yes no PLANNING COMMISSION: *If detemination states administative costs ae ecoveed though fees, indicate Yes. City Planning Commission (CPC) Cultual Heitage Commission (CHC) Cental Aea Planning Commission East LA Aea Planning Commission Habo Aea Planning Commission Noth Valley Aea Planning Commission South LAAea Planning Commission J South Valley Aea Planning Commission West LAAea Planning Commission Tansmittal Rev 04/05/17 2

3 PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING DATE: COMMISSION VOTE: Decembe 13, LAST DAY TO APPEAL: APPEALED: N/A N/A TRANSMITTED BY: TRANSMITTAL DATE: Commission Office Januay 16, 2019 Tansmittal Rev 04/05/17 3

4 .O! a* South Valley Aea Planning Commission 200 Noth Sping Steet, Room 272, Los Angeles, Califonia, , (213) LETTER OF DETERMINATION MAILING DATE: JAN Case No. APCSV ZC-BL-ZAA CEQA: ENV CE Plan Aea: Reseda - West Van Nuys Related Case: VTT SL Council Distict: 6 - Matinez Poject Site: West Roscoe Boulevad Applicant: Byan Coggins/Matt Hamilton, Peface Goup, LLC Repesentative: Sheyl Bady, The Pemit Place At its meeting of Decembe 13, 2018, the South Valley Aea Planning Commission took the actions below in conjunction with the appoval of the following poject: Demolition of an existing single-family dwelling and constuction, use and maintenance of nine single-family dwellings, with a poposed maximum height of 26 feet and six inches. Lots 1-5 will include 2-stoy, 2,264 squae-foot single-family dwellings and Lots 6-9 will include 2-stoy, 2,829 squae-foot dwellings. The poposed unit density is based on the (T)(Q)RD3-1 and (T)(Q)RD5-1 Zones. Access to the esidential subdivision will be by means of a poposed 24-foot wide community diveway access fom Roscoe Boulevad Detemined, based on the whole of the administative ecod, that the poject is exempt fom CEQA pusuant to State CEQA Guidelines, Aticle 19, Section, 15332, Class 32, and that thee is no substantial evidence demonstating that a categoical exemption pusuant CEQA Guidelines, Section applies; Appoved and ecommended that the City Council adopt, pusuant to Section F of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC), a Zone Change fom RA-1 to (T)(Q)RD3-1 fo the fist five lots to a depth of feet post-dedication on the nothen potion of the site closest to Roscoe Boulevad and fom RA-1 to (T)(Q)RD5-1 fo the fou lots on the emaining southen potion of the site, subject to conditions as modified by the Commission; Appoved and ecommended that the City Council adopt, pusuant to LAMC Section R, a Building Line emoval of the 25-foot building line along Roscoe Boulevad established unde Odinance No ; Adopted the attached findings, as amended by the Commission. This action passed by the following vote: Moved: Seconded: Ayes: Absent: Bishop Menedjian Dieking, Mathe Beatty Vote: 4-0

5 APCSV ZC-BL-ZAA Page 2 Rocky Wiles, Commission Office Manage Fiscal Impact Statement: Thee is no Geneal Fund impact as administative costs ae ecoveed though fees. Effective Date/Appeals: The decision of the South Valley Aea Planning Commission is not appealable. Notice: An appeal of the CEQA cleaance fo the Poject pusuant to Public Resouces Code Section 21151(c) is only available if the Detemination of the non-elected decision-making body (e.g., ZA, AA, APC, CPC) is not futhe appealable and the decision is final. If you seek judicial eview of any decision of the City pusuant to Califonia Code of Civil Pocedue Section , the petition fo wit of mandate pusuant to that section must be filed no late than the 90th day following the date on which the City's decision became final pusuant to Califonia Code of Civil Pocedue Section Thee may be othe time limits which also affect you ability to seek judicial eview. Attachments: Zone Change Odinance, Building Line Odinance, Findings c: Michelle Levy, Senio City Planne Coutney Schoenwald, City Planne Dominick Otiz, Planning Assistant

6 ORDINANCE NO. An odinance amending Section of the Los Angeles Municipal Code by amending the Zoning map. THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is heeby amended by changing the zone and zone boundaies shown upon a potion of the zone map attached theeto and made a pat of Aticle 2, Chapte 1 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, so that such potion of the zoning map shall be as follows:

7 COo LOUISE AVE E'LY LINE OF TR VAR CO VAR CO (T)(Q) RD3-1 (T)(Q)RD ROSCOE BLVD BURTON ST CANTARAST ALDEAAVE 144 TR LINE OF WLY COo IO) City of Los Angeles THE INTENT OF THIS ORDINANCE IS FOR THE BOUNDARIES OF THIS ZONE CHANGE TO COINCIDE WITH THOSE OF RECORDED TR ~p v Data Souces: Depatment of City Planning & Bueau of Engineeing Feet APCSV ZC-BL Reseda - West' t-j \b AA/qf- A ( I

8 (Q) QUALIFIED CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL (Modified by the South Valley Aea Planning Commission on Decembe 13, 2018) APCSV ZC-BL Pusuant to Section G of the Municipal Code, the following limitations ae heeby imposed upon the use of the subject popety, subject to the "Q Qualified classification. 1. Final plans shall detail the location of tash stoage and tash pickup. 2. One moe steet tee shall be added to the public sidewalk as appopiate by the Bueau of Steet Sevices and the Uban Foesty Division. Administative Conditions Appoval, Veification and Submittals. Copies of any appovals, guaantees o veification of consultations, eview o appoval, plans, etc., as may be equied by the subject conditions, shall be povided to the Planning Depatment fo placement in the subject file. Code Compliance. Aea, height, and use egulations of the zone classification of the subject popety shall be complied with, except whee heein conditions ae moe estictive. Covenant. Pio to the issuance of any pemits elative to this matte, an ageement concening all the infomation contained in these conditions shall be ecoded in the County Recode s Office. The ageement shall un with the land and shall be binding on any subsequent popety ownes, heis o assign. The ageement must be submitted to the Planning Depatment fo appoval befoe being ecoded. Afte ecodation, a copy beaing the Recode s numbe and date shall be povided to the Planning Depatment fo attachment to the file. 6. Definition. Any agencies, public officials o legislation efeenced in these conditions shall mean those agencies, public officials, legislation o thei successos, designees o amendment to any legislation. 7. Enfocement. Compliance with these conditions and the intent of these conditions shall be to the satisfaction of the Planning Depatment and any designated agency, o the agency s successo and in accodance with any stated laws o egulations, o any amendments theeto. 8. Building Plans. Page 1 of the gants and all the conditions of appoval shall be pinted on the building plans submitted to the City Planning Depatment and the Depatment of Building and Safety. 9. Poject Plan Modifications. Any coections and/o modifications to the Poject plans made subsequent to this gant that ae deemed necessay by the Depatment of Building and Safety, Housing Depatment, o othe Agency fo Code compliance, and which involve a change in site plan, floo aea, paking, building height, yads o setbacks, building sepaations, o lot coveage, shall equie a efeal of the evised plans back to the Depatment of City Planning fo additional eview and final sign-off pio to the issuance of any building pemit in connection with said plans. This pocess may equie additional eview and/o action by the appopiate decision making authoity including the Diecto of Planning, City Planning Commission, Aea Planning Commission, o Boad.

9 APCSV ZC-BL Q Indemnification. Applicant shall do all of the following: a. b. c. d. e. Defend, indemnify and hold hamless the City fom any and all actions against the City elating to o aising out of, in whole o in pat, the City s pocessing and appoval of this entitlement, including but not limited to, an action to attack, challenge, set aside, void, o othewise modify o annul the appoval of the entitlement, the envionmental eview of the entitlement, o the appoval of subsequent pemit decisions, o to claim pesonal popety damage, including fom invese condemnation o any othe constitutional claim. Reimbuse the City fo any and all costs incued in defense of an action elated to o aising out of, in whole o in pat, the City s pocessing and appoval of the entitlement, including but not limited to payment of all cout costs and attoney s fees, costs of any judgments o awads against the City (including an awad of attoney s fees), damages, and/o settlement costs. Submit an initial deposit fo the City s litigation costs to the City within 10 days notice of the City tendeing defense to the Applicant and equesting a deposit. The initial deposit shall be in an amount set by the City Attoney s Office, in its sole discetion, based on the natue and scope of action, but in no event shall the initial deposit be less than $50,000. The City s failue to notice o collect the deposit does not elieve the Applicant fom esponsibility to eimbuse the City pusuant to the equiement in paagaph (b). Submit supplemental deposits upon notice by the City. Supplemental deposits may be equied in an inceased amount fom the initial deposit if found necessay by the City to potect the City s inteests. The City s failue to notice o collect the deposit does not elieve the Applicant fom esponsibility to eimbuse the City pusuant to the equiement in paagaph (b). If the City detemines it necessay to potect the City s inteest, execute an indemnity and eimbusement ageement with the City unde tems consistent with the equiements of this condition. The City shall notify the applicant within a easonable peiod of time of its eceipt of any action and the City shall coopeate in the defense. If the City fails to notify the applicant of any claim, action, o poceeding in a easonable time, o if the City fails to easonably coopeate in the defense, the applicant shall not theeafte be esponsible to defend, indemnify o hold hamless the City. The City shall have the sole ight to choose its counsel, including the City Attoney s office o outside counsel. At its sole discetion, the City may paticipate at its own expense in the defense of any action, but such paticipation shall not elieve the applicant of any obligation imposed by this condition. In the event the Applicant fails to comply with this condition, in whole o in pat, the City may withdaw its defense of the action, void its appoval of the entitlement, o take any othe action. The City etains the ight to make all decisions with espect to its epesentations in any legal poceeding, including its inheent ight to abandon o settle litigation. Fo puposes of this condition, the following definitions apply: "City shall be defined to include the City, its agents, offices, boads, commissions, committees, employees, and voluntees. "Action shall be defined to include suits, poceedings (including those held unde altenative dispute esolution pocedues), claims, o lawsuits. Actions includes actions, as defined heein, alleging failue to comply with any fedeal, state o local law.

10 APCSV ZC-BL Q-3 Nothing in the definitions included in this paagaph ae intended to limit the ights of the City o the obligations of the Applicant othewise ceated by this condition. Development Conditions: 11. Use. Pemit the development of a nine (9) small lot subdivision consisting of two stoy singlefamily dwellings totaling appoximately 40,847 squae feet. 12. Density. A maximum of five (5) single-family esidential dwellings is pemitted on that potion of the site zoned RD3-1 and a maximum of fou (4) single-family esidential dwellings is pemitted on that potion of the site zoned RD Height. No building o stuctue shall exceed 26 feet and six (6) inches in height. 14. Plans. The use and development of the subject popety shall be in substantial confomance with the submitted plans, including the Site Plans, Floo Plans, Building Elevations, Building Sections, and Landscape Plans attached to the subject case file and stamped Exhibit "A. Pio to the issuance of building pemits, detailed development plans that show compliance with all Conditions of Appoval, including complete landscape and iigation plans, shall be submitted to the Depatment of City Planning fo eview. Mino deviations may be allowed only in ode to comply with povisions of the LAMC, the subject conditions, and the intent of the subject pemit authoization. 15. Paking. Paking spaces shall be limited to two gaage paking spaces pe lot and a maximum of 10 uncoveed guest paking spaces as pe Exhibit A with gasscete povided fo all guest paking spaces on the poject site, in confomance with the minimum numbe of spaces in Tact Case No SL. The two uncoveed guest paking spaces shall not be located in the potion of the site which is dedicated to the futue oad easement fo the extension of Buton Steet. 16. Landscaping. All open aeas not used fo buildings, diveways, paking aeas, eceational facilities o walks shall be attactively landscaped, including an automatic iigation system, and maintained in accodance with a landscape plan that substantially confoms with Exhibit A and is pepaed by a licensed landscape achitect o licensed achitect. Additionally, landscaping is equied to complement the building design and shall comply with the City of Los Angeles Landscape Odinance 170,978 and Section of the LAMC. 3. Pio to final sign off, a complete landscape plan shall be submitted to show plant quantities and species on the lots, in the public ight-of-way, and to the best extent feasible a tee in font of each house. 17. Common Access Easement. The common access easement shall be educed to 20 feet in width to accommodate a wide sidewalk of eight (8) feet. Pemeable pavement shall be used fo the shaed common access easement.

11 CONDITIONS FOR EFFECTUATING (T) TENTATIVE CLASSIFICATION REMOVAL Pusuant to Section G of the Municipal Code, the (T) Tentative Classification shall be emoved by the ecodation of a final pacel o tact map o by posting of guaantees though the B-pemit pocess of the City Enginee to secue the following without expense to the City of Los Angeles, with copies of any appoval o guaantees povided to the Depatment of City Planning fo attachment to the subject planning case file. 1. Constuct o suitably guaantee the following, to the satisfaction of the City Enginee: a. b. c. d. e. f. Roscoe Boulevad Steet Dedication. Dedicate a 5-foot wide stip of land along the popety fontage to complete a 55-foot half ight-of-way in accodance with Boulevad II of Mobility Plan Futue Extension of Buton Steet. A 54-foot wide futue steet shall be dedicated within the tact aea fo the westely extension of Buton Steet in alignment satisfactoy to the City Enginee. Easements. If necessay, public sanitay sewe easements shall be dedicated on the final map based on alignment appoved by the Valley Engineeing Distict Office and the applicant shall make a equest to the Valley Distict Office of the Bueau of Engineeing to detemine the capacity of existing sewes in this aea. Access. The ownes of the popety ecod an ageement satisfactoy to the City Enginee that they will povide name signs fo the common access diveways. If necessay fo steet addess puposes, all the common access to this subdivision be named on the final map satisfactoy to the City Enginee. All common access easements, including the vehicula access and pedestian access easement shall be pat of the adjoining lots. All pedestian common access easements shall be shown on the final map. Steet Lighting. Install steet lighting facilities to seve the tact as equied by the Bueau of Steet Lighting and constuct one (1) new steet light on Roscoe Boulevad. Sidewalk Impovement. Impove Roscoe Boulevad by the constucting a 15-foot full width concete sidewalk with tee wells, including the necessay emoval and econstuction of existing impovements. 2. Depatment of Tanspotation. Pio to the ecodation of the final map, satisfactoy aangements shall be made with the Depatment of Tanspotation to ensue: a. A two-way diveway apon width of 28 feet is equied, to the satisfaction of DOT. b. A minimum of 20-foot esevoi space is equied between any secuity gate o paking space and the popety line, to the satisfaction of DOT. Roscoe Boulevad is a designated Boulevad II in the City of Los Angeles Mobility Plan Backing out onto Roscoe Boulevad shall be pohibited. c. A paking aea and diveway plan should be submitted to the Citywide Planning Coodination Section of the Depatment of Tanspotation fo appoval pio to

12 APCSV ZC-BL T-2 submittal of building pemit plans fo plan check by the Depatment of Building and Safety. d. The condition cleaance fee shall be paid to the Depatment of Tanspotation as equied pe Odinance No. 183,270 and Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) Section pio to ecodation of the final map. 3. Fie Depatment. Submit plot plans fo Fie Depatment appoval and eview pio to the ecodation of Tact Map Action. 4. Wate and Powe. Satisfactoy aangements shall be made with the Los Angeles Depatment of Wate and Powe (LADWP) fo compliance with LADWP s Wate System Rules and equiements. Upon compliance with these conditions and equiements, LADWP s Wate Sevices Oganization will fowad the necessay cleaances to the Bueau of Engineeing. (Theses condition shall be deemed cleaed at the time the City Enginee cleas Condition No. S-1 (c).) a. The Develope must complete the following financial aangements pio to tact ecodation: Existing Wate Mains. No public fie hydants ae equied, pivate hydants may be equied by LAFD. b. The Develope must complete engineeing equiements pio to tact ecodation: An accuate steet and site gading plan must be funished to this Depatment, to detemine the safety o accessibility of poposed facilities and to detemine accuately the conditions o limitations of sevices. c. The Develope must complete and aange fo the Depatment to install metes and wate sevices pio to eceiving final cleaance. d. Wate metes and sevices fo each lot shall be installed on steet suface fontage (on the sidewalk and behind the cub within the public ight-of-way). e. f. Pessue egulatos will be equied in accodance with the Los Angeles City Plumbing Code fo the following lot(s) whee pessue exceed 80 psi at the building pad elevation. Thee cuently exists an 8 CI wate mainline on Roscoe Boulevad. The flowing wate mains may be inadequate to seve this tact and may need to be enlaged at the Develope s expense. An SAR will have to be equested fo any lage fie sevices odeed off of Roscoe Boulevad. 5. Bueau of Steet Lighting. Pio to the ecodation of the final map o issuance of the Cetificate of Occupancy (C of O), steet lighting impovements plans shall be submitted fo eview and the owne shall povide a good faith effot via a ballot pocess fo the fomation o annexation of the popety within the bounday of the development into a Steet Lighting Maintenance Assessment Distict. a. The applicant shall impove Roscoe Boulevad by the constucting a 15-foot full width concete sidewalk with tee wells, including the necessay emoval and econstuction of existing impovements 6. Bueau of Sanitation. Bueau of Sanitation has eviewed the sewe/stom dain lines seving the subject tacts/aeas, and found no potential poblems to thei stuctues o potential maintenance poblems.

13 APCSV ZC-BL T-3 7. Uban Foesty Division. Pio to the issuance of a gading pemit, the applicant shall submit a tee epot and landscape plan pepaed by a Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) designated tee expet as designated by LAMC Odinance No. 177,404, fo appoval by the City Planning Depatment and the Uban Foesty Division of the Bueau of Steet Sevices. a. Plant steet tees and emove any existing tees within dedicated steets o poposed dedicated steets as equied by the Uban Foesty Division of the Bueau of Steet Sevices. All steet tee plantings shall be bought up to cuent standads. When the City has peviously been paid fo tee plantings, the applicant o contacto shall notify the Uban Foesty Division (213) upon completion of constuction to expedite tee planting. All potected tee emovals must be appoved by the Boad of Public Woks.

14 ORDINANCE NO. An Odinance amending Odinance No. 96,753 establishing a building line. THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section _. Odinance No. 96,753; entitled... An Odinance odeing the establishment of a building line on both sides of ROSCOE BOULEVARD fom Tuxfod Steet to Fallbook Avenue... was passed by the Council of the City of Los Angeles at its meeting of July 19, 1950,... is heeby amended by epealing the povisions establishing the building line on that potion of ROSCOE BOULEVARD, as depicted on the following diagam:

15 CDo CD 100 VAR. CM -sf '«f ^ ROSCOE BLVD PORTION OF ROSCOE BLVD ALONG WHICH NO BUILDING LINE SHALL BE REQUIRED. 00 -n o CO BURTON ST CANTARA ST ALDEAAVE LOUISE AVE E'LY LINE OF TR t OJ City of Los Angeles Feet \ f 5 "3 l-v. / c - / APCSV ZC-BL Reseda - West Van Nuys Data Souces: Depatment of City Planning & Bueau of Engineeing AAiCf

16 FINDINGS (Amended by the South Valley Aea Planning Commission on Decembe 13, 2018) Geneal Plan/Chate Findings (Chate Sec. 556, 558) The poposed zone change is in substantial confomance with the puposes, intent, and povisions of the Geneal Plan and is in confomity with public necessity, convenience, geneal welfae and good zoning pactice. The City of Los Angeles Geneal Plan consists of the Famewok Element, seven equied Elements that ae mandated by State law, including Land Use, Mobility, Housing, Consevation, Noise, Safety, and Open Space, and optional Elements including Ai Quality, Sevice Systems, and Plan fo a Healthy Los Angeles. Thity-five individual community plans compise the Land Use Element fo the City of Los Angeles. This section povides elevant goals, objectives, policies, and pogams that ae established in the Geneal Plan that fom the basis fo staff s ecommended actions fo the poposed poject. 1. Geneal Plan Land Use Designation. The subject popety is located on Roscoe Boulevad in the Reseda - West Van Nuys Community Plan, which was adopted by the City Council on Novembe 17, The Plan designated the subject popety fo two (2) Geneal Plan Land Use designations on site. The Low Medium I Residential land use allows fo the following zones: R2, RD3, RD4, RZ3, RZ4, RU, and RW1. The Low Residential land use allows fo the following coesponding zones: RE9, RS, R1, RU, RD6, and RD5. The subject site is cuently zoned RA-1. The applicant is seeking to change the zone of the subject popety to RD5-1 in the Low Residential Geneal Plan Land Use designation and RD3-1 in the Low Medium I Residential Geneal Plan Land Use designation, which is consistent with the coesponding zones. The RA zone cuently on site is not one of the designated zones fo eithe of the existing Geneal Plan Land Use designations. The applicant is also equesting the emoval of the 25-foot building line along Roscoe Boulevad. The poposed zone, height, and equested density is consistent with the poject site s Geneal Plan Land Use Designation. 2. Geneal Plan Text. The Reseda - West Van Nuys Community Plan sets foth planning puposes, objectives, and policies fo land uses within its boundaies. The Community Plan s stated puposes ae to pomote an aangement of land uses, steets, and sevices which will encouage and contibute to the economic, social and physical health, safety, welfae, and convenience of the people who live and wok in the community. The poposed poject would be in confomance with the following objectives, and policies of the Reseda - West Van Nuys Community Plan: GOAL 1: A safe, secue, and high quality esidential envionment fo all economic, age, and ethnic segments of the community. Objective 1-1: To povide fo the pesevation of existing housing and fo the development of new housing to meet the divese economic and physical needs of the existing esidents and pojected population of the Plan aea to the yea Policy Potect the quality of the esidential envionment though attention to the appeaance of communities, including attention to building and site design. Pogam: The Plan includes an Uban Design Chapte which is supplemented by Design Guidelines and Standads fo esidential development.

17 APCSV ZC-BL F-2 Policy Peseve and maintain at least fou fifths of designated esidential lands fo single family uses. Pogam: The Plan designates esidential lands to eflect this atio. Objective 1-2 To peseve and enhance the vaied and distinct esidential chaacte and integity of existing single and multi-family neighbohoods. Policy Seek a high degee of achitectual compatibility and landscaping fo new infill development to potect the chaacte and scale of existing esidential neighbohoods. Pogam: The Plan includes Design Guidelines which establish design standads fo esidential development to implement this policy. Policy Conside factos such as neighbohood chaacte and identity, compatibility of land uses, impact on livability, impacts on sevices and public facilities, and impacts on taffic levels when changes in esidential densities ae poposed. Pogam: The decision make should adopt findings which addess these factos as pat of any decision elating to changes in planned esidential densities. The poject will potect the quality of the esidential envionment by poposing single-family dwellings fo the site, simila to othe lots on the same section of Roscoe Boulevad. The poject is subject to the small lot Design Guidelines, which wee included in the elated Case No. VTT SL. Objective 1-3 To pomote and ensue the povision of adequate housing fo all pesons egadless of income, age, o ethnic backgound. Policy Pomote geate individual choice in type, quality, pice, and location of housing. Pogam: The Plan pomotes geate individual choice though its establishment of esidential design standads and its allocation of lands fo a vaiety of esidential densities. Policy Povide fo development of townhouses and othe simila condominium type housing units to incease home owneship options. Pogam: The Plan cannot equie that condominium units be built instead of ental units; howeve the Plan encouages such type of development by designating specific aeas fo Low Medium esidential land use categoies. The poject poposes the constuction of nine (9) small-lot single-family dwellings. Five (5) lots will be developed with single-family dwellings of 1,830 squae feet on the potion of the site zoned RD3-1 and fou (4) lots will be developed with single-family dwellings of 2,390 squae feet on the potion of the site zoned RD5-1. The poject will povide additional housing at diffeent sizes, which offes geate individual choices.

18 APCSV ZC-BL F-3 The poject s location is nea vaious public tansit outes, including the following: Meto Local 152: Woodland Hills to Noth Hollywood via Fallbook Avenue, Roscoe Boulevad and Vineland Avenue. Meto Local 236: Sylma to Encino via Balboa Boulevad and Glenoaks Boulevad. Significant taffic impacts ae not expected fom the poject. The site is in close poximity to bus lines opeating along Roscoe Boulevad and Balboa Boulevad. Theefoe, the poject is not expected to cause any advese impacts on livability, sevices and public facilities, o taffic levels. The poject of nine (9) homes is less than the 25-single-family home theshold established by the Depatment of Tanspotation. The poposed poject will meet the objectives and policies by poviding additional housing at an appopiate density and at a location along a tansit coido to meet the Plan aea s needs and infastuctue capacities. This poject was aleady appoved as a tact map to allow fo the poject to allow fo what once was a single-family home lot with a small diveway to a lot with not only nine (9) new homes, but additional paved paking aeas, a long diveway/common access easement with a sidewalk that extends down its length, and in many ways esembles a steet. In light of the amount of the configuation of the lots and easement, as well as the impevious suface being added to what once was a elatively open and undeveloped site, additional conditions have been added to help the poject align with additional Geneal Plan Policies and Objectives. The poject has been conditioned to add pemeable pavement and educe paved paking aeas to meet the minimum equied by Tact Case No SL, which ae aligned with the infastuctue impovements identified in Pogam No. 40 of the Healthy Plan Los Angeles (2015) as well as the intent of Policy 5.5 Geen Steets of the Mobility Plan The poject has been conditioned to add additional tees along the sidewalk of the common access easement and sidewalk of Roscoe Boulevad, which aligns with Pogam No. 37 of the Healthy Plan fo Los Angeles, which encouages inceased planting to offset ai pollution and povide shade, which educe heat island effects. Both of these infastuctue impovements align with Policy 5.6 Resilience of the Healthy Plan fo Los Angeles, which seeks to incease the City s esilience to isks esulting fom Climate Change. As noted above, the common access easement also in many ways esembles a steet, and yet, it is a common access easement on pivate land. If/when the Buton Steet extension is completed, this easement effectively functions like a steet, connecting Roscoe Boulevad to Buton Steet. The common access easement may be a minimum of 20 feet wide pe the Fie Depatment as noted in Tact Case No Sl, and in ode to align with the public steet type impovements fo wide sidewalks with tees along them as noted in the Mobility Element fo pedestian infastuctue (Policy Nos. 2.3, 3.1, 3.5, and Pogam Eng. 1.9), the poject has been conditioned to educe the common access easement width to 20 feet and to incease the sidewalk width. At a width of 20 feet wide, the public will also be discouaged fom enteing the easement aea, which has been conditioned to be the standad width of a public alley Theefoe, as conditioned, the ecommended development meets the objectives of the Community Plan and is consistent with the geneal plan land use designation. 3. Chate Findings. The poposed zone change complies with Chate Section 556 and 558 in that the change pomotes land use egulations with egads to use, height, density, etc., that is consistent with the Geneal Plan, as noted above in Findings Nos. 1 and 2, with public

19 APCSV ZC-BL F-4 necessity, convenience, geneal welfae, and good zoning pactice, and as noted in the discussion at Finding No. 4, which ae efeenced as if fully incopoated heein. Entitlement Findings 4. Zone Change, L.A.M.C. Sec : That the zone change is in hamony with the objectives of the Geneal Plan and is in confomity with the public necessity, convenience, geneal welfae, and good zoning pactice. The poject complies with the Geneal Plan Land Use designation, as noted in Findings No. 1 and 2, which ae efeenced as if fully incopoated heein. The poject allows the site to secue an appopiate development in hamony with the objectives of the Geneal Plan, by etaining the Geneal Plan Land Use designation and by adding to a vaiety of housing choices. The subject site consists of a long, flat, ectangula lot that fonts the south side of Roscoe Boulevad with 90 feet of fontage. The lot is appoximately 450 feet deep. The popety is located in an Uban Agicultue Incentive Zone and appoximately 7.2 kilometes fom the Nothidge fault line. The subject popety is cuently developed with a 1,091 squae-foot vacant single-family home located towads the noth side of the popety nea Roscoe Boulevad. The popety is not in any specific plan o othe ovelay aea and not within 500 feet of a school o public pak. Public Necessity - The poposed poject will povide additional necessay housing to the City of Los Angeles, with a vaiety of dwelling types. Convenience - The poposed poject will be conveniently located along Roscoe Boulevad, in close poximity to existing commecial and single-family and multi-family esidential uses. The site is also located neaby two tansit lines. One of these tansit lines, Meto Local 152, has a bus stop located within 400 feet fom the subject popety. The popety is conveniently located appoximately 1.3 miles fom Califonia State Univesity, Nothidge and appoximately half a mile fom the Van Nuys Aipot and two (2) miles fom the 405 feeway entance. The poject will povide a clea enty point fom the steet. The pedestian access will make the development moe accessible and convenient fo those utilizing altenative modes of tanspotation. Geneal Welfae - The poposed poject site contains a vacant single-family dwelling. The poposed small lot single-family dwellings ae attactively designed and includes landscaping. The poject offes a unique nine (9) lot development that is consistent with the design and landscaping of the suounding neighbohood and is located on a cuently undeutilized lot. The poject is also poviding a oadway easement fo the futue extension of Buton Steet though the subject popety to connect to Louise Avenue, theefoe benefitting the local community by impoving ciculation within the aea. Good Zoning Pactice - The poposed zone change would povide an appopiate development compaable to suounding uses and povide much needed housing to the community. The site cuently contains a total of one (1) single-family esidence, and the poposed subdivision would povide nine (9) single-family small-lot units. The poposed poject will comply with all Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) equiements fo paking, yads, and open space unde the poposed density fo (T)(Q)RD3-1 and (T)(Q)RD5-1 zoned development. The applicant has chosen the highest zoned density fo each land use designation. This will esult in moe fo sale housing in the community which is compatible with newe development being constucted in this neighbohood.

20 APCSV ZC-BL F-5 Theefoe, the zone change futhes the public necessity and convenience and will contibute to the geneal welfae of the neighbohood. The ecommended zone change is consistent with good zoning pactice by poviding a hamonious, infill density and land use activity in the existing neighbohood. 5. Building Line Removal, LAMC Section R.2: The ecommended building line emoval is consistent with the Geneal Plan and in confomance with the public necessity, convenience, geneal welfae o good zoning pactice in that: City ecods show that on July 19, 1950, a 25-foot building line was established by Odinance No on both sides of Roscoe Boulevad between Tuxfod Steet and Fallbook Avenue. The applicant is cuently equesting the emoval of the 25-foot building line on Roscoe Boulevad abutting the subject site. Since July 1950, when the building line odinance was fist established, Roscoe Boulevad has been designated a Boulevad II by the Mobility Plan 2035, with a designated ight-of-way of 110 feet (55-foot half ight-of-way) and an 80-foot oadway. The Bueau of Engineeing is equiing a five (5) foot wide stip of land be dedicated along Roscoe Boulevad adjoining the tact to complete a 55-foot wide half ight-of-way in accodance with Boulevad II standads of the Mobility Plan. Removal of the building line allows additional space to accommodate the poposed singlefamily dwellings, which will pemit the constuction of much needed housing in the City and the Reseda - West Van Nuys Community Plan aea. Without the emoval of the building lines, the applicant would not have sufficient lot aea to constuct five (5) single-family dwellings as poposed in the RD3-1 potion of the subject site. As such, the emoval of the building line is consistent with the Geneal Plan and in confomance with the public necessity, convenience, geneal welfae, and good zoning pactice. CEQA Findings 6. Based on the whole of the administative ecod the Poject is exempt fom CEQA pusuant to State CEQA Guidelines, Aticle 19, Section 15332, Class 32, and thee is no substantial evidence demonstating that an exception to a categoical exemption pusuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section applies.