The sidewalks, the streets, the bike lanes and spaces all come together to make a livable, walkable, beautiful community.
LOCATIONS FOR TOWN CENTERS
Where in LA?
LA has thousands of miles of low-quality commercial corridors. We can transform them into high-quality, leafy, inviting and vibrant streets lined with local retail and residential housing above while incentivizing every parcel owner on the street to build. A few hundred miles would be the equivalent of LA’s housing and home ownership deficit.
In a car-dependent city like LA, the most frequent question when it comes to housing is: ‘what about parking?’ There’s a solution!
The LCI Residential-over-small-retail building typology doesn’t physically accommodate parking – and projects would lose the broad affordability because coupling parking-to-housing raises rents up to $800/month.
This design from a highly successful redevelopment in Lancaster, CA added a ‘Parking Ramblas’ – solving three issues at once: slowing cars, adding trees and shade, and providing parking for visitors, shoppers, residents’ car share and EV charging, ADA, work vehicles, and some paid residential parking.
Windowless rooms. Limited airflow. No residential+retail. Car-dependency. No outdoor space.
Updated Rules Incentivize
Naturally affordable and sustainable homes. High quality architecture. Bright and airy rooms. Courtyards of safe green space. Retail serving daily and weekly needs.
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How do we make it happen?
A STREAMLINING STRATEGY
Change the rules, speed the process
Our state and local government officials need to implement a few changes that reduce the cost and time to build, improve the street and transit, and incentivize the neighborhoods we want.
This approach solves the affordable housing crisis, combats our ever-increasing traffic troubles, and addresses the climate crisis by making a few essential changes ALL AT ONCE.
