Hollywood Development's Zoning Appeal Drags On 5 Years
The project cleared City Planning years ago. An appeal is still working through the pipeline, and the case shows how long LA's entitlement process can run even after approval.
A Hollywood mixed-use project at 6007 West Sunset Blvd is still working through an appeal nearly five years after its entitlement case first opened, with the City Council now scheduled to take it up on Oct. 20.
Council File 26-1193 covers an appeal tied to case CPC-2021-1557-DB-SPR-HCA-M1-1A, spanning parcels at 6001-6023 W Sunset Blvd, 1503-1517 N Gordon St and 1506-1512 N La Baig Ave. The case number traces the original entitlement filing to 2021. According to the council file, the Planning and Land Use Management Committee took up the appeal on Oct. 13 and voted to deny it, which would sustain the Department of City Planning’s underlying determination. The file does not identify the appellant or the specific grounds for the appeal in its public summary. The matter is calendared for the full City Council on Oct. 20, and until that vote happens, the appeal is pending, not resolved.
The applicant of record on the case is listed as 6007 Sunset (LA) OZ LLC.
Why it matters
A project that cleared its underlying planning approval can still spend years in appeal before it is fully clear to build. That gap between Commission-level approval and a final, appeal-proof entitlement is time a builder has to carry land, debt and design costs without certainty. For operators pricing Hollywood sites right now, this case is a live data point on how long that tail can run, even when the appeal is ultimately recommended for denial.
The numbers
The case number, CPC-2021-1557, dates the original filing to 2021, meaning the entitlement has been in some stage of city process for roughly five years. The PLUM Committee acted on the appeal on Oct. 13, 2026. The full City Council hearing is calendared for Oct. 20, 2026, one week later. The council file does not disclose a dollar figure, unit count or building height, so none is reported here.
What’s next
The City Council’s Oct. 20 vote is the next formal step. If the Council follows the PLUM Committee’s recommendation and denies the appeal, the Department of City Planning’s original determination stands and the project’s entitlement moves closer to being final. If the Council instead grants the appeal, the case would return to further review. Either way, the vote itself, not the committee’s recommendation, is what closes this out.
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On the record
Primary record
- Public recordCouncil File 26-1193 (case CPC-2021-1557-DB-SPR-HCA-M1-1A) shows the PLUM Committee denied the appeal(s) on 2026-10-13, sustaining the Department of City Planning's determination, with a City Council hearing calendared for 2026-10-20.View the record on cityclerk.lacity.org