HEARING NOTICERESPONSE TO LUPC
Dear Friends,
Thank you for all the emails supporting The Brig’s application for a CDP for outdoor dining. We received over 100 support emails received compared to only 10 from opponents. No more emails are needed but I do have a final and most critical ask: please claim your right to speak for two minutes (via Zoom) at the decisive LA City Planning hearing webinar on Monday, March 16th. This is the one that counts as this Hearing Officer is the one who decides to approve or reject the CDP. Our opponents have dramatically out attended us at the hearings so far so we really need your help. Here’s how:
LA City Planning Hearing 3/16/26 on ZOOM at 10 AM. Access the ZOOM Hearing using this 3/16 City Planning hearing link and enter Passcode 558045 (and Meeting ID if needed: 844 0055 0165 #). For phone access call +1-213-338-8477; when prompted, enter the Meeting ID. You will be auto-muted when entering the meeting. To comment on an agenda item, click the raise hand icon (Webinar) or press *9 (Phone) to “raise your hand” when staff invites public comment for The Brig CDP: 1515 – 1525 S. Abbot Kinney Blvd. The meeting’s agenda will be provided no later than 72 hours before the meeting at planning4la.org/hearings. Find the Hearing Notice at the Downloads & Docs section of this website
Timing: 10 AM Webinar is for our case only. A 9:30 AM webinar for a minor residential issue is likely to be brief so our 10 AM webinar could start on time. Our team will present our case first. Then they go directly to public comment which could start as early as 10:15 – 10:30
Who Can Speak: Anyone – from anywhere! Ideally you have some connection to or knowledge of the property. You can be a neighbor, or live elsewhere in the city or county. You can be a regular customer or someone who has ever visited The Brig, or someone who has ever visited Abbot Kinney Blvd and has walked by The Brig.
What to Say: Something positive and supportive. Share whatever you feel or a personal experience. If you need ideas here are some suggestions:
The outdoor patio is a great amenity for the neighborhood.
It’s a quiet place to talk and have a bite to eat and drink.
The landscape improvements will make the patio even better.
The new trees look great. Can’t wait to sit on the planter benches in the shade of the leafy canopy.
I don’t go in The Brig, but I enjoy walking by and seeing lively outdoor activity in an open green space.
The Brig has been here for 75 years. It’s a neighborhood icon that we should support.
The outdoor patio has been operating for five years and is now a part of The Brig tradition.
If the Brig loses the outdoor patio this valuable site will surely become another 3-story building and we will lose the last open space on Abbot Kinney.
I have visited The Brig and never found the noise level on the patio nor the music coming from The Brig to be excessive.
I have walked down Electric Avenue behind The Brig late at night on a weekend and don’t hear the music from inside The Brig or any sound from the patio; a passing vehicle is louder than any noise coming from The Brig.
When I visit The Brig it is in the evening and there is always plenty of parking available in the city lot right behind The Brig.
When I visit The Brig I take an Uber so I don’t use any parking.
At night the activity and people at The Brig patio makes the neighborhood safer.
If we lose the outdoor patio, this major corner will go dark and will feel less safe.
The Brig patio is one of the few places in Venice we can eat and drink outside after midnight.
Abbot Kinney has great fine dining restaurants which we can’t afford on a regular basis. The Brig is a great value.
Update and Info: As expected, the Venice Neighborhood Council (“VNC”) voted to deny The Brig CDP based on the LUPC committee recommendation. The VNC decision is advisory only. The LA Planning hearing will be decisive. For a deep dive into the issues, I invite you to review our Response to LUPC at the website: 1515AKBlvd.com.