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<br /> The 100 block of North Arnaz Drive,
<br /> • the first
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<br /> block predates the condo proposal . In
<br /> t A battle over a Beverly Hills apartment coniplex • 5igitals 1997 they approached the city to seek
<br /> 5 a growung regard for the. old.. ' + BY I ERRI WESTENBERG protection for - their historic buildings ,
<br /> made distinctive by lead-glass picture
<br /> windows , second-story balconies , and
<br /> BEVERLY HILLS , CALIF.—It's not easy apartment complexes that reach to the red-tiled roofs . They found that Beverly
<br /> getting old in this land of film, fads, and sidewalk, allowing no green space, have Hills , as the only municipality among
<br /> fashion. There are more plastic surgeons altered other city streets . But they have neighboring cities that does not have a f
<br /> per capita here than almost anyplace in the somehow passed over the 100 block, and preservation ordinance, offers no local
<br /> nation. Even the architecture relentlesslythe conservancy found ' - � '
<br /> cy its residents trying recognition of historic buildings or neigh
<br /> torn down and replaced with new styles, is to ward off a three-story, 221Nun1t condo- borhoods . That's among the first prob -
<br /> "in a constant state of face-lift," says Ken minium complex that would wipe out lems the fledgling Beverly Hills conser-
<br /> Bernstein of the Los Angeles Conservancy. four apartment buildings original to the vancy hopes to fix .
<br /> Two years ago a loose-knit but ardent street. Now the conservancy and resi- "Beverly Hills aspires to be a world-
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<br /> band of citizens intent on persuading their dents are allied in a court battle to reverse class city and promotes itself with an
<br /> city government of the historical and the city council's approval of the condo image of cultural sophistication," says
<br /> Narchitectural significance of local buildings project, which residents a ruin the will ru the Denise Roberts, a writer and film and TV
<br /> decided to incorporate as the Beverly Hills friendly, graceful ambiance of their street, producer and the president of the con-
<br /> W Architectural Conservancy. Clearly, they "This is the last block in Beverly Hills servancy, `but it is still an unsophisticated
<br /> W have a hard sell, except on a lone block of that hasn't been chewed up by develop- city in the arena of historic preservation."
<br /> U North Arnaz Drive. There , behindfull-fig merit, " says Chaim Pelleg , who has Ignored by the city, the Arnaz Drive
<br /> ,mmicared sycamore trees and flashy bougainvil- owned his pink, Spanish-revival duplex for residents, with the conservancy's help,
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<br /> lea, stand duplexes and two-story apart- 16 years. turned to the state . California responded
<br /> Uj ment buildings built in the 1920s and '30s His wife , Dalia, says , "If we lose this by listing the one-block-long, 25-prop-
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<br /> in revival Spanish, French, and Tudor block, what will remain of the old charm erty area as a historic district on the state
<br /> FEW styles . Monster mansions that are out of of Beverly Hills?" register of historical resources. That made
<br /> scale with other houses and oversized The residents' appreciation for their North Arnaz Drive the first historic dis-
<br /> NOVEMBER I DECEMBER 200I irj
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