To the editor: Los Angeles renters aren’t simply dropping off-street parking — we’re dropping primary ideas 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 look after ageing mother and father. 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 models with no parking, no outside house, no hearings and no public remark.
At my rent-stabilized complicated of 25 years, tenants by accident discovered that allows to erase our outside house and most off-street parking have already been 85% permitted in secret periods with no public enter. The plan doubles the variety of models on this small property.
The current Los Angeles Occasions story is about one complicated in Koreatown, however this isn’t an remoted incident. The 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 quit its driveway for just a few effectivity models.
Jeffrey Reeves, Los Angeles
