Chair: Kenneth Owen
Meetings: Normally scheduled 2nd Wednesday of each month.
Next Committee Meeting:
Wednesday, March 10, - 7pm
Los Feliz Community Police Center
1965 N. Hillhurst Ave. (above the Citibank)
AGENDAs (agendas are posted about 72 hours prior to the meeting)
March 10, 2010
February 10, 2010
January 13, 2010
November 11, 2009
October 14, 2009
September. 9, 2009
Meeting Minutes -2010
January 13, 2010
Meeting Minutes -2009
November 11, 2009
October 14, 2009
September 9, 2009
June 4, 2009
April 8, 2009
March 9, 2009
February 11, 2009
January 14, 2009
Committee Report to GGPNC Board June 16, 2009
To view Pre-2009 Minutes plus a wealth of previous committee information...click here
Project Hearings & Other Matters
click item for hearing notice and/or related file(s)
Upcoming Issues
Hollywood Community Plan Update
GGPNC Letter of concern re 1/21/10 Planning Commission Meeting on the HCPlan
Ordinance increasing fees for appealing Planning and Building & Safety decisions while cutting deveolper fees.
GGPNC Letter re appeal fees & prodecures
GGPNC Community Impact Statement re Appeal fees & procedures
Density Bonus CIS & Council Motion
2250 Tracy Terrace (duplex requests relief from current FAR limit, but within proposed Hollywood Community Plan proposed increase)
2609 Hyperion - Barbarella Restaurant - Plan Approval existing CUB to allow alcohol service in outdoor patio.
1725 Hillhurst - CUB request for on/off site beer/wine for proposed market/restaurant hours 7am-Midnight.
5273 Hollywood Bl. -CUB -Live Entertainment -Thai Patio Restaurant
4420 Sunset Dr. - Lot Line Adjustment
Past Hearings
4628 Hollywood Bl. - CUB - Wine Bar Application & GGPNC letter
Hearing Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 10:30am, City Hall rm 1020
2081 Hillhurst -Gisoya Restaurant - extend existing beer/wine CUB to new patio area
Hearing,Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 9:30am, City Hall rm 1020
2507 Nottingham - Denial of request for adjustment to allow 9 retaining walls for a 600' driveway. Central Area Planning Commission Appeal Hearing
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 10th floor City Hall after 4:30pm -appeal denied
2315 N. Vermont - Request for approval of over-height gates & hedge in front yard.
Hearing- Tuesday, Feb 2, 9am City Hall rm 1020 - pending
2208 Catalina St. Request for approval of over-height fence/wall in front, side & rear
Hearing Tuesday Feb 2, 2010 9:30am City Hall rm 1020-pending
1758 Hillhurst - Home Restaurant - Central Area Planning Commission hearing on appeal by Home Restaurant regarding case ZA2008 3701(CUB)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 after 4:30pm 10th floor City Hall. - increased seating granted
2070 N. Vermont Our Mother of Good Counsel Church- Proposed T-Mobile Cellphone antenna- Hearing Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, 1pm City Hall room 1020.
5257 Hollywood Bl. - Ruen Pair Thai Restaurant - CUB Beer & Wine
Hearing held Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 - 9:30am - City Hall room 1020
2568 Glendower - (rec room/recording studio over garage- reduced setbacks)
Hearing held Monday, October 19, 2009 - 1:30pm City Hall room 1050
2223 Nottingham Ave. Request for approval of existing over-height fence
Hearing held Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 - Decision dated 3/2/2010
Committee News
"Bates Motel" the Final Scene? Bring in the Bulldozers
On September 22, 2009, the Board of Building and Safety Commissioners unanimously voted to declare the long neglected property at 4301 Sunset Blvd. corner of Bates Ave. a "Public Nuisance". That allows building code enforcement to move ahead with demolition of the building. This usually takes 2-3 months.
Clare Bronofski, the attorney for the owners of the Sunset Pacific Motel appealed to the commissioners for more time claiming she was just hired by the Michigan based company. When asked what the owner's plans for the property were she admitted "there is no current plan." She did say they now have a security guard who comes by 4 times a day, and the building's manager said he "goes to the property most weeks three times a week."
City Attorney Bill Larsen reported on the 10 year fight to abate the nuisance and that even after the property was fenced and boarded the site continued as a magnet for crime citing the character of the characters who inhabit the area around the property has gotten so bad that some demand $2 for safe passage from those merely walking on the sidewalk adjacent to the building. Representatives of the Jewish Community Center which is across Bates Ave. from the site said they can no longer use their main entrance because of the danger to their 600 patrons including 100 children in their pre-school.
Since the last attempt to rehab the forlorn building as a "high end hotel with a restaurant/bar lounge" failed after getting zoning approval in June 2006, the property has continued its downward slide. The commission received over 230 letters supporting demolition including one from Police Chief Bratton, which Commission President Marsha Brown said she had never seen in other similar cases. For more on the property's past history click here
AUTRY EXPANSION REQUEST WITHDRAWN - 8/10/09
Citing unwillingness to comply with requests made by the Board of Referred powers, endless delays due to opposition, and financial uncertanties, Autry National Center President, John Gray, announced that the Autry was withdrawing its application for expansion by 129,000sq ft. at its Griffith Park location and extension of its $1 a year lease for its 12 acre site.
The decision appears to be a direct result of a hearing in City Council chambers on June 30th, packed with over 200 supporters and opponents of the then current proposal, when the Board of Referred Powers deferred a decision on the Autry Expansion for 4 weeks...later extended indefinitely.
After two hours of testimony from both sides, the five City Councilmembers (Hahn, Reyes, Cardenas, Parks & Rosendahl) who make up the board, all said that the Autry should sit down with those who want the Southwest Museum to remain a viable museum and work out a written agreement.
The Autry took the position at the hearing that the issue of the Southwest Museum's future should not be considered in amending the Autry's $1 a year lease for Griffith Park land.
A key player in the hearing was Councilmember Jose Huizar who urged the board not to make a decision until there was an enforceable written agreement protecting the Southwest and the promises made by the Autry when it took over the Southwest Museum and its collection.
Autry Expansion Info
Including final EIR+updates and Communications from GGPNC
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On August 7, 2009 the City Council passed a ban on new billboards including supergraphics and digital billboards. This was not the comprehensive ordinance that is still under consideration, but a tactical measure to avert consequences of a possibly adverse court ruling expected while the City Council was in summer recess.
May 26th the City Council deferred action on the proposed Sign Ordinance. Instead they passed another 90 day moratorium on new signs. Click Here for more info and to see the GGPNC's Area Billboard Survey and Community Impact Statements plus other links. E-mail us with your thoughts at:
Billboards@GGPNC.org
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CNC Reports on new variance requests
1/19/10 (pg-5) 1/5/10 (no entry) 12/22/09 (no entry) 12/8/09 (pg4-5)
Committee Members: Sorin Alexanian, Bruce Carroll, Joe Cisneros, Rosemary DeMonte, Jacqueline Kerr, Kenneth Owen, Richard Spicer, Richard Stanley, David Uebersax, Tom Wilson
