Design, Planning & Permitting Support in Hollywood Hills

Hollywood Hills covers the canyons north of Sunset: Laurel, Coldwater, Beachwood, and Outpost Estates. Hillside ordinance applies to almost every parcel. The housing mix is heavily mid-century moderns and contemporary view-driven builds, with plenty of 1950s and 1960s post-and-beam homes. Caissons, retaining walls, fire-zone defensible space, and hillside drainage shape every project.

Hillside parcels in Hollywood Hills carry their own engineering load. Drainage, retaining-wall design, caissons where pools or major additions are part of the scope, and fire-zone defensible-space requirements all shape how a design, planning & permitting support project gets sequenced. We coordinate hillside engineering at the design phase, not at construction.

Hollywood Hills runs its own permitting through LADBS (with hillside ordinance). Plan-check timelines run on a separate clock from LADBS. We've worked through the local department often enough to know what their reviewers flag and what they wave through, so we submit the right drawing set the first time.