Delve into strategic lobbying and advocacy efforts that played a pivotal role in transforming Los Angeles's temporary al-fresco dining ordinance into a permanent fixture. This ordinance, initially introduced as a response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowed restaurants to expand their dining areas onto sidewalks, streets, and other public spaces.
This presentation focuses on the practical methods and tools used in this successful campaign, highlighting how they can be applied to overcome planning challenges, foster innovative approaches, and promote equitable community development. Explore stakeholder engagement techniques, coalition building, and informed policy analysis. The campaign’s end product simultaneously addressed the challenges presented by parking minimums, car-centric public spaces, local economic development, and unresponsive bureaucracies. By equipping planners with practical tools and novel strategies, presenters aim to advance responsive and effective community planning practices. Future planners will be inspired to pursue bold ideas that can make planning departments more efficient while reflecting constituent needs. Leave with actionable strategies to apply in your planning efforts, thereby contributing to more dynamic and livable communities.
Learning Objectives:
Engage with disparate communities to shape a broad-based ordinance or policy that adequately addresses all their needs.
Mobilize diverse stakeholders to effectively challenge and reform planning processes that do not address contemporary issues.
Harness urban planning as a tool to mitigate other public policy failures.
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