Hollywood Community Plan Update

Summer 2021 Updates

Updated planning exhibits that reflect the City Planning Commission’s March 18, 2021 recommendations of the Hollywood Community Plan (CF 21-0934) were released in mid-August. This fact sheet provides an overview of the exhibits listed below:

• Letter of Determination (LOD)
• Exhibit A: Staff Recommendation Report
• Exhibit B: City Charter, LAMC, and General Plan Findings
• Exhibit C: General Plan Amendment Resolution
• Exhibit D: Zone and Height District, Hillside Construction Regulation Supplemental Use District, SNAP Amendment, and Hollywood Redevelopment Plan Ordinances [Proposed Ordinances]
• Exhibit E: Change Area Matrices and Mapping
• Exhibit F: Community Plan Implementation Overlay District (CPIO) [Proposed Ordinance]
• Exhibit G: Environmental Impact Report, Technical Appendices and CEQA Findings

We are also pleased to share the following memos that HR&A Advisors prepared for the department:

• Targeted Financial Feasibility Analysis for the Hollywood CPIO District
• Summary of Key Considerations for Implementing a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Program in the Hollywood CPIO District, Considerations for Implementing 99-Year Affordability Covenants in the Hollywood CPIO District, and Considerations for Rent Stabilized Ordinance (RSO) Replacement Units the Hollywood CPIO District

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City Planning Commission

The City Planning Commission (CPC) heard the Hollywood Community Plan Update on February 18, 2021 and continued the item to March 18, 2021. On March 18, the CPC recommended approval of the Hollywood Community Plan with a few recommended changes, including more robust incentives for affordable housing within the central Hollywood area (the Regional Center), and the allowance of a two-story incentive for additional height along height-restricted commercial corridors, for projects that provide affordable housing units.

Click here to listen to the March CPC audio recording. Supplemental documents are available; other items including the staff presentation and Day of Submissions comments are here.

A public hearing was held at the February CPC meeting; the audio is available. Supplemental documents are also posted; other items including the staff presentation are available.

The project website, including the draft planning documents and interactive maps, will be updated soon in accordance with the CPC motion.

The CPC Staff Recommendation Reports and Exhibits are below:

• CPC Staff Recommendation Report
• Exhibit A: Draft Resolution
• Exhibit B: Draft Community Plan
• Exhibit C: Proposed and Existing General Plan Land Use and Framework Maps, and Proposed Change to Chapter 1 of the Framework Element
• Exhibit D: Proposed Community Plan Implementation Overlay (CPIO) District Map and Ordinance
• Exhibit E: Proposed General Plan Land Use and Zone Change Maps and Matrices; Street and Network Reclassifications; Circulation Map; Symbols; Footnotes; and Corresponding Zone-Land Use Nomenclature Changes
• Exhibit F: Proposed Vermont/Western Transit Oriented District Station Neighborhood Area Plan (SNAP) Amendment
• Exhibit G: Proposed Hillside Construction Regulation (HCR) District
• Exhibit H: Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and Appendices; Partially Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report and Appendices
• Exhibit I: Draft Ordinance to Amend the Hollywood Redevelopment Plan

Plan Goals

The Proposed Hollywood Community Plan Update seeks to:

• Accommodate projected population, housing, and employment
• Direct growth away from low-density neighborhoods; preserve single-family residential neighborhoods
• Provide a range of employment opportunities; promote the vitality and expansion of Hollywood’s entertainment and tourism industries
• Improve open space, parks, and public spaces; provide adequate public services and infrastructure
• Protect historic and cultural resources
• Encourage and promote a variety of mobility options; make streets walkable
• Improve the function and design of neighborhoods; focus on pedestrian experience
• Encourage sustainable land use
• ​Maintain land use and zoning consistency

The interactive maps below represent proposed land use and zoning changes. Select the tabs for information about proposed changes.

Click the button below for a video tutorial on the interactive map.

Draft Community Plan Update Interactive Map

Draft CPIO Interactive Map

May 2023 Update

Adoption of the Hollywood Community Plan Update
On May 3, 2023, the Los Angeles City Council adopted the Hollywood Community Plan Update. The City Council also recommended an amendment requested in the motion from Council District 13 (Soto-Martinez) and a follow up report requested in the motion from Council District 4 (Raman). Additional information about the requested amendments is summarized here.

Next Steps
Following adoption of the Plan, the implementing ordinances will be reviewed and finalized by the City Attorney, to ensure clarity of regulations and consistency with state law, which can take approximately six months to a year. After this process is complete, the Plan will be brought into effect by the City Council. City Planning will prepare a report as requested by Council District 4, and will present the report to the PLUM Committee in the next few weeks.

The Hollywood Community Plan Update has been a multi-year effort and we would like to thank you for your continued engagement and interest throughout this process to reach this milestone.

Spring 2023 Update

At its special meeting on April 24, 2023, the City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee recommended approval of the Hollywood Community Plan Update, with a few amendments. The Plan Update will now go before the full City Council for final adoption at the City Council meeting on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 10 a.m.

At the April 24th meeting, the PLUM Committee recommended adoption of the CPC approved Hollywood Community Plan inclusive of findings, resolutions, and ordinances, with amendments. The amendments from the PLUM Committee included optional modifications from the Director of Planning’s Supplemental Memo to the PLUM Committee, which were requested in the letters from Council District 4, (dated April 4, 2023) Council District 5 (dated April 4, 2023), and Council District 13 (dated April 21, 2023), as well as additional amendments requested by Council District 13 during the PLUM meeting regarding regulations for hotels and an adjustment to the base Floor Area Ratio (FAR) in some of the Regional Center Subareas in the Hollywood Community Plan Implementation Overlay (CPIO) District.

The agenda for the City Council meetings can be accessed online at clerk.lacity.gov/calendar.

Winter 2022 Update

The Hollywood Community Plan Update is in the adoption phase. Thank you to all who shared your thoughts with the City Planning Commission, which recommended approval of the Plan in 2021. Planning documents were transmitted to the City Clerk (CF 21-0934) in August, including the Letter of Determination, the Community Plan and the Final Environmental Impact Report.

The upcoming steps to complete adoption of the Hollywood Community Plan are receiving the recommendations for approval from the City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee, and then the final approval from the full City Council. To receive future notice once the Plan is scheduled for PLUM and City Council consideration, sign up here.

Summer 2021 Update

The Letter of Determination (LOD) from the City Planning Commission has been released for the Hollywood Community Plan Update (CF 21-0934).

The Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) is now available. For more information, please see the Notice of Availability. Printed copies of the FEIR are also available for general public viewing at the following City library branches:

1. Richard J. Riordan Central Library (630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, 90071)
2. Frances Howard Goldwyn – Hollywood Regional Branch Library (1623 Ivar Ave., Los Angeles, 90028
3. Los Feliz Branch Library (1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, 90027)
4. Cahuenga Branch Library (4591 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, 90029)
5. John C. Fremont Branch Library (6121 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, 90038)
6. Will & Ariel Durant Branch Library (7140 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, 90046)

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Spring 2021 Update

On March 18, the City Planning Commission (CPC) recommended approval of the Hollywood Community Plan Update with a few recommended changes, including more robust incentives for affordable housing within the central Hollywood area (the Regional Center), and the allowance of a two-story incentive for additional height along height-restricted commercial corridors, for projects that provide affordable housing units.

Click here to listen to the March CPC audio recording. Supplemental documents are available; other items including the staff presentation and Day of Submissions comments are here.

A public hearing was held at the February CPC meeting; the audio is available. Supplemental documents are also posted; other items including the staff presentation are available.

Next, the Plan Update will advance to the Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM), and then to the full City Council for adoption. Dates for these future meetings have not been established. Sign up online to receive future email updates about the Hollywood Community Plan Update.

Winter 2020/2021 Update

The City Planning Commission (CPC) heard the Hollywood Community Plan Update on February 18, 2021 and continued the item to its March 18, 2021 meeting. The March 18, 2021 CPC meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. Anyone wishing to participate may provide oral comments during the meeting, or send written comments to the Planning Commission ahead of time. For detailed instructions on submissions to CPC, please visit: https://planning.lacity.gov/about/virtual-commission-instructions.

A public hearing was held on February 18. The staff presentation to the Commission included recommendations to update a few additional proposed zone changes and open space designations, and to clarify the land use regulation relationship between the Hollywood Redevelopment Plan and the Hollywood Community Plan Update.

On December 9, 2020, the Hollywood Community Plan Update held a virtual Open House and Public Hearing. The public hearing served as a means to collect comments from stakeholders; comments will be incorporated into the staff report before the Plan is brought to the City Planning Commission (CPC). No decisions were made during the public hearing. To listen to the audio recording of the Public Hearing, click here. The comments submitted during the Public Hearing comment period, which ended on December 16, 2020, are also available.

If you would like to receive a copy of the CPC Staff Recommendation Report, please send an email to hollywoodplan@lacity.org and provide your contact information, indicating that you would like to be added to the interested parties email list.

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Mailing Address

City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning
200 N. Spring Street, Room 667, Mail Stop 395
Los Angeles, CA 90012
 

Planning Staff Contact Info

For general inquiries and comments, please email hollywoodplan@lacity.org

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