The Los Angeles planning department has given approvals to plans for a four-story, 27-unit mixed-use apartment project in Echo Park, according to a determination letter posted by the city this month.
Filed last year, the project plans are being led by site owner and Kenihan Development managing partner Hunter Kenihan, planning documents show. The development will replace a triplex property at 1449 – 1451 ½ Echo Park Ave. with 27 studio apartments over approximately 210 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
Approvals granted this month allow for Tier-1 project incentives under the city’s Transit Oriented Communities Incentive Program, including a 50-percent density bonus and 11-foot height increase to a maximum project height of 56 feet. Per TOC requirements, Kenihan will set aside one unit for an extremely low-income household and two units for very low-income households, plans show.
The project design is being led by Sammie Tabrizi Architect.
The roughly 14,500-square-foot mixed-use building will provide 24 automobile parking spaces in at-grade and subterranean parking levels, along with space for 34 bicycles. It will also include 3,610 square feet of open space in the form of a roof patio.
The project representative is shown as Matthew Hayden of Hayden Planning.
Gross. This is not the development the neighborhood needs. Everyone in that building will own at least one car and will force out long time residents of the neighborhood. Sammie Tabrizi is an agent of gentrification and I’m sure her kids are set for life at the expense of the people she displaces.