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4802-4828 West San Vicente Boulevard / Conditional Use / Class 2 (CU2) / Project Review (PR) / Appeal

Council File 26-1289-S1

Under review — five neighbors have appealed the Planning Commission's approval of a self-storage facility on West San Vicente Boulevard, and the matter is now waiting for the City Council's Planning Committee to schedule a hearing and decide whether to uphold or overturn the decision.

Introduced
2026-09-09
Last changed
2026-09-16
CFMS file status
File open See note on file status
Expires
2028-09-09
Committee
Planning and Land Use Management Committee
Initiated by
Los Angeles City Planning Commission
References
Case: CPC-2025-5194-HD-CU2-PR-ZC-1AEnvironmental: ENV-2025-5195-MNDRelated Case: CPC-2025-5194-HD-CU2-PR-ZC

This is the City Clerk's status for the council file itself, not the outcome of the measure. A file often stays open after the Council has already adopted an item. The summary above reflects the latest recorded action.

Brief

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission issued a decision on a conditional use permit (Class 2) and project review for a property at 4802-4828 West San Vicente Boulevard. The file documents an appeal of that decision, which was referred to the Planning and Land Use Management Committee on September 16, 2026. The matter remains pending before the committee and is subject to Council action by September 2028.

Full summary

Westport Properties Inc., represented by David Kelly, is seeking to demolish an existing one-story warehouse building and two surface parking lots at 4802-4828 West San Vicente Boulevard in the Wilshire Community Plan area (Council District 10) and replace them with a seven-story, 161,645-square-foot self-storage facility for household goods. The building would rise to nearly 85 feet and include storage units on all seven floors, a small leasing office, a lobby, a community/multi-purpose room, five enclosed vehicle parking spaces, 36 bicycle spaces, and two loading spaces. Hours of operation would be limited to 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily. Because the project sits within 500 feet of residential zoning — apartment buildings across San Vicente Boulevard are zoned R2 and R3 — the applicant needed a Class 2 Conditional Use permit to allow storage uses in that proximity. A Project Review was also required because the building would add more than 50,000 gross square feet of non-residential floor area. In addition, the project required a zone and height district change from C2-1-O to (T)(Q)C2-2D-O to raise the maximum allowable floor area ratio from 1.5:1 to 6:1, enabling the proposed density. The Commission also granted a waiver of the requirement to dedicate and improve an additional 2.5 feet of the adjoining public alley, finding that doing so would require relocating utility infrastructure without meaningfully improving local circulation. A Mitigated Negative Declaration was adopted as the environmental clearance, with mitigation measures focused on tribal cultural resources requiring a Kizh Nation monitor during all ground-disturbing activity. The City Planning Commission voted 8-0 on July 9, 2026, to approve the conditional use, project review, and related findings, and to recommend that the City Council adopt the zone and height district change ordinance. Five separate parties filed appeals of the conditional use and project review approvals before the August 24, 2026 deadline: Barbara Calloway, Curtis Clark, the Longwood Reynolds Trust (by trustee Edward J. Campbell), Eugene Jones with James Draffen and Jorge Rafael, and the Gabay family. The appellants are not represented by a shared attorney and their specific objections are not detailed in the transmittal documents, but the appeals triggered Council review of the conditional use and project review entitlements. The zone and height district change, which is proceeding under a related council file, is not part of this appeal. The Planning Commission transmitted the file to the City Clerk on September 8, 2026, and the Department of City Planning referred the materials to the Planning and Land Use Management Committee one week later. The Council has 75 days from the last day to appeal — August 24, 2026 — to act on the matter. The file remains open and pending committee action, with no hearing date yet scheduled.

Activity (2)

  • 2026-09-16 Department of City Planning document(s) referred to Planning and Land Use Management Committee.
  • 2026-09-09 Document submitted by Los Angeles City Planning Commission, dated September 8, 2026.

Documents (12)

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