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Clinton Manor courtyard apartments recommended as historic cultural monument
Summary
The Planning and Land Use Committee unanimously recommended that the City Council designate the Clinton Manor Courtyard Apartments as an Historic-Cultural Monument following testimony from residents, neighborhood associations and the Los Angeles Conservancy.
The Planning and Land Use Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council designate Clinton Manor Courtyard Apartments as an Historic-Cultural Monument. City Planning's Office of Historic Resources described the 1940 American Colonial Revival courtyard apartment complex as a notable example of mid-20th-century garden-style multifamily housing that "embodies the distinctive characteristics of a 1940s courtyard apartment complex," and the Cultural Heritage Commission recommended designation.
The nut graf: Resident co-authors of the nomination and a coalition of neighbors and preservation groups urged the committee to preserve the complex as an example of workforce multifamily housing and garden-style design. Supporters said the building remains a functioning long-term housing resource and preserves a pattern of development the neighborhood wants to maintain.
Speakers included tenants and neighborhood presidents who described tenant-led preservation work and the Los Angeles Conservancy, which wrote a letter of support. The committee chair moved approval and called the roll; the committee recorded five ayes and approved the recommendation to forward the matter to full council.
The committee action was recorded as unanimous among members present; the measure will now be transmitted to the full City Council for final consideration.
