Around the Corner 

  What’s the cost to rebuild after the fires and how much does insurance cover? Interesting breakdown here.

Other good reads on the plans to rebuild LA:

• New York Times, A scramble for power in LA as it begins to rebuild

• The Atlantic, How to rebuild from the ashes

• One month later after SoCal fires: LA Mayor Bass promises independent investigations, vows to rebuild

The Week Ahead

Feb 11 | LA Planning and Land Use Mgmt Committee

• 956 North Seward St, CPC-2023-5532-ZC-HD-CU-SPR-WDI: Demolition of the existing approximately 40,000 sf film storage building and its associated parking lot and truck rental business and the construction of a seven-story storage building consisting of 127,868 sf of self-storage and 39,510 sf of temperature-controlled film and media storage, and 1,100 square-feet of leasing uses; resulting in a total floor area of 168,478 sf, the project will have a height of 75 feet and a floor area ratio of 3:1, the project proposes 47 automobile parking spaces provided on-site in a surface-level parking lot and 40 bicycle parking spaces would be provided on-site at ground level.

• 810 S Mariposa Ave, CPC-2018-1511-ZC-ZV-ZAA-BL-CU-CUB-SPR: Proposed 6-story hotel with 95-guest rooms, approximately 129,675 sf in floor area, commercial space for a sit-down restaurant, guest only bars, 3 levels of subterranean parking, on 20,528 sf site.

• 638 S Berendo St, DIR-2023-4545-TOC-SPR-VHCA-1A: New, eight-story, 86,700 sf residential building with 163 dwelling units of which 18 dwelling units (11 ELI), the Project will rise to a max height of 99 ft and 9 inches with a FAR of 3.39:1, the building will be constructed with seven residential levels above one ground floor level of residential lobby and parking and one subterranean level of parking.

• 3003 Runyon Canyon Rd, APCSV-2016-4179-SPE-DRB-SPP-MSP-ZV-ZAD-1A: Project Permit Compliance and Design Review for the construction of a new, 5,500 sf, two-story, SFD and 600 sf attached two-car garage, and a fully underground 3,000 sf basement, the total Residential Floor Area of the new structure is 5,700 sf and a maximum height of 29 feet tall on a 197,435 sf lot, the project involves the conversion of an existing on-site 2,018 SFD to an Accessory Living Quarter. Project went through EIR process.

• Direction to draft an ordinance to exempt Olympic and Paralympic temporary and permanent venues, training facilities, security perimeters, broadcast and media centers, transit infrastructure, live sites and fan zones, and associated structures from the requirements of City Planning approvals, zoning regulations, and conditions, including but not limited to Conditional Use Permits and conditions tied to such permits, Site Plan Review requirements, height restrictions, setback requirements, limitations imposed by Specific Plans, and any other planning or zoning regulations that could delay or impede the rapid deployment and or use of essential facilities

Feb 11 | Pasadena Design Review

• 740-790 E. Green St, DHP2024-00310: Construction of a new three-to-six-story, approximately 254,152 sf mixed-use project with 14,346 sf of ground-floor office space, 263 residential units, and 40,761 sf of open space

• 861 E. Walnut St, HP2024-00349: Construction of a new, six-story 83,105 sf residential care facility with 50 assisted living units, 30 memory care units, and subterranean parking

Week in Review 

Highlighted Case Applications

Los Angeles

• 10874 Art St, DIR-2025-799-SPPC: Remodel existing 702 sf SFD; convert existing 512.7 sf attached garage to part of SFD; construct new 452.3 sf addition to SFD, new 788 sf open trellis, new 1196.86 sf detached ADU, and new 686 sf detached garage

• 519 N Soto St, ADM-2025-804-CLR: New 3 story building, to include 8 units

• 2161 Colorado Blvd, APCE-2025-816-SPPE-SPPC-DRB: Specific plan project compliance with design review board and specific plan project exception for the installation of three wireless telecommunications facilities antennas

• 9335 Noble Ave, CPC-2025-796-DB-HCA: New 3-story, 7-unit residential building, town homes for rent

• 540 S Arden Blvd, ADM-2025-765-CWC: Pursuant to 13b.8.4.e and 13b.8.4.e.1 of the LAMC, conforming work on a contributing element in the windsor square HPOZ, for replacement of non-historic, non-street-visible fenestration

• 5611 Park Oak Pl, ADM-2024-8164-ADU: Convert attached garage to ADU located within the oak's D limitations

Highlighted Completions

Did you know we now have a completed date filter for LA in ATC? You can also check a project's status using the new status filter. For example, many of the cases below have been approved but have a status of “In appeal period.”

Los Angeles

• 5057 Klump Ave, PAR-2024-3525-TOC-PHP: Approved with conditions 94-unit 5-story apartment with R-2 occupancy, roof deck, and 29 units set aside for low income tenants

• 2655 Outpost Dr, ZA-2023-6020-ZAD: Approved with conditions a new 815 sf second story addition a new 67 sf balcony to an existing SFD on a lot with roadway width of less than 20 ft adjacent to the lot

• 4712 Ethel Ave, ZA-2024-4551-ADJ: Approved with conditions an adjustment to satisfy PMEX case

• 9959 Wheatland Ave, ZA-2024-6402-CU1-HCA: Withdrawn a zoning administrator's determination to request a new 1,198 sf accessory dwelling unit on a substandard hillside street

• 777 Chick Hearn Ct, DIR-2024-6260-SPPC: Approved with conditions the installation of four new pedestrian-scale signs within the eleventh streeet pedestrian area. signs will include four structures with led electronic message displays

• 2317 Oakwood Ave, AA-2021-10525-PMLA-SL-HCA: Withdrawn application to demolish SFD and construct 3 SFD s in small lot division with 3 lots