Three weeks ago, SCAG released its official SB 79 map and West Hollywood’s three planned K Line station areas weren’t on it. Depending on where you stand on SB 79, that was either a relief or a disappointment. Vice Mayor Danny Hang pointed to the map as a reason not to pursue a TODAP — the local plan residents had been asking for, the same tool Beverly Hills approved and Culver City is now preparing.
Last week the state stepped in.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development — HCD, the agency that enforces SB 79 — sent a formal directive to the Southern California Association of Governments on June 22. SCAG is the regional planning body that draws the SB 79 map. HCD told SCAG its methodology was wrong. The K Line has an approved route. That’s enough to put it back on the map. Environmental clearance doesn’t matter.
SCAG complied. The K Line Northern Extension is now listed as Item 25 in the corrections going before the SCAG Regional Council Thursday, in a document obtained by WEHOonline. Four words: “Add K Line Northern Extension.” West Hollywood’s three planned station areas — Santa Monica and San Vicente, Santa Monica and Fairfax, and Santa Monica and La Brea — are going on the map…