Luxury Remodeling in Westwood
Design-build pools, outdoor living and ADUs for Westwood homeowners, planned around hillside grading rules and mapped seismic zones.
Building in Westwood
Pools, outdoor living and ADUs for Westwood homes, from Holmby Hills to Comstock Hills.
Westwood is best known for UCLA and the Mediterranean-themed storefronts of Westwood Village, yet the city's Westwood Community Plan counts 70 percent of the community's residential acreage as single-family. The land rises from flat blocks in the south to rolling hillside toward Sunset Boulevard, and the largest lots sit east of Beverly Glen Boulevard, north of Holmby Park. Closer to the campus and south of Wilshire, home sites are generally smaller and the ground undulates, so a pool, a terrace and an ADU have to share space with real discipline. Building, grading and pool permits all come from LADBS, and the city's Hillside Grading Area reaches across nearly the whole community, flat streets included.
The largest lots sit in the Minimum Residential area east of Beverly Glen Boulevard and north of Holmby Park. Generally smaller home sites on undulating ground lie east and west of the UCLA campus and south of Wilshire Boulevard. High-rise condominium towers line Wilshire between the Los Angeles Country Club and Malcolm Avenue, with single-family streets extending north and south of that corridor.
One team designs, permits and builds every project, and our own crews self-perform the work, so the people who plan your Westwood project are the people on site building it.
Part of our service area in Los Angeles County.
Local Conditions
What building in Westwood involves
Permits in Westwood
Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS)
Private pools in the City of Los Angeles are permitted through a Combined Building-Mechanical permit, while pools serving more than two dwelling units need separate building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits. Using a City of Los Angeles standard plan on file with LADBS reduces plan check time. Nearly all of Westwood, its flat southern blocks included, lies inside the city's Hillside Grading Area, so excavating for a permitted pool here also requires a separate LADBS grading permit. The community sits outside the city's mapped Hillside Area, the zone where Baseline Hillside Ordinance limits apply. Specific plans that require Design Review Board approval cover most of Westwood's multifamily and commercial areas, including Westwood Village and North Westwood Village, while its single-family blocks generally fall outside them.
Permit details checked September 2026 against LADBS and LA City Planning. Rules change, so we confirm them again for your parcel.
What we plan for here
- Grading permits for pools in the Hillside Grading Area
- Soils review for pools and ADUs in the liquefaction zone
- Fault-zone screening for ADUs and additions
- Estate-lot planning north of Holmby Park
Terrain runs from flat land in the southern section to rolling hillside in the north, so the grading and drainage approach for a pool near Santa Monica Boulevard can differ markedly from one on a sloping lot closer to Sunset Boulevard
Parts of western Westwood, including a band running from Westwood Village south toward Santa Monica Boulevard, are mapped in a seismic hazard liquefaction zone, a condition worth resolving with a soils engineer before a pool shell or ADU foundation is designed
The Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone for the Santa Monica Fault runs along Westwood's southern edge near Santa Monica Boulevard, so ADU and addition sites there are worth checking against the zone map early
Neighborhoods we work in
- Holmby Hills
- Holmby Westwood
- Westwood Hills
- Comstock Hills
- Westwood Village
- North Westwood Village
Westwood Services
Everything we build in Westwood
Each page covers permits, costs and the build process for that work in Westwood.
Pool & Spa Remodeling in Westwood
We design and build pools and spas with our own crews, start to finish.
Backyard & Outdoor Living in Westwood
Outdoor living, hardscape, and curb appeal, designed and built to outlast the SoCal sun.
ADUs & Additions in Westwood
We design, permit, and build ADUs and additions that actually add value.
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Westwood Guides
Remodeling guides for Westwood
Local planning notes, costs and design direction for Westwood homeowners.
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