Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Oriented Development

Detail of City Planning's proposed tiered zones for incentivizing transit-oriented development. Full DCP map below.

Planning Dept Releases JJJ-Driven Transit-Oriented Development Incentives

By Joe Linton | Mar 15, 2017 | 7 Comments

L.A. City Planning Dept has released new proposed guidelines to incentivize transit-oriented development. The incentives are mandated by Measure JJJ, which voters approved last November.

The lots at Cesar Chavez and Fickett, where Metro hopes to see community-serving affordable housing, retail, green space, art space, and a grocery. Source: Metro Development Guidelines.

Metro Board Approves Development Guidelines for Lots at Cesar Chavez/Fickett

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 27, 2017 | 3 Comments

Last Thursday, the Metro Board approved development guidelines for a pair of large, vacant Metro-owned lots at Cesar Chavez and Fickett. The guidelines lay out community aspirations for the site and ask that a developer interested submitting a proposal for a project there be cognizant of the community’s history and current conditions, that any retail […]

ACT-LA Video Makes Case For Affordable Transit-Oriented Housing

By Joe Linton | Feb 9, 2017 | 1 Comment

The Alliance for Community Transit - Los Angeles has produced a new video exploring issues of housing, transit, gentrification, and displacement in South L.A.

The massive billion-plus-dollar luxury housing and hotel project The Reef has planned for the corner of Washington and Broadway has the potential to anchor a major transformation of Historic South Central Los Angeles. Source: The Reef

What Constitutes Good Development? Luxury REEF Project Approved over South Central Residents’ Fears of Displacement

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 22, 2016 | No Comments

“To be honest, sometimes, we feel abandoned…” William Flores, a community engagement coordinator at CD Tech, told the PLUM committee on November 1. “This is an intimidating type of a position [for residents of South Central] to be in.”

L.A. Eco-Village Buying Property, Planning New Car-Free Mixed-Use Building

By Joe Linton | Aug 24, 2016 | 12 Comments

Interested party note: I, Streetsblog Los Angeles Editor Joe Linton, live at L.A. Eco-Village and am an owner in the Urban Soil/Tierra Urban housing co-operative. I don’t have any direct fiscal stake in the new development, but am nonetheless an involved party and very interested in seeing it improve my neighborhood. Los Angeles Eco-Village is purchasing its fourth […]

Ninth District Councilmember Curren Price (standing center left, brownish jacket) turned the packed-to-the-hilt town hall over to union representatives and representatives of the "creative habitat" known as the Reef after his opening remarks. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Jobs or Housing? Historic South Central Residents Decry Feeling Asked to Choose by Billion Dollar Reef Project

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 14, 2016 | 24 Comments

THE NUMBER ONE THING that representatives from the “creative habitat” known as the Reef felt they had learned from engaging the community, the speaker told the more than 600 town hall attendees this past May 5, was that Historic South Central was “lacking a sense of place.” To give the community that sense of place […]

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