Highland Park : Historic Zone Approved
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has adopted the city’s largest historic preservation overlay zone for the Highland Park area.
The zone provides for an appointed board of citizens that will review any proposed changes to historic structures or structures that are of historic interest, such as the Casa Adobe on North Figueroa Street, an authentic reproduction of an old adobe.
Structures in the Highland Park zone date from the 1880s to the 1920s and include a wide variety of architectural styles. A 1989 survey listed about 1,500 structures that are significant, potentially significant or worthy of note from a historic and architectural point of view.
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