Existing-property photo: CRMLS / supplied listing. Proposed rendering: Igor Latsanovski.
A single-family property near the Pacoima Wash in North Hills could become a cluster of 10 new homes. Plans for 9537 Lemona Avenue call for two-story houses, each with three bedrooms and an attached junior accessory dwelling unit.
Quick Facts
- Address: 9537 Lemona Avenue, North Hills
- Existing development: A 1951 single-story house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and 1,384 square feet, according to Redfin
- Last listed sale: $1,140,000 on March 27, 2026, according to Redfin
- Site: Approximately 31,960 square feet, according to ZIMAS; the parcel also includes 9535 N. Lemona Avenue
- Applicant: Igor Latsanovski, 9537 Lemona, LLC
- Project representative: Camille Zeitouny, Zeitouny & Associates, Inc.
- Zoning: RA-1, according to the city case description
- Subdivision: 10 proposed parcels
- Proposed housing: 10 homes, each with an attached junior accessory dwelling unit
- Height: Two stories
- Bedrooms: Three upstairs in each main home
- Parking: A two-car garage for each home
- City case: VTT-85308-SH-HCA; filed October 5, 2026
- Additional ZIMAS case: AA-2026-85309-SH-HCA; separate case summary unavailable when checked
- Status: Tract case assigned to staff October 8; not on hold; no action or hearing date listed when checked October 11, 2026
One property, 10 new parcels
The proposal would demolish the existing house and divide the property into 10 parcels, with a new home on each. The plans place the bedrooms on the upper floor and the main living space and garage below.
Each house would also include a junior accessory dwelling unit, or JADU. Those junior units are additional to the 10 main homes described in the proposal.
Proposed design and site plan
The supplied site plan places five lots on each side of a central driveway entered from Lemona Avenue. Click a rendering or the plan to enlarge it and move through this three-image group.
A smaller subdivision near the Pacoima Wash
City Planning identifies the applicant as Igor Latsanovski of 9537 Lemona, LLC, with Camille Zeitouny of Zeitouny & Associates, Inc. serving as representative. The city's project description calls for 10 new residential dwelling units on 10 lots using the Starter Home Revitalization Act, or SHRA, in the RA-1 zone. Urbanize LA reports that the plans rely on SB 684 and SB 1123.
The blog recently covered a similar change in Winnetka: five homes and three junior units proposed at 7032 Cozycroft Avenue. Both proposals would replace a single house with several homes on separate lots, although the Lemona plan calls for a larger number of main homes and a junior unit in every house.
A 1951 house on a deep lot
The Redfin listing describes a single-story home built in 1951, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and 1,384 square feet on approximately 0.73 acres. Its sale history records a $1,140,000 sale on March 27, 2026, following a $975,000 listing earlier that month. It also shows a June 1979 sale for $125,000.
The listing photos show the home's wood-paneled living and dining spaces, a gated driveway and a long rear yard. The listing promoted the lot's potential for an accessory dwelling unit or future expansion; the newly filed proposal would take that change much further, replacing the house with 10 main homes and their junior units.
Listing photo gallery
All 25 supplied listing photos are grouped below. Click any photo, then use the arrows, swipe on a phone, or press the left and right arrow keys to move through the gallery. Photo source: CRMLS / Redfin listing; images supplied by the author.
Street View
Harriet Perry and the newspaper trail
The property history supplied for this post identifies Harriet Ann Perry as the last owner before the recent sale. Her Echovita obituary records her death on August 13, 2025, at age 84, in West Hills. The obituary does not itself identify the Lemona Avenue property.
The supplied Los Angeles Times clippings repeatedly list Harriet Perry or Harriet A. Perry among contributors to the paper's summer camp fund. The printed gifts include $10 in 1980, $30 in 1987, $105 in 1989, $115 in 1991 and $125 in 1992. A March 2009 Holiday Campaign acknowledgment also names Harriet A. Perry. Together, these notices suggest a recurring commitment to the newspaper's charitable appeals, although the donor lists alone do not establish the contributor's address.
A November 9, 1989 notice names Harriet A. Perry as a prize winner and directs her to the day's giveaway advertisement to learn what she had won. The supplied clipping does not identify the prize.
An April 22, 1984 Barker Brothers advertisement names Harriet Perry as the Glendale store contact for applicants seeking furniture sales jobs. That suggests involvement in hiring or recruiting, but the ad does not give her title or establish that she worked in human resources. An August 4, 2002 article provides a more direct North Hills connection: it describes Harriet Perry requesting two trees for her property through the DWP's shade-tree program.
Delbert Winkler, the “Tomato Man”
The supplied ownership history identifies Delbert Winkler as the original owner. His Los Angeles Daily News obituary records that he died January 12, 2009, at age 94. A World War II Army cook, he had lived in the San Fernando Valley with his family since 1947 and was an avid vegetable gardener. His tomatoes earned him the nickname “The Tomato Man” after a 1999 Daily News supplement feature.
The August 15, 1961 Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet clipping reports the wedding of his daughter, Rochelle Winkler, to Henry Hayne Baucom Jr. It lists the Winklers at a Canoga Park address. Neither that notice nor the obituary identifies 9537 Lemona Avenue, so the original-ownership connection rests on the property history supplied for this post rather than those two sources.
Newspaper clipping gallery
These 10 supplied clippings form a separate gallery. Click to enlarge and use the arrows to browse; the full-size link opens the original scan in a new tab for closer reading. Dates below follow the supplied scan filenames.
Where the proposal stands
City Planning lists case VTT-85308-SH-HCA as filed October 5, 2026 and assigned to Renata Ooms on October 8. When checked October 11, the summary showed “Case on Hold?: No”, with no hearing date, action or action date listed. The “Accepted For Review On” field was marked “N/A.” Assignment to staff does not establish project approval.
The initial-submittal section lists an application, project plans, a subdivider's statement and two tentative tract map entries scanned October 5 and 6. These are submission documents, rather than an approval.
ZIMAS also lists AA-2026-85309-SH-HCA for the property. Its link returned “No Cases were found” in the City Planning portal when checked, so a separate status and project description could not be confirmed. The tract case's related-cases panel likewise returned no related cases.
The project remains a proposal in the records reviewed. A construction start or completion date has not been established.
For more local housing proposals and architecture stories, visit the blog's Development & Architecture page.
Sources
- Los Angeles City Planning: VTT-85308-SH-HCA — checked October 11, 2026; project description, applicant, representative, filing and assignment dates, public status and submission-document index.
- ZIMAS: Lemona Avenue parcel — addresses, calculated parcel area, APN 2650-002-019 and associated case numbers.
- Steven Sharp, Urbanize LA: 10 homes planned at 9537 Lemona Ave. in North Hills — October 11, 2026; design details, junior units and reported sale price.
- Redfin: 9537 Lemona Avenue — existing house details and sale history, checked October 11, 2026.
- Echovita: Harriet Ann Perry obituary — death date, age and West Hills location.
- Los Angeles Daily News / Legacy: Delbert Winkler obituary — January 22, 2009 notice; death date, Valley history and Tomato Man nickname.
- Supplied Los Angeles Times and Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet clippings — dates and descriptions appear in the newspaper gallery.
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