Dive summary:

• The Los Angeles City Council was all for a proposal to build 35- and 39-story towers near the famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine, but the city Department of Building  and Safety is not budging on permits until it finds out whether the site sits atop an earthquake fault.
• Millenium Partners, the developer, says it is going to excavate to find out whether the land under the site has the potential to move sideways and will abandon the 1 million-square-foot idea if the Hollywood Fault is found down below.
• Current data show the fault lying east and west of the project site, but it has never been mapped right there; six borings that Millenium had done found no fault, but the city wants more information than they provided.

From the article:

"There are fault lines that run all across the city. And we want to make sure we don't set some sort of precedent because there are suspicions that a fault line might be somewhere, that it stops all economic activity and development activity." ...