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Los Angeles has to rezone the entire city. Why are officials protecting single-family-home neighborhoods?
Sept. 26, 2024 3 AM PT
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The city of Los Angeles is on the verge of redrafting blueprints for its neighborhoods to accommodate more than 250,000 new homes. But under a recommendation from the planning department, nearly three quarters of the city will remain off limits to further growth.
At stake is no less than a vision for Los Angeles’ future. Will L.A. continue to preserve communities dominated by single-family homes? Or will the city make a historic shift to allow for more affordable housing in areas that have long excluded it?
The department’s proposal leaves alone neighborhoods that allow only for the building of single-family homes — as well as accessory dwelling units in many cases — a classification that represents 72% of the residential land in L.A. Instead, the department is pushing for the city to meet the 250,000-unit production goal through incentives for greater development in existing multifamily and commercial areas.
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L.A. City Council committee approves sweeping housing rezoning plan
By Andrew Khouri
Staff Writer
Nov. 20, 2024 Updated 9:43 AM PT
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A key Los Angeles City Council committee signed off on a sweeping rezoning plan Tuesday that would focus new market rate and affordable housing on commercial corridors and in existing dense residential neighborhoods.
The effort is in response to state housing mandates that seek to alleviate the housing crisis by requiring the city find land where an additional 255,000 homes can be built and have the plan in place by mid-February.
In hours of public comment, members of the Planning and Land Use Management Committee committee heard from Angelenos who wanted to preserve single family neighborhoods and those who wanted to open the areas up to more development to reduce economic and racial segregation.
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“We need affordable housing everywhere — in every neighborhood,” said Maria Patiño Gutierrez, a policy director with the nonprofit Strategic Actions for a Just Economy.
Patricia Carroll, a resident of St. Andrews Square in central L.A., told the committee that though she lives in a multifamily area, she enjoys walking through nearby neighborhoods filled with single family houses, grass and trees.
“If this was to disappear … L.A. would be a very sad place to live,” Carroll said.
In the end, the committee voted 4 to 0 to approve a recommendation from the City Planning Commission that largely leaves single family zones alone.
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The proposal can still be modified by the full City Council and some council members not on the PLUM committee have expressed interest in shifting course when it comes to single-family zones.
“By opening up some of these neighborhoods — to some new housing — we would actually be making steps towards undoing the city’s patterns of segregation that in many cases policymakers imposed upon this city,” Councilmember Nithya Raman told the committee.
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Los Angeles has to rezone the entire city. Why are officials protecting single-family-home neighborhoods?
Sept. 26, 2024
As now written, the proposed Citywide Housing Incentive program would enable developers to build more than currently allowed in commercial zones and in residential neighborhoods where apartment buildings are already allowed. In order to do so, developers would need to include a certain percentage of affordable units — and the property must be near transit or along a major street near jobs and good schools.
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