Legislative Alert
Alert!

Los Angeles County-Wide

Congestion Mitigation Fee


Proposed CMF (Congestion Mitigation Fees) that could equal over $4 per square foot for retail and over $2 per square foot for industrial buildings are being proposed.  The proposal amounts to nearly $2.4 billion over 20-year cost to the business community for new development. 

A coalition of business organizations including NAIOP have prepared a letter opposing the action.  A copy of the draft letter text is attached for reference.  NAIOP SoCal members are encouraged to send letters on their company letterhead using the sample letter for reference.

For more information on this issue, please contact Peter Herzog, NAIOP SoCal Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs at (949) 380-3300 or peter@talleyassoc.com




Los Angeles Business Survey

Please Complete On Line By April 26


Los Angeles BizFed is conducting a survey of local businesses. We encourage NAIOP SoCal Members to participate. Here is the message from Biz Fed


As a business leader, what keeps you up at night?  Are you planning to add or cut staff this year?  Can you get the capital you need to achieve your goals?  Which city in LA County is the best place to do business?  Are you planning to move your business outside of LA County?  Will education or health care have a greater impact on your business?  How concerned are you with public safety and transportation?

 

There are just four days left to take the 2013 BizFed Top Issues Poll!  The poll takes just a few minutes to complete, but the results will make a difference and drive our efforts all year long!  We need your input by close of business this Friday, April 26. Once the poll is closed, we will brief the results to key public officials in LA County and Sacramento so they know what issues are of greatest concern to businesses like yours. 

WE DID IT! Another Win for NAIOP SoCal!
Storm Water Parcel Tax Proposal
Sent Back to Drawing Board

One of the greatest values of your NAIOP SoCal membership is the organizations advocacy on behalf of the commercial real estate industry working to turn back new regulations and fees and to oppose legislation that would penalize our industry.

This week we had a BIG WIN for our industry. On Tuesday, March 12, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors stopped and sent back to the drawing board the Clean Water, Clean Beaches parcel tax. This was an onerous tax that County staff was trying to push through to pay for storm water protections protection that other fees were already supposed to be funding.

This significant WIN delays further action until 2014 and provides our industry the opportunity to work with County government to develop a fair and effective solution for all of us that could ultimately earn the broad support needed to actually solve the problem.

This success was achieved through the combined efforts of NAIOP SoCal and our coalition partners: Bizfed, BOMA and others.

Click here for the Los Angeles Times article from March 12 with more details.

NAIOP SoCal will continue to work to protect the industry. We will advocate for you with our business coalition partners and oppose new governmental regulations and fees that affect our commercial real estate industry. And well keep you posted on our progress during the year.

Lang Cottrell
President

Kevin Ivey
Legislative Affairs Chairman

NAIOP SoCal and NAIOP Inland Empire
Receive 2013 Capitol Dome Award

Washington, D.C., February 19, 2013 ~ Last week at the 2013 Chapter Leadership and Legislative Retreat, NAIOP SoCal and NAIOP Inland Empire were both presented with the 2013 Capitol Dome Award. Lang Cottrell accepted the award for NAIOP SoCal and Kim Snyder accepted the award for NAIOP Inland Empire.

Both chapters were awarded with this honor due to their dedication towards advocacy for the industry and for their accomplishments related to buildings codes that were adopted by the International Code Council (ICC).

In 2009, the ICC adopted model building codes that reduced the egress distance from 400 to 250 feet before requiring an emergency exit passageway or tunnel for occupants of a factory or warehouse structure. In this instance, the reduction in the egress distance was unwarranted and would have placed necessary burdens on industrial property owners.

NAIOP Inland Empire and NAIOP SoCal took action. With support from NAIOP members outside the state, these chapters, in partnership with the California Business Properties Association, commissioned a study, built a coalition, and worked with the state's Fire Marshall in demonstrating to the ICC that a 400 foot exit distance is appropriate without compromising the overall safety of the buildings occupants. As a result, the ICC committee of jurisdiction agreed and reinstated the original 400 foot egress as part of its model code.

The successful adoption and reinstatement of 400 feet within the model code would not have occurred without the hard work and leadership of these two chapters on behalf of the industrial property community in California and across the country.