Culver City : New Rules for Corridor

The Redevelopment Agency voted 4 to 0 Tuesday to approve regulations that would prohibit new cocktail bars, carwashes, and auto-sales or repair lots in the East Washington Boulevard Corridor, between Helms Avenue and Ballona Creek.

The adopted regulations, known as a Design for Development, also ban signs that revolve, project, or are mounted on roofs or poles; prohibits banners and billboards, and restrict new buildings in the corridor to two stories or 30 feet.

The agency, however, will have the discretionary authority to allow certain three-story (43-foot) buildings, based on the scale and character of adjacent structures and particular architectural merits, according to a staff report.

The regulations, the result of the three public meetings attended by city planners, area residents, business owners and members of the Planning Commission, are intended to control potential redevelopment of the corridor.

Agency Chairman Jim Boulgarides was absent from the meeting.