Los Angeles’s remarkable architectural and cultural heritage boasts examples of styles from the Arts and Crafts movement to mid-century modern. Historic places throughout the region contribute to the City’s rich social and cultural life.
Los Angeles City Planning’s Office of Historic Resources (OHR) works to protect, enhance, and revitalize the City’s historic places through its comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and balanced historic preservation program.
The OHR:
- Serves as the professional staff for the City’s historic preservation commission, the Cultural Heritage Commission
- Oversees the City’s 35 historic districts (Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, or HPOZs), encompassing over 21,000 properties
- Manages the City’s major financial incentive for owners of historic properties, the Mills Act Historical Property Contract program
- Integrates historic preservation into Los Angeles’s long-range planning and development project reviews
- Manages the City’s historic resource inventory, HistoricPlacesLA, which includes the findings from SurveyLA, Los Angeles's first-ever citywide survey of its historic resources
- Serves as an expert resource on preservation within City Planning and for other City departments
- Provides responsive customer service in conducting historic preservation reviews
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