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SUMMARY:AIA|LA & LADWP Development Services:  2025 Quarterly Meetings
DESCRIPTION:AIA|LA & LADWP Development Services: 2025 Quarterly Meetings\n\nThis is a virtual meeting hosted on LADPW’s WebEx platform. Please register in advance to receive the link to access the meeting. \nThese quarterly meetings serve as an opportunity for AIA members to connect directly with LADWP leadership and to discuss opportunities and strategies to improve development services. \nThe schedule for 2025: \nWednesday\, April 2 (12pm – 1pm)\nWednesday\, June 4 (12pm – 1pm)\nWednesday\, September 24 (12pm – 1:30pm) – in person. Location TBD in Downtown LA (AIA to identify host location)\nWednesday\, November 5 (12pm – 1pm) \nPlease share your specific issues\, recommendations\, challenges\, and/or questions in advance\, and we’ll add them to the agenda for each meeting.  Email us here = Will@aialosangeles.org. \n\n\n\n\n\nMORE CONTEXT:\nFor the past 36+ months\, AIA Los Angeles and LADWP have been organizing a quarterly series of roundtable discussions\, which serve as an opportunity to further connect the architecture community and LADWP development services personnel. These quarterly roundtables help to establish a more collaborative partnership and facilitate opportunities to identify solutions to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. \nIn general\, the quarterly meetings serve as forums to: \n1. Build trust and understanding between LADWP personnel and the private sector (architects/ designers/ engineers).\n2. Develop compassion and empathy to better understand each other’s professional priorities and implementation tactics.\n3. Allow idea exchange and interaction — to learn from each other and to test out new methods and performance standards.\n4. Establish greater context for how environmental justice\, shade equity\, climate mitigation\, urban heat island\, tree canopy\, building decarbonization\, housing affordability\, 100% electrification\, on-site generation\, and urban design are all inter-related (and therefore require a more connected partnership between LADWP and the architecture community implementing the infrastructure framework to address all of these inter-related challenges).\n5. Expedite and streamline LADPW’s development services. \nMore specifically\, the quarterly forums allow for: \n1. Improve the architects’ understanding of specific LADWP rules\, regulations\, standards\, and procedures – and offer helpful insight on how to better improve those specific regulations and standards to achieve more optimal outcomes.\n2. Create pathways to achieve greater flexibility and clarity of purpose for why certain variances and modifications are necessary\, helpful\, and/or mutually beneficial.\n3. Identify obstacles to implementation\n4. Establish pilot programs to test out new ideas and innovative solutions.\n5. Establish an inventory of code-related obstacles and analyze which codes and regulations may need to be modified/ altered to achieve more effective outcomes\n6. Map out strategies for how to better leverage resources\n7. Prioritize changes in equipment size\, models\, standards\, and ‘cultural habits’ that can assist in delivering positive results (healthier urban design\, greater biodiversity\, safer working conditions\, a more beautiful and less stressful public realm\, etc.)\n8. Identify opportunities to leverage best practices from Southern California Edison as it relate to design standards and protocols that promote more verdant ecosystems in integration with utility infrastructure (relationship between street trees and landscaping w/ utility infrastructure\, etc) and the ability to utilize alternative materials that promote a ‘greener\,’ and less stressful public realm.\n9. The exploration of third-party services\, peer review\, and self-certification\, etc. \nSome of the direct outcomes achieved to date include: \n1. Improved staffing and processing times at BOE for utility permits\n2. More permissible variances for staging areas and transformer pads\, etc.\n3. Streamlined processes for 100% affordable housing (ED #1)\n4. Amortization of line extensions\, etc\n5. Deeper trust between AIA Los Angeles and LADWP leadership \nIn the future\, as the impact of these sessions further evolves and demonstrates results\, we’d like to make certain: \n1. These forums serve as a model for how other LA City departments can deepen relationships with the private sector to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.\n2. Deepen the trust between LADWP and the citizens/ residents/ professionals/ clients it serves. \nWe applaud LADWP’s leadership in prioritizing the partnership between AIA Los Angeles and the utility. If LADWP’s communication team can help us communicate and celebrate the impact of these forums\, the general public will benefit from a deeper understanding of how public and private partnerships can help achieve positive results for all. \nFor more information about AIA LA GO!\, the AIA LA Government Outreach Committee\, please CLICK HERE.
URL:https://www.aialosangeles.org/event/aiala-ladwp-development-services-2025-quarterly-meetings-april-2-2025/
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CATEGORIES:Advocacy,Committees,Networking,Presentation,Roundtable
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SUMMARY:AIA|LA Presents...Empowering Design: Navigating and Leveraging the New Zoning Code
DESCRIPTION:AIA|LA Presents…\nEmpowering Design: Navigating and Leveraging the New Zoning Code\n\nAIA|LA invites you to join us on April 23 (10am) for a virtual workshop with Los Angeles City Planning.  This workshop will serve as an interactive forum to gain a deeper understanding of the New Zoning Code’s structure and content. \nThis comprehensive training program equips participants with the essential skills to navigate the new code and apply its regulations to real-world projects. Participants will learn to utilize the Interactive Web-Based Zoning Code portal\, determine project feasibility\, and identify opportunities for design excellence. \nAmple time will be made available for a Q&A with the city planners. \nThis virtual workshop is free with advance RSVP. \nFEATURED SPEAKERS: \nErick Lopez – Senior City Planner\, New Code Implementation Section\, Los Angeles City Planning \nVeena Snehansh – City Planner\, New Code Implementation Section\, Los Angeles City Planning \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n\nRESOURCES:\n\nNew Zoning Code (interactive site)\nNew Zoning Code (AmLegal version; static)\nNew Zoning Code Department Webpage\nDowntown Community Plan\nDowntown CPIO\n\n\n\n\n\nErick Lopez – Senior City Planner\, New Code Implementation Section\, Los Angeles City Planning \nWith more than two decades in the field of planning\, Erick Lopez has a steady history of initiating\, managing\, and completing major initiatives; most notable of which is the development of an entirely new Zoning Code for the City of Los Angeles. He has a demonstrated ability to build consensus among various stakeholders with diverse interests which has led to significant improvements in public outreach policies and engagement techniques. Erick’s work has led to major innovations in the overall concept of zoning and administration\, and his unique understanding of current and emerging technology has led to the modernization of workflows that will lead to significant cost savings\, as well as the creation of first-of-their-kind planning tools. \n\n  \n \n\nVeena Snehansh – City Planner\, New Code Implementation Section\, Los Angeles City Planning \n\nVeena Snehansh is a City Planner with the City of Los Angeles\, Department of City Planning. She is passionate about leveraging her diverse experience in land use\, environmental analysis\, architecture\, and transportation planning to create lasting\, positive impacts for communities. Most recently\, she contributed to the ambitious Downtown Community Plan\, which focuses on attracting more housing and jobs to the City’s core while fostering a vibrant and inclusive downtown. She also played a key role in shaping the transformational New Zoning Code\, helping to translate distinct policy goals into zoning. Veena holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. \nFor more information about AIA LA GO!\, the AIA LA Government Outreach Committee\, please CLICK HERE. \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.aialosangeles.org/event/empowering-design-navigating-and-leveraging-the-new-zoning-code/
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