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1 QX f BEVERLY HILLS City of Beverly Hills Planning Division 455 N. Rexford Drive Beverly Hills, CA TEL. (310) FAX. (310) Meeting Date: Subject: Project Applicant: Recommendation: January 11, MAYTOR PLACE Trousdale View Restoration (PL ) Request for a View Restoration Permit by the View Owner at 1111 Maytor Place for the complete removal of six trees located on a neighbor s property at 1100 Maytor Place (Foliage Owner 1) and for the complete removal of three trees located on a neighbor s property at 1119 North Hillcrest Road (Foliage Owner 2). (It is recommended that this item be continued to the February 22, 2018 Planning Commission Meeting) Amy Rice, Marmol Radziner, on behalf of The Rollo Tomassi Trust, LLC, property owner That the Planning Commission continue the public hearing on the item to the regularly scheduled February 22, 2018 Planning Commission meeting. REPORT SUMMARY The owner of. a single-family property addressed (View Owner) has submitted a request for a Trousdale Estates View Restoration Permit pursuant to Beverly Hills Municipal Code (BHMC) The view restoration request includes requests for removal of foliage located on two properties, specifically: The complete removal of six trees located on the property at 1100 Maytor Place (Foliage Owner 1). The complete removal of three trees on the property at 1119 North Hillcrest Road (Foliage Owner 2). Figure 1 on the following page identifies the location of the View Owner s property and the two Foliage Owners properties, as well as the locations of the nine trees that are the subject of this request. The nine trees that are requested to be removed are not located in a front yard or street-facing yard, therefore none of the trees requested for removal are considered protected. Attachment(s): A. continuance Request from View Owner s Representative Report Author and contact Information: cynthia de a Torre, Associate Planner (310) cdelatorre@beverlyhills.org 11

2 -. View C Page 2 of 3 The Planning Commission may issue a View Restoration Permit to a View Owner with a protectable view where the protectable view from a viewing area is substantially disrupted by foliage. Through issuance of a View Restoration Permit, the Planning Commission may require restorative action on the Foliage Owner s property MAYTOR PLACE (VIEW OWNER) 1 MAYTOR PLACE PROPERTY LINES -. CLUSTER OF C2-3) PINE TREES AT 1100 MAYTOR PLACE - ODOCARPUS TREE 1C0 MAYTOR PLACE (FOLIAGE OWNER #1) CLUSTER OF (1-2) PINE - CLUSTER OF (1-2) PINE I h r - TREE TER OF (1-2) PINE TREES AT 1100 MAYTOR PLACE CLUSTER OF (1-2) PINE NORTH 1113 NORTH (FOLIAGE OWNER #2) Figure 1 Owner s Request The applicant s representative notified staff of the following: Since the November 9, 2017 Planning Commission hearing, the View Owner and Foliage Owner 2 have continued to work towards reaching a private agreement to resolve the view restoration issue on the 1119 North Hillcrest Property. Additional time is still required for both parties to finalize this agreement. It is anticipated that the private agreement will result in the complete removal of the three trees that are the subject of the applicant s view restoration request. An open City code enforcement case regarding the non-conforming hedge located on 1100 Maytor Place (Foliage Owner 1) has not been resolved. Resolution of the code enforcement case regarding the hedge would enable both staff and the Commission to more accurately evaluate protectable views from. The City s 1 PROTECTABLE VIEW: A protectable view may include any view of the Los Angeles area basin from a viewing area as defined in BHMC The view of the Los Angeles area basin may include, but is not limited to, city lights (Beverly Hills and other cities), ocean, and horizon. The term protectable view does not mean an unobstructed panorama of all or any of the above. For purposes of this section, a protectable view shall be determined from a point thirty six inches (36 ) above the finished grade of the viewing area. 12

3 Page 3 of 3 Community Preservation Division issued the 1100 Maytor Place property owner an order requiring compliance with the City s hedge height regulations by November 16, The Foliage Owner s attorney subsequently requested an extension to the compliance order and the City granted an extension through January 16, Community Preservation Division staff completed a field visit on December 13, 2017 after the Foliage Owner s attorney communicated to the City that trimming of the hedge to remedy the code violation had occurred. During the field inspection, the Code Enforcement Officer found the hedge still in violation, and consequently, issued an administrative citation. Therefore, additional time is needed to resolve the code enforcement case. On December 15, 2017, the City received an from the View Owner s representative requesting continuance of the hearing to February 22, 2018 (Attachment A). The February 22, 2018 Planning Commission date is the earliest regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting where representatives of both the View Owner and Foliage Owner 1 are available. NEXT STEPS It is recommended that the Planning Commission continue the public hearing to the February 22, 2018 Planning Commission meeting. Report Reviewed By: MasavAlkfre, AICP, Principal Planner 13

4 Attachment A Request for Continuance from View Owner s Representative 14

5 View From: Amy Rice Sent: Friday, December 15, :54 PM To: Cynthia de Ia Torre Cc: Chris Keller Cohn Roberts Kanchan Richardson Subject: RE: 1111 Maytor - View Restoration Updates Hi Cynthia, In follow up to our phone call yesterday, we wanted to let you know that we are fine with postponing the hearing date until February 22, 2018, when all parties are available to attend. Please let me know if I continued. should plan to attend the hearing on 1/11, at which the case will just be Thank you, Amy Amy Rice Landscape Studio Director MARMOL RADZINER Nebraska Avenue Los Angeles, CA phone mobile ricea(marmol-radziner.com www. marmol-radziner.com From: Cynthia de Ia Torre [mailto:cdelatorre@beverlyhills.orgj Sent: Tuesday, December 12, :44 PM To: Amy Rice <ricea@marmol-radziner.com> Cc: Chris Keller <kellerc@marmol-radziner.com>; Cohn Roberts <robertsc@marmol-radziner.com>; Kanchan Richardson <richardsonk@marmol-radziner.com> Subject: RE: 1111 Maytor - Restoration Updates Hi Amy, Thank you for the updated materials; they will be included as an attachment to the Planning Commission staff report for the Planning Commission and the public. Please find my responses to your questions below: -Typically, images used in the staff report (such as aerial images of the View Owner and Foliage Owner s properties indicating the subject foliage requested to be removed, as well as photographs showing the view from the View Owner s property) are included in the staffs PowerPoint presentation to the Planning Commission). -The application materials, which include the exhibits prepared by you, will also be included as an attachment to the staff report. -In terms of the deadline for the inclusion of letters of support into a packet, the packet is available a week before the Planning Commission meeting. If you can send me any letters of support 10 days 3 15