"Performance Audit of the City of Los Angeles Planning Conditions for Development."

Dear AIA/LA POC member:  FYI, please find attached City Controller Laura Chick's report entitled "Performance Audit of the City of Los Angeles Planning Conditions for Development."

This may be an issue that you'd like for me to look into further, in case it should inform an advocacy position for 2009 AIA/LA Legislative Day at City Hall.  If so, please let me know.

In short, the report states:

SUMMARY OF AUDIT RESULTS 

The City of Los Angeles has not established an adequate process for reviewing, approving, and overseeing development projects that ensures that the final project conforms to the intent of the decision maker. No single City department manages development projects from the project review through project construction and completion. The Department of City Planning does not manage other City departments' review of proposed projects, and does not actively monitor compliance with the projects' conditions of approval once the building permits have been issued. In the absence of a single point of management, development projects can materially change during the project plan review and project construction and completion, resulting in the final project being different from the project as it was approved by the decision maker.   

-Will Wright

Director, Government & Public Affairs.