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The Historic Preservation Overlay Zone of the City of Los Angeles in California has been hailed by historic preservation advocates for its pioneering program, which designates not just buildings but entire neighborhoods or districts as worthy of historic preservation.
Whitley Heights is a residential neighborhood and historic preservation overlay zone in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Central Los Angeles, California.Known as a residential area for actors and other people in the motion-picture industry, it is divided between a hillside single-family district and an apartment area.
A historic overlay district is a layer of local planning regulation in the United States which incorporates the restrictions of the underlying zoning for a given geographic area, with the main goal of preserving the historic character of the neighborhood.
The neighborhood of Carthay comprises Carthay Circle, Carthay Square and South Carthay. [1]As delineated by the Los Angeles Times Mapping Project, Carthay is bounded on the north by Wilshire Boulevard, on the east by Fairfax Avenue, on the south by Pico Boulevard, on the west by La Cienega Boulevard and on the northwest by Schumacher and Tower Drives.
A first draft of 87 neighborhoods was released in February 2009. As the Times received input from their readers, they shifted where the neighborhood boundaries should be nearly 100 times. A final map of 114 neighborhoods was released in June 2009. [4] With the release of the maps, the Times stated:
Miracle Mile is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California. [1] It contains a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard known as Museum Row. It also contains two Historic Preservation Overlay Zones: the Miracle Mile HPOZ [2] and the Miracle Mile North HPOZ. [3]
The following zones are under a mandatory evacuation order: Due to an "immediate threat to life," according to Cal Fire, the following areas are under a mandatory evacuation order:
Harvard Heights is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It lies within a municipally designated historic preservation overlay zone designed to protect its architecturally significant single-family residences , including the only remaining Greene and Greene house in Los Angeles.