North Hollywood is positioned to get a new four-story building consisting entirely of affordable housing.
An affiliate of Los Angeles-based Avenue Homes has filed an application with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for 49 one- and two-bedroom apartments at 6144 North Hazelhurst Avenue, Urbanize Los Angeles reported. The narrow slip of land is located one block west of Lankershim Boulevard.
The application calls for 32 one-bedroom units and 17 two-bedrooms with no on-site parking for residents.
Avenue Homes CEO Brandon Hance applied for the development, according to the planning department. The property sits behind a Comfort Inn & Suites in Lankershim.
Open Office handled the designs in the architect’s latest partnership with Avenue Homes. The two firms are working in tandem on a similar affordable housing complex in Historic Filipinotown.
The North Hazelhurst project is the latest to seek use of density bonus incentives and Executive Directive 1, the development fast-track that streamlines and expedites the approval of 100-percent-affordable buildings.
In North Hollywood, HVN Development filed plans in March for a five-story building at 5151 Denny Avenue with 80 two-bedroom apartments. The development would open to moderate-, low- and very low-income households in exchange for density bonus incentives. In Los Angeles County, moderate income is described as $89,550 for one person, low income is $84,850 for one, and very low income is $53,000.
On the Westside, Marina del Rey is set to receive its first 100-percent affordable development after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a seven-story, 120-unit project at 4206 Admiralty Way in May.
Elsewhere on the Westside, in West Los Angeles, Southern California Affordable Housing recently filed plans to turn a shuttered two-story commercial building on Santa Monica Boulevard into 279 studio- and one-bedroom units.
In South Central L.A., Garwood has proposed two 11-story fully affordable towers across the street from each other on South Wall Street.
Out in the San Gabriel Valley, Community HousingWorks is preparing to turn the Novo Apartments in Rowland Heights into a 100-percent affordable community. Like the other fully affordable buildings in L.A. County, the project will take advantage of Executive Directive 1 to speed along redevelopment.
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