The Bulgari Hotel project is a threat to the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles and will unnecessarily endanger residents, wildlife, the environment and our community, setting a dangerous precedent for all of the Santa Monica Mountains. And the next generation of Los Angeles' leaders agree!
The Bulgari Hotel will create a life-threatening safety disaster in the event of a wildfire in Benedict Canyon. Narrow substandard roads and the infrastructure of the hillside community cannot accommodate hundreds of guests, round the clock staff, and hotel events and would be catastrophic in the event of an evacuation.
This commercial project requires a change to our zoning laws. Right now, the Bulgari Hotel project’s developer is aggressively petitioning the city of Los Angeles to rewrite our community’s zoning laws and circumvent long-standing environmental protections just to build a hotel.
Make no mistake, if approved, this project and its proposed zoning change would have a profound and permanent impact on Benedict Canyon and set a precedent by opening all of the Santa Monica Mountains – which generations of Angelenos have fought to protect – to commercial development.
City Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky has joined leading environmental groups like TreePeople, the Sierra Club and Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife and more than 12,000 concerned residents and community members in opposing this project.
Yaroslavsky has made a motion to stop the approval of this hotel by instructing the Los Angeles City Director of Planning to rescind the initiation of the General Plan Amendment sought by the developer, preventing him from permanently altering the zoning of our neighbors – a step necessary to build the hotel. Learn more about Koretz’s motion.
We must remain vigilant in stopping this project, but we need your help! Join Save Our Canyon and stop the hotel!
