Applicant Seeks One-Year Coastal Permit Extension for 39-Unit Sunset Boulevard Project in Pacific Palisades

California Food Managers has filed to extend the Coastal Development Permit for a five-story, 39-unit mixed-use building at 17346 West Sunset Boulevard, a long-vacant Jack in the Box site whose entitlement dates to a 2018 case. The July 30 filing lists eight income-restricted units and 2,900 square feet of ground-floor retail.

The applicant behind a 39-unit mixed-use building in Pacific Palisades has asked Los Angeles City Planning for one more year. On July 30, 2026, California Food Managers, LLC and Heavenly Tiger, LLC filed for an extension of time on the project's Coastal Development Permit at 17346 West Sunset Boulevard, the former Jack in the Box site that has sat vacant through the entire approval process.

The building itself has not changed. The Notice of Intent filed with the extension describes a five-story, 39-unit mixed-use affordable housing project over a subterranean parking garage, with retail and a residential lobby at street level. Architect Farzin Maly designed the structure as wood-frame apartments stacked over a concrete podium, wrapping a courtyard, with amenity decks on the roof.

One number did change. The original approval reserved four units for Very Low Income households. The 2026 filing describes four Very Low Income units and four Moderate Income units, doubling the restricted count to eight in a neighborhood that has very few.

What the Filing Says

The application is an Extension of Time for a Coastal Development Permit, filed under Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 13B.9.1.F, which allows a CDP to be extended for one year. It is not a redesign and not a new project. It is a request to keep an existing entitlement from lapsing.

The case number carries the history: CPC-2018-504-DB-DRB-SPP-CDP-MEL-1A. Every suffix is a separate approval the project needed. Density Bonus, Design Review Board, Specific Plan Project Permit, Coastal Development Permit, and Mello Act compliance, the state law governing affordable housing in the coastal zone. The trailing 1A marks an appeal.

California Food Managers, LLC and Heavenly Tiger, LLC are listed care of Michael Aminpour, filing from a Wilshire Boulevard address. The agent of record is Sami Kohanim of Entitle and Permits in Tarzana. The applicant declaration was signed July 10 and the application was filed July 30.

Conditions from the original approval remain specific. Density is capped at 39 units. Commercial floor area is capped at 2,900 square feet, and that retail must occupy at least 75 percent of the building's Sunset Boulevard frontage to a minimum depth of 30 feet, a requirement of the Pacific Palisades Commercial Village and Neighborhoods Specific Plan intended to keep the street from becoming a blank wall. At least four street trees are required along Sunset, planted a minimum of 30 feet apart.

The affordable units are secured by covenant, not by promise. Before a building permit can issue, the owner must record an agreement with the city's housing department holding those units affordable for 55 years.

A decision on the extension can be appealed to the Area Planning Commission, and from there to the California Coastal Commission.

Why It Matters

Pacific Palisades is in the middle of the hardest rebuild in the city. Palisades Village, the Caruso retail center further east on Sunset, reopens August 15 after more than $100 million in fire restoration, roughly 99 percent leased, with about 60 percent of its former tenants returning. That is the visible part of the recovery.

Housing is the quieter part. Mixed-use apartment buildings are genuinely rare in the Palisades. Coastal zone rules, a specific plan, a design review board, and an appeal all sit between a drawing and a shovel, and this filing is what that distance looks like from the inside.

An extension request is not a groundbreaking. It is also not a withdrawal. Someone is still paying to keep this entitlement alive, on a vacant corner of Sunset Boulevard, in the year the neighborhood decides what it wants to be.

Read the case number before you read the renderings. Every suffix on CPC-2018-504-DB-DRB-SPP-CDP-MEL-1A is a door this project had to walk through, and that trailing 1A means somebody appealed. In the coastal zone, an extension filing is the most honest signal you get. The lot is empty, the drawings are old, and the money is still in the room.

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