CBS Los Angeles: Karen Bass Supports Film Industry with Discount for DOT Controlled Parking Lots

UNKNOWN: The film industry is getting some new support. La mayor Karen Bass unveiling a new pilot program to directly support film productions of all sizes. Here in Los Angeles. The Department of Transportation is offering a 20% discount at more than a hundred. Owned. Parking lots. City wide parking costs are a significant barrier for productions with equipment and trucks needed for filming. The non-profit film also introduced a new low impact permit pilot program delivering immediate cost reductions for productions that don’t have impacts on communities used to cost $100,000 to film at the observatory. Now it is $30,000. We’ve reduced the number of city staff. That are required to be on location. All of these things help reduce the cost of filming in Los Angeles an industry that for too long. We took for granted.”

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CBS Los Angeles: Karen Bass Supports Film Industry with Discount for DOT Controlled Parking Lots‘City wide parking costs are a significant barrier for productions with equipment and trucks needed for filming’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:UNKNOWN: The film industry is getting some new support. La mayor Karen Bass unveiling a new pilot program to directly support film productions of all sizes. Here in Los Angeles. The Department of Transportation is offering a 20% discount at more than a hundred. Owned. Parking lots. City wide parking costs are a significant barrier for productions with equipment and trucks needed for filming. The non-profit film also introduced a new low impact permit pilot program delivering immediate cost reductions for productions that don’t have impacts on communities used to cost $100,000 to film at the observatory. Now it is $30,000. We’ve reduced the number of city staff. That are required to be on location. All of these things help reduce the cost of filming in Los Angeles an industry that for too long. We took for granted.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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