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The Oak Pass File
A free dataset from The Basin  ·  basin.la/data/index.html#la-lobbying-oak-pass
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The full method, the column definitions and the known limits are written up and
available on request: data@basin.la

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ABOUT THIS DATASET
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LA-LOBBYING-OAK-PASS
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Every disclosed lobbying payment and every disclosed lobbying subject tied to one Los
Angeles address: 9712 Oak Pass Road, the Benedict Canyon parcel behind the proposed
Bulgari hotel (filed variously as "The Retreat", "The Retreat at Benedict Canyon", and
"Development of Bulgari Hotel").

Headline: $3,332,177.12 paid by this client to 15 registered lobbying firms
(14 of which reported a non-zero amount) across 271 quarterly payment rows and
265 project/agency rows, in 2012, 2013, and 2017 through 2024.

The City of Los Angeles publishes what lobbying firms were paid in one file and what they
lobbied about in a different file, with no shared key beyond (firm, client, year,
quarter), and the client name is entered by the filer as free text in five separate name
fields. This dataset resolves eight distinct client-name spellings into one entity,
normalizes sixteen firm-name spellings into fifteen firms, joins payments to subject
matter, flags the payments that may not belong to this address, and adds the citywide
client ranking needed to put the total in context.

Published by The Basin (basin.la), 2026-08-13.

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COVERAGE
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- Payments: 2012-Q4 through 2024-Q4 for non-zero amounts; registrations run to 2026-Q2.
- Project/agency rows: 2012 through 2026-Q2.
- The client ranking file covers the full source range, 2005 through 2026-Q2.
- There is a five-year gap in this client's filings: no rows at all for 2014, 2015, 2016.


SOURCES
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Both source files were downloaded 2026-08-12 from the City of Los Angeles open data
portal, and both were last updated by the city on 2026-08-12.

| file | source |
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| lobbying_client_payments_h6ky-vznd.csv (197,133 rows) | https://data.lacity.org/api/views/h6ky-vznd/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD |
| lobbying_projects_agencies_4xuf-944h.csv (267,669 rows) | https://data.lacity.org/api/views/4xuf-944h/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD |
| campaign_contributions_m6g2-gc6c.csv (Airbnb committee context only) | https://data.lacity.org/api/views/m6g2-gc6c/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD |

The three datasets are published by the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission under a
Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal public domain dedication, verified from
https://data.lacity.org/api/views/<id>.json on 2026-08-12. This derived dataset carries
no additional restriction. It contains no City Clerk council-file data and no scraped
pages.

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TERMS: SOURCES AND RIGHTS
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THE OAK PASS FILE
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Sources, rights and terms. Licenses were read from each publisher on 2026-08-13.


THIS RELEASE
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Not the records. Every record underneath this release is a public document, and the
table below says exactly where to get it. What is licensed here is the cleaning and
the joins: the entity resolution, the crosswalks, the bridged definitions, the
verification, and the documentation that makes the result safe to rely on. The method, its known limits and the column-level detail are all under "About this dataset" above.


RIGHTS POSTURE
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CLEAR. Sellable. Every upstream source is a public domain dedication or a US government work.


UPSTREAM SOURCES
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| Source | Publisher | License |
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| Payments Made by Clients to Registered Lobbying Firms <https://data.lacity.org/d/h6ky-vznd> | Los Angeles City Ethics Commission | CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) |
| Clients of Registered Lobbying Firms <https://data.lacity.org/d/9z5d-hgrh> | Los Angeles City Ethics Commission | CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) |
| City Projects and Agencies Lobbied by Registered Lobbying Entities <https://data.lacity.org/d/4xuf-944h> | Los Angeles City Ethics Commission | CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) |
| Registered City Lobbyists <https://data.lacity.org/d/j4zm-9kqu> | Los Angeles City Ethics Commission | CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication) |


WARRANTY
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This release is provided as is. Its accuracy checks, their results and its known
limits are stated plainly under "About this dataset" above, and those statements are the whole of what
is claimed for it. Underlying sources are republished by their agencies on their own
schedules and may be revised after our extraction date. Where a figure can only be a
lower bound, the documentation says so.

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LICENCE
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Free to use, including commercially, with attribution.

    Data processing: The Basin (basin.la)

The records underneath this release are public. Federal figures are US government
works and municipal filings are public records; none of that is ours and none of
it is licensed here. What The Basin built is the assembly: the extraction, the
joins, the derived measures and the documentation. That work is given away with
this release rather than licensed, and you may redistribute it, including as part
of a commercial product, provided the attribution above travels with it.

If a source carries its own attribution requirement, that requirement survives
this grant. The source table is under "Terms" above.

No warranty. The full method and the known limits are available on request:
data@basin.la

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