LOS
ANGELES, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine
community groups and local businesses in the Beverly Fairfax
neighborhood have filed appeals with the City of Los Angeles
Planning Department, challenging the City's Advisory Agency's
May 28, 2024 approval of the Vesting
Tentative Tract Map ("VTTM") and related certification of the Final
Environmental Impact Report ("EIR") for the TVC 2050 Project.
Since it was first proposed, this massive
expansion project has generated significant opposition from local
residents, businesses, and community groups.
The following community organizations, members of
the Beverly Fairfax Community Alliance, filed appeals with the City
opposing the project: Beverly Wilshire Homes Association, Fix the
City, Miracle Mile Residents Association, Neighbors for Responsible
TVC Development, Park La Brea Impacted Residents Group, and Save
Beverly Fairfax. The following businesses also filed appeals: A.F.
Gilmore Company, Broadcast Center Apartments and Caruso's The Grove
shopping center.
Leading land use attorneys from Loeb & Loeb;
Latham & Watkins; Carstens, Black & Minteer; Sheppard,
Mullin, Richter & Hampton and Collaborate prepared these
appeals on behalf of several organizations and businesses.
Additionally, the group Neighbors for Responsible
Television City Development recently delivered to LA City
Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky more than 2,200 signed petitions,
collected by hand, from local residents opposing the project.
Hackman Capital's TVC 2050 proposal would make
the Television City property twice the size of the Staples Center
arena, with an office tower that would be 100 feet taller than any
other structure in the surrounding community, and add 550,000 of
general, non-studio office space on the property. The additional
office workforce would also add considerable traffic to an already
congested area of Los Angeles. The
project has a 20-year construction timeline, with 20-ton trucks
conducting more than 100,000 trips driving through and polluting
the community.
The various appeals cite conflicts with the
existing general and specific plan for this location; concerns with
transparency, disclosure and other issues with the City's process;
how the project is out of scale with the surrounding community; the
addition of a massive general office complex that has no specific
studio use; causing traffic gridlock; creating significant air
pollution; impacts to emergency response; a 20-year construction
timeline that will disrupt the neighborhood; and violations of the
California Environmental Quality Act.
Commenting on the significant community
opposition to the TVC 2050 project, Neighbors for Responsible TVC
co-chairs Danielle Peters and
Shelley Wagers said: "Despite our
support for revitalizing the historic studio, the TVC 2050 project
remains deeply unpopular in the Beverly Fairfax community. It would
be twice as big as the Staples Center arena, with over 500,000
square feet of general office space, creating endless traffic
gridlock. Its Specific Plan and 20-year construction timeline are a
blank check. TVC needs to be refocused and downsized, and the
City needs to review it properly."
Diana Plotkin,
President of the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association, said: "The
community has filed nine compelling appeals about the many negative
impacts the Television City project will bring to the Beverly
Fairfax neighborhood. It is our hope that the Developer, City Staff
and our Councilmember will support us in making the needed
reductions to the project to make it compatible with the historic
Beverly Fairfax neighborhood. If not, we will need to consider
other options including litigation, action at the ballot box, or
even a possible referendum."
All nine appeals are available for download here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x0BZg3ruQl6wFB0QScPfYNp7MAuBqTy8?usp=share_link
In the months ahead, these community
organizations and businesses, among others, will continue to
advocate for the City to amend this massive development that will
bring many negative impacts to the Beverly Fairfax community.
The Beverly Fairfax Community Alliance was
started by The Original Farmers Market and The Grove in
August 2022, and partners with
community organizations, businesses and residents who are concerned
about the proposed redevelopment of Television City.
Contact:
Alliance Spokesperson
(323) 200-9468
379697@email4pr.com
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SOURCE Beverly Fairfax Community Alliance