Local News in Brief : Bid for Heliport Rejected by Panel
The Los Angeles Planning Commission, responding to complaints from several Westside homeowner organizations, voted Thursday to reject a request for a private heliport to serve the “tenants and invitees” of Fox Plaza, the Century City skyscraper where President Reagan will have his office when he leaves the White House.
Studio Property Co., which owned the salmon-colored tower until six weeks ago, had asked the city for permission to build a 160-square-foot heliport on top of the building’s six-story parking garage. In making the proposal, a consultant for the company wrote that the heliport was necessary because “surface transportation is becoming increasingly more difficult in the basin.”
A spokesman for the building’s new owners, LaSalle Partners Ltd., said the company had nothing to do with the request, and a White House spokesman said Reagan had not asked for the heliport.
“I don’t know where he would be helicoptering from,” the White House spokesman said. “It would probably take you longer to fly from Bel-Air to Century City than to drive.”
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