About RRPN
Better planning for a resilient California.
Our mission
California communities are caught between state mandates and local realities. Housing law, disaster recovery, climate adaptation, and economic development increasingly collide with local land-use authority — and the communities affected are too often the last to be heard.
The Responsible and Resilient Planning Network exists to close that gap. We produce rigorous, best-practices policy research; we advocate for planning frameworks that respect both statewide goals and community self-determination; and we educate residents, practitioners, and policymakers so that everyone at the table understands what the law says, what it means, and what it could be.
RRPN operates as a portfolio of community projects. Our first, Altadena Recovery Watch, grew out of the 2025 Eaton Fire and now engages thousands of residents on the state land-use legislation shaping their rebuilding.
About Noel
Noel Hyun Minor · Founder
Noel Hyun Minor is the founder of the Responsible and Resilient Planning Network. She has spent her career at the intersection of land use, real estate, and public policy in Los Angeles — as a City Hall planning deputy, a registered lobbyist, a land use and environmental attorney, and the leader of a Southern California family office.
Noel began her policy career in Los Angeles City government, serving as a planning deputy in Council District 13 under then-Councilmember Eric Garcetti, where she initiated legislation regulating billboards and supergraphics, including revisions to the Hollywood Sign District. She was among the earliest staffers on the 2013 Garcetti mayoral campaign and later directed legal and legislative affairs for the Central City Association, advocating before City, County, and State decision-makers on planning, housing, and development policy for more than 450 member organizations.
As a land use attorney at Liner LLP and DLA Piper, Noel guided complex urban-infill and mixed-use developments through entitlement and environmental review, including public-private partnerships with LA Metro and Community Redevelopment Agencies. Real Estate Weekly named her a 2018 Rising Star. Since 2018 she has led The Brooklyn Companies, a family office active in commercial and multifamily real estate across Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties.
Noel founded RRPN after the 2025 Eaton Fire, when her own community's recovery revealed how sharply state law and local rebuilding can collide. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Altadena Town & Country Club, elected to help lead its post-fire recovery, and has held more than a dozen civic, education, housing, and cultural board positions across Los Angeles. She holds a J.D. from USC Gould School of Law and is a member of the State Bar of California.
Transparency
RRPN is newly formed, and its legal formation is in progress. We believe organizations that ask for the public's trust should earn it in the open: as our organizational structure is finalized, we will post our governing documents and financial disclosures on this page as they become available.
Questions about our structure, funding, or governance are welcome at info@rrpn.org.