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Laguna Beach council upholds DRB on Temple Hills landscape appeal, narrows allowed hedge height
Summary
The council denied an appeal of the design review board’s conditional approval for a modified landscape plan at 1813 Temple Hills Drive but added more restrictive conditions: ficus trees are limited to a 20–22.5 foot range, trimming twice a year and permanent stakes will mark heights. Neighbors had argued the changes impaired views and raised procedural errors.
Laguna Beach City Council on Monday upheld the design review board’s conditional approval for landscape modifications at 1813 Temple Hills Drive but tightened the conditions to address neighbors’ concerns about view loss and enforcement.
In a unanimous vote, the council sustained the DRB decision and added conditions that set a minimum height of 20 feet, a maximum trimming/height buffer that the council quantified as not to exceed 22.5 feet after pruning, require the property owner to trim the plants at least twice per year and to install discrete permanent markers (described in the record as narrow copper stakes) at the measured height to aid enforcement.
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