Healthy Design Ordinance

Healthy Design Ordinance

The HDO is a series of text amendments to Titles 21 and 22 of Los Angeles County Code pertaining fighting obesity by promoting walking, bicycling, exercise, and access to healthy food options. The proposed ordinance does the following: increases the minimum sidewalk width from four feet to five feet; requires short term and long term bicycle parking in new developments; makes it more difficult for applicants to propose rights-of-way where the sidewalk is located immediately adjacent to the road; makes it more difficult for applicants to modify or waive required sidewalks; provides more flexibility for applicants proposing shade trees near bicycle or pedestrian facilities; require front yard trees to be located four to eight feet from sidewalks to provide shade; requires landscapes strips and walkways along private driveways and fire lanes within private development; requires a through-access pathway from newly proposed cul-de-sacs to adjoining streets, trails, or recreation facilities; require a eight-foot wide mid-block through-access where blocks are longer than 700 feet in length - currently the access need only be "adequate;" allows weekly farmers' markets with one Temporary Use Permit application per calendar year; and allows community gardens as accessory uses in residential, agricultural, mixed-use, and open space zones.

Los Angeles

Countywide

Air Resources Board, Transportation Projects, California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lahontan Victorville Region 6 (RWQCB), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region 4 (RWQCB), California Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC), Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics, Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency

Ord. Amendment

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Geology/Soils, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Transportation, Wildfire