Local News in Brief : Westside Pavilion Expansion Approved
The Los Angeles Planning Commission on Thursday approved a 160,000 square-foot expansion of the Westside Pavilion shopping center after the developer agreed to use a portion of the West Los Angeles project as office space to help reduce traffic.
Commission Chairman Daniel P. Garcia said Westfield Inc.’s decision to commit 30,000 square feet of the project to office space would solve the traffic problems predicted by neighborhood groups opposing the project. Area homeowners had tried to persuade the commission to limit the expansion to the 105,000 square feet allowed by the area’s current zoning.
But the commission approved a zoning change to allow the full project, which will be located across the street from the present Westside Pavilion at Pico and Westwood boulevards, with a bridge linking the two projects.
It would take a two-thirds vote of the City Council to override the Planning Commission’s approval.
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