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Randy Greenwald640 S. San Vicente Boulevard, Suite 475

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March 21, 2017

Hand DeliveredMembers of thePlanning and Land Use Management Committee City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, Room 360 Los Angeles, California 90012

Ms. Sharon Dickinson, Legislative AssistantAttention:

Council File No.: 15-0183-SI (Proposed) Miracle Mile HPOZ Date:Time:Place: City Hall, Room 340, 200 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Re:March 21,2017 2:30 p.m.

Dear Members of the PLUM Committee and Ms. Dickinson:

I am an owner of multi-family property located on the west side of the block designated as700 South Orange Grove Avenue/ South Ogden Drive (“Our Block”), adjacent to two major intersectingtransit corridors - Wilshire and Fairfax - and along the Purple Line. I support exclusion of Our Block.

The City Planning Commission determined and Councilmember Ryu recommended that Our Block be excluded from the boundary of the (Proposed) HPOZ Miracle Mile. There is good reason:

2 Billion Dollars are being invested in the Purple Line Subway Extension.1.

2. The only Portal to the Wilshire/Fairfax Station will be located on Our Block, within 500 walking feet. See Map marked Exhibit A, attached and incorporated in full.

Density near transit corridors and stations is a mandated goal and objective, achievable on Our Block only if it is excluded from the (Proposed) HPOZ.

3.

The pervasive existing massing, scale, architecture and use which already surrounds and is part of Our Block, is high density 4 story - not 2. contemporary - not within the period of significance, and heavily influenced by commercial and cultural use, not residential (Exh. A)

4.

Property owners on Our Block petitioned to be excluded from the (Proposed) HPOZ. A copy of said petition marked Exhibit B is attached and incorporated in full.

5.

For reasons which include the above, I request Our Block be excluded and urge you to exclude our substantially separate and totally distinct Block and the others excluded by the Planning Commission from the boundary of the (Proposed) HPOZ so that they can be utilized for their current higher and better uses and be of greater benefit to this community in the long run. Thank you for your consideration.

Respectfully submitted,

Randy GreenwaldRG/ngEnclosures

Randy Greenwald

Members of thePlanning and Land Use Management Committee March 21, 2017 of 2

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Ms. Renata Dragland

City Planning Associate

Office of Historic Resources

Los Angeles Department of City Planning

200 N. Spring St

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Los Angeles, CA 90012

Dear Ms.Dragland:

The property owners of parcels located on the 700 block of South Orange Grove Avenue and the 700 block South Ogden Drive oppose the proposed HPOZ and request that this block be excluded from the Zone. The signed petitions are attached.

Thank you for your consideration

David Wagner

749 S. Ogden Drive

Los Angeles,CA 90036

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Mr. Kenneth Bernstein, Manager and Principai City PlannerMs. Renata Dragland, City Planning AssociateOffice of Historic ResourcesLos Angeles Department of City PlanningRoom 601200 N. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Re: Opposition to:(Proposed) Historic Preservation Overlay Zone- Miracle Mile ("HPOZ”) Case N umber C PC-2016-961 -HPOZ

Dear Mr. Bernstein and Ms. Dragland:

We are the property owners of parcels located within the proposed HPOZ, Our properties are on the block designated as 700 South Orange Grove Avenue and 700 South Ogden Drive, Together 700 South Orange Grove and 700 South Ogden comprise one physical block at the Nortb- westemmost boundary of the proposed HPOZ that is naturally bounded by Wilshire Boulevard on the north and 8"1 Street on the south (collectively referred to as “Our Block”).

We oppose inclusion of our properties in the proposed HPOZ.

We respectively request that Our Block be excluded from the proposed HPOZ for the following reasons:

1. The northern half of Our Block is already outside the boundary of the proposed HPOZ, The northernmost portion includes the future site of the portal to the Wiishire/Fairfax Subway Station, the current construction staging area for the Westside Subway Extension, and LACMA’s proposed site for a parking structure along Ogden Drive,

Our properties are located on the same block within approximately 500 feet walking distance of the site of the portal to the Wilshire/Fairfax Subway Station. Transit ridership would benefit from a residential density higher than allowed by the proposed HPOZ because it is adjacent to this new major transit station and along its transit corridor.

2.

The entire west side of 700 South Orange Grove is occupied by the Petersen Automotive Museum which is already outside the boundary of the proposed HPOZ,

3.

Exclusion of our parcels on the east side of 700 South Orange Grove has no impact on the pending application of the proposed HPOZ on blocks other than on Our Block,

4.

All parcels on the east side of700 South Ogden Drive are Non-Contributing parcels. Thus, exclusion of our parcels on the west side of 700 South Ogden has no impact on the pending application oftfte proposed HPOZ on blocks other than on Our Block

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6. implementing the proposed HPOZ on Our Block would be an unlawful taking of our property.

We respectfully request that each of our parcels that make up Our Block be excluded from the proposed HPOZ.

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6. Implementing the proposed HPOZ on Our Block would be an unlawful taking of our property.

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Mr, Kenneth Bernstein, Manager and Principal City PlannerMs. Renata Dragland, City Planning AssociateOffice of Historic ResourcesLos Angeles Department of City PlanningRoom 601200 N. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90012

Re: Opposition to:(Proposed) Historic Preservation Overlay Zone- Miracle Mite ("HPOZ") Case Number CPC-2016-961-HPOZ

Dear Mr. Bernstein and Ms. Dragland:

As a representative of the owner at 754 Orange Grove,! request that the east side of Orange Grove be excluded from the Miracle Mile HPOZ.

An HPOZ is contextual. But in the context of the Wilshire Fairfax subway station, the Peterson

Museum make-over, the Renzo Piano addition to the Museum of Motion Pictures, the

expansion of LACMA bridging Wilshire to the south side of Wilshire, and the recently completed thru-lot apartment development at 730-736 Orange Grove, the two "contributors" on the ARG map in the 700 block have become outliers. Just in the same way, a boxy McMansion built on a block of single-story Spanish eclectic bungalows from the 1920's would also be an outlier.

The Planning Department shoufd not impose this zoning overlay on such adjacent properties. As an architect,! recommend that the District Boundary be narrowed to exclude all properties

north of 8th street so as to create a buffer between the proposed HPOZ and the above

referenced development. But if this is not the general consensus I urge the department to exclude the east side of the 700 block of Orange Grove at the north-west perimeter of the proposed HPOZ. it is apparently not a big deal to reduce the size of a proposed HPOZ as opposed to the ex post facto process of enlarging its boundary. I urge the Department to take this path.

Very truly yours, nLPeter Merlin

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