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Palisades Fire 2025CoastalPolicy & Advocacy
The Pacific Palisades Community Council sent a letter to Los Angeles, County, and Santa Monica officials on March 20, 2025, requesting immediate action to address hazardous wildfire debris and black sludge deposited along regional beaches, particularly Will Rogers State Beach, which was used by the EPA as a debris sorting site. The council urges testing, information sharing, and protective measures to safeguard public health and the coastal environment.
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Palisades Fire 2025Urban ForestDisplaced Services
The PPCC Grants Committee established guidelines for the application process and eligibility criteria for grants and donations from PPCC, with a focus on funding fire recovery projects that benefit the Palisades community. Eligible applicants include nonprofits, established groups, businesses, and individuals proposing community projects, but PPCC will not fund individual homeowner losses, group or business losses, or legal fees related to the Palisades Fire.
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GovernanceRecaps
The Pacific Palisades Community Council distributed information about multiple meetings and events scheduled for February 2025 related to fire recovery, including a Mayor Bass meeting on February 13 about worker and family resource centers, a PPCC Board meeting the same evening, a Palisades Symphony benefit concert on February 16, a community gathering on February 17, and a Resilient Palisades gathering on February 19 featuring speakers on grief processing and green rebuilding.
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Public SafetyEmergency Preparedness
This document is a menu of services provided at the City of Los Angeles Disaster Recovery Center located at 10850 W. Pico Blvd., operating from January 15, 2025 onwards, listing resources from multiple city, county, and community agencies to assist residents affected by the 2025 January Fires with services including housing, employment, mental health support, debris removal, and various other recovery assistance.
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Palisades Fire 2025Rebuild & Recovery
LA Unified School District presented campus reconstruction updates for three fire-damaged schools: Marquez Elementary (312 students, 7.73 acres), Palisades Elementary (410 students, 4.21 acres), and Palisades Charter High School (2,907 students). The presentation outlined preliminary timelines for debris removal, facility assessments, interim classroom installation, and permanent facility reconstruction, along with environmental safety measures and cleanup efforts completed by the Department of Toxic Substances Control and Army Corps of Engineers.
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Environment & Public SpacesPotrero Canyon
The Pacific Palisades Community Council presented findings from a feasibility study for the Palisades Pedestrian Trail Project, which aims to provide coastal access from George Wolfberg Park to Will Rogers State Beach. The presentation reviewed community input from a previous August 2024 meeting and recommended a trail route based on evaluation of multiple alignment alternatives across five geographic regions.
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Palisades Fire 2025MinutesRebuild & Recovery
The PPCC Grants Committee recommends a $17,500 grant from donations to the Palisades Long Term Recovery Group to support its Senior Recovery & Resilience Program for six months following the January 2025 Palisades Fire. The funding will support five events designed to rebuild spirit and safety in the senior community.
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Palisades Fire 2025MinutesPolicy & Advocacy
The Pacific Palisades Community Council expresses strong support for a full waiver of plancheck and permit fees for rebuilds and repairs of structures destroyed in the January 7, 2025 Palisades Fire, urging the City Administrative Officer to complete a feasibility study and the City Council to approve the waiver. The Council cites resident concerns about permit fees exceeding $70,000 as a barrier to reconstruction and requests either a full fee waiver or an immediate executive order from the Mayor to implement one.
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GovernanceRecaps
The Pacific Palisades Community Council held a special meeting on February 7, 2025, attended by over 1,300 people, featuring government officials discussing fire recovery efforts. The document also announces several upcoming community meetings and events scheduled for mid-February, including webinars with FEMA and EPA, a county supervisor town hall, a PPCC board meeting, a benefit concert, and a community gathering.
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GovernanceRecaps
The Pacific Palisades Community Council is hosting two upcoming meetings to discuss rebuilding authority proposals: a Supervisor Horvath townhall on July 9, 2025 to examine a countywide rebuilding authority for post-wildfire recovery, and a PPCC board meeting on July 17, 2025 to discuss Senator Ben Allen's SB 549 legislation establishing a similar rebuild authority for the Palisades.