WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.190 --> 00:00:25.950 On this week's episode: the Los Angeles City Council adopts a homelessness motion after staff reach terms with the county, San Jose's City Council steers a missing middle housing study toward transit, and San Francisco's Board of Supervisors gives final approval to streamlined environmental review rules. 2 00:00:29.294 --> 00:00:35.654 Five minutes on this week's decisions from the local governments CivicFM covers in California. 3 00:00:36.414 --> 00:00:45.294 This episode is made with AI from each government's own show, which reports from the public recordings of its meetings. Sources are in the show notes. 4 00:00:48.797 --> 00:01:14.797 Our top story: Los Angeles and its county, and who runs key parts of the homeless system. On Friday, the Los Angeles City Council adopted an amended homelessness motion with ten votes in favor, after the City Administrative Officer said city and county staff had agreed on terms. It asks for reports on possible litigation, on the talks with the county, and on steps toward a Continuum of Care for the city alone. 5 00:01:14.797 --> 00:01:16.477 What's in those terms? 6 00:01:16.477 --> 00:01:27.997 The city would get access to data on everyone experiencing homelessness who has any link to the city. And the county would contract with the city to match people to housing in all city-funded projects. 7 00:01:27.997 --> 00:01:29.757 Is any of that binding? 8 00:01:29.757 --> 00:01:40.797 Not yet. Binding agreements would come back to the council and to the county's Board of Supervisors. Councilmember Tim McOsker said he was more skeptical, and asked what would keep the county from stonewalling. 9 00:01:44.461 --> 00:01:54.621 Next, to San Jose. On Tuesday, the City Council set its long-range planning priorities, and the big question was missing middle housing in single-family neighborhoods. 10 00:01:54.621 --> 00:01:56.496 What did the council decide? 11 00:01:56.496 --> 00:02:16.091 By nine to two, it told staff to study tiered densities based on distance from transit, and to add childcare policy work. It rejected an alternative that would also have kept current densities in areas with limited transit. Staff had warned that excluding high-resource areas could put the city's state-certified housing plan at risk. 12 00:02:16.091 --> 00:02:18.571 So is anything being rezoned? 13 00:02:18.571 --> 00:02:31.581 Not with this vote. A councilmember stressed that this approves an analysis of density, not any density itself. Staff will come back as soon as possible, and Mayor Matt Mahan said a final vote is expected by December twenty twenty-seven. 14 00:02:34.925 --> 00:02:50.390 And in San Francisco, a story we've been following. Two weeks ago we told you the Board of Supervisors passed new local procedures under the state's environmental review law on a first vote, ten to one. On Tuesday, the board gave them final approval, eight to one. 15 00:02:50.390 --> 00:02:54.790 What changes for someone who wants to build, or to object? 16 00:02:54.790 --> 00:03:11.605 As the clerk read it, the ordinance drops shadow analysis as a specific type of environmental impact. It cuts the time to appeal a review decision to the board from thirty days to fifteen, removes some procedures for documents the state law doesn't require, and puts recent state law changes into effect. 17 00:03:15.108 --> 00:03:17.428 Now a quick trip around the state. 18 00:03:17.428 --> 00:03:32.263 On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council denied appeals and upheld approval of the Riverwalk project in Studio City, eleven to zero. That's eight hundred fourteen homes, forty-six of them for very low income households, plus restaurant space. 19 00:03:32.263 --> 00:03:48.778 Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday put off its task force's recommendations on the new elected County Executive under Measure G until January twenty-sixth, so the incoming First District supervisor can weigh in. That passed four to zero, with one abstention. 20 00:03:48.778 --> 00:04:01.113 Oakland's City Council gave a first OK, eight to zero, to raising its maximum nuisance fine to ten thousand dollars a day for property problems left unfixed after notice. The final vote is set for November tenth. 21 00:04:01.113 --> 00:04:18.028 And in Pasadena, the City Council made no motion on a police plan to take a surplus military armored personnel carrier at no purchase cost, so under staff's explanation the acquisition goes ahead. The chief estimated paint and a radio at fifteen to twenty thousand dollars, from existing funds. 22 00:04:21.372 --> 00:04:24.852 That's the week around California. See you next time.