Norton Flats was a historic Spanish Colonial Revival courtyard apartment complex in Los Angeles, California.
Its erection was part of the post-war courtyard apartment boom in the United States.
The Flats consisted of three two-story, four-unit buildings with rusty red clay roof tiles and double-hung windows.
In March 2017, the apartments were nominated as a Los Angeles historic-cultural monument following outcry over a demolition permit that was obtained for the property by developers Isaac W. Cohanzad and Michael Cohanzad of the Cohanzad Family Trust and their LLC, The Wiseman Group;[1] residents had been evicted per the controversial Ellis Act, and the permit subsequently obtained.
[1][2] City councilperson David Ryu raised an emergency motion[3] that the City Council consider the apartments for historic designation, and Council President Herb Wesson seconded the motion, wherein the remaining 14 councilpersons voted unanimously to hear the case.