1. Fight or Talk: What Will Neighborhood Councils Do?
(The News (Top Stories)/Latest)

... lacks the personnel to create a Granny Flats ordinance. The Department of Transportation has lost 160 employees so far, will likely lose its regional offices and lacks the personnel to implement a Memorandum ...

2. VIRAL MAIL: Paul Koretz Calls for Tight Restrictions on Granny Flats
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To: S. Gail Goldberg, Director of Planning Our office has received a large amount of public interest and inquiry regarding the Planning Department's efforts to establish Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) ...

3. Viral Email: An Apartment Building Next To You?
(Point Of View/City Wide)

Do you want to live next door to a “duplex?”  That could happen if the City Council passes an Ordinance to permit “Granny Flats” in single family neighborhoods in Los Angeles. ...

4. Invasion of the Granny Flat: City Money & SB1818
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The Los Angeles Planning Department is in what planner Gabriela Juarez calls an “information-gathering phase” for a proposed city law that would allow auxiliary dwelling units, or “granny ...

5. Gerald Silver: Is the Planning Department Deceiving the Public?
(Point Of View/City Wide)

... Dept., one has to wonder whether they are promoting a secret agenda to add more housing density through second dwelling units. What is the real truth behind the current law regarding "granny flats" ...

6. Jay Handal: LA's Problems Continue to Mount
(Point Of View/City Wide)

... talk about DWP rate increases............ How about Granny Dwellings?????? Better yet, let's not..... Isn't it time for the citizens to take back our city before it becomes one big pot hole? Let's ...

7. Viral Email: The Truth about Granny Flats and City Planning
(Point Of View/City Wide)

...   WHAT IS THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND THE CURRENT LAW ALLOWING GRANNY FLATS AND SECOND DWELLINGS ON R1 LOTS?   In 2002 community activists, homeowner association leaders, and others fought vigorously ...

8. Granny Flats: Trutranich Challenges Planning Officials' Claims
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... or “Granny Flats” to be built in R1 or single family zoning IF they conformed to nine specific criteria.  There was nothing in this law that required  the city of Los Angeles ...

9. Showdown on Plan to Allow 'Granny Flats' on Every Home Site
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Under a proposal being pushed by the City Planning Department, virtually every single-family home in Los Angeles could be converted into an apartment building with "granny flat' cottages in the ...

10. Planning & Land Use Discussion, Survey
(Communities/Central L.A.)

... zones.  An Accessory Dwelling Unit, also called a granny flat, secondary dwelling unit, elder cottage housing opportunity (ECHO), or mother-daughter residence, is an apartment that can be located ...

11. Legalizing 'granny flats' in the Works in Single-Family Home Neighhborhoods
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Even as city Planning Department officials are under fire for seeking huge increases in planning appeals feels, they are pushing forward on a "granny flat" measure that would allow conversion ...