Historic Preservation

Louisa Van Leer Architecture has the preservation design expertise to both help sensitively and beautifully design your historic project and to guide your historic project forward through the essential yet technical review process. We have worked extensively in the City of LA’s Historic Preservation Overlay Zones (HPOZ’s) and other regional Historic Districts and work effectively with design review boards. We have experience in preparing a variety of technical filings including Certificate of Compatibility/Appropriateness applications and preparing CEQA Findings reports for historic properties, Historic Structures Reports, Cultural Landscape Reports, Master Plans and have experience with Mills Act Property Tax Abatement. We work with historians, preservation contractors, engineers and other specialists to assemble comprehensive preservation materials tailored to the specific needs of each project.