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Palisades Fire 2025Rebuild & Recovery
This is a design update document for Pali High School dated August 11, 2025, providing information about the school's design or renovation project.
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Palisades Fire 2025Rebuild & Recovery
This document presents updates on the Marquez Charter Elementary School reconstruction project following the January 2025 Palisades Fire, including environmental remediation progress, interim campus status with 22 portable buildings, and preliminary design concepts for the permanent campus scheduled for completion in Q4 2028 with a budget of approximately $202.6 million. The design emphasizes nature-integrated learning spaces, improved circulation, and resilience features while incorporating community feedback on outdoor connections, performance spaces, and campus identity.
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Palisades Fire 2025Rebuild & Recovery
LAUSD held a community meeting on July 24, 2025 to present updates on the Palisades Charter Elementary School reconstruction project following the January 2025 fire, including environmental remediation progress, proposed design plans for 16 new classrooms and facility improvements, and a timeline for construction completion by Q4 2028 with a total budget of approximately $134.9 million.
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GovernanceAgendas
This is an agenda for a special joint meeting of the Pacific Palisades Community Council and CD11 scheduled for August 7, 2025, featuring an introduction of AECOM, a global infrastructure consulting firm, along with presentations on the Palisades Vision Plan and Senate Bill 9 by Councilwoman Traci Park, followed by public comment.
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Emergency Executive Order No. 9 - Local Prohibition on SB 9 in Burn Areas
Legislation Update July 31, 2025Palisades Fire 2025Planning & DensityPolicy & Advocacy
Mayor Karen Bass issued Emergency Executive Order No. 9 on July 30, 2025, prohibiting the City of Los Angeles from accepting or processing applications under Senate Bill 9 for urban lot splits and two-unit developments within Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones in the Palisades Fire area, consistent with the Governor's Executive Order N-32-25.
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Public SafetyHomeless Camping
The Pacific Palisades Community Council unanimously supports CF 20-1376-S5, which proposes amendments to LAMC Section 41.18 to address homelessness encampments in public spaces, citing public health and safety concerns including wildfire risks. The Council urges the Public Safety Committee and Housing & Homelessness Committee to approve the motion by Councilwoman Traci Park.
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Palisades Fire 2025Policy & Advocacy
The Pacific Palisades Community Council sent a letter to state and local officials expressing support for community-led rebuilding efforts following the Palisades Fire and emphasizing that any proposed Rebuilding Authority must include significant community input and agreement. The PPCC Board unanimously passed a motion supporting transparency and robust public engagement, and requested that proposals incorporate data from a NORC survey and recommendations from the PPCC Rebuild Committee.
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Land UsePlanning & Density
The Pacific Palisades Community Council requests that Governor Newsom issue an emergency order to temporarily suspend SB 9 operations in Pacific Palisades, citing public health and safety risks from increased density on narrow streets with limited access routes, and requesting the suspension remain in place during the community's expected three-year recovery period.
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Land UsePlanning & Density
Los Angeles Councilwoman Traci Park writes to Governor Newsom expressing concerns that state density laws, particularly SB9, are being exploited by developers to convert destroyed single-family homes into multi-family developments in the fire-affected Pacific Palisades area, and requests suspension of these laws pending infrastructure and evacuation route analysis.
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Land UsePlanning & Density
The Pacific Palisades Community Council requests government officials to pause SB 9 permit applications in Pacific Palisades and implement fire hazard mitigation measures, citing concerns that streamlined multi-family housing projects would increase evacuation risks and alter the community's character following the Palisades Fire. The council proposes specific actions including completing evacuation route analyses, establishing street width and access requirements, and potentially exempting Pacific Palisades from SB 9 requirements.