Building Curbs OKd for Panorama City
Development in central Panorama City will be restricted for at least a year following Los Angeles City Council approval Wednesday of an ordinance aimed at preventing oversized office buildings and residences.
The temporary ordinance limits the height of buildings to six stories and calls for extra review of proposals for buildings that mix residential and commercial tenants.
Proposed by Councilman Ernani Bernardi, the ordinance will give the city Planning Department time to prepare a permanent version. It includes a provision for two 180-day extensions.
The area included in the ordinance is bounded by Parthenia Street, Willis and Lennox avenues, and the Southern Pacific railroad tracks.
Bernardi asked planners to draft the ordinance after discovering that some of the central area was zoned for buildings as tall as 30 stories or more, following a city-center concept that caught on in Woodland Hills but not in Panorama City.
Proposals to build mixed residential and commercial buildings also seemed out of place in central Panorama City, Bernardi said.
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