Buildings in Downtown LA are growing up taller. They might also include less parking. A draft set of development guidelines for Downtown, released by the city, is testing the waters for eliminating the requirement that developers put parking in new apartment and condo buildings. In all of Los Angeles, when a new building goes up it’s required to have a certain number of parking spaces. A figure based on the building’s use—residential buildings, Like Little Tokyo Lofts, 420 San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90013, for example, have to have between one and two parking spaces per apartment or condo, depending on the number of bedrooms in each unit. That opens up the availability for free guest parking in legacy buildings over new construction based on the plan in these draft rules.
Much of the housing Downtown is aimed at the higher end of the luxury loft market and those households are likely to have cars and want to store them. Without parking minimums, developers could work out arrangements to use existing parking spaces in nearby garages to meet that need without having to build new parking spaces. The challenge will be seeing if DTLA loft will want to live where guest parking and regular parking are not part of the building.
The draft version of the Downtown plan has a way to go before it’s put into action. If approved with the elimination of parking minimums, it would be the first community plan in LA to do so.
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