A property near the possible future home of Millennium Hollywood has been found to lie above a dormant fault line, city officials said.

A private study was conducted on the property next to the proposed Millennium site, and determined the fault at the site is dormant. (photo by Jonathan Van Dyke)

Experts representing the parcel at 6230 Yucca Street, former site of the KFWB radio studio, turned in their geological survey of the property to the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, which has in turn vetted the study.

“Our geologists agreed with their findings that there were no active earthquake faults on this property,” said Luke Zamperini, the department’s chief inspector. “There is some faulting on the site, but it’s from the 30,000 to 90,000 (year) range which means it is not active.”

Currently, a fault must have moved within the last 11,000 years to be considered active.

Group Delta compiled the report for the Yucca parcel, and the group also has conducted similar studies of the other three adjacent parcels, including Millennium Hollywood.

However, Zamperini said his department has only received the geological documents for the Yucca property so far.

“They dug trenches, they poured samples and they did everything they needed to, to determine if there was an active earthquake fault there,” Zamperini said.

Millennium Hollywood spokesman Brian Lewis said the developers are declining to comment on the property or the recent geological news.

George Abrahams, leader of the Stop the Millennium Hollywood Project group, said he would point people to a recent quote by state geologist John Parrish, who wondered if the state should reassess the 11,000-year rule after a small Napa fault, dormant for many more years, was suspected of causing a 6.0 earthquake there this year.

He also said people should wonder why Millennium hasn’t submitted its geological report yet, but that ultimately, regardless of fault lines, his group remains committed to fighting the project.

“We’re for the truth, whatever the truth is,” he said. “If there is no fault, we will continue to object to the project anyway because there is still the traffic problems [it would cause].”

The Millennium Hollywood project was approved by the city council in July 2013. It would be built on two sites along Vine Street just north of Hollywood Boulevard. The proposed project would have 492 residential units, 200 hotel rooms, 100,000 square feet of office space, 35,000 square feet of restaurant space, 40,000 square feet of sports club use and 15,000 feet of retail space. It would be built while preserving the old Capitol Records building. The maximum height of the two towers would be 39 and 35 stories.

“It is a major planning error to turn Hollywood into a traffic bottleneck that will cripple commerce and transportation for the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area,” Abrahams said.

Still, there is a long way to go, officials said. The Yucca parcel approval is the first of many, many steps, Zamperini said, and Millennium Hollywood still hasn’t given its geological report. In August, Group Delta and Millennium Partners put out a press release stating they scientifically proved that “there are no active faults on the Capitol Records site or any property adjacent” to one of the proposed project sites at Argyle Avenue and Yucca Street.

The state is working on the California Geological Survey, which came out at the beginning of the year in preliminary form, first noting the Argyle Strand of the Hollywood fault that could impact the parcels. The final report is expected in mid-November.