The City Council is giving the green light in the building of the controversial West Los Angeles housing facility for the area's homeless. The project is expected to open in 2024.
The council voted 14-0, with Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson absent during the vote, to fund nearly $4.6 million for the construction, lease and operation of the proposed housing project. The council also concurred with a recommendation from the Bureau of Engineering to exempt the project from the California Environmental Quality Act, which would help expedite the development process.
"And if it becomes clear after this project opens that it isn't working, we'll make any necessary adjustments or, if absolutely necessary, we'll shut it down," Yaroslavsky said. Many Midvale and Rancho Pico neighborhood residents have raised concerns over public safety and impacts to nearby businesses.Residents have concerns the project will only bring occupants who have a "criminal history and substance abuse problems," according to Jay Jacoby, an alternate member of the neighborhood council.
Trailers could be parked along Cotner Avenue, and provide housing to a large squatter encampment that's already there on Cotner, the coalition said, which is located just about 10 blocks from the housing facility site. According to Yaroslavsky's office, the commission needed to vote on the project because the commissioners held discretionary use over the parking lot.
Opponents claim the parking lot was the former site of a gas station, and it requires further environmental scrutiny before development takes place.
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