Progress on the Hollywood Community Plan City Planning held a public hearing to receive input on the Draft Hollywood Community Plan in December 2020.

The draft plan will be considered by the City Planning Commission (CPC) on February 18, 2021.

The public hearing will start at 8:30 a.m. Click here to access the Staff Recommendation Report, which outlines the recommended changes to the existing land use designations and zoning.

For more information on the Hollywood Community Plan, visit City Planning’s website.

Protecting Housing and Heritage in Hollywood Hollywood has long been considered a cultural and entertainment vanguard of Los Angeles, a place residents and visitors treasure as much for its bustling nightlife as its rich historic legacy. It is also well-served by the Metro B (Red) Line that connects Downtown to North Hollywood, with five subway stations that have opened since the plan was last updated in 1988. Once a sleepy agricultural town, Hollywood has evolved into the global capital of the entertainment industry, but is also so much more. It is home to one of Los Angeles’s most diverse communities, four out of five of whom are renters. In many ways, the 25 square miles of the Hollywood Community Plan—extending south of the city of Burbank, west of the Los Angeles River, north of Melrose Avenue, and east of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills—are representative of the City as a whole. From its hillside neighborhoods to its commercial businesses, Hollywood comprises a diverse range of geographical features, architectural styles, and cultural and ethnic histories. Spanish, Armenian, Russian, Tagalog, and Thai are a few of the languages spoken within its neighborhoods. While almost half of the acreage within the plan’s boundaries is zoned for residential uses, Hollywood also serves as a hub for local businesses and services, media production companies, and healthcare facilities. To address the City’s ongoing housing crisis, City Planning is Proposing Changes to the Community Plan’s existing Land Use Designations and Zoning to Increase the Development Rights of Properties near transit stops or job centers as well as to safeguard its job centers in places, such as the Media District. These changes would direct future development closer to transit and away from the hillsides, reinforce Hollywood’s role as a jobs center, and expand the historic preservation tools at Los Angeles’s disposal.  The proposed changes to the Hollywood Community Plan would: 

• create an affordable housing incentive program that encourages the production of new mixed-income and 100 percent affordable housing units along transit served corridors, and within the Central Hollywood area
  

• expand the allowable uses within existing commercial zones in Central Hollywood to facilitate more economic opportunities for businesses in the regional center

• establish planning review for the rehabilitation of designated and eligible historic resources, including the demolition of eligible historic resources

• apply planning controls for hotel uses, even prohibiting new hotels in certain residential areas to protect against the loss of housing rental units
  

• incorporate new regulations on hours for grading and construction, along with new hauling truck operation standards for the Hollywood Hills

• improve neighborhood access to recreation and healthier living options for its residents by reserving additional land for open space

• implement development standards along the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame and other historic districts to retain the look and feel of its historic street fronts

• promote on-site publicly accessible open space within Central Hollywood, as part of an incentive system that prioritizes urban green recreational areas

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