lej @_lej44

LA | LEJ Explains on YT | Making explainer vids about SoCal urbanism, biking/transit, land use, and more. youtu.be/3PVxA_UfK5M Joined March 2023

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lej @_lej44

5 hours ago

We’re painting again - 4way in Pico Union finished next to a park and childcare center!

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lej @_lej44

23 hours ago

Public drinking on a pedestrian street? ⚽️ watch party? Multiple languages? Mini euro vibes on 3rd street rn👍🏼

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melody☆ @stargazermellu

2 days ago

usa sheesh ouch rawr 🦅

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So refreshing to tour an older building where you can tell, from the proportions of the rooms, the ceiling heights, and the size and positioning of the windows, that the people who built it cared about the experience of the tenants who would ultimately come to live there. (Note that these choices are generally constrained by zoning and building codes and, in almost all cases, by the economics of the project.)

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lej @_lej44

a day ago

you don’t have to notify em, the developer will (if following the law) and pay the tenants relocation and other benefits +LA adds 4 permanent new deed restricted units plus more on the lot- on balance win to me better solution is to be OK with SFH upzoning so more MF is spared

Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric

2 days ago

In March 2021, we posted: Are you one of the five families who live in the rent-controlled 1939 apartments at 6115 Romaine or in the 1917 house behind? Permits have been filed to demolish your home for a huge TOC project. The whole block of renters will be next!

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lej @_lej44

2 days ago

@otter401 @wong_guey a charismatic center/center left YIMBY is needed to sell the public against labor on their blocking of progressivism's main goal (ie: to maximize well being and lower cost of living for working people and majorities - not an in-class of workers)

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John Otter @otter401

2 days ago

@JMGregorchuk Worst of all possible outcomes. SoCal labor killed the transfer tax relief part of the package. They put pressure on Bass and the LA delegation who all caved. Without the support of the LA delegation passage of TT relief cannot happen.

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

@TheARTISTSofPOP called "the habitat" (La Cienega)

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

-Mixed use density with new trees and an actually well-connected courtyard to public right of way? -Aerial light rail + off street bike lane? -Decent new bus shelter + connection? More of this LA 👏🏼

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

@alexthapar leasing up already, but they may need to drop prices to get full occupancy

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

@malashenk0 it's LA City (culver is a couple blocks west)

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

@MattMasonCA true over 85ft, sadly (hence the 'most')

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

One of the frustrating things in LA land use is how trades unions will appeal housing under “environmental concerns”, literally sometimes saying “building this will cause cancer” - only to drop it all if developer agrees to employ em’: TG we got rid of most of this w/ AB 130 💪🏻

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

(the project above was filed in 2022 and used an EIR so they couldn’t get advantage of AB 130 in time and as recently as March of this year had to deal with these people in city council who rejected the union’s appeal)

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lej @_lej44

3 days ago

@LA_Multi_Fam been wondering this myself - i recently interviewed a barber working and living out of a warner center live-work unit and his take was he liked it and thought a ton more ppl would use them if they knew (only ~7 of the dozens of live work units in the bldg appeared used 4yrs on)

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lej @_lej44

4 days ago

New biodiverse native habitat next infill housing being built up - love to see it. This is Socal's future.

Airport2Park @Airport2Park

4 days ago

This weekend @SamoFund (a Great Park supporter) celebrated their successful greening of the Olympic Median Microforest (Olympic & 18th St.) Planted with our local native plants this thriving habitat is crucial to maintain our urban biodiversity. We saw 🐝🪲🐦‍⬛🌼👏

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lej @_lej44

4 days ago

@phunk2243 i mean, i was just in paris and the boulevard main commercial roads all had wide sidewalks, but the interior side streets didn't cus their road widths were like 15-25 feet, much slower traffic, and people often walked along side sidewalk when it was crowded

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lej @_lej44

4 days ago

@aporia9n nothing wrong with either life, but takes like this only celebrating the former makes sense if you a) ignore all trade offs of suburban car-only life + b) discount the financial iceberg of most middle class americans (ie: at risk even with insurance w/ any major health emergency)

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Jesse Zwick @jessezwick

5 days ago

That means that for every $1 Measure ULA raises, it robs 80 cents from future property tax receipts. Not very optimal! But surely there's a number that maximizes net public revenues, taxing transactions at the highest possible rate without deterring them in the first place...

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lej @_lej44

4 days ago

@CityZoningPro Santa Monica is pursuing a water down/delay ordinance but it won’t happen til council can meet after July 1, so hope developers can acquire and submit in the window between