The area code 323 has been exhausted since 2018 .
For this reason , with 323 projected to exhaust by 2018 , the California Public Utilities Commission has proposed `` erasing '' the 213/323 boundary and turning 213 into an overlay for all of central Los Angeles , thus bringing 213 back to areas that had used it for more than half a century prior to 1998 .
Area codes 213 and 323