Everyone seems to agree the city needs affordable housing. But where it goes in Woodland Hills’ Warner Center remains a big question.

On Wednesday, board members of the Woodland Hills-Warner Center Neighborhood Council submitted a proposal to the Department of City Planning and to Los Angeles City Councilman Bob Blumenfield to consider options that are “financially feasible for developers,” who will seek to build residential units in Warner Center.

“After many hours of discussion and testimony from interested stakeholders, the (Neighborhood Council) offers the following to serve as a basis for further discussion with the Department of Planning as part of Community Outreach required by the City Council,” according to the neighborhood council’s agenda. “(The Neighborbhood council) believes that solutions must be developed in a way that does not stop continued development of housing in Warner Center, whether affordable housing requirement be inside or outside of Warner Center.”

The recommendations come from the neighborhood council’s Woodland Hills Impacts and Policies Committee, or WHIP, in response to a motion introduced in May by Councilman Blumenfield. The motion proposes to spur development of affordable housing within the Warner Center Specific 2035 Plan.

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Among other options, the committee proposed using “Metro-owned land currently used for parking within and outside Warner Center around Orange Line stations” to develop affordable housing units, according to the agenda.

The committee also said planners should consider existing low-density sites now used for affordable housing and build additional affordable units at those sites, along with adding units around Orange Line stations outside Warner Center on “more economically feasible properties.”

But Blumenfield, whose district includes Warner Center, said building affordable units within the area is important.

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“We need to have affordable housing in Warner Center,” he said. “You can’t just say, ‘I will build a few things outside Warner Center and therefore Warner Center shouldn’t contribute to affordable housing.’”

While building transit-oriented developments outside Warner Center is important, he added, “in no way that obviates the need to have afforable housing in Warner Center.”

When the Warner Centre 2035 Specific Plan was adopted in 2013, it proposed converting the 1.5-square mile area bounded by the 101 Freeway, Vanowen Street, Topanga Canyon Boulevard and De Soto Avenue into “downtown” for the San Fernando Valley.

Designed “without heavy-handed restrictions,” the plan envisioned construction of nearly 20,000 new condos and apartments. Not a single one of those units is affordable, according to the plan.

In his motion introduced on May 4, Blumenfield said while affordable housing has become high priority for the city, the Warner Center 2035 Specific Plan is “silent on the need for affordable housing, and that needs to be urgently rectified,” creating housing for the “missing middle” that can accommodate teachers, nurses and first-responders.

Joyce Fletcher, president of the Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council, said her board voted to move forward the committee’s proposal to Blumenfield’s office for review, but it hasn’t approved any options yet.

“This is very preliminary,” she said. “This is a brand new topic and the neighborhood council won’t take any stand on any option without hearing from the city council, stakeholders and the city planning commission first.”