Extended Ban on High-Rises Gains
The Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Environment Committee voted 3 to 0 Tuesday to extend a moratorium on construction of high-rise buildings along Ventura Boulevard through Studio City.
But the measure must go back to the city Planning Commission because of a change made by the committee that would make it effective immediately upon approval by the full City Council and Mayor Tom Bradley.
Without an urgency clause, the one-year moratorium would not become effective until 30 days after approval. Howard Raphael, a deputy to Studio City-area Councilman Joel M. Wachs, requested the urgency clause to prevent developers from slipping through large projects before the measure takes effect.
The Planning Commission could take the matter up at its regular meeting Thursday and send it on to the full council as early as Friday.
Final approval is expected from the full council, which on Oct. 1 approved a nearly identical moratorium on new structures taller than three stories on Ventura Boulevard between Coldwater Canyon Avenue and Valley Circle Boulevard in Woodland Hills.
The new measure would extend the moratorium east on Ventura Boulevard to Lankershim Boulevard. It also would apply to Cahuenga Boulevard from Lankershim to Mulholland Drive.
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