Penalties for property taxes paid after April 10 are waived through May 6, 2021 for taxpayers experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This applies to residential properties and small businesses that meet certain criteria. Click HERE for more information.
Additionally, the California Downtown Association (CDA) worked on initiatives to help get support for commercial property owners. CDA successfully helped defeat legislation that would have been harmful to commercial property owners - a very high profile bill – AB 1436 (Chiu) – which would have upended existing commercial leases and would have prevented commercial property owners from collecting rent from tenants for an extended period of time – perhaps more than a year.
In an unprecedented year, CDA’s legislative successes also include an amendment to Laura’s Law; CEQA Exemptions for Transit projects -- SEE HERE.
We will be meeting with Mayor Garcetti next week, after joining a coalition of DTLA organizations in sending a letter expressing the urgency needed to support the economic recovery of downtown LA. Read the letter here.
And of course, see a Weekly Snapshot of our social media posts.
We’ve had incredible success removing an excessive amount of graffiti in the District. As you know, we hired a professional graffiti company to help attack the increase. In the last two weeks, we’ve removed over 750 tags! That’s a pace of about 68 tags per day and we expect them to be at a pace of about 85-90 tags per day now that they have the hang of it. See some of the results in action HERE!
Lastly, some of you have noticed that there are swarms of white flies along Los Angeles Street. We’ve contacted LA County Vector Control and the LA County Department of Agriculture and expect an inspector to come out to the street on early this week.
