California Court of Appeal

In an action to compel a city to rescind its permit for a wooden fence that a homeowner had constructed atop a historic granite walls in Hollywoodland, denial of petitioners' writ of mandate is affirmed and reversed in part where: 1) although under the terms of Hollywoodland Specific Plan (HSP) and the Municipal Code, the city properly granted an exception to the HSP; nevertheless 2) the city improperly granted an exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/09/2008
• Published 04/09/2008

Judges

• ZELON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chatten-Brown & Carstens, Jan Chatten-Brown and Douglas P. Carstens, Santa Monica, for Petitioners and Appellants Committee to Save the Hollywoodland Specific Plan and Hollywood Heritage.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney, Claudia McGee Henry, Senior Assistant City Attorney and Gerald M. Sato, Deputy City Attorney for Defendant and Respondent City of Los Angeles., Gilchrist & Rutter, Frank Gooch III, Martin N. Burton and Phillipa L. Altmann, Santa Monica, for Real Party in Interest and Respondent Robert J. Cutler.