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Method Doors & Gates

Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Hollywood homes and businesses

Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Hollywood, CA

Double wood driveway gate with an arched top, dark hinges and decorative studs

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Five historic districts, a specific plan written around Hollywoodland's 1923 granite walls, and gated garages on busy apartment blocks: a Hollywood gate often answers to more than one rulebook. Nothing is built until you approve the drawing. Our fabrication partner of 15 years builds it, our licensed installers put it in, and our phones are answered 24/7 for gate and garage door repairs.

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Gates in Hollywood

What building a gate in Hollywood actually involves

Hollywood is two very different gate problems. In the flats — the dense blocks between Sunset, Franklin, and the 101 — it is multifamily and commercial: garage gates that cycle all day, pedestrian gates with intercoms, and security that holds up on a busy street. In the Hollywood Hills — Beachwood, Outpost, Whitley Heights, the streets off Mulholland — it is steep driveways, tight openings, hillside footings, and gates that are as much architecture as security.

On the two sides of Franklin the work differs. For the buildings that means high-cycle operators, fob and phone-entry directories, and anti-tailgate detection; for the hillside homes it means slide and cantilever gates designed around the grade, wrought iron or steel drawn to suit a 1920s Spanish house or a modern glass one, and operators with battery backup. Hollywood is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS, with hillside review and, in the HPOZs, City Planning's historic review first.

Our Van Nuys office is just over the hill. Estimates are free and written, and repairs are dispatched 24/7 — a stuck garage gate on a forty-unit building is treated as the emergency it is.

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Local conditions

What changes the build in Hollywood

  • Five HPOZs, five preservation plans

    Whitley Heights, Spaulding Square, Sunset Square, Hollywood Grove and Melrose Hill are Historic Preservation Overlay Zones. Every exterior change inside them, landscaping included, goes through City Planning, and the review type depends on whether ZIMAS lists the house as contributing. Each district has its own preservation plan, so a gate that suits one may not suit the next.

  • Hollywoodland's granite walls

    The Hollywoodland Specific Plan covers the original 1920s tract at the top of Beachwood Canyon. New fences and walls must stay at least 3 feet back from the front lot line and no taller than 6 feet, and nothing, fences included, may attach to the 1923 granite walls and stairways in the public right-of-way. A gate post beside one needs its own footing.

  • Gated garages on apartment blocks

    LADOT's driveway guidelines ask for at least 20 feet of queuing between the property line and an entry gate serving up to 100 parking spaces, and 40 feet up to 300, so waiting cars stay off the sidewalk. Where a gated drive is a required fire lane, LAFD adds an override switch and fail-safe opening on power loss.

Areas we cover in Hollywood: Hollywoodland · Hollywood Dell · Nichols Canyon · Hollywood Knolls · Spaulding Square · Sunset Square

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Gates we've built

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  • Black double pedestrian gates with rings and scrollwork in a white entrywayOrnamental iron entry gates
  • Black metal entry gates beneath a broad white arch at a commercial propertyCommercial iron entry
  • Black pedestrian gates and metal infill panels beside planters under a covered walkwayCommercial entry detail

Hagit Eden

6 years ago

“I had the pleasure working with Method Doors & Gates, great prices, very professional and friendly, arrived on time, Replace my garage door, excellent job highly recommend.”

Hollywood FAQ

Questions we hear in Hollywood

Answers specific to Hollywood. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.

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Yes. We draw the gate to suit the architecture — period-appropriate iron with the right scroll or picket profile, or wood with strap hardware — and account for HPOZ review, which runs through City Planning before LADBS issues the permit. Steep driveways usually call for a slide or cantilever design; we measure and show you what fits.

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