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About Brian Rosenstein

Husband, father, neighbor, business leader, philanthropist, and public servant — a fourth-generation Angeleno appointed by Mayor Karen Bass to the Los Angeles City Planning Commission and confirmed unanimously by City Council.

Brian Rosenstein is a Los Angeles City Planning Commissioner and the Chairman & CEO of Brookhill Corp., a privately held real estate investment firm he has led since 2018. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he is a fourth-generation member of the May family, a Los Angeles family with a long tradition of philanthropy and civic life.

He attended Harvard-Westlake School and earned a BA in Liberal Arts with a minor in Geography from California State University, Northridge. A lifelong Democrat, Brian lives in Cheviot Hills, on the Westside of Los Angeles, with his wife and two children — plus three cats and a dog.

“I’ve spent my career thinking about housing — how it’s built, how it’s owned, how it shapes the lives of the families who live in it. Los Angeles is the city that raised me, and right now it’s a city that working families can’t afford to live in, and where too many of our neighbors are sleeping outside. That’s not the LA I grew up in, and it’s not the LA we have to settle for. Public service is how I’m trying to be part of the answer.”

— Brian Rosenstein

Public Service

As a Los Angeles City Planning Commissioner — appointed by Mayor Karen Bass and unanimously confirmed by City Council — Brian helps oversee zoning, development approvals, and land-use policy for one of the most complex urban markets in the country. He has worked both sides of the table, as a long-term real estate operator and as a land-use decision-maker, and advocates for permit-pathway reform, rezoning plans that reflect real housing demand, and a more pragmatic approach that moves faster than the current system allows.

New to how this works? Read his guide: What Is a City Planning Commission?

Brookhill Corporation

Brookhill Corp. is a real estate investment firm founded in 1977 by Brian’s grandfather, David May II. Under Brian’s leadership as Chairman & CEO, Brookhill owns and operates a diversified national portfolio of income-producing real estate across 15 states and four asset classes — multifamily, industrial, retail, and storage. Brookhill is a long-term owner-operator, focused on responsible ownership and well-run properties rather than speculative development.

Philanthropy

As a Board Member & Vice-President of the Wilbur May Foundation, Brian helps direct the foundation’s annual charitable giving to organizations serving children, families, and people in crisis across Los Angeles — including Project Angel Food, Venice Family Clinic, Public Counsel, and the LACER After School Program. He helped lead the family’s founding support for the Anita May Rosenstein Campus at the Los Angeles LGBT Center — 135 affordable homes and 100 shelter beds for young people in crisis, and the foundation’s most visible work in the city. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Archer School for Girls and the Advisory Board of the Venice Family Clinic.

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