Council will take another swing at a potentially signature development this week with the return of a Frank Gehry designed project along Ocean Ave.

Today, the site has four buildings (three commercial and one mixed-use commercial/residential) and a surface parking lot. The proposal is for a 130 foot (12 stories) project covering 11 parcels totaling 82,500 square feet along Santa Monica Blvd. and Ocean Ave.

The project has been in the pipeline since at least 2013 but planning stalled pending the development of the DCP. Early versions would have been 244 feet tall and reducing the height has altered the mass and density of the project. It now contains four distinct residential buildings planned around a pedestrian-friendly ground floor. The residential portion is now limited to 79 rental units (19 replacement rent-controlled, units, 18 affordable units, and 42 market-rate units) after the developer removed 22 condos from the project.

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