City Council Puts Plan for Use of Parking Lots for Affordable Housing in Motion santa monica venice century city westwood pacific palisades brentwood

side of the parcel. He stated that there is a row of businesses, specifically a business called Acology Shop, where customers might have issues getting to the business easily if parking is not available close to the business. Acology Shop is a muscle training company that helps people with back injuries and other disabilities. Brock asked if the developer could be asked to include parking for these businesses.

Isla Scott of the Housing and Human Services Division noted that having sufficient parking for these reasons is an important part of this proposed Request For Proposals (RFP) and future development. She said that the city will be asking respondents to show conceptually what their approach would be to replacing parking as part of their proposal.

Mayor Gleam Davis asked if it was true that the discussion of whether or not parking would be part of the development of these sites was not part of the action that the city council was presently taking and verify that the action was only to declare the parcels exempt surplus land which Scott affirmed and stated that the actions had to be in line with the entirety of the housing element plan.

The council then held a voice vote and the motion passed unanimously.

City’s Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project reducing reliance on imported water and sets a model for future projects

Santa Monica has been using a pioneering water recycling facility since November to capture rain and store it underground for future use. As Southern California has been experiencing seemingly constant rainfall, the city has been capturing stormwater, urban runoff, and municipal wastewater and purifying it for potable reuse. This first-of-itskind facility is located beneath a parking lot and features a 1.5-million-gallon stormwater harvesting tank and a one-million-gallon-perday advanced water treatment facility. The recycled water can be used for irrigation, toilet flushing in buildings that have dual plumbing, and to recharge groundwater aquifers.