Culver City Council: Do not eliminate R1/single-family zoning in Culver City.
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Gregory Lane
5 years ago
I have lived in culver since 2008 in a single family home. It has and will be the creation of my generational family wealth. When I move I hope and dream the property can do that for another family. NOT some developer to cash in on rent!!
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Jan Domokos
5 years ago
Preserve the CA dream and lifestyle, say no to upzoning and these high density projects. If Culver City falls then they will target every city, one by one, to eliminate single family homes and destroy
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Yolanda
5 years ago
This will only make our neighborhoods more crowded .
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Anonymous
5 years ago
There is no upside to upzoning for the residents of Culver City. The developers will get rich as they ruin the family neighborhoods that make this a great city to live in.
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Elizabeth de la Fuente
5 years ago
No more apartments. Keep R1 here in culver city. We need the family homes to stay.
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Alexander Emanuele
5 years ago
Please keep the integrity of our fine neighborhood in place.
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Philip Lelyveld
5 years ago
Unless you create a fund to compensate individual homeowners for less than market rate sale of their individual lots, the highest-value use of each lot - high-end multi-unit development, will be the natural market result of upzoning.
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Aaron Sales
5 years ago
It is already over crowded as we speak an this will only make it worse as well as making $$$$$ for developers as if they care about reasonable rent....
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John Minnix
5 years ago
Vice Mayor Daniel Lee's quotes from the 4/13 council meeting on this topic after numerous concerned citizens spoke about how long they've lived in, and supported our community:
I'm tired of hearing how long you've lived in Culver City
I don't care how long you've live here
You can watch it here on the Youtube page for the City Council at the 5 hour and 20 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpft_Py5ar0
I'll remember that Vice Mayor Lee does not care about my long term residency the next time I have an opportunity to vote.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Upzoning is not the solution to a larger problem. Affordable housing has many factors. Adding more units to a neighborhood does not solve affordability question.
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Ellen Litman
5 years ago
While we support what the council thinks this will correct, I know that this proposal will not achieve the goals and can ruin the community with no real benefit
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Jane Brown
5 years ago
I am strongly opposed to the re-zoning proposal by the City.
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Adelaide Zimmerman
5 years ago
I strongly oppose eliminating R1/single-family zoning in Culver City.
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Jeff Bossin
5 years ago
As a 15-year resident of Culver City, I am very much against rolling back Single Family residential zoning.
I appreciate the need for affordable housing and believe that it's necessary. But suddenly imposing a 3-story multiplex apartment building upon residents is not my idea of a smart or equitable solution.
And I resent that those of us on this side of the argument are being painted with the "racist" brush. Harry Culver and his city planners were most assuredly racists. We are not.
I simply don’t want a 3-story apartment building next door to my one story ranch…any more than I want 5000 square foot McMansion built by a wealthy white person who works for Apple.
So please, don’t make this about racism. It’s a cheap political ploy to prey on our community’s good nature and tolerance. I moved to Carlson Park 15 years ago because it was a nice neighborhood that seemed like a great place to raise a family. The fact that I’d like to keep it that way does not mean I want to deprive others of housing.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
We must preserve single family homes in Culver City. We must find alternative ways to meet the affordable housing criteria. Rent control, lowering local property taxes are just two possible solutions that will preserve our open spaces and tree canopies. The current plan will benefit large developers more than it will benefit low income families. This plan is NOT best for Culver City.
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Nathana Lurvey
5 years ago
I am a Culver City resident since 1998 and encouraged my sister to move here (to a condo) in 2018. Culver City has a mix of single family, condo and apartment complexes. It is the mix that is so unusual and supportive of families and singles, whether young or elderly. If single family zoning is eliminated, market forces will create uniform multifamily dense housing, which will benefit only developers and will ultimately drive families out of Culver City.
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Dora
5 years ago
It is not people who want to raise families in safe neighborhoods making property unaffordable, it is the high tech business moving into the city and paying premium prices for all property, commercial and residential. Leave our city alone and don't sell out to developers!!!! :(
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Please do not eliminate R1/single-family zoning in Culver City.
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Khin Khin Gyi
5 years ago
Keeping R1 on the books is the inclusionary thing to do, among the palette of offerings. I live in an R1 and there is diversity of ethnicity and economic parameters.
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David H Young
5 years ago
Eliminating R-1 zoning is not a solution to the housing crisis. What are the alternatives?
I have lived in culver since 2008 in a single family home. It has and will be the creation of my generational family wealth. When I move I hope and dream the property can do that for another family. NOT some developer to cash in on rent!!
Preserve the CA dream and lifestyle, say no to upzoning and these high density projects. If Culver City falls then they will target every city, one by one, to eliminate single family homes and destroy
This will only make our neighborhoods more crowded .
There is no upside to upzoning for the residents of Culver City. The developers will get rich as they ruin the family neighborhoods that make this a great city to live in.
No more apartments. Keep R1 here in culver city. We need the family homes to stay.
Please keep the integrity of our fine neighborhood in place.
Unless you create a fund to compensate individual homeowners for less than market rate sale of their individual lots, the highest-value use of each lot - high-end multi-unit development, will be the natural market result of upzoning.
It is already over crowded as we speak an this will only make it worse as well as making $$$$$ for developers as if they care about reasonable rent....
Vice Mayor Daniel Lee's quotes from the 4/13 council meeting on this topic after numerous concerned citizens spoke about how long they've lived in, and supported our community: I'm tired of hearing how long you've lived in Culver City I don't care how long you've live here You can watch it here on the Youtube page for the City Council at the 5 hour and 20 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpft_Py5ar0 I'll remember that Vice Mayor Lee does not care about my long term residency the next time I have an opportunity to vote.
Upzoning is not the solution to a larger problem. Affordable housing has many factors. Adding more units to a neighborhood does not solve affordability question.
While we support what the council thinks this will correct, I know that this proposal will not achieve the goals and can ruin the community with no real benefit
I am strongly opposed to the re-zoning proposal by the City.
I strongly oppose eliminating R1/single-family zoning in Culver City.
As a 15-year resident of Culver City, I am very much against rolling back Single Family residential zoning. I appreciate the need for affordable housing and believe that it's necessary. But suddenly imposing a 3-story multiplex apartment building upon residents is not my idea of a smart or equitable solution. And I resent that those of us on this side of the argument are being painted with the "racist" brush. Harry Culver and his city planners were most assuredly racists. We are not. I simply don’t want a 3-story apartment building next door to my one story ranch…any more than I want 5000 square foot McMansion built by a wealthy white person who works for Apple. So please, don’t make this about racism. It’s a cheap political ploy to prey on our community’s good nature and tolerance. I moved to Carlson Park 15 years ago because it was a nice neighborhood that seemed like a great place to raise a family. The fact that I’d like to keep it that way does not mean I want to deprive others of housing.
We must preserve single family homes in Culver City. We must find alternative ways to meet the affordable housing criteria. Rent control, lowering local property taxes are just two possible solutions that will preserve our open spaces and tree canopies. The current plan will benefit large developers more than it will benefit low income families. This plan is NOT best for Culver City.
I am a Culver City resident since 1998 and encouraged my sister to move here (to a condo) in 2018. Culver City has a mix of single family, condo and apartment complexes. It is the mix that is so unusual and supportive of families and singles, whether young or elderly. If single family zoning is eliminated, market forces will create uniform multifamily dense housing, which will benefit only developers and will ultimately drive families out of Culver City.
It is not people who want to raise families in safe neighborhoods making property unaffordable, it is the high tech business moving into the city and paying premium prices for all property, commercial and residential. Leave our city alone and don't sell out to developers!!!! :(
Please do not eliminate R1/single-family zoning in Culver City.
Keeping R1 on the books is the inclusionary thing to do, among the palette of offerings. I live in an R1 and there is diversity of ethnicity and economic parameters.
Eliminating R-1 zoning is not a solution to the housing crisis. What are the alternatives?