Finally, there are some really nice-looking ED 1 buildings! Lots more pics, charts, and info in my post:
It may look in the previous chart like submissions dropped because of the "building standards tightened" line, which was another set of revisions issued by the Mayor. But AHIP, which is ED 1's successor in CHIP, undid most of this tightening, and applications have not surged again. AHIP in orange:
Also, let's put this one to bed: Mayor Bass didn't kill ED 1. It never applied to 99% of single-family neighborhoods, and applications kept increasing after the Mayor officially excluded single-family from ED 1.
ED 1 construction is just getting started because plan check takes sooooo looooong - an average of 21 months - and ED 1 is only 3 1/2 years old. Groundbreakings have been ramping up as buildings finish plan check, and many more should be breaking ground in the next couple years.
So far, 118 ED 1 buildings with over 8,500 apartments have broken ground, and nine are complete. These are all income-restricted homes, and over 80% of buildings are being built at no taxpayer expense. That's over 6,000 low- and moderate-income apartments built with zero public funding. A map:
All the controversies over Mayor Bass' ED 1 obscure the big headline: it's a hugely successful program that has already led to thousands of affordable apartments built at zero taxpayer expense, and it's just getting started. A 🧵:
Full map here:
The SCAG committee that oversees the map meets Thursday morning to discuss it - hopefully some officials will fight back.
SCAG's draft map of where SB 79 applies is out, and it leaves out the stations on two train lines - Sepulveda Line and K Line northern extension. Lots of stops on the Westside and WeHo. SCAG contends those lines haven't finished CEQA so they don't count. SCAG is wrong.
this one is a pretty flagrant disregard of the law
if the legislature had meant "planned transit is eligible when it completes environmental review," they would have written the law to say that instead of "completed an LPA"!
