City News, LADBS, Planning
Status of Al Fresco Ordinance (aka Outdoor eating)
One of the few positive things to come out of the recent pandemic was the rediscovery of the joy of outdoor eating. When restauranteurs couldn’t serve more than a few customers inside their eateries because of distancing requirements, they moved the tables outside and Angelenos embraced the chance to eat outdoors, or Al Fresco. Now that […]
PCCLA
Different Kind of Beans in Echo Park
We were working with a purveyor of a different kind of bean in Echo Park earlier this year, helping the Seattle-based Biscuit & Bean open its first quick-serve restaurant in LA. If you haven’t been yet, stop reading and go immediately to B&B. You can thank us later.
PCCLA
Riding into Sawtelle with 10 Speed
Blue Bottle isn’t the only specialty coffee retailer that Pacific Crest Consultants has helped with permitting. We recently helped 10 Speed Coffee obtain permits and the final Certificate of Occupancy for its first LA store, which is located in the Sawtelle area of West Los Angeles. We were very familiar with 10 Speed’s first store since it’s […]
PCCLA
PCC & the pop-up coffee omakase
Pacific Crest Consultants has permitted a lot of unique buildings and operations in our 40+ year history in Los Angeles. But we recently permitted a new “first”: A temporary, high-end coffee tasting experience or coffee omakase. The Blue Bottle Studio is the brainchild of Blue Bottle founder James Freeman (pictured above). We were honored when Blue Bottle reached […]
City News, Planning
Wildlife Ordinance Moves Forward
Council land-use committee unanimously OKs draft rules that would significantly limit development in key Hillside areas what’s next? The City Council’s Planning & Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee voted earlier this week to endorse the highly controversial Wildlife Ordinance after a raucous public hearing. Hundreds of people attended the hearing, but many were shut out […]
City News, Planning
Draft Wildlife Ordinance May Be Coming to City Council’s PLUM on Tuesday
Process will still take several months to go from committee hearing to effective ordinance, but Tuesday’s meeting is a key step forward Nearly five months after the City Planning Commission unanimously approved a controversial ordinance that would impose significant development limitations on some of Los Angeles’ most affluent neighborhoods, the draft Wildlife Ordinance is finally […]
City News, LADBS
Mayor’s Tolling Order To End Soon
The end is near for the Mayor’s Tolling Order. As a reminder, back on March 21, 2020, then-Mayor Garcetti declared a citywide State of Emergency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. His order included a tolling of City Planning and LADBS deadlines, stating that any project which would normally have an entitlement, plan-check and/or […]
City News, LADBS, Planning
HCR Overlays Being Added
Hillside Construction Regulations likely coming to additional residential neighborhoods in Bel Air–Beverly Crest & NELA While most of the Los Angeles residential development industry has been watching the proposed Wildlife Ordinance make its way through the byzantine review process, two proposed ordinances have quietly reached the precipice of enactment which could impact thousands of residential properties in […]
PCCLA
PCCLA Announces Four New Directors
Pacific Crest Consultants is excited to announce the promotion of four PCC consultants to the role of Director. The four new Directors are (alphabetically): Erik Conard (bio) (email)Dina Elkinawy (bio) (email)Chloe Parker (bio) (email)Amy Studarus (bio) (email) The Directors will take leadership roles in their areas of expertise, working with other PCC consultants and project teams to […]
City News, LADBS
All-Electric Buildings Coming to LA
Citing the global climate crisis, the City of Los Angeles approved an ordinance last month that would require that all newly constructed buildings be “all-electric buildings,” meaning that no gas piping can be provided for cooking (including outdoor barbeques), space heating (including fireplaces), water heating (including pools and spas), and/or clothes drying. Although the law’s […]
