MANSION CURB MAY BACKFIRE.Byline: KERRY CAVANAUGH Staff Writer Concerned that a proposed law to limit "mansionization" may not go far enough and could result in ugly architecture, the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle on Thursday sent the regulation back to the drawing board. While commissioners supported the idea of a rule to prevent massive new homes from overshadowing older, smaller houses, they said residents and architects have raised serious issues with the proposed ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been . Commission President Jane Ellison Usher USHER. This word is said to be derived from a huissier, and is the name of an inferior officer in some English courts of law Archb. Pr. 25. said the panel would "feel terrible" if the ordinance ended up promoting unattractive design. David Garfinkle with the Tarzana Property Owners Association warned that the law would do little to restrict mansionization on the large lots common in his neighborhood or the neighborhoods south of Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. , which are considered hillside areas and are exempt under the proposal. "In Melody melody, succession of single tones of varying pitch. Melody is the linear aspect of music, in contrast to harmony, the chordal aspect, which results from the simultaneous sounding of tones. Acres," a neighborhood of horse-keeping properties and large lots, "the homes allowed under the ordinance would be close to 10 times the prevailing size here," he said. Holly Schroeder with the Building Industry Association said the proposal is a one-size-fits-all rule and doesn't consider the diversity of the city's neighborhoods. "You're going to create a cookie-cutter type of home and that's what's going to be developed," she said. The proposal would reduce the so-called floor-area ratio, or the allowable square footage of a house, based on the size of its lot. Currently the ratio is 3-to-1. That means, for example, a home on a 5,000-square-foot lot could be 7,020 square feet -- essentially a large, two-story rectangle. The proposal would change the ratio to one-to-one. For a home on a 5,000-square-foot lot, that would mean it could be no larger than 2,470 square feet. Under the proposal, a homeowner could get extra space if the second floor is smaller than the ground floor, so the home is less boxy box·y adj. box·i·er, box·i·est Resembling a box, especially in simplicity or rectangularity. box  i·ness n. . The
Planning Commission will hold a workshop on the ordinance at its May 24
hearing in Van Nuys.
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