Vince Bertoni

November 25, 2024

Planning Director Vince Bertoni on Rezoning LA’s Housing Element & Incentivizing Development

LA City Planning Director Vince Bertoni an opportunity to elaborate on the city and state’s shifting planning paradigm and land-use priorities

July 11, 2023

Insider Planning: NoHo Nightmare Reveals Pitfalls of LA's Housing Policies & Obsession with Density at Any Cost

The Planning Report is interested in—and shares this first-hand account—uncovering the failures in policy and governance that enabled and incentivized violent federal crimes in pursuit of housing density at any cost.

December 15, 2022

LA City Planning Director Vince Bertoni on State Housing & Planning Paradigm Shift

To better understand the impacts of increasing state control over local planning and landuse decisions, TPR recently interviewed Los Angeles City Planning Director Vince Bertoni who elaborates on the City’s path to compliance with new state Housing Element requirements, the city’s new form-based zoning code, Processes and Procedures Ordinance, and the DTLA 2040 Community Plan Update.

August 16, 2021

Vince Bertoni on LA's Housing Element Update

LA City Planning Director Vince Bertoni elaborates on how the City of LA's Housing Element & Community Plans are being updated to meet new state requirements to produce more housing while protecting tenants and preserving existing affordable housing stock.

April 6, 2020

Bertoni on LA City Planning Department’s Response to Pandemic

Vince Bertoni shares the status of his planning department and the daily challenges to providing public-facing service and community meetings under social distancing orders.

March 12, 2020

LA City Planning Director Bertoni Lauds DTLA 2040’s Community Plan as a Model for Zoning Reform

Bertoni addresses his city’s efforts to incentivize affordable housing and noted the responsibility shared at the state, regional, and local level for policy & regulatory change to incent provision of affordable housing.

July 30, 2019

PLUS²: Strategies to Foster Equitable Development of Transit-Oriented, Affordable Housing

In this panel, LA City Planning Director Vince Bertoni, Investing in Place ED Jessica Meaney, Act-LA’s Asiyahola Sankara, Thai CDC ED Chanchanit Martorell, and Thomas Yee discuss their vision for equitable, affordable TOCs.

October 23, 2018

LA Planning Director Bertoni on Incentivizing Transit-Oriented Communities

Los Angeles Planning Director Vince Bertoni reflects on the TOC program's early success and the future of urban design, mobility, and affordable housing in LA.

August 27, 2018

City Planning Director Bertoni on the Promise & Status of re:code LA

In the first part of a two-part interview, Vince Bertoni updates readers on how the city's new zoning code is being implemented to community plans.

July 29, 2017

'DTLA 2040' to Recode & Guide Growth for LA City's Urban Core

LA Planning Director Vince Bertoni and Central City Association Director Jessica Lall explain how the new DTLA2040 plan represents the forward-thinking and innovative approach the Planning Department is bringing to community plans citywide.

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