Please make plans to attend a working group session with City Planners Erick Lopez and Jennifer Driver, who are currently drafting the City of LA Hillside Mansionization Ordinance, which will effectively limit Floor-Area-Ratio for single family residential homes built in the hills of Los Angeles.
Your leadership, expertise and critical input is being sought after from the Department of City Planning to ensure that the ordinance drafted represents reasonable public policy that provides incentives for design excellence, while at the same time provisions to protect the natural character of our City's hillsides in an ecologically sustainable manner.
DCP would like the focus of the meeting to be about how implementable the proposed ordinance would be from a technical stand point rather than a policy point of view. What difficulties do architects think would arise in designing a building to conform to the ordinance? Do architects have any suggestions on how to make the ordinance easier to work with?
This is an opportunity to help influence and shape public policy through the lens of design.
AIA|LA Political Outreach Committee presents...
The City of LA HILLSIDE MANSIONIZATION ORDINANCE
- a working group session -
Thursday, March 11 (3:00-5:00pm)
CITY HALL, Room 667
City of Los Angeles
200 N. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Limited Capacity. Please RSVP to
MARCH 9, 2010 UPDATE:
Greetings All,
For those of you who were not able to attend one of our 6 Public Workshops held throughout the City of Los Angeles, or those who want a copy for their notes, we have finally posted the Baseline Hillside Ordinance Workshop Presentation on our website for download. To download the presentation, please visit our website (http://planning.lacity.org) and click on "Plans & Ordinances" on the left, then click on "Proposed Ordinance" and then "Baseline Hillside Ordinance", or you can use the following link:
Baseline Hillside Ordinance Workshop Presentation
You can also download the Preliminary Proposal Handouts in that same webpage, or you can use the following links:
Baseline Hillside Ordinance Summary
Floor Area Ration Handout
Residential Floor Area Definition Handout
Height & Story Handout
Grading Handout
Hillside Standards Overlay District Handout
Feel free to forward this email and/or the links to anyone you feel might be interested.
Staff is currently processing all of the comments made at the workshops and will try to address as many of them as we can in the proposed Baseline Hillside Ordinance. We will take into consideration written comments received up to Monday, March 15, 2010 in the development of the proposed Ordinance; please email them to . We will continue to accept your comments after the 15th, but will unfortunately not be able to be incorporated in that iteration of the proposal. For those individuals who attended and/or gave us their input, thank you for your time and participation.
If you received this email via forwarded message from someone other than myself, and you want to obtain updates directly from the Department, please email and ask to be added to the interest list. Please type "Add Me To Hillside Notification List" in the subject line and provide your group/organization/company affiliations and contact information (please include at least your ZIP Code).
Facebook™ Users: Look for the Baseline Hillside Ordinance page; add the page and receive updates in your news feed. You can also view our events calendar and participate in discussion boards.
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself or Jennifer Driver at or at (818) 374-5034.
Thank you for your attention.
Erick Lopez
City Planner
Department of City Planning
Community Planning Bureau - West Coastal Division
200 N. Spring St., Room 621
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 978-1243
(213) 978-1226 - fax
Last Updated: January 26, 2010
