31-Unit Vermont Square Project Given Green Light

The planning department of Los Angeles has approved a proposed 31-unit Vermont Square development as a Tier-3 project under the city’s Transit-Oriented Communities Incentive Program, according to case documents filed by the city last week. As such, the project, which is slated for 836 W. 42nd Place, can go forward with a 70 percent density bonus, which allows for 31 units, and an 11-foot height increase above the otherwise allowed 45-foot maximum.

The project representative shown is Danielle Hayman of Hayman Development LLC, but Hayman is listed in application paperwork with an address tied to The Ketter Group, a local developer. Listed as the project applicant and also owner of the property is Philip Cohen, president and founder of Mansfield Equities, an LA-based real estate capital advisory firm. John Friedman, an architect with The Ketter Group, is shown as the architect for the project.

The unit makeup at West 42nd is designed to be two two-bedrooms, five three-bedrooms, 20 four-bedrooms, and four five-bedrooms, and it will be supplemented by totals of 5,408 square feet of common open space and 1,100 square feet of private open space. The development will also have 18 ground-floor automobile parking spaces and 34 bicycle parking spaces. In addition, five of the 31 units will be set aside for households at very low incomes.

The project site, which is located at 836-844 West 42nd, is made up of two lots and currently holds two single-family dwellings with garages that will be demolished to make way for the development. Paul Lewis + Associates is listed as the landscape architect.