176-Unit Westwood Senior Living Development Proposal Faces Appeal

If its earlier approvals are upheld, the project would rise 12 stories at 10822 Wilshire Boulevard
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A recently approved, 176-unit senior living project in Westwood now faces an appeal filed by a neighborhood group formed to oppose it, a new city of Los Angeles planning filing shows.

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In appeal application documents posted on Thursday, Westwood Neighbors for Sensible Growth makes several arguments against the Zoning Administrator’s approval last month of plans by Belmont Village Senior Living for a 12-story senior housing project at 10822 Wilshire Boulevard, including that the project’s scale is incompatible with the surrounding neighborhood.

“At its proposed massive size and scale, and with its proposed laundry list of requested deviations from the Zoning Code and Specific Plan requirements and massive expansion of the childcare center, this finding simply cannot be made with substantial supporting evidence,” the appellant writes of the city’s finding that the project is compatible with the area.

The city’s approvals of the Wilshire Boulevard development last month include an Eldercare Facility Unified Permit and a deviation from the six-story, 75-foot height limit set forth in the Wilshire-Westwood Scenic Corridor Specific Plan, among others, according to the determination letter.

If approvals are upheld by the Los Angeles Planning Commission, the project would provide 53 senior independent living units, 77 assisted living units, and 46 Alzheimer’s/dementia care units, plans show. It would rise just east of the Westwood Presbyterian Church and also include a new two-story church preschool building at the southern portion of the project site, which as a whole is owned by the church.

The project site is surrounded by Wilshire Boulevard to the north, the church and mid- and high-rise commercial development to the west, single-family homes to the south, and single-family and high-rise development to the east.

Project plans also call for 184 parking spaces in three subterranean levels and ground-level parking next to the new preschool building.

Designs are being led by GMPA Architects and KFA Architecture.

On its website, WNSG describes itself as “a community-based coalition registered as a non-profit 501(c)(4) corporation which has organized to stop the proposed Belmont Senior Living project as filed.”

Photo: Official | A photo in application documents of the project site for the Belmont Village – Westwood Presbyterian Church Senior Living project.
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Dean Boerner

Dean Boerner

Dean Boerner is a California-based writer previously with Bisnow and the San Francisco Business Times. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and business from Saint Mary's College of California, where he also served as the editor-in-chief of The Collegian, the school's campus newspaper. Before that, he spent two years as the publication's sports editor, and he remains a committed fan, for better or worse, of his Sacramento Kings, San Francisco Giants, and Saint Mary's Gaels.
Dean Boerner

Dean Boerner

Dean Boerner is a California-based writer previously with Bisnow and the San Francisco Business Times. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and business from Saint Mary's College of California, where he also served as the editor-in-chief of The Collegian, the school's campus newspaper. Before that, he spent two years as the publication's sports editor, and he remains a committed fan, for better or worse, of his Sacramento Kings, San Francisco Giants, and Saint Mary's Gaels.

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