Don't Let the City End Our Single Family Neighborhoods
State law requires the City to update its Housing Element every eight years and demonstrate sufficient zoned capacity for housing to accommodate the number of units identified by the State for Los Angeles (LA's current plan runs through 2028). Based on a regional assessment, Los Angles must accommodate a total of 486,379 units, of which 184,721 units must be affordable to lower income households.
After two years of outreach and input from citizens and organizations like BHA, Draft #3 of the proposed Housing Element Rezoning Program will go before the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee of the City Council for a vote. It then goes to the full City Council for final approval. This current draft (#3) exempts vulnerable high fire areas and coastal areas, historic districts, single-family and rent stabilized housing. Housing development would instead occur along already identified high-resourced commercial areas blighted by the pandemic. The Planning Department in its report clearly states that they have found enough zoning to meet the State’s mandate for housing without the need to rezone our single-family areas.
However, at the very last-minute, pro-development groups who wish to end single-family neighborhoods were allowed to add “Options.” These “Options” propose more density in single-family neighborhoods by allowing large apartment buildings next to single family homes.
BHA supports Draft #3 as written without “Options” and asks you to do the same by emailing City Councilmember Traci Park and the PLUM Committee using the link below.
