Reduced 8150 Project Passes Committee
WWW.BEVERLYPRESS.COM ELECTION 2016 Cloudy with temps in the VOTE NOV. 8 high 70s Volume 26 No. 43 Serving the West Hollywood, Hancock Park, Beverly Hills and Wilshire Communities October 27, 2016 L.A.: how do Reduced 8150 project passes committee n Townscape agrees to Ryu’s you feel conditions to reduce number of units and overall size about race in One of the city’s most scrutinized develop- your city? ments proposals – 8150 Sunset – received rec- n ommendation for approval on Tuesday after its Elected officials seek owners agreed to reduce its tallest building by Angelenos’ input on 24 percent and increase affordable housing. Councilman David Ryu, 4th District, was not sensitive issues present at the Planning and Land Use (PLUM) Committee meeting Tuesday, but he was com- mended more than a dozen times for working There are approximately with the developer Townscape Partners to cre- 3,972,000 of them, which is a lot ate an agreement that also includes community more than before. benefits and additional traffic mitigations. They’re black, Hispanic, white, The project at the southwest corner of Asian, American Indian, Pacific Crescent Heights and Sunset Boulevards was Islander or from the Middle East. designed by architect Frank Gehry. His plans Some identify as Jews, Buddhists, feature five structures for commercial and res- Courtesy of Marathon Communications Catholics, Muslims or Protestants. idential space over approximately 334,000 New renderings for the 8150 Sunset project have not been created yet, but the tallest building There are those who don’t believe in square feet, and will take the place of two com- is set to be 24 percent smaller.
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