To the editor: As soon as once more, it’s being urged that those that personal and dwell in single-family houses are rich and white. (“Los Angeles rezoning plan received’t spur sufficient 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 masking practically a complete lot, simply to carry these owners down a rung or two. And, by the way in which, no have to 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 dwell in a modest home on a modest R1-zoned road 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 My expertise isn’t distinctive, so please let that wealthy-and-white trope disappear, as a result of it’s outdated.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 neighborhood. 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 could add dwelling house, however they don’t add to L.A.’s livability quotient.
There’s ample house for progress aside from R1 blocks. Close to my neighborhood, Western Avenue might be constructed up. Add a park for the neighborhood 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 automobiles on our freeways because 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
