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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...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: angeles; california; homes; housing; nimby; nlz; zoning
First rule of Communism; everyone must live in equal misery.
1 posted on 09/26/2024 7:17:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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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. )
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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.)
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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. )
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To: aquila48

I miss Rush.


5 posted on 09/26/2024 7:25:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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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)
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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
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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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To: E. Pluribus Unum
First rule of Communism; everyone must live in equal misery.

Except, of course, the ruling elite.

My proposal - make every residence over 5000 square feet Section 8 multifamily housing - but the owner has to live there, as well.

9 posted on 09/26/2024 7:47:00 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: jonascord

Or Pruitt-Igoe.


10 posted on 09/26/2024 7:59:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NIMBY.


11 posted on 09/26/2024 8:00:07 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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Why are officials protecting single-family-home neighborhoods?

Answer: Because single-family home neighborhoods are proven winners for society.


12 posted on 09/26/2024 8:01:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Los Angekes always has good ideas. First they reduce the number of lanes on the roads, and then they add 250,000 more homes.


13 posted on 09/26/2024 9:00:02 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
From the introduction of the report:

White: This document uses the term “White” for people of European ancestry. While the census defines White persons more broadly, when referenced in this study it is typically referring to people of European descent.

The APA notes that “the use of the term Caucasian as an alternative to White or European is discouraged because it originated as a way of classifying White people as a race to be favorably compared with other races.” Therefore, this document avoids the use of the term Caucasian unless it is from a primary source quote.

It must also be recognized that language evolves over time and continues to do so. Terms that are regarded as acceptable and inclusive as of the completion of this document may not necessarily remain so in the future.

14 posted on 09/26/2024 9:14:14 PM PDT by CW_Conservative
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Look at the world and do the math!


15 posted on 09/26/2024 9:34:29 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: aquila48

Feral Take Out!


16 posted on 09/26/2024 9:34:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Slum or No Slum? I thought that was an easy choice.


17 posted on 09/26/2024 9:54:43 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Hang on, there. This is saying that you can’t build housing for people, nor subdivide your property by putting a second home out back. You can’t use your property how you want to... because your NEIGHBORS want to live without seeing anyone else.


18 posted on 09/27/2024 12:24:36 AM PDT by dangus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why are officials protecting single-family-home neighborhoods?

Because that's where "Hollywood" lives?

-PJ

19 posted on 09/27/2024 12:44:19 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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L.A. zoning is total b.s...
When I was have to deal with it (in a small way).. land zoned for 3 units could build as many as 5 units if the land was within 0.5 mile of major transit paths(bus paths. large boulevards, metro (train lines)..and had certain low rent units(etc)....l.a. times is a well known communist rag...”protecting” single family homes...I call B.S...L.A. political orgs. and politicians are still bought and sold by big developers.


20 posted on 09/27/2024 12:54:53 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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