City Planners Revise Proposed Hollywood Community Plan

The proposed Hollywood Community Plan is still just that — a proposal — which leaves room for city planners to make revisions before the plan makes its way to the full City Council.

Throughout the process we've heard concerns about neighborhood streets designations, area boundaries, height limits, a need for a Hollywood Specific Plan and more.

Well, now some of those concerns are getting addressed in the latest round of revisions.

Straight from , the revisions include:

1. Outpost Drive

Redesignate Outpost Drive from a collector street to a local street between Mulholland and Franklin.

2. Van Ness Avenue

Revise street redesignation matrix to maintain Van Ness Avenue as a collector street from the 101 Freeway to Sunset Boulevard.

3. Melrose Avenue

Revise street redesignation matrix to maintain Melrose Avenue as a secondary highway from Highland Avenue to Vermont Avenue.

4. Subarea 38:A

Add a Q condition requiring building stepbacks above 35 feet in height.

5. Subarea 6:1 

Revise boundary to include full Siren Studios site as Regional Center Commercial land use, maintaining R4 Zoning in the add area.

6. Subarea 6:2 

Revise boundary to be contiguous with Subarea 6:3 on the north side of Sunset Boulevard with Regional Center Commercial land use, maintaining existing zoning in the add area.

7. Subarea 3:2C

Clarify base floor area ratio is 3:1.

8. Subareas 4:5B and 4:5E

Shift western boundary of subareas from Cole to Wilcox.

9. Subarea 42:2 (Western Avenue)

Add a Q condition with requirements for transitional height, limiting building height to 20 feet within 15 feet of property line adjacent to residential zones and requiring building stepbacks.

10. Western Avenue (Subareas 41:6 and 42:2), Santa Monica Boulevard (Subareas 26:1, 26:2, 28, 29, 42, 42:3, 44 and 44:A) and Melrose Avenue (Subareas 42:1, 43 and 43:1)

Direct Planning Department to prepare revised ordinance maps limiting residential and mixed use development to R3 density for Council consideration.

11. Santa Monica Boulevard Pedestrian-Oriented District

Include proposal for Pedestrian Oriented District in Program LU.1.26.2 for the Route 66 design overlay.

12. Subarea 18:6 and Fountain Avenue

Downzone lots to RD1.5-1XL, keeping Fountain Avenue frontage zoned R3-1 as a transition, including policy language to evaluate need for street dedications as part of future subdivisions in this area.

13. Subarea 39:4

Revise proposed zone change from MR1-2D to M1-2D.

14. Central Hollywood

Include proposal for Specific Plan or Community Plan Implementation Overlay (CPIO) in Program LU.2.5.1 for Central Hollywood.

15. Sunset Boulevard

Add program supporting the study of additional crosswalks on Sunset Boulevard between Fairfax and La Brea, including locations between Gardner Avenue and Poinsettia Place in coordination with LADOT.

16. Community Redevelopment Agency

Remove all zoning references to CRA/LA.

Related: 

• For past coverage, visit our topic page for the Hollywood Community Plan.
• View the community plan here.