[PragmaticIdealist]

This is the lobby of the existing hotel, which is to be combined with the César Pelli-designed building in order to create a garden resort with an extensive outdoor pool area on top of the existing parking structure:









This is the recently-adopted specific plan for an sbX-oriented hillside community with executive estates and multi-family residences to be added to the existing schools, university, parks, and commercial area:



A fully-funded astronomical observatory will also join the existing Coussoulis Arena North of the above plan in order to help establish a mountainside "park-within-a-university" that is intended as a combination of Elysian Park, Griffith Park, and Exposition Park while new freeway on- and off-ramps are added to the area South.







Additionally, the specific plan calls for placing much of the rest of Shandin Hills into permanent conservancy as a nature preserve.