Los Angeles County · Land Surveying
The Hollywood Hills are a hillside neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles — not a separate city — where canyon streets climb from the flats toward Mulholland's ridgeline. Steep lots, 1920s hillside tracts, and the city's hillside rules define surveying here.
Canyon lot or ridge parcel, tell us the street and the project and we will scope lines and terrain together. Call (213) 787-3342 to talk it through.
To be clear at the outset: the Hollywood Hills sit inside the City of Los Angeles, permitted by the city's departments and recorded — like everything else — with Los Angeles County. What sets the neighborhood apart is terrain. Canyon roads like Laurel Canyon's network climb through side streets that often dead-end against the slopes, and Mulholland Drive rides the ridgeline above.
The parcels descend from hillside subdivisions platted mostly in the 1920s boom — maps drawn ambitiously across ground that construction reached unevenly. Lots stack above and below narrow streets, driveways and decks cantilever over slopes, and the city's hillside regulations govern what today's projects can do. Every one of those projects begins with lines and grades established together.
Six services carry the canyon docket — lines and terrain together, documentation where the city's review needs it:
Retracing a 1920s hillside tract is exacting work: the recorded geometry is genuine, but its monuments landed on slopes that decades of grading, slides, and construction have reworked. We rebuild lines from the surviving evidence across each tract, set durable references where the terrain allows, and document restored corners with the county.
Terrain drives the deliverables. Additions, decks, pools, and walls on canyon lots need topographic mapping alongside boundary work — the city's hillside review runs on grades, heights, and slope percentages — and the neighborhood's famously tight streets make even access part of the plan. We scope lines, terrain, and logistics as one package, because up here they are one problem.
Canyon scopes benefit from these specifics:
We research the tract record, scope terrain honestly, then field the work with canyon logistics planned in. The sequence is on our how it works page.
Hollywood Hills requests tend to look like:
We serve property throughout Hollywood Hills and across Los Angeles County — request a survey quote for any parcel in the area.
It sets who reviews your project — the City of LA's departments — while your boundary rests on county records like everywhere else. This page exists because the neighborhood's terrain makes its surveying distinctive; the jurisdiction is simply Los Angeles.
Wherever the tract map dedicated it — canyon streets often occupy only part of their recorded width, and some dedicated segments were never built at all. We retrace the recorded right-of-way so you know where your frontage truly starts, which matters for gates, parking pads, and every improvement near the street.
Nearly everything the review examines: slope percentages computed from mapped grades, heights tied to correct datums, setbacks from located lines, and lot dimensions the entitlement math depends on. The city's hillside rules run on measured inputs, and the survey is where those inputs come from.
The geometry is real and legally sound — boom-era engineers drew ambitious but genuine subdivisions. What aged is the field evidence, scattered by a century of grading and construction. Retracement rebuilds your lines from the record and the evidence that survives across the tract; the maps hold up.
Precisely — we locate the boundary where it crosses the slope and map the deck's footprint and overhang against it. Cantilevered construction makes encroachment a three-dimensional question up here, and the survey answers it in plan and elevation both. What follows is between neighbors, with facts on the table.
A service-area firm handling boundary, topographic, ALTA, and construction survey work across the region.
Survey scope and deliverables depend on title records, site conditions, and what your project requires. Call (213) 787-3342 to discuss the property and the survey you need.
Call Southern California Land Surveyors at (213) 787-3342 with the street and the plan, and we will scope lines, terrain, and canyon logistics together.