Calabasas CA
8-07-2026 2:07pm

Warner Center Specific Plan became Warner Center 2035 Plan in 2013

The L.A. City Council voted their approval of Warner Center 2035 Plan October 23, 2013, and it became effective December 25, 2013, 74 days after the L.A. Council voted.

The Warner Center 2035 plan set in motion what had been in various discussions 60 years prior, when TOLD was constructing and managing many of the single-story office properties still in existence.

October 13, 2013  -  Ordinance 182766: An ordinance repealing, in its entirety, the existing Warner Center Specific Plan, and all amendments thereto, and establishing a new specific plan, called the Warner Center 2035 Plan, for a portion of the Canoga Park-Winnetka-Woodland Hills-West Hills Community Plan area. 13-0197_ord_182766.pdf

  • The WC2035 Plan is intended to provide a comprehensive and clear process that will permit development to occur in order to facilitate the creation of an urban center where people can live, work, and play.
  • ... The proposed Plan would create "complete streets" that 
    • accommodate alternatives to the car, in particular, 
    • an internal circulator in the form of a modern streetcar and 
    • "small slow vehicle" lanes for bicycles, Segway®-likevehicles, electric bicycles, other small
      electric vehicles, and any other vehicle that does not move faster than a bicycle (about
      25 mph).
  • As part of its Development-Oriented Transit strategy to enable Transit-Oriented Development to occur throughout most of the Plan, the WC2035 Plan 
    • establishes and funds a circulator transit system that may 
    • eventually evolve into a local streetcar system which could one day extend to adjacent communities to connect them economically to Warner Center, the central hub.
  • The WC2035 Plan has been crafted as a unique urban planning blueprint intended to spur job growth and economic development.
  • The WC2035 Plan is intended to be a development formula for the Warner Center regional center, 
    • a Transit Oriented District (TOO) with a plan providing a blueprint to give the developer the certainty of what is permitted under the WC2035 Plan and
    • the community the certainty that a development will provide the necessary public benefits and mitigations prescribed by the WC2035 Plan.

Perhaps the least discussed aspect of the 2013 formulation of the Warner Center Plan was the superseding of LAMC regulations

Superseded LAMC Provisions.
With respect to Projects within the Plan area, this Plan shall supersede the following
LAMC regulations, making them inapplicable to Projects within the Plan area:

  • 3.1.1  Site Plan Review Ordinance. This Plan supersedes LAMC Section 16.05.
  • 3.1.2  Landscape Ordinance. This Plan supersedes LAMC Sections 12.40, 12.41, 12.42,
    and 12.43.
  • 3.1.3  Commercial Corner/Mini-Shopping Center. This Plan supersedes LAMC Section
    12.24-W.27.
  • 3.1.4  Major Development Projects. This Plan supersedes LAMC Section 12.24-U.14.
  • 3.1.5  Various Conditional Uses. This Plan supersedes LAMC Section 
    • 12.24-U.2 Auditoriums, Stadiums, Arenas and the like
    • 12.24-U.6 Educational Institutions
    • 12.24-U.7 Electric Power Generating Sites
    • 12.24-U.12 Hospitals and Sanitariums
    • 12.24-U.23 Research and Development Centers
    • 12.24-U.24 Schools
    • 12.24-V.2  Mixed Commercial/Residential Use Development
    • 12.24-W.18a Dance Halls
    • 12.24 W.2 Automobile Fueling and Service
    • 12.24-W.3 Automobile Repair
    • 12.24-W.4 Automobile Use
    • 12.24-W.9 Churches 
    • 12.24-W.ll CM Uses
    • 12.24-W.14 Counseling and Referral Facilities
    • 12.24-W.1S Developments combining residential and commercial uses
    • 12.24-W.24 Hotels
    • 12.24-W.25 Kennels
    • 12.24-W.30 Nightclubs and Other Establishments
    • 12.24-W.31 Nurseries
    • 12.24-W.32 Outdoor Eating Areas For Ground Floor Restaurants
    • 12.24 W.34 Penny Arcades
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