The Los Angeles City Planning Commission recommended approval of an ordinance to amend Chapter 1 Sections 12.80 and 12.81 and Chapter 1A Sections 1.6.2 and 1.6.3, and other related sections of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC). The proposed amendments align the City's emergency shelter provisions with State law (Government Code Section 8698 et seq.) under a declared local shelter crisis. Specifically, the amendment removes a self-imposed six-month residency limit for emergency shelters, which is not required by State law and was deemed unnecessarily restrictive. The changes also decouple the emergency shelter regulations from a restrictive definition of 'shelter for the homeless' in LAMC Ch. 1 Sec. 12.03 and instead rely on the State law definition. The ordinance also includes a retroactive application clause. The City Planning Commission voted 8-0 to approve the recommendation, which will now be forwarded to the City Council for adoption. The project is exempt from CEQA as an administrative and organizational activity that does not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.