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Filings & Taxes
A draft ordinance would raise the annual provider fee from $20,000 to $150,000 and increase each of the city's four per-trip charges. Council committees are scheduled to consider it September 8, but no new rates have been adopted.
Filings & Taxes
Warehouse and fleet operators can seek funding for zero-emission trucks and supporting charging or hydrogen infrastructure. Applications open October 13 and are reviewed first-come, first-served until December 15 or available funds are reserved.
Filings & Taxes
Los Angeles raised 2027 cannabis renewal fees and created limited paths for businesses with tax debt, expired licenses, or abandoned applications to seek renewal or reentry. The changes do not erase debt or authorize unlicensed operation.
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Filings & Taxes
A new commercial cannabis program for unincorporated San Diego County reserves an initial three-year application window for qualifying social-equity applicants. County license fees start at $22,218 for several business types.
Filings & Taxes
Southern California Edison is accepting facility-level attestations for the California Industry Assistance Credit through September 30. An eligible non-MRR facility must file this year to receive its April 2027 credit.
Filings & Taxes
CARB's final Cap-and-Invest rule creates an optional allowance program for eligible covered industrial facilities. The first applications are due June 1, 2027, and eligible project spending can start September 1, 2026.
Filings & Taxes
Amended Rule 1157 adds construction and demolition debris transfer stations and tightens dust-control, sign, inspection, and recordkeeping duties for aggregate operations. New transfer-station coverage and registration begin March 4, 2027.
Filings & Taxes
Developers, property owners, surveyors, and engineers using Orange County's map-review services now face a new fee and deposit schedule. The adopted schedule sets a $5,581 tract-map base deposit, a $5,278 parcel-map base deposit, and new rates for related land-record work.
Filings & Taxes
Landlords covered by California's no-fault termination rules now owe three months' rent or a final three-month rent waiver in qualifying Alhambra cases. The city ordinance took effect September 6.
Filings & Taxes
A draft package would create annual city licensing for salons and other personal-care businesses that use private rooms, while adding spacing, visibility, operating-hour, and recordkeeping requirements for massage establishments. The proposals have not been adopted.
Filings & Taxes
Six Los Angeles ordinances changed parcel zoning and project review across Boyle Heights on August 20. Businesses, property owners, and applicants should verify the new zone before seeking a building permit, changing a use, signing a lease, or planning construction.
Workplace Safety
Since July 2024, California has required most employers to maintain a written workplace violence prevention plan, train employees on it every year, and log incidents. Many small businesses still do not know the rule exists.
Employment
SB 399 made mandatory meetings about an employer's political or religious views unlawful. A federal judge enjoined it statewide in September 2025 on preemption and First Amendment grounds. The Ninth Circuit heard argument in July 2026 and has not ruled.
Employment
California's Private Attorneys General Act lets employees sue over Labor Code violations on the state's behalf. A 2024 reform deal capped penalties for employers who can show they took reasonable steps to comply. Here is how the new structure works.
Filings & Taxes
Federal beneficial ownership reporting reversed direction repeatedly for two years. In August 2026 a final rule settled it: companies formed in the United States are permanently exempt, and FinCEN is deleting what U.S. persons already filed.
Privacy
California's privacy law covers businesses that cross one of three thresholds. Covered businesses using automated systems for hiring, lending, housing, education, or healthcare decisions face a January 1, 2027 compliance deadline.
Wages & Hours
The statewide minimum is $16.90 an hour this year, but fast food, healthcare, and dozens of city ordinances set higher rates. What an employer actually owes depends on industry and street address.
Accessibility
The federal Americans with Disabilities Act sets the standard, but a state law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, adds automatic money damages. Together they put roughly a third of the nation's accessibility lawsuits in one state. Here is how the system works and what it covers.
Approved · Downtown Los Angeles
The $2 billion district proposes more than 1,500 homes, offices, shops, and public space across 7.6 acres between Little Tokyo and Skid Row.
Rendering: TMRW / Studio One Eleven. Rendering reproduced on the City Planning PVP presentation's Renderings page; the original TMRW creator mark remains visible.
Approved · Fairfax
The Fairfax production landmark can add soundstages, offices, and public-facing space under a long-range master plan designed by Foster + Partners, RIOS, and Adamson Associates.
Rendering: Foster + Partners / Television City. Rendering published in RIOS's official project portfolio and credited there to Foster + Partners and Television City.
Supplemental review · Chinatown / Elysian Park
The privately funded aerial line would connect Union Station, Los Angeles State Historic Park, and Dodger Stadium in about seven minutes.
Rendering: LA Aerial Rapid Transit / LA Metro. Project rendering distributed on LA Metro's official project page.
Draft EIR · Miracle Mile
The Miracle Mile proposal pairs 419 homes, including 47 extremely low-income units, with the retention of four contributing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard.
Rendering: MVE + Partners. Figure 4 from the public Initial Study, credited in the city record to MVE + Partners (2022).
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