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Resources for Businesses with Physical Damages
This week, the City of West Hollywood along with LA County ordered various curfews aimed at reducing the potential for violence, damage, threats to public safety, and civil unrest. If your business experienced physical damage or loss due to the demonstrations, please review the resources and information below.
The California Department of Insurance issued a Fact Sheet to assist business owner’s understanding of insurance issues related to civil unrest. If your business needs to file a report for insurance purposes, please contact the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station at (310) 855-8850. The Station will catalog all information and will follow-up accordingly with all businesses once the local emergency is terminated. For additional insurance assistance, please contact the California Department of Insurance Consumer Hotline at (800) 927-4357 or by using their online form – available here.
The County of Los Angeles Office of Emergency Management is collecting information from local businesses that suffered physical damage or economic injury. This information will be used to seek assistance from the United States Small Business Administration. If your business experienced physical damage or economic injury, please document damages by using this form. The form will be utilized by Local, State and Federal governments during the Small Business Administration Physical Disaster Declaration process. For questions, please contact Gymeka Williams (GWilliams@ceo.lacounty.gov).
Temporary Outdoor Expansion Permit for Social Distancing
On June 1, 2020, the West Hollywood City Council adopted Urgency Ordinance 20-1106U Link to allow restaurants and food establishment businesses to safely expand their operations into the public right-of-way and/or adjacent or nearby private properties to expand business operations on sidewalks, on-street parking spaces, and off-street parking lots. This temporary permit will temporarily waive the following:
- Fees associated with the outdoor dining encroachment permit;
- Requirement for entitlement amendments for existing restaurants including existing minor; conditional use permits and administrative permits, and;
- Parking standards required as part of the applicant’s conditions of approval.
Interested businesses participating in the temporary program must submit the following:
- Submit a complete Temporary Outdoor Expansion Permit Application to Planning@weho.org
- Submit an Encroachment Permit for Outdoor Dining (will be provided if expanding into public right-of-way)
- Following local approval, businesses interested in serving alcohol in the temporary outdoor expanded area must submit an application to ABC for the COVID-9 Temporary Catering Authorization (ABC-218 CV19 Permit).
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