An Initial Study has been prepared for the proposed project and is available on the City’s Current and Historic Preservation Planning Environmental Documents webpage.
As part of the EIR scoping process, the City of West Hollywood will hold a virtual public scoping meeting. The project proposes to remove existing on-site uses and develop a mixed-use hotel, commercial and residential structure with subterranean parking, including 167 hotel rooms, 45 residential units, restaurants, retail, commercial uses, and other ancillary hotel and residential amenities. The project is designed to give the appearance of three separate but integrated structures within the site. The new building would be approximately 170,000 square feet in size and 12 levels, which would include two subterranean parking levels (basement levels B1 and B2), a lower ground level for vehicular circulation, a ground level with restaurants and commercial uses, and eight floors of hotel and residential uses, with a maximum height of approximately 111 feet and eight inches. The south building would primarily include the residential units and rooftop pool on the eighth floor, with commercial uses on the ground floor, and the central and east buildings would include the hotel and commercial uses. The project would include four signs integrated into the project’s design to promote the new project and emphasize the site as a gateway into the Sunset Strip and the City of West Hollywood. Three of these signs would include off-site signage. The proposed broad curved volume of the project would include a digital billboard off-site sign composed of graphic vertical LED strips. The digital billboard display would wrap around the highly visible southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and North Harper Avenue. The two existing billboards on the project site would be replaced with a two-sided horizontal billboard on the rooftop of the east building and a two-sided vertical billboard between the east and central buildings. An additional vertical on-site sign would be located on the portion of the project fronting Harper Avenue. Vehicles would enter the project site from North Harper Avenue via a 20-foot driveway located at the southwest corner of the project site. The project would include 172 subterranean parking spaces incorporating an electronic stacked parking system. Residential parking would be fully separated from hotel and commercial parking. The project would provide 12 short-term and 23 long-term bicycle parking spaces for the residential uses and 20 short-term and 13 long-term spaces for the commercial uses.
YOU MAY PARTICIPATE AND VIEW THE MEETING VIA THE ZOOM PLATFORM:
If you wish to make a public comment, please use the ‘raised hand’ feature in the Zoom application. You will be called at the appropriate time.
8228-8240 Sunset Boulevard Virtual Scoping Meeting Zoom Link
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO A COMPUTER, YOU MAY PARTICIPATE BY PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT BY TELEPHONE:
This option is to provide public comment via phone ONLY.
- You are strongly encouraged to E-Mail the project planner: acastillo@weho.org in advance of the scoping meeting.
- In the E-Mail please include your name and the phone number from which you will be calling.
- Dial-in 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting (the meeting begins at 6:00 p.m.)
Dial in Codes: *6 = unmute. *9 = lets the host know you want to speak on the current item
Dial-in: (669) 900-6833
Meeting I.D.: 898 7320 9813 #
- YOUR PHONE WILL BE MUTED UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED TO SPEAK.
Comments from the public are limited to 3 minutes per speaker.
IF YOU’D LIKE TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN COMMENT:
To better facilitate the remote meeting, members of the public who wish to comment are strongly encouraged to submit an E-Mail with their comments to the project planner Antonio Castillo at acastillo@weho.org
The Notice of Preparation for this project is being circulated pursuant to California Resources Code Section §21153(a) and CEQA Guidelines Section §15082. Public agencies and the public are invited to comment on the proposed scope and content of the environmental information to be included in the Draft EIR. A 30-day comment period is provided to return written comments to the City. All comments should be directed to the City at the following address:
Antonio Castillo, Senior Planner
Planning & Development Services Department
City of West Hollywood
8300 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069-6216
E-mail: acastillo@weho.org
Responses to this NOP should be sent at the earliest possible date, but not later than 30 days after issuance of this notice. The response deadline is October 5, 2022. This NOP and the Initial Study for the proposed project are available for review at the Planning and Development Services Department (8300 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069), at West Hollywood Library (625 North San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069), and on the City of West Hollywood website, www.weho.org.
For additional or clarifying information on the proposed project, please contact:
Project planner:
Antonio Castillo, Senior Planner
323-848-6854 acastillo@weho.org
