Los Angeles has to rezone the entire city. Why are officials protecting single-family-home neighborhoods?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-27 02:46:08 | Updated at 2024-10-01 01:36:54 3 days ago

Los Angeles has to rezone the entire city. Why are officials protecting single-family-home neighborhoods?
Los Angeles Times ^ | Sept. 26, 2024 3 AM PT | Liam Dillon

Posted on 09/26/2024 7:17:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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 only allow 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 Los Angeles. 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.

The city planning commission is scheduled to vote

on the proposal Thursday

. The City Council must approve a final plan in advance of a February state deadline.

Keeping single-family home neighborhoods untouched maintains the low-density character that, as much as any big U.S. city,

has defined modern Los Angeles

and responds to advocacy from homeowner groups who want to maintain their neighborhoods as they are. But some social justice and housing groups argue that doing so will fortify longstanding inequalities in L.A.’s housing market in the face of an ongoing affordability crisis.

A newly released city-funded report, more than three years in the making, bolsters critiques of so much single-family-home zoning.

The 124-page study, which the planning department initially refused to disclose to The Times through a public records request, calls the century-old zoning designation a key factor in maintaining current racial and economic disparities...

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: angeles; california; homes; housing; zoning

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep. Replace civilized single family homes, however so humble, with rat-infested tenement rabbit warrens.. Equity, you know.

2 posted on 09/26/2024 7:22:53 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Having walked through a lot of LA neighborhoods currently you can literally spit and hit your neighbor’s house. Not sure how they expect to free up land to build more.

3 posted on 09/26/2024 7:23:00 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Bringing the hood to you”

Rush Limbaugh

4 posted on 09/26/2024 7:24:31 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )

To: aquila48

5 posted on 09/26/2024 7:25:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

You will own nothing. The State will care for you.

6 posted on 09/26/2024 7:27:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's mone)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sure hope the 70% or so of middle to upper income people living in single family homes enjoy what’s coming - after all, THEY VOTED FOR IT!

7 posted on 09/26/2024 7:32:18 PM PDT by BobL

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Read up on Cabrini Green.

8 posted on 09/26/2024 7:40:05 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)

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