To the editor: As soon as once more, it’s being advised that those that personal and reside in single-family houses are rich and white. (“Los Angeles rezoning plan won’t spur enough new housing, report finds,” Nov. 18)
Such a suggestion implies that single-family zoning is inherently unfair and that each block of houses wants a minimum of one big field with balconies protecting practically a complete lot, simply to convey these owners down a rung or two. And, by the way in which, no must require parking areas for the large field, so parking distress and automotive home windows smashed in a single day are added to the neighborhood.
I reside in a modest home on a modest R1-zoned avenue in a totally built-in neighborhood. My expertise isn’t distinctive, so please let that wealthy-and-white trope disappear, as a result of it’s outdated.
I imagine R1 neighborhoods deserve preservation. They promote stability and group. So usually the brand new multi-residence buildings going up current locked doorways and gates to the neighborhood with no buffer zone for interplay with neighbors. They might add dwelling area, however they don’t add to L.A.’s livability quotient.
There’s ample area for progress apart from R1 blocks. Close to my neighborhood, Western Avenue may be constructed up. Add a park for the group too.
Ruth Silveira, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Extra home-building with out radical progress in transportation infrastructure is madness. Progress within the variety of single-occupant autos on our freeways on account of will increase in housing is untenable.
Sure, we’d like extra housing; put the cart behind the horse by first investing in mass transportation, not widening freeways.
Alison M. Grimes, Yorba Linda
