Hancock Park
City of Los Angeles May Not Grant “Adjustments” from Zoning Limits on Mansionization without Making the Findings Required by the City Charter for Variances, Court Rules
Back in the year 2000, the Los Angeles City Council passed a comprehensive zoning ordinance making numerous changes to the city’s Municipal Code to implement the 1999 city charter reform. One consequential change, however, had nothing to do with the charter reform. City officials quietly slipped it into the ordinance. The change, for years, allowed…