Taking the Next Step
From Community Visioning to Shaping What Comes Next
Dear Palisadians,
Over the past year, residents from across Pacific Palisades came together in a remarkable series of Neighborhood Visioning Charrettes focused on neighborhoods within the community. These were not symbolic gatherings.
They were structured working sessions in which neighbors, architects, engineers, planners, business owners, and families sat together and asked: What are our goals for our restored community and what needs to be done to get there?
Residents across multiple neighborhoods identified shared priorities around recovery governance, density concerns, insurance challenges, and long-term resilience, while also expressing uncertainty about the economic viability of returning to the Palisades. These community findings are now guiding conversations with city, state, and institutional decision-makers.
But visioning is only the beginning. Now comes the disciplined work of translating that vision into action.
Neighbors working together at a Pacific Palisades Neighborhood Visioning Charrette
“The Community Recovery Labs represent the next phase of this effort — structured, issue-specific convenings designed to build consensus and make actionable recommendations to city and state officials.“
What Are Community Recovery Labs?
Community Recovery Labs (“CRLs”) are structured, issue-specific convenings designed to build consensus and make actionable recommendations to city and state officials. They enable a strong and considered community voice on some of the most important decisions affecting the future of the Palisades.
In these Labs, participants will test assumptions, examine trade-offs, and shape informed guidance that can be placed directly in the hands of policymakers who are drafting long-term recovery plans.
This is an opportunity to influence how recovery is structured — for our ongoing recovery and to build resilience into our future.
Learn more about Community Recovery Labs →
Our First CRL: Governance
We are looking for volunteers for our first CRL, focused on a critical question of governance:
Should the Palisades have a recovery district and, if so, what powers should it have?
How should any district be made accountable to our community?
Future CRLs will focus on other critical topics such as density, resilience, and insurance.
Your Commitment
To ensure the group reflects our broader community, participants will be randomly selected from all those who volunteer, with special efforts to ensure a representative mix of neighborhoods, ages, family types, renters, and owners.
We will provide meals, childcare, and local transportation.
First CRL Dates
Session 1
Saturday, April 11
Session 2
Saturday, April 25
Participation in a CRL is a meaningful civic investment. It is a chance to contribute your insight, professional experience, and lived reality into shaping a structured recovery framework — an opportunity to move beyond frustration and into constructive design.
You will receive follow-up details upon completing the form.
Learn more about the CRL program on our website.
The recovery of Pacific Palisades will be shaped by those who are willing to think carefully, contribute thoughtfully, and invest their time in defining the path forward.
We hope you will join us.
With appreciation,
Palisades Recovery Coalition