Around the Corner

October has been a busy month 🎃:

• LA City Planning Commission approved the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP); now pending committee and full Council approval

• Television Studio faces second appeal

• SB 684 application for demolition of a SFD and creation of 8 SFD in Silverlake

• LA City Council voted 11-0 to remove a local provision allowing landlords to evict tenants in cases where “substantial remodel” work will take more than 30 days

• Election is this week: Explore the LAist voter guide

Are you ready for November? 🦃

October in Review 

City of LA Applications:

• Executive Directive 1 (ED1): 23 ADM (+51 Pre-Application Reviews, or PAR)

• Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC): 4 DIR (1 appeal at 12202 Exposition Blvd)

  • 62 units in Boyle Heights at 3253 E Cesar E Chavez Ave

• Appeals: 12

  • LA Conservancy appeal of demolition permit for B’nai B’rith Lodge at at 846 S. Union Avenue since it is eligible for Historical Places designation

  • Applicant appeal of denial of entitlements, including reduced setbacks, increased sf, and excess encroachment plane for SFD at 5027 Almaden Dr

  • Second appeal from Neighbors for Responsible TVC Development (NFRTD) against approval TVC 2050 Specific Plan

Highlighted Applications

City of LA

• 20544 Ventura Blvd, ADM-2024-6718-ADU: Convert four (4) existing laundry rooms into four (4) ADUs in a 3-story apartment building

• 2023 Westwood Blvd, ADM-2024-6628-DB-VHCA-ED1: Demolition of an existing commercial building and the construction of a 9-story, 84'-9'', 100% affordable residential building with 124 dwelling units in West Los Angeles

• 4050 Marlton Ave, DIR-2024-6250-PR-HCA: Project review as required per Q condition to allow the construction of 290 townhomes with 5% designated 60% AMI and 5% designated 80% AMI in Baldwin Village

• 18455 S Figueroa St, 24019-20000-04301: Demo of 4 buildings on 1 site

• 1531 S Fairfax Ave, 24019-10000-04230: Demolish existing single-family residence and detached garage for proposed new 3-story duplex with attached 4-car garage and storage

City of Santa Monica

• 1633 26Th St: Permit for a street demo of a 3-story masonry building to make way for construction of 370 residential units, previously proposed two four-story office buildings. Read more.

Culver City

• 11469 Jefferson Blvd, P2024-0246: Site plan review for a 147-room hotel—spa. The project involves demolishing a shopping center and building a 5-story, 147-room hotel with ground-floor commercial space and 106 parking stalls.

• 11281 Washington Pl, P2024-0247: Sb 35 60-unit mixed-use project - sb 35 application for 6-story, 60-unit 100% affordable mixed-use development with 3,180 sf ground floor commercial space.

• 100 Corporate Pointe, P2024-0235: Demolition of an existing 112,276 sf office building with associated parking and construction of a new development with 351 residential units (30 VLI units), 4,700 sf of retail space, and a parking structure with 524 parking spaces

Week Ahead

Nov 5 | LA Planning and Land Use Management Committee

• Council motion to determine options to subject property owners to accountability measures regarding inactive construction sites, including abandonment orders to restore a site and notices to complete construction

• Council motion to incorporate state-supported labor policies and affordability requirements of SB 4 (faith-based affordable housing) in local implementation and remove SB 4 from CHIP

• 3601 N Mission Rd, CPC-2022-6189-CU-DB-ZAA-SPR-HCA-1A: Decision on appeals filed by 1) Supporters Alliance for Environmental Responsibility and 2) Lincoln Heights Preservation Coalition on the approval of the construction of a new seven-story residential development with 184 residential units (47 VLI) Income units, above two levels of automobile parking with 35% Density Bonus.

• 6332 Sepulveda Blvd, APCSV-2016-1344-ZC-CU-WDI: Zone Change from P-1VL-RIO to C2-1VL-RIO, in conformance with the General Commercial land use designation of the Van Nuys-North Sherman Oaks Community Plan and a Conditional Use Permit to allow the expansion of an auto-related use (vacuum stations) within 500 feet of a residential use.

• 3300 W 8Th St, ZA-2023-4481-CUB-1A: Appeal filed by Voice of Wilshire Koreatown Community approval to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption in conjunction with a new 5,000 sf restaurant and karaoke establishment

• 9201 Winnetka Ave, CPC-2023-4890-VZC-CU: Adaptive reuse of an existing 118,784 square-foot multiplex theater building (Pacific Theater) for a new Tesla Delivery Hub and Service Center; the project involves tenant improvements and exterior renovations to the existing multiplex theater building and site improvements including, restriping of the existing surface parking lot, the project proposes to remove 95 spaces for total of 1,147 parking spaces

• More cases this week…

Nov 6 | LA City Council

• 1904-1906 South Preuss Rd, VTT-84089-SL-HCA-2A: Decision on appeals filed by: 1) Arielle Mandell 2) Concerned Residents of Shenandoah Street; 3) Meyer Shwarzstein and Susan Kahn; and, 4) Shelly Rothschild, from the determination of the LACPC in denying the appeals in part, and granting the appeals in part, and sustaining the decision of the Advisory Agency dated July 12, 2024.

• Decision to subdivide two lots into 12 small lots in the West Adams Baldwin-Hills Leimert Community Plan with one dwelling unit reserved for Very Low Income Households. One small lot home will be constructed at each of the 12 small lots.

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Nov 6 | Santa Monica Planning Commission

• 1700 Ocean Ave, 24ENT-0159: Appeal of approval of a Minor Use Permit (23ENT-0164) to allow for the installation of a wireless telecommunications facility with a total of three (3) antennas and ancillary antenna equipment located behind three (3), 10’-high rooftop antenna screening enclosures, measured from the finished roof surface, with each measuring approximately 15’ x 4’ in area. Applicant: Network Connex, on behalf of T-Mobile West, LLC

• 1125 Harvard St, 24ENT-0166: Appeal of the Zoning Administrator’s denial (24ENT-0072) of a height modification to allow a proposed 6’ high hedge in front of an existing 3’-5” high wood fence along the front and side parcel lines around the front yard setback. Property Owner: The Magallanes-Ghermezian Trust

Nov 6 | West LA City Planning Commission

See cases here.