Brief

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission referred a zoning change (ZC) and height district change (HD) for the property at 4802-4828 West San Vicente Boulevard to the Planning and Land Use Management Committee on September 16, 2026. The file represents an appeal or related application tied to planning case CPC-2025-5194, which includes conditional use and parcel revision components. The matter remains pending in committee with no council action yet taken.

Full summary

Council File 26-1289 concerns a proposal by Westport Properties Inc. to demolish an existing one-story warehouse 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. The building would rise to approximately 85 feet and include storage units on all seven floors, a small leasing office, a lobby, a community/multipurpose room, five enclosed vehicular parking spaces, 36 bicycle parking spaces, and two loading spaces. Hours of operation would be limited to 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily. The core zoning action before the City Council is a zone and height district change from C2-1-O to (T)(Q)C2-2D-O. This would increase the maximum allowable floor area ratio on the site from 1.5:1 to 6:1, enabling the project's 5.28:1 FAR. The change also includes a waiver of the requirement to dedicate and improve an additional 2.5 feet of the existing public alley to the south, on the grounds that widening that short mid-block alley segment would require relocating substantial utility infrastructure without meaningfully improving local circulation. The applicant is also required to provide street corner dedications and public improvements along Longwood Avenue, San Vicente Boulevard, and Tremaine Avenue as conditions of approval. A separate council file handles the appeal of the conditional use permit (allowing storage use within 500 feet of a residential zone) and the project review entitlement. The Los Angeles City Planning Commission voted 8-0 on July 9, 2026 to approve the project entitlements and recommend that the City Council adopt the zone change ordinance. The Commission adopted a Mitigated Negative Declaration as the environmental clearance, finding no significant unmitigated impacts, with the notable exception of tribal cultural resources, which require a Native American monitor from the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians - Kizh Nation during all ground-disturbing activities. The appeal deadline passed on August 24, 2026 without any appeal being filed against the zone and height district change specifically. The Commission transmitted the file to the City Clerk on September 8, 2026, and the Department of City Planning referred it to the Planning and Land Use Management Committee on September 16, 2026. The file is currently pending in the Planning and Land Use Management Committee, which has 90 days from the Clerk's receipt to act. No committee hearing date has been set. The file does not expire until September 8, 2028.

Activity (2)

• 2026-09-16 Department of City Planning document(s) referred to Planning and Land Use Management Committee.
• 2026-09-08 Document submitted by Los Angeles City Planning Commission, dated September 8, 2026.

Documents (9)

• 2026-09-08 Report from Los Angeles City Planning Commission · report
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - Modified Conditions of Approval · attachment
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - Modified T Conditions · attachment
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - ZC Ordinance · attachment
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - Findings · attachment
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - Mailing List · attachment
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - Exhibit A · attachment
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - Environmental · attachment
• 2026-09-08 Attachment to Report dated 9-08-26 - Staff Report · attachment