After hundreds of meetings spread across several years, Santa Monica updated its Zoning Ordinance in 2015. But apparently a planner’s work is never done, and officials are returning to the issue this year to refine, revise and correct a list of pending problems.
Commissioner Nina Fresco asked for additional information on what she said are inconsistencies and other policy issues.
“We’ve talked a lot about second units already today, just this imbalance between whether or not you can convert a garage but you can’t convert a rec room, and what that all means for allowing this kind of housing and protecting people’s privacy and quiet and preventing urbanization of neighborhoods, while so doing, so that seems like a big policy issues for you guys to prepare for us,” she said.
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