Despite various comments on social media that Councilmember Bonin has killed the Venice Place Project, the project is alive but now freighted down with a slew of new conditions, which may or may not make the ultimate project more compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and elementary school.
Below is a link to the conditions that Councilmember Bonin has proposed to impose on the hotel/restaurants/market.
Proposed Venice Place Conditions
Probably the most notable is that the applicant must contribute $750,000 to the city's Housing Trust Fund for affordable housing.
The list of conditions also includes a mandatory plan approval process in two to three years of the hotel becoming operational to:
review the effectiveness of, and compliance with the express terms of all conditions, including but not limited to, Conditions 15 (Parking), 16 (Valet Parking), 17 (Loading), 18 (Trash Pick-up), 22 (Alcoholic Beverage Conditions), 25 (Complaint Log), 27 (employee and patron monitoring), 28 (loitering), 32 (electronic age verification), 36 (noise levels), 39 (private events), 42-47 (entertainment/music conditions) of the permit for the project.
Unfortunately, as Venice residents have witnessed for many years with similar conditions imposed on St. Joseph's, the city rarely implements plan approval compliance or enforces conditions.
The owner will also be required to create a local hire program, for both
construction and ongoing jobs, targeting the Venice Community with an emphasis on
hiring from disadvantaged communities.
Following the City Attorney's advice, the project has been returned to the West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission for consideration of Bonin's proposed
conditions.
