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Commercial Roofing in Century City, Plus Roof Repair for Cheviot Hills Homes
Commercial roofing in Century City covers the office, hotel, and apartment buildings that have filled 20th Century Fox’s former backlot since 1963. Overhead Roofing handles roof repair, reroofing, and roof coatings for property owners there and for homeowners in Cheviot Hills, Monte Mar Vista, and Rancho Park nearby, all under City of Los Angeles permits.
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Century City is a 176-acre neighborhood and business district of the City of Los Angeles, about 10 miles west of Downtown and south of Santa Monica Boulevard. Because it is not a separate city, its reroof permits are issued by LADBS, the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. Neighboring Beverly Hills runs its own Building and Safety division with its own roof rules, so it pays to know which side of the city line a building sits on.
A business district built on the old Fox backlot
In 1961, 20th Century Fox sold about 180 acres of its backlot to William Zeckendorf and Alcoa for $54 million, and the first building, Gateway West, opened in 1963. SurveyLA, the City of Los Angeles historic resources survey, evaluated the high-rises that followed one by one and lists several as individual resources:
- Gateway East (1963, Welton Becket)
- Century Tower Apartments (1964, I.M. Pei with Welton Becket)
- Century Plaza Hotel (1966, Minoru Yamasaki)
- Century Plaza Towers (1973, Minoru Yamasaki)
SurveyLA found no historic district in Century City. Development here follows the Century City North and Century City South Specific Plans, within the West Los Angeles Community Plan Area, whose 1997 plan is being updated.
City rules also shaped the roofs. For decades, a Los Angeles rule called for helicopter landing pads atop tall buildings, and that is why most of the city’s high-rises have flat roofs. The city relaxed the rule in September 2014 for towers with alternative safety features. Under the California Energy Code, a flat roof counts as a low-slope roof, and that category decides which cool roof rule applies when the roof is replaced or recoated.
Commercial roofing in Century City: the cool roof trigger and EBEWE
The 2025 California Energy Code requires a cool roof on nonresidential low-slope roofs in every climate zone once more than 50% of the roof, or more than 2,000 square feet (whichever is less), is replaced, recovered, or recoated. The new surface has to be a product rated by the Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC). Because the trigger counts coatings as well as tear-offs, it applies to owners who extend a roof’s life with a coating instead of replacing it.
Los Angeles adds a program for large buildings. Under the Existing Buildings Energy and Water Efficiency ordinance (EBEWE, Ordinance No. 184674), in effect since January 29, 2017, privately owned buildings 20,000 square feet and larger must benchmark energy and water use every year and complete an audit or retro-commissioning every five years. Century City’s towers are far above that size.
For property managers: keep the roof’s CRRC product rating, the permit, and the scope of each coating or reroof in one file. When the next EBEWE audit or reroof comes up, those records show what was installed and when.
No wildfire zone here, so energy rules and style decide the roof
In CAL FIRE’s 2025 Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for local responsibility areas, as published on LA County’s GIS (layer revised August 21, 2025), spot checks in both Century City and Cheviot Hills return Non-Wildland. The nearest Very High areas are the hillsides to the north, such as the area north of Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
That leaves the energy code, the weight of the roofing, and the style of the building as the main factors in choosing a roof. Century City and Cheviot Hills are in climate zone 9, where the 2025 Energy Code calls for cool roof products when more than 50% of a residential roof, pitched or low-slope, is replaced. Houses also follow citywide Los Angeles rules, including the LADBS express reroof permit, a ban on wood shakes and wood shingles, and cool roof minimums for pitched roofs that are stricter than the state’s. Our Los Angeles roofing page covers those rules in detail.
Older houses in Cheviot Hills, Monte Mar Vista, and Rancho Park
The residential tracts near Century City date from the 1920s: Country Club Highlands (1923), Cheviot Hills (1924), and Monte Mar Vista (1926). Cheviot Hills also has 1950s single-family homes, such as those in California Country Club Estates (1952), along with newer rebuilds and houses by Wallace Neff, Raphael Soriano, A. Quincy Jones, and Craig Ellwood. Many homes look out over Hillcrest Country Club, founded in 1920, or Rancho Park Golf Course.
SurveyLA classed Cheviot Hills as a Planning District rather than a historic district because of later alterations. It did identify one eligible district nearby: the Smithwood Edris Multifamily Historic District, a group of Spanish Colonial Revival buildings from 1931 to 1935 near 10405 W. Cheviot Drive.
Across the wider West Los Angeles area, 63.7% of the 43,185 housing units were built before 1980, and 76.1% are in multi-unit buildings (ACS 2020-2024). Cheviot Hills itself leans toward ownership: owners occupied 64.3% of its housing in 2008.
Roof repair in Century City and Cheviot Hills, by building type
Commercial and multifamily buildings. For property owners and facility managers, we repair leaks on flat and low-slope roofs, rebuild flashing at parapets, coping, and roof drains, and reroof with torch-down modified bitumen or single-ply systems. We also apply silicone roof coatings, as on our commercial silicone coating project in Los Angeles. When a reroof or coating crosses the 50% or 2,000-square-foot line, we specify a CRRC-rated product and give you the documentation for your records.
Houses. In Cheviot Hills, Monte Mar Vista, and Rancho Park, we repair and replace shingle and tile roofs, rebuild flashing at chimneys and walls, and pull the LADBS reroof permit. Before we order material, we check its weight against the express-permit limit and its CRRC rating against the Los Angeles minimum for pitched roofs. You can see our residential work in the city on our Los Angeles residential roofing project page.
Our team brings 25+ years of roofing experience. Overhead Roofing holds CSLB license #1119699 (C-39 Roofing), is bonded and insured, and is BBB Accredited with an A rating. Property owners and homeowners get a free estimate, a workmanship warranty on our work, and access to 24/7 emergency roof repair.
Questions from Century City owners and Cheviot Hills homeowners
Who issues reroof permits in Century City?
LADBS, the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, issues them. Century City is a district of the City of Los Angeles, inside the West Los Angeles Community Plan Area, so the same LADBS permit process applies here as in Cheviot Hills or Rancho Park. Beverly Hills, nearby, is a separate city with its own Building and Safety division, permit requirements, and design review, so confirm which city your building is in before you file.
Does a roof coating on our office building count toward the cool roof trigger?
It can. Under the 2025 California Energy Code, a nonresidential low-slope roof needs a cool roof once more than 50% of the roof or more than 2,000 square feet, whichever is less, is replaced, recovered, or recoated. On any roof larger than 4,000 square feet, the 2,000-square-foot figure is the smaller one, so a coating bigger than that has to be a CRRC-rated cool roof product.
Our building is over 20,000 square feet. Where does the roof fit into EBEWE?
EBEWE requires annual energy and water benchmarking and an audit or retro-commissioning every five years for privately owned buildings at or above that size. The Energy Code’s cool roof trigger is a separate rule, and both can apply to the same building. A roof survey scheduled before the audit gives the audit team current information on the roof, and any reroof or coating it leads to can be checked against the cool roof trigger at the same time.
Is Cheviot Hills a historic district?
No. SurveyLA classed Cheviot Hills as a Planning District, not a historic district, because of later alterations to its homes. The survey did find the Smithwood Edris Multifamily Historic District, Spanish Colonial Revival buildings from 1931 to 1935 near 10405 W. Cheviot Drive, eligible as a district. If your building is in that group, ask Los Angeles City Planning whether any review applies before you change the roof material or color.
Can a Cheviot Hills house get an LADBS express reroof permit?
It depends on the material. LADBS issues express reroof permits when the new roof covering weighs under 6 pounds per square foot, so the product you choose decides the route. Replacing more than half of the roof also requires a cool roof product rated by the CRRC, and wood shakes and wood shingles are not allowed anywhere in the City of Los Angeles, even for repairs. We confirm weight and rating before we order material.
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