HCM-228 — designated 1980-04-22
Laurelwood Apartments
11833-11847 Laurelwood Drive
active mills act contract on a property in a low or low-to-medium barriers equity tier — city is paying, but owner is in a high-resource neighborhood and would likely have maintained the property without the subsidy
Mills Act subsidy is going to a property in a low or low-to-medium barriers tier — the city is paying, but the owner is in a high-resource neighborhood and likely would have maintained the property regardless
street view ↗ satellite ↗ big orange landmarks ↗ (bariscale, 2009) concrete (orchestrator-captured imagery is not building-aimed — use these for HITL verification)
Six-axis scores
- A. would-survive 5 probability the structure would survive market forces without HCM designation. low = needs protection.
- B. tourist currency 0 tourist and cultural currency — Wikipedia pageviews, walking-tour inclusion, public visitation evidence.
- C. subsidy efficiency 3 subsidy efficiency — Mills Act and federal HTC value vs preservation outcome. zero means no active subsidy.
- D. externality load 0 externality load — code complaints, CSR cases, 311 encampment/dumping/graffiti, vacancy duration.
- E. neighborhood health 2 neighborhood health — median household income, distress indicators, displacement risk.
- F. alternative-use value 7 alternative-use value — parcel acres, TOC tier, TPA eligibility, zoning capacity for higher use.
overall confidence: unknown
Site
- lat / lon
- 34.14143, -118.39038
- parcel acres
- 1.3480491224556046 (inferred)
- typology
- multifamily
- TPA / TOC
- yes — tier 1
- zoning capacity
- —
- nrhp listed
- no
- architect prominence
- —
Condition + subsidy
all "condition" fields below are proxies derived from LADBS permit history, 311 CSR cases, and code complaints. none of these directly measures occupancy. the vacancy line shows the proxy value and the specific rule that produced it; readers should treat "active" as "construction permits filed recently," not "people live or work here."
- vacancy proxy
- active
- vacancy proxy basis
- recent investment over 250k in 60mo
- last permit
- 2023
- permits last 24mo
- 0
- code complaints 24mo
- 0
- CSR open cases
- 0
- Mills Act contract
- yes — see contract details below
- federal HTC
- no
- Wikipedia pageviews 12mo
- —
- walking-tour inclusion
- no
- median hhi (tract)
- —
- assessed value
- —
Street view vision classification
claude vision analyzed 4 Google street view captures (n/e/s/w from the parcel coordinates) for visible distress indicators. this is an automated screening — false positives and negatives both happen, and "well_maintained" only means the visible facade is intact; internal structural condition is not assessable from street view.
- building visible
- partial
- building type
- multifamily
- overall condition
- fair
- other indicators
- none visible
- notes
- A multi-story white apartment building consistent with the Laurelwood Apartments is partially visible looking east, largely obscured by flowering trees and vegetation; no distress indicators are evident.
Contextual signals (GIS)
these are contextual proxies — signals derived from spatial context, not direct measurements of the property. they help infer hidden variables (contamination probability, structural risk) that public open-data does not measure directly. source: cal OEHHA CalEnviroScreen 4.0 (cumulative pollution burden by census tract).
- census tract
- 6037143800
- CalEnviroScreen overall percentile
- 27.1 (decile 3)
- cleanups percentile
- 40.8
- groundwater threats percentile
- 36.8
- hazardous waste percentile
- 76.2
- toxic release percentile
- 68.3
- lead exposure percentile
- 44.4
- EnviroStor cleanup sites nearby
- —
- in CGS liquefaction zone
- no
- type-1 contamination probability (fused)
- 0.22 — low
- type-2 structural-risk probability
- 0.20 — low
Mills Act contract
data from city of la Mills Act program assessment, appendix a — 2019 list of Mills Act properties (chattel/AECOM, 2022). matched to this HCM by HCM number.
- ma contract number
- 972038302
- ma contract year
- 1997
- property use type
- Multi-family
- 2019 owner savings (annual)
- $21,883
- 2019 la city revenue loss (annual)
- $2,379
- percentage of savings
- 41.4% (moderate)
- AECOM equity index score
- 7.96
- AECOM equity category
- low barriers
- designation type
- hcm
Narrative
history
hcm-228, the laurelwood apartments, is a multifamily residential structure designated as a historic cultural monument by the city of los angeles. specific construction date, original developer, and architect of record are not recoverable from available fetched data; all temporal and biographical claims below are therefore marked accordingly. the building was constructed (approximately) during the mid-twentieth century, a period of intensive apartment construction across the los angeles basin driven by postwar population growth and the expansion of automobile-oriented suburban infill. no major documented events — fires, notable occupancies, legal proceedings, or ownership transfers of public record — appear in the current dataset. the absence of nrhp listing suggests the designation rationale rests primarily on local ordinance criteria rather than federal significance thresholds, though the precise basis for hcm designation could not be confirmed from available records.
architectural significance
architect prominence is listed as null and no stylistic attribution is available in the fetched dataset, precluding confident assignment to a named movement or designer. multifamily structures designated in the mid-century los angeles context frequently represent examples of streamline moderne, post-war california modern, or early garden-apartment typologies — any of which could apply here. comparable extant examples within los angeles include the bryson apartment hotel (wilshire), various brentwood and silver lake garden-court complexes, and normandie-adjacent courtyard buildings, though no direct stylistic parallel can be drawn without field verification or original permit documentation. distinctive architectural features, materials, and massing are unknown from current data.
neighborhood context
tract-level socioeconomic data is entirely absent from the fetched record: median household income, five-year population change, business license churn, and eviction filing rates are all null, yielding an e-axis score of 2 at unknown confidence. the 311 externality signals that are recoverable — encampment count (0), dumping count (0), and graffiti count (0) within 500 feet over the relevant observation window — show no measurable negative spillover load, though the reliability of these zeroes is contingent on complete 311 intake for the sub-geography, which cannot be verified. transit proximity, toc tier, and parcel acreage are unknown, leaving the broader district trajectory and redevelopment pressure unquantified. | metric | value | |---|---| | census tract | — | | median hhi | — | | 5yr δ population | — | | 311 within 500ft (24mo) | 0 | | encampment 311 calls | 0 | | ladbs code complaints (24mo) | — | | last permit year | — |
subsidy and condition
| field | value | |---|---| | mills act | — | | federal htc | — | | vacancy status | — |
classification reasoning
axis a (would_survive_without_protection) scores 5 at medium confidence, the single axis with a non-trivial confidence rating. this reflects the generic market position of mid-century multifamily stock in los angeles: absent a prominent architect, nrhp listing, or documented adaptive-reuse demand, there is no strong signal that the building commands a preservation premium from the private market, but neither is there evidence of imminent demolition pressure given the null parcel and zoning data. a score of 5 represents genuine uncertainty rather than a calibrated midpoint. axis b (tourist/cultural currency) scores 0: no google reviews, no wikipedia pageview data, no walking-tour inclusion, and no nps designation are recorded, indicating negligible or unmeasurable external visitor draw — though the unknown confidence flag means absence of evidence cannot be treated as evidence of absence. axes c and d both score 0: no mills act contract, no federal htc, no vacancy data, and no code complaints are on record, and the 311 sub-geography counts are zero. these nulls prevent any meaningful subsidy-efficiency or externality-load assessment. axis e scores 2 at unknown confidence, reflecting the score assigned in the absence of tract-level acs data rather than observed distress. axis f scores 0 at unknown confidence: parcel acreage, zoning capacity, and tpa/toc tier are all null, making alternative-use-value estimation impossible. the candidate flag conditions require a ≤ 4, b ≤ 3, c ≥ 6 or d ≥ 6, e ≤ 5, f ≥ 6, and minimum medium confidence across gating axes. this record fails multiple gating conditions: a = 5 (exceeds maximum), f = 0 (below minimum), and overall confidence is unknown. the flag is therefore reassess, reflecting the volume of missing data rather than a substantive finding in either direction. field verification and a full permit/assessor pull are necessary before any policy action is defensible.
sources
- la311: https://data.lacity.org/resource/h65r-yf5i.json?$where=within_circle(location%2c%2034.14143070930256%2c%20-118.39037604651132%2c%20152)%20and%20createddate%20%3e%20'2024-05-10'&$limit=1000 --- _generated by hcm-1200 orchestrator on 2026-05-10t23:42:04.740z._