Another developer is looking to turn the site of a single-family home into apartments, this time in Century City.
Project developer Mehrzad Shirani Lapari submitted an application to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning to transform 2217 South Fox Hills Drive into a multifamily residential property, Urbanize Los Angeles reported.
Lapari’s proposal calls for the construction of a seven-story building with 17 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments above parking for six vehicles. The home at the site would be demolished to make way for the new multifamily structure.
The application seeks entitlements including mixed-income housing incentives to allow the developer to build larger than zoning rules would typically allow. The developer would designate two of the apartments as affordable housing in exchange for the construction allowances.
With Los Angeles facing a hefty housing goal by the end of the decade and increasing demand across the region, developers have looked to meet that need by turning single-family lots into multifamily residences.
Earlier this month, TJ Unity LLC filed plans to construct a four-story building with 40 apartments at 1045-1055 Locust Street in Pasadena, currently the site of a single-family home. Elsewhere in Pasadena, LSJ Development is looking to turn four single-family homes, at 1062 and 1072 East Villa Street and 445 and 459 North Wilson Avenue, into a three-story building with 22 three-bedroom apartments.
Also this month, Emilson filed an application with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning to demolish a house at 1756 North Serrano Avenue in Los Feliz and replace it with a six-story structure featuring 40 studio and one-bedroom apartments, all for rent at low-income levels. And in Koreatown, another developer is looking to remove a single-family home at 810 South Wilton Place and erect a six-story building with 16 two-bedroom apartments.
Los Angeles is required by the state to plan for 456,643 new housing units by 2029. Of those, 40 percent, or 182,657, must be set aside for rent to low-income and very-low-income households. — Chris Malone Méndez
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