L.A. Urged to Withhold Hotel’s Occupancy Permit
Beverly Hills planning officials have asked the city of Los Angeles to withhold a permanent certificate of occupancy for a new hotel on La Cienega Boulevard because they think that the hotel plans to violate its occupancy limits by renting out ground-floor guest rooms for meetings.
The 304-room Hotel Nikko is south of the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, just outside the Beverly Hills city limits. More than five years ago, the Los Angeles City Council laid down special conditions for the hotel, limiting its first floor to three meeting rooms with a maximum occupancy of 171. The five guest rooms on the same floor call for a maximum of four people each.
However, officials of the Beverly Hills Planning and Community Development Department said that they were told by hotel employees during the Dec. 18 grand opening that the rooms would be available for “small luncheons and meetings.”
The hotel’s general manager, Alphy L. Johnson, said the matter is a misunderstanding, the result of mistaken information given out by employees.
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