A single-family home in Mid-City could be turned into nearly a dozen small houses.
Eric Luna of V.E.M.L. Drafting has filed an application to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning to redevelop the lot at 1882 South Cochran Avenue into nine single-family homes, Urbanize Los Angeles reported. The parcel currently houses a single-family home built in the early 20th century. Wenhau Mu of Moo Housing is listed as the property owner on city records cited by Urbanize.
The developer is seeking city approval to subdivide the roughly 13,000-square-foot site to fit nine single-family homes. To move approval of the project along, the project is utilizing the streamlining provisions of Senate Bill 684, which went into effect in 2024. That legislation streamlines approval for small-scale infill housing in the state, requiring local agencies to ministerially approve projects of 10 or fewer homes on multifamily-zoned urban lots under 5 acres within 60 days.
SB 684 acts as the multifamily counterpart to SB 9, also known as the Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (HOME) Act, which went into effect in 2022. That law allows homeowners to subdivide lots and build up to four units on single-family parcels.
In the wake of the Palisades fire last year, city officials including Mayor Karen Bass and City Council member Traci Park appealed to Gov. Gavin Newsom to prevent SB 9’s application in Pacific Palisades. Reality TV personality-turned-mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt campaigned on the issue, falsely claiming last year that the county would be enabled to purchase burned single-family lots in the Palisades and convert them into low-income housing.
V.E.M.L. Drafting’s Cochran Avenue project is the latest in Mid-City to reimagine single-family homes as multifamily housing. In 2024, Liv Lux Properties filed plans to demolish two single-family homes at 1551-1557 South Hi Point Street to erect a six-story building with 40 units. Elsewhere in Koreatown, earlier this year, developer Jafar Shahbaz filed plans to replace a single-family home at 810 South Wilton Place with a six-story building containing 16 two-bedroom apartments. — Chris Malone Méndez
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