Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 9:00 a.m.

Los Angeles City Hall

200 N. Spring Street, Room 350

Los Angeles, CA 90012

They are going to be asking for the following variances from the zoning rules:

1. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.32-F, a Vesting Zone Change from C4-2D-SN

to C2-2-SN;

2. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.3-Q, removal of the 'D' Limitation in Height District '2D', to correspond with the proposed Zone Change;

3. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.24-W,24 and 12.24-T, a Vesting Conditional Use to permit a hotel use within 500 feet of a R Zone;

4. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.24-W,19 a Conditional Use to allow floor area averaging in a unified development;

5. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code 12.24-W,1 and 12.24-W, 18(a), a Conditional Use to permit the sale and dispensing of a full line of alcoholic beverages and live entertainment and dancing;

6. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.27, a Zone Variance to permit outdoor eating areas above the ground floor;

7. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.27, a Zone Variance to allow less than the required parking for the sports club/fitness facility;

8. Pursuant to Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 12.21-A,4(y), City Planning Commission Authority for Reduced On-Site Parking with Remote Off-Site Parking for Transportation Alternatives to allow for shared/reduced on-site parking.

The unseemly aspect about this hearing is that there is no actual project design being submitted. They are only asking for variances from the existing zoning regulations. The public is being asking to sign off on an unknown. Without any plans it is impossible for anyone to make an intelligent decision regarding the consequences of the variances being sought by the Millennium project.

The hearing will also consider:

1. Pursuant to Section 21082.1(c) of the California Public Resources Code, the certification and

adoption of Environmental Impact Report, ENV-2011-0675-EIR, including the findings, mitigation

monitoring program, and Statement of Overriding Considerations setting forth the reasons and

benefits of adopting the EIR with full knowledge that significant impacts may remain;

2. Pursuant to LAMC Section 17.15, Vesting Tentative Tract Map for the merger and re-subdivision

of the subject property into 41 lots for the construction of 492 residential units with up to 200 hotel

rooms, and 215,000 square feet of office space, including the existing 114,303 square-foot Capital

Records building, and approximately 34,000 square feet of restaurant use, 35,100 square feet of

fitness/club sport use, and 15,000 square feet of retail use on a 6.01 acre site.

Many of the neighborhood councils and the neighborhood associations asked for more time to make public comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Report submitted by the Millennium in order to obtain expert opinion on the traffic mitigation and other environmental impacts from the project to be included in the Final EIR but Councilman Garcetti refused to allow it. The City Planning Department has issued the Final EIR but it is still possible to introduce public comments into the Administrative Record. Several of the neighborhood councils and neighborhood associations are currently seeking a planning expert to add the necessary analysis of the EIR to the Administrative Record.

Click here to view the Draft EIR 

Click here to view the Final EIR 

Councilman Garcetti is gung-ho on the project and he is also seeking to allow the Millennium project to hold the entitlements listed above beyond the normal 5-year period. The hearing will consider:

Pursuant to California Government Code Sections 65864-65869.5, to enter into a Development

Agreement

We all know that this project will be a disaster for the residents - more traffic, more congestion, more density and two more hideous monstrosities ruining the Hollywood skyline. So many of these projects have been business failures but the developers don't care. Once it is built they just take the money and run, leaving the community with the mess.

Please come to the hearing and/or submit your public comment. You can submit your written comments to:

With a subject line:

CPC-2008-3440-ZC-CUB-CU-ZV-HD -- ENV-2011-675-EIR