Around the Corner

Welcome to 2025! Things to consider in January 2025:

• City Council approved the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP) in 2024; now what?

• Television Studio goes for final approval at LA City Council this week

• The next annual rent hike for many LA tenants is Feb. 1, 2025, unless City Council temporarily pauses rent increases until they can pass an updated rent control formula

• Huntington Beach continues to fight against the state’s mandate that cities plan for a certain number of new housing units, including affordable housing

• New LA Zoning Code goes into effect in Downtown LA on Jan. 27, 2025

December in Review 

City of LA Applications:

• Executive Directive 1 (ED1): 32 ADM (+37 Pre-Application Reviews, or PAR)

  • 4 already approved, including an emergency homeless shelter redevelopment with 282 beds from Omgivning at 443 S San Pedro St (Skid Row) and a 5-story, 44-unit privately funded project at 904 S Normandie Ave

• Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC): 2 DIR (1 appeal at 5271 W Sunset Blvd)

• Appeals: 8

• Conditional-Use Beverage (CUB) Permits: 6

  • Restaurant Beverage Program (RBP) Clearances: 10

Highlighted Applications

City of LA

• 2927 S Catalina St, ADM-2024-7949-ADU-CPIOC: New 2-story ADU attached to the rear of existing 3-unit apartment

• 511 N Hoover St, ADM-2024-7941-DB-VHCA-RED1: Demolition of existing 2 single-family residences and 1 Industrial Building and the construction of a new, 6-story, 100% affordable housing project consisting of 145 residential dwelling units

• 1236 Cliff Dr, ADM-2024-7983-PMUL: Sb9 urban lot split, one lot to two lots. parcel a - 5,057.67 sf and lot b - 3,538.68 sf

• 9236 Burnet Ave, APCNV-2024-7726-VZC-ADJ-HCA: Vesting zone change from RA-1 to RD301 for the construction use and maintenance of an 8-unit residential development (4 duplex buildings) and 16 parking spaces)

• 2053 E 7th St, CPC-2017-4734-GPA-ZC-HD-CUB-CUX-ZV-ZAA-SPR-RDP-M1: Modifications to the existing entitlements to increase the hotel guest room count from 103 to 120 (15% increase), reduce the height from 172-ft, 5 inches to 142-feet 4 inches (17.4% decrease) and modify the setbacks by increasing them in some areas while reducing them in others.

City of Santa Monica

• 633 18Th St, 24ENT-0257: SB 9 conformance review for constructing a new two-story duplex behind an existing 2-story single-family residence.

• 1217 Euclid St, 24ARB-0231: (Approved) Six-story, 62'-9" tall, 100% affordable housing project consisting of 48 units and one level of subterranean parking.

Culver City

• 13476 Washington Blvd, P2024-0313: Construction of a new dual-jurisdiction, 79-unit mixed-use building with 64 units in Los Angeles and 15 in Culver City. The portion within Culver City is a 3.944 sf site comprised of two parcels in the CG zone and will include one VLI unit, one MLI, and three workforce housing units in addition to 1,898 sf of commercial space.

• 4051 Sawtelle Blvd, P2024-0316: 4-unit building preliminary project review for multifamily use

Week Ahead

Jan 6 | Santa Monica Architectural Review Board

• 601 Colorado Ave, 24ARB-0224: Review the design for a 24-story, 254’-5” tall, 310,648 sf mixed-use housing development project consisting of 264 units (224 market-rate units; 40 affordable units) and 4,009 sf of commercial floor area above two levels of subterranean parking in the Transit Adjacent Zoning District of the Downtown Community Plan (DCP-TA). Staff Report.

Jan 7 | LA City Council

• 7716-7860 Beverly Blvd, CPC-2021-4089-AD-GPA-ZC-HD-SP-SN: General Plan Amendment, Zone Change and Height District Change, Specific Plan and Sign District creation and establishment of the Television City (TVC) 2050 Specific Plan to regulate development with the project site. Allow for the continuation of an existing studio use and the modernization and expansion of media production facilities within the approx. 25 ­acre Television City studio site.