Melrose and Seward Project

Melrose and Seward Project

Project will demolish an existing, one-story commercial building and surface parking lot, and construct a five-story office-retail building encompassing a total floor area of 67,889 square feet on Lots 21 through 23 of the project site. The project site encompasses an area of 45,136 square feet between Lots 18 through 23. With the addition of the existing 17,134 square feet of building floor area that account for two, two-story commercial buildings on Lots 18 – 20, the Project proposes a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 1.88 to 1. The Project will include 67,242 square feet of office space between the first and fifth floors, and 647 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. The Project will reach a maximum height of approximately 69 feet. The Project requests a Zone Change and Height District Change from C4-1XL and CM-1VL to CM-2. The request allows the project to have no limitations on height and a FAR of up to 6 to 1. The Project requests a Zoning Administrator’s Determination to allow the Project to exceed the 25-foot Transitional Height requirement otherwise allowed for buildings located within 49 feet of RW1 or more restrictive Zones. The Project also requests a Waiver of Dedication and/or Improvement to waive all dedication and street widening requirements along West Melrose Avenue and North Seward Street. The Project will provide 168 vehicular parking spaces and 26 bicycle parking spaces (17 long-term and 9 short-term) on the ground floor and two subterranean levels. Regarding the anticipated haul route for the Project, loaded haul trucks would exit the project site at West Melrose Avenue and travel east to North Normandie Avenue where they would connect with U.S. Highway 101. Construction would require approximately 29,400 cubic yards of total soil excavation and export.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Southern California

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region 4 (RWQCB), Office of Historic Preservation, Santa Monica Bay Restoration, California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT)

California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT)

Office (Sq. Ft. 67242, Acres 1.05, Employees 20), Commercial (Sq. Ft. 647, Acres 1.05, Employees 30)

Site Plan, Rezone

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire