Atwater Village News - blog

The Office of Historic Resources and the Cultural Heritage Commission (CHC) invite you to participate in a public hearing on Thursday, November 20 (after 10:00 a.m.) to provide input on a significant overhaul of the City's historic preservation ordinance. The hearing will be held in Room 1010 of City Hall (10th Floor), at 200 N. Spring St.

The staff of the Office of Historic Resources (OHR) is proposing important changes aimed at strengthening demolition review procedures, clarifying criteria for historic designation, and enhancing notification of private property owners. The City of Los Angeles' Cultural Heritage Ordinance, originally approved by the City Council in 1962, created the procedures for the designation and protection of significant Los Angeles buildings and sites as Historic-Cultural Monuments. While the Ordinance has undergone several minor, procedural modifications, it has never been comprehensively updated to give our City a state-of-the-art historic preservation program.

The Cultural Heritage Commission held public workshops and hearings on these ordinance amendments earlier this year. The amendments have since gone through additional refinements as recommended by a Cultural Heritage Ordinance Working Group and are now returning to the Commission for its review and for your input. If you will not be able to attend the hearing, we would welcome your written comments and suggestions on these proposals as the OHR and Commission finalize a draft ordinance for submission to the City Council.

The OHR has now made available the revised text of the proposed ordinance changes. To review the draft ordinance and a summary of the recommendations under review by the Commission, click on the attachment at the bottom of the OHR's web site article on the hearing, at:
http://www.preservation.lacity.org/node/94

You may also review the existing ordinance by clicking on the attachment "Cultural Heritage Ordinance" at:  http://www.preservation.lacity.org/commission