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Committee approved multiple land-use and environmental findings for large development projects, upheld several Planning Commission decisions on appeals, advanced a report to amend municipal code on erosion and flood hazards, approved a City Attorney draft to rescind the city’s prior oil-and-gas extraction ban, and approved an appointment to the South Los Angeles Area Planning Commission.
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The committee voted to allow several large housing and mixed‑use projects to proceed by sustaining prior planning approvals and adopting related environmental findings; where appeals were filed, the committee mostly denied those appeals, leaving the Planning Commission determinations in place. The committee also instructed staff to study changes to local rules to improve how the city addresses erosion and flood hazards, and approved a City Attorney draft ordinance to rescind a prior ban on new oil and gas extraction following a court action. For residents this means several major development projects will continue through the permit process, the city will review its erosion and flood‑abatement rules, and the City Attorney is moving forward with legal changes regarding oil and gas extraction.
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