Could LA actually be walkable if we just upzoned a few neighborhoods?I think the DTLA2040 plan actually does that but I’m wondering what the net effect will be. DTLA is 1% of the city’s acreage but will account for 20% of the city’s housing growth in the next 20 years. That means a much denser downtown.
>>2023434LA is already walkable because of the Metro line
>>2023436If only that were true
>>2023484According to Google AI, "The A Line (Blue) Metro rail stop (Chinatown Station) at the intersection of Alameda Street and College Street is a ¾-mile walk to Dodger Stadium, or a ½-mile walk to the Broadway stop to get on the Union Station shuttle."
A decent amount of LA is walkable alreadyI was on holiday there a month ago and did the La Brea Tar Pits, Santa Monica Pier, and Griffith Observatory solely with public transport
Until we density some of those single-family-only areas (which comprise a huge portion of LA), we’ll always have a housing shortage and never be walkable. Slowly the NIMBYs are starting to wake up tot he housing crunch.
>>2023525desu you could probably fix the housing shortage by doing eminent domain on all the empty lots and building housing there. There's a lot across from Chinatown station that's been empty for years and you could add hundreds of housing units plus retail on the bottom floor there
>>2023538True but ADUs and fourplexes are perfectly reasonable anywhere within LA city limits. It’s the city limits of a massive major city, it shouldn’t be zoned like a suburb. Also I see a lot of empty lots getting filled in with 5-story stuff. Not bad, but not enough to make a huge difference to the average homebuyer.
ive noticed the main blvds are lined with towers and condos and apartment buildings, but the middleof these giant city blocks is always just sparse suburban housing
