The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday attempted to block a developer-planned luxury hotel in Benedict Canyon amid opposition from environmental groups and the council member representing the hilly neighborhood.

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By 6 votes, the council supported Councilman Katy Yaroslavsky’s motion asking the city’s planning director to intervene and consider shutting down the proposed Bulgari Resort Los Angeles.

Developer Gary Safady’s planned 58-room hotel is already undergoing the city’s environmental assessment process after an initial hurdle to city planning was cleared several years ago. However, the resort has not been approved by the city council and must be voted on again once the environmental assessment is complete.

Yaroslavsky argues that the hotel is not suitable for the Santa Monica Mountains, especially given the growing threat of wildfires. She has spent the past few months trying to prevent the project from going through the review phase.

“The last thing we should be doing is putting a hotel in the middle of a peak

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seriousness zone,” said Yaroslavsky. “Simply put, it is the wrong project in the wrong location and should not have gotten this far in the first place.”

The action taken by the municipality on Wednesday does not stop development, but instead asks urban planning director Vince Bertoni to intervene and initiate a

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The ministry said in a statement that it will “carefully consider” the municipality’s request.

“The department will review a number of factors, including those mentioned in the city council motion and during council deliberations, and make a decision,” the statement said.

Yaroslavsky submitted her motion to the council earlier this spring, but her colleagues stalled, so another vote had to be taken. Some members had expressed concerns about intervention during the environmental assessment of a project.

Councilman Traci Park, who represents the Westside, voted in favor of the motion on Wednesday after voting against it in May.

Park told the council she had spoken to “voters from across the hills, including many of my own county residents who care deeply about our natural resources and are concerned about the precedent this project sets for the health of our Santa Monica Mountains. “

Safady, the developer of the planned resort,

and dozens of construction workers who came to the rally on Wednesday to support the project

gathered outside the council chamber after the vote.

with dozens of construction workers coming to the meeting on Wednesday in support of the project.

Safady said the fight wasn’t over and “now it’s at the mayor’s office.”

Anne-Marie Otey, communications and editorial director for the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, also spoke with workers and

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to contact the council members, including Councilman Tim McOsker.

She told workers that McOsker, a dockland councilman who won the election last year, “is supposedly one of us.”

“We expect him to continue to be a proponent of organized labour,” Otey told The Times in a brief interview. “We strongly supported him in his efforts to get elected.”

A representative from Mayor Karen Bass’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. bass

who helps select the head of the planning department,

opposed the proposed resort on the campaign trail last year, as did Yaroslavsky.