Daily News and LA Times on Grand Ave. Meeting
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The Daily News and LA Times both have recaps today of last night's Grand Ave. project meeting. I had another meeting scheduled last night, but then when it got cancelled completely forgot that this was going on as well. In any case, the first phase looks to be housing heavy -- at least 2,000 units. There are other meetings around the city if you missed the one last night.
Bert Green on February 24, 2005, at 03:37PM – #1
I don't agree that the plan is housing heavy, the sites that are slated for development could easily sustain 15,000 units and they are proposing 2,000. How else will downtown reach critical mass if housing is developed like it is in suburbia? We need the density of Manhattan, not the suburban approach of Marina del Rey.
e; on February 24, 2005, at 04:36PM – #2
Bert: I may have mis-worded that. I didn't mean it was housing heavy as in it was too much housing, more that from my reading it seemed like they were putting the housing up front to generate revenue. I'm all for density Downtown as long as we can bring in the appropriate services to sustain it. -e;
Thomas Ryan Sebastian on February 24, 2005, at 04:36PM – #3
I agree with Bert. 2,000 housing units is nothing Downtown. Most of those people will be able to safely reverse commute out their secure parking garages. The trick is to activate streetlife through mixed-use planning. Downtown has always had plenty of office space. Housing is finally being produced in a major way. Parks, retail and dining will be the final nail in the postwar Downtown coffin.
Bums beware! LAPD will soon be offering you a one-way bus ticket to Phoenix.
BTW, are there any pictures of the planning models?
e; on February 24, 2005, at 04:41PM – #4
Thomas: For a long time I too thought a lot of the Downtown population moving in was here to reverse-commute, but I found it interesting that the recent DCBID survey showed that about 50% of residents in new buildings were moving here to be closer to work.
I would be interested in pictures of the models as well. I'll see if I can come up with any. -e;
Don GArza on February 24, 2005, at 07:54PM – #5
I agree with bert .and Sebastian. If people want to save the single family dwelling neihgborhoods , then Downtown should abide by the general plan which makes it a high density area. 2,000 units of hosuing is not enough. Theere needs to be more.
As fas as the bums they are not going anywhere. There is too much embedded investment on teh eastside of LOs ANgeles Street to allow for that. San Diego was able to buy out a lot of their missions to get them to th eperiphery of the city , The Missions in Los angeles Make too much money being centrally located where they are. BUt one thing is for sure , we have a coming new way of dealing with the dope man. Rumors are cameras like the ones in macarthur park.