The Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council Monday evening will review three separate mid-rise apartment project proposals totaling almost 500 residential units, according to its meeting agenda for this week.
The proposed developments would rise at 3800 W. 6th Street, 603 S. Mariposa Avenue, and 926 – 938 S. Kingsley Drive. Application documents for the projects have been filed by separate developers within the past six months and have each drawn design suggestions from the Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council’s planning committee.
For 3800 West 6th, Leo Lee has plans for an eight-story, 301-unit mixed-use apartment project at the southwestern corner of the West 6th Street and South Hobart Boulevard intersection. Submitted in October, the developer’s proposal follows initial plans for a 21-story condominium and hotel building at the project site, which currently holds a surface parking lot. The latest plans also include 6,400 square feet of commercial space.
The Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council’s planning committee recommends the TCA Architects-designed plans not be approved unless several conditions are met, including for the project to be solar and EV-parking equipped, according to the Monday evening agenda.
The neighborhood council will also review plans for an eight-story, 92-unit apartment project proposed by micro-housing developer Housing Diversity Corporation for 603 S. Mariposa Ave., about half a mile east of 3800 West 6th Street. The council’s planning committee recommends that the project, which would replace a two-story commercial building, not be supported by the neighborhood group unless several conditions are met, including right of first refusal being extended to the site’s existing businesses and changes to design, according to the meeting agenda.
“This Committee, disappointed with the lack of initiative, outreach, and the
uniquely depressing, dystopian design in proximity to an architecturally significant
historic district hereby recommends this project NOT be supported unless the
following conditions are met,” the agenda shows.
The Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council’s agenda also shows that it will review a proposal for a seven-story, 89-unit apartment at 926 – 938 S. Kingsley Drive by Kian Investment LLC. The neighborhood group’s planning committee writes that it would not support the project, which would replace a single-family property, without significant design changes, including a reduction in height to five stories.
“This Committee finds this Project’s design insulting and incongruous with
the community, surrounding architectural and urban context, and that this
development of this size and scale actually poses a safety risk to those who reside
here,” the committee writes.
