Staff put a 25 percent water rate increase on paper
What staff put in writing about next year's utility bills, plus the permit system blackout ending August 4.
The numbers for next year's utility bills are now in writing, and they are not modest: city staff have proposed water rates up 25 percent and wastewater up 28.25 percent for FY2027, effective October 1 only if the commission adopts them. Nothing has been adopted. The item sits in Legistar with no recorded result, which is the whole status of it today — a staff proposal, two percentages, and a date that only arrives if a vote goes a certain way. Water is the one utility nobody here opts out of, which is why a proposed increase of that size is the number to sit with rather than skim past.
A Keke's is coming for the 9 a.m. Sunday problem
Keke's Breakfast Cafe is coming to Hollywood — What Now Miami reported the plan in late June — and the pitch is exactly what the name promises: made-to-order breakfasts, oversized omelets, Belgian waffles, pancakes and more. Anyone who has stood outside a Hollywood breakfast spot on a Sunday, counted the names ahead of theirs on the list, and quietly decided that cereal at home was fine understands why one more griddle in town is not a small piece of news. Breakfast is the meal this city does at volume, and made-to-order is the part of that sentence doing the work.
Neighbors are suing over Related's Live Local tower
Residents and a nonprofit have sued over Related Group's Hollywood Live Local project, The Real Deal reported on July 7. A suit is not a verdict, and nothing about the tower has been settled by it — the honest status today is contested. Set that beside the 394-unit proposal on South Dixie and the shape of this summer here comes into focus: a lot of apartments in motion, and neighbors who are not content to watch them arrive quietly. Two very different fights, same few blocks.
1818 Park refinances $79 million, reports 94 percent full
Stewards announced on July 27 that it completed a $79 million refinancing of 1818 Park, the 22-story apartment tower, and reported 94 percent occupancy. Both figures come from the company's own announcement, which casts the deal as reinforcing the strength of its real assets strategy — press-release language, not a disclosure about the building. And a refinancing is a debt transaction rather than a change to the tower: same 22 stories, new paper underneath. For anyone living within sight of it, nothing about the place changes tomorrow, though a 94 percent number is the kind of thing an owner only volunteers when it flatters them.
Don't try to pull a permit before Tuesday morning
Three city systems are dark: Accela, BCLA permitting and BCLA Code Enforcement are offline through 7 a.m. on August 4 while the migration runs. Beginning August 4, all new permit applications must be submitted through Accela. Phase II expands the system to all Development Services permit types, along with Planning and Urban Design, Engineering, Transportation and Mobility, Code Compliance and related departments. Existing BCLA permits remain in BCLA. The hour to hold on to is Tuesday at 7 a.m.
A South Dixie proposal: about 394 units, half workforce housing
A staff proposal in Legistar lays out roughly 394 apartments at 400 S. Dixie, with 50 percent of them as workforce housing, supported by $4 million in ILA gap financing and $2.014 million in CRA post-TIF funding. Public money is attached, and the workforce-housing share is what it is attached to. The item is marked Agenda Ready with no result recorded, which means this is a proposal and nothing more — the unit count, the 50 percent workforce-housing figure and both dollar amounts can all move before anyone votes. Hold on to the numbers; the next version of this will be measured against them.