CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR’S HEARING

MEETING AGENDA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2025 -- MEETING TIME 5:00 PM

West Hollywood City Hall, Community Conference Room 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069


LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT: "The City of West Hollywood acknowledges that the land on which we gather and that is currently known as the City of West Hollywood is the occupied, unceded, seized territory of the Gabrieleño Tongva and Gabrieleño Kizh peoples”.

 

TO PARTICIPATE BY PROVIDING WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE OR AN E-COMMENT:

To better facilitate the meeting, members of the public who wish to comment on matters before the Community Development Director are strongly encouraged to submit an email to planning@weho.org no later than 2:00 pm on the Director’s Hearing meeting day.

 

Note: E-Comments received by 2:00 p.m. will be forwarded to the Community Development Director and posted on the City’s website as part of the official meeting record. Your comments and information will become part of the official public record. If you do not want your personal information included in the official record, please do not include your address and/or phone number.

 

TO PARTICIPATE BY PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT BY TELEPHONE:

This option is to provide public comment via phone ONLY.

 

1.               You must sign up to speak no later than 2:00 p.m. on the day of the Community Development Director’s Hearing to be added to the Zoom Public Speaker List.

2.                Send your name, the phone number you will be calling from, and which item you wish to speak on to: planning@weho.org and the meeting information will be emailed back to you.

3.               Dial-in 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting (the meeting begins at 5:00 p.m.)

Dial in Code: *6 = unmute

Dial in Code: *9 = lets the host know you want to speak on the current item

 

This agenda was posted at: City Hall, West Hollywood Library on San Vicente Boulevard, Plummer Park, and the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station.

 

To comply with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990, Assistive Listening Devices (ALD) will be available for check out at the meeting. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing dial 711 or 1-800-735-2929 (TTY) or 1-800-735-2922 (voice) for California Relay Service (CRS) assistance. If special assistance to participate in this meeting is required, (e.g., an American Sign Language interpreter for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing), please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (323) 848-6800 at least 72 hours before the meeting date.  You must call or

 

submit your request in writing to the Commission Secretary at (323) 848-6475 or email planning@weho.org at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.

 

For additional information on any item on the posted agenda, please contact Antonio Castillo, Senior Planner and Liaison (acastillo@weho.org) (323) 848-6854.

 

 

 

1.               CALL TO ORDER

 

2.               PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE  

 

3.               APPROVAL OF AGENDA

 

4.               APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Approve the minutes of prior Community Development Director Hearings:

 

A.              October 8, 2024

 

5.               CONSENT CALENDAR. None.

 

6.               PUBLIC HEARINGS

 

A.              8451 MELROSE AVENUE:

The applicant requests to amend an existing Minor Conditional Use Permit (MCUP 21-0004) and Administrative Permit (AP 21-0011) to expand a previously approved 600-square-foot rooftop dining area for a restaurant tenant space by an additional 1,833 square feet for a total rooftop area of 2,433 square feet. The request also includes incidental sales, service, and consumption of full alcohol within the expanded outdoor dining area. The use of outdoor dining is in conjunction with a previously approved separate buildout of the new 3,302-square-foot restaurant space in the existing multi-tenant commercial building. No additional parking is required for the expanded outdoor dining area. The project site is located at 8451 Melrose Avenue within the CN1 (Commercial, Neighborhood 1) zoning district.

 

 

 

Applicant:    Jenna Constantino of Avondale Equities

Staff: Korina Arvizu, Assistant Planner

 

RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Director of the Community Development Department hold the public hearing, consider all pertinent testimony, and take the following action:

 

1)    Draft Resolution No. CD 25-281: “A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OF THE CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD CONDITIONALLY APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO A MINOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT AND AN AMENDMENT TO AN ADMINISTRATIVE PERMIT TO ALLOW THE SALES, SERVICE, AND CONSUMPTION OF FULL ALCOHOL INCIDENTAL TO FOOD SERVICE FOR THE EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING ROOFTOP DINING AREA FROM 600 SQUARE FEET TO 2,433 SQUARE FEET FOR A RESTAURANT LOCATED AT 8451 MELROSE AVENUE  (“CUCINA ALBA”), INCLUDING A FINDING THAT THE PROJECT IS EXEMPT FROM CEQA UNDER CLASS 3 CATEGORICAL EXEMPTION FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION TO A RESTAURANT (14 CCR §15303).” (EXHIBIT A).

 

ITEM 6A Staff Report

ITEM 6A Exhibit A (Draft Resolution No. CD 25-281)

ITEM 6A Exhibit B (Adopted Resolution No. CD 24-279)

ITEM 6A Exhibit C (Adopted Resolution No. CD 22-269 (Approved MCUP 21-0004))

ITEM 6A Exhibit D (Approved AP 21-0011)

ITEM 6A Exhibit E (Radius Map)

ITEM 6A Exhibit F (Project Plans)

ITEM 6.A.(Additional Correspondence (02/11/25)

 

7.               EXCLUDED CONSENT CALENDAR. None

 

8.               PUBLIC COMMENT:

 

9.               ADJOURNMENT:   The Community Development Director will adjourn to a regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM at West Hollywood City Hall, Community Conference Room – 1st Floor, 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California.


 

 

 

 

 

 

APPEAL PROCEDURES Any final determination by the Community Development Director may be appealed with just cause and such appeal must be filed within ten (10) calendar days after the Community Development Director’s Hearing action. This appeal shall be made in written form to the City Clerk’s Office stating the reason for the appeal and accompanied by an appeal fee or required number of signatures. The City Clerk, upon filing of said appeal, will set petition for public hearing before the Planning Commission at the earliest date. If you challenge any City of West Hollywood decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described on this agenda, or in a written correspondence delivered to the Community Development Director at, or prior to, the public hearing.