LOS ANGELES : Compromise Limits Movie Filming on Exclusive Street

Complaints about excessive filming at a hillside mansion prompted the city on Friday to impose limits all along exclusive Tower Grove Drive.

Some neighbors had complained that filming activity at Mark Slotkin’s home, coupled with large social gatherings on the property, clogged the narrow roadways north of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The Board of Public Works on Friday limited each home on the street to 12 filming permits and 24 shooting days a year, a policy that will be reviewed in a year. The board also ordered Slotkin, an antique dealer and real estate broker, to notify the city for the next four months whenever he intends to hold a gathering with more than 75 guests.

The new limits are not expected to have any appreciable effect on filming in the tony hillside community. Slotkin’s home, featured in “Beverly Hillbillies” and “Indecent Proposal,” was a filming site for nine days last year. The busiest filming location on the street was a residence that had 22 days of filming in 1993.

“We set a limit because there were complaints, but it’s a reasonable limit,” said Public Works Commissioner J.P. Ellman, who brokered the compromise. “It can be viewed as pro-filming because it’s not unnecessarily restrictive.”