Los Angeles County
Building in Pacific Palisades.
Pacific Palisades is part of the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS rather than a local city hall, a point that catches out people who assume the Palisades is its own jurisdiction.
The Palisades Fire in January 2025 destroyed a great deal of the community. We have not built here yet. Our fire work so far has been in Altadena, on the other side of the same January, and this page is the LADBS side of the problem written down rather than a portfolio.
Permits and inspections
Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety
What matters when you build here.
City of Los Angeles process
LADBS plan check is its own procedure with its own timelines, and hillside properties bring additional review. Building here and building in Pasadena are genuinely different administrative projects even when the house is the same.
Hillside and coastal constraints
Much of the Palisades is hillside, with grading, retaining and geotechnical requirements to match. Parts of the area also fall within the Coastal Zone, which can add a separate approval on top of the building permit.
No published project in Pacific Palisades yet.
We build across California and the nearest published projects are a short drive away. Rather than show you someone else’s house and imply it is ours, here is everything we have documented.
What we build in Pacific Palisades.
New construction
Custom homes built from the ground up on an empty or cleared lot.
Whole-home remodel
Reworking a whole house (structure, systems and finishes) rather than one room.
Fire rebuild
Ground-up reconstruction on a cleared lot, from debris and survey through final inspection.
ADU
Accessory dwelling units: detached, attached, or converted from space you already have.
Kitchen & bath
The two rooms with the most going on behind the walls, done properly.
Foundations & framing
The structure everything else depends on, including on difficult ground.