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Upscale Restaurant Named After Historic Data Shows Rebuilding Progress in PostAlphabet Streets Coming to Palisades Village Fire Palisades as a local gathering spot. Hollingsworth’s Planned offerings to Palireworks Builds’ classic September 1 analysis. American grill fare The numbers indicate menu Processing times for and newingredients building with California produce include permits averaged around 63-77 a surge inrotisserie permitting from the village farmers market. days in summer months, up rotisserie from 31 Planned offerings include chicken, all-day activity, particularly chicken, days in all-day March,classics, suggesting seasonalgrowing dishes administrative demands as applications classics, seasonal and nostalgic desserts, paired with craft in recent months increase. and Palia Builds, founded cocktails curated wine list. by locals dishes and nostalgic to The fill interior, gaps indesigned official by data, continues Alexa NafisiNew data from Pali Builds, a tracking until the LA Mayor’s Office Movaghar of Adean Studios, features community platform tracking recovery provides comprehensive figures. green desserts, paired countertops, gold brass accents, from the January wildfires, shows marble Home sales data through August 1 lighting, linen-topped tables and with cocktails significantcraft rebuilding momentum in ambient reveals 160 lots sold since the January 7 seating. Pacific Palisades, with 179 new home textured fires, totaling $477.7 million. and a curated wine John Brianstark Toll, co-founders permits approved since the fires and 160 The Terzian market and shows disparities The h.wood Group, said thesales restaurant lots sold generating nearly $478 million of by area: Area 8 led with 11 at an list. its $10.6 name from the and Palisades’ in sales, highlighting a robust but uneven takes average million medianhistoric $10.2 housing market. By Carlos Reyes The numbers a surge in Alphabet Bar &indicate Grill, a new upscale permitting activity, particularly in recent restaurant from The h.wood Group and months.Beard Award-winning chef Tim James From January to Augustto 2025, Los Hollingsworth, is scheduled open Aug. Angeles approved 179Village. new homes in 15 at Caruso’s Palisades theThe90272 zip marks code, the withLosapprovals restaurant Angeles acceleratingcompany’s over time:first onlyneighborhoodtwo in March hospitality but jumping to 76 in August, according focused concept. It will serve lunch, dinner and drinks in a space designed to function
Alphabet million, Streets. contributing $116.4 million will reopen in Palisades volume, Village while Area 2 had in16August sales following damage from the January averaging $1.7 million. Area 5 saw2025 the fires. tenants include Alfred, most Returning activity with 48 sales averaging Angelini Ristorante Bar, Blue Ribbon $2.1 million. Buyer& composition from Sushi, McConnell’s Fine Ice JanuaryErewhon, to July included 85 individuals Creams Porta Via.(40%), New additions (53%), and 64 entities and 11 include Spacca an Italian American unknown (7%),Tutto, pointing to substantial steakhouse chef Nancy Silverton, and institutionalfrom investment in the recovery. K Bakery.
Some decried the bill,
along with city leaders and officials,
mandate some have decried for ignoring Mayor Karen Bass has signed an infrastructure and apublic safetyofconcerns, ordinance waiving wide range building in mid-September, prompting fierce permit and clearance fees for property opposition from Los Angeles leaders. owners rebuilding or repairing homes and The legislation, authored by Sen.inScott structures destroyed or damaged the Wiener 2025 (D–San Francisco),wildfires, allows city for January Palisades-area more multi-family housing development officials said. near stops, and Thetransit measure tookpermitting effect Julytaller 16, three denser buildings closer to major transit days after Bass signed it on July 13. It adds and allowing transit agencies to ahubs new section to the Los Angeles Municipal build providing on their own land. to Thehelp billspeed also Code fee relief requires a share affordable housing reconstruction in of neighborhoods hit by unitsPalisades, in new projects. the Hurst, Kenneth, Archer and In late August, a crowd of Palisadians, Sunset fires.
palisadespermitconcierge@lacity.org. referencing his emergency order The ordinance lists specific feeslimiting waived dense housing zones. across multiple in cityfire departments, including “This and billSafety, opensFire,the Building Cityfloodgates Planning, for developers, displacement, and Public Works, Housing, Transportation, gentrification, with no regard for our Cultural Affairs and Recreation and Parks. neighborhoods,” Park said in awaived Sept. If a property for which fees were 13 other statement, noting that or Los Angeles — than condominiums townhomes has thousands of housing units under — is sold before a certificate of occupancy construction. SB 79, she argued, would is issued, the seller must reimburse the undermine years of planning to place city for the full amount of the waived fees. housing transit corridors. The city along will reimburse special funds that Dayshave afterreceived its passage, Park introduced would the waived fees, plus a motion city departments interest, fromdirecting the General Fund or another to conduct a comprehensive source when money is available. 90-day
Lawmakers Pass SB 79, Sparking Outcry Permit Fees Waived to Speed Palisades Over Local Control Loss Wildfire Rebuilding Under against the ordinance, the city will 79 waive rallied the bill. “SB is Under the permitting and clearance fees for repairs 100 times worse than existing laws,” now on Gov. Gavin or rebuilds up to Residents 110% of Association the original Pacific Palisades ordinance, the for structure’s floor area as measured by the Newsom’s desk, President Jessica Rogers said, warning Department of Building and Safety. city will waive of risks in wildfire-prone areas likeFees the ignoring traffic, will be required any workevacuation exceeding Palisades, citing for inadequate that threshold. The waivers are capped at permitting and routes and infrastructure strain. infrastructure, anInaggregate $90 million over three years August, the Los Angeles City clearance fees for and apply only to individuals or entities Council voted 8–5 in opposition to SB environmental, and that owned property on Jan.Traci 7, 2025. led bytheCouncilwoman Park repairs or rebuilds The Los Angeles Department of Building public safety concerns 79, and Councilmember John Lee. Park, and Safety is working out procedures to whose district includes the Palisades, up to 110% of the process refunds for fees already paid on called it a “Sacramento attempt to hijack By Zach Armstrong projects. original structure’s qualifying local planning,” silencing residents. The Property owners are encouraged to California lawmakers approved Pacific Palisades Community Council join the LADBS update list by emailing floor area. Senate Bill 79, a controversial housing also urged Newsom to veto the bill,
assessment of SB 79. The motion instructs the Departments of City Planning, Transportation, and Housing, along with the City Attorney, to analyze the bill’s effects. The report will include
maps of areas within a quarter-mile and half-mile of transit stops subject to SB 79, impacts on rent-stabilized housing, historic districts, coastal zones, and high-risk fire and tsunami areas.