At the Jan. 14 Planning Commission Regular Meeting, the Commission unanimously denied amendments that would have allowed the construction of a hotel on the Stinking Rose restaurant site. The proposal called for a 216-room, four-star hotel to replace the garlicky restaurant on 55 North La Cienega Boulevard, eliciting concern from neighbors who worried about the impact of the development on their quality of life. The Commission heard requests by Westland Real Estate Group for exemptions from several building codes necessary for its construction, including a zoning amendment, zone text amendment, planned development and general plan amendment. The rejection effectively quashes the possibility of the hotel in its present iteration.
“This is not going to happen like this,” Chair Peter Ostroff said. “This is just so far off of anything that we could really seriously consider that you need to go back to the drawing board.”
