To the editor: Los Angeles renters usually are not simply dropping off-street parking — we’re dropping primary rules of democracy (“A Koreatown parking protest: Tenants stage sit-in to protest lack of parking to make method for ADUs,” Sept. 9).
Granny flat laws was constructed by Angelenos as a method to assist households take care of growing older dad and mom. Now, the town of Los Angeles has twisted accent dwelling unit allowing right into a backroom loophole for profiteering company landlords, fast-tracking the transition of off-street parking and patios stolen from renters into overcrowded holding-cell-sized effectivity items with no parking, no out of doors house, no hearings and no public remark.
At my rent-stabilized advanced of 25 years, tenants by chance discovered that allows to erase our out of doors house and most off-street parking have already been 85% authorised in secret classes with no public enter. The plan doubles the variety of items on this small property.
The current Los Angeles Occasions story is about one advanced in Koreatown, however this isn’t an remoted incident. Town is dumping its mismanagement on working Angelenos all through Los Angeles. This isn’t housing justice. It’s the town promoting out its renters to company profiteering, pretending overcrowding and discount in companies is compassion. If Mayor Karen Bass actually believes on this mannequin, maybe Getty Home ought to surrender its driveway for a number of effectivity items.
Jeffrey Reeves, Los Angeles
