Culver City Council: Do not eliminate R1/single-family zoning in Culver City.

This type of decision should be put to all the voters in town, not just the 3 progressive council member majority. The council majority are puppets for a political movement in town that truly doesn't speak for all the registered voters and single family homeowners ..

Stop with the narratives, leave R-1 as it isis. It's important to have a diversity of housing options, including SFR.

Culver City home owner

2020 Pandemic hits the world, 2021 Culver City Council (3) members, let's increase crime by cutting back our police force for no factual reason, while our governor lets everyone out of prison and surrounding LA County gives up on crime completely and also let's build 6 story apartment buildings by Lindberg and Carlson Park cause ya know.. more voters! we could be more like Palms! Great idea said NO Culver City Voter EVER! Activists should never govern. This is either blind willful ignorance or horrible ineffective messaging on behalf of those council members. Governing is about evolution (small incremental improvments) Activism is about revolution!(burn down everything and start over) Most of us seem to enjoy our homes and don't want the system burning them down! Still plenty of opportunity for R40s in the city but not at the expense of the R1s. Common sense please!

Outside developers aren’t the solution. We can increase equity and access to housing by supporting subsidies, affordable loans, financial aid, etc. Equity means giving more people who currently don’t have it access to single family homes not that you keep yours and I keep mine and we sandwich an apt building between us. Why should we have homes and they live in apt units. You want to do it here? You want equity and access? Do it right. I’m suspicious this is being driven by corporations who far from having social justice at heart are trying to pack in more densely their employees. Otherwise, why wouldn’t this movement so socially justice oriented be fighting for equal housing — single family housing for all?

Completely ludicrous that our City Council is voting in favor of outside developers instead of its own residents. Save R1 Zoning in Culver City!

Changing R1 zoning will NOT result in building more affordable or low-income housing.

This movement is the opposite of enticing diversity. It overdevelops our community that was never intended to be packed in like sardines and the new developments would not sell or lease out significantly less than the current market, but would leave a long lasting negative impact on the community. Communities that have taken this step have seen disaster. Culver City can still be salvaged from the progressive nightmare, but the line in the sand MUST be drawn NOW!

Whole heartedly agree!!

Protect our city and our neighborhoods by protecting our current zoning. Removing R1 zoning will forever change the walkable tree lined streets of our beautiful city.

I'm strongly opposed to changing zoning in our city. I am all for affordable housing, but this idea is not the thoughtful answer! Preserve our trees and family friendly neighborhoods by protecting zoning laws!

Please do not eliminate R1 zoning in the hopes that it will create more affordable housing. Given the skyrocketing cost of lumber, any new construction will be hard-pressed to be called "affordable". Moreover, it is grossly unfair to people who have chosen to live in the R1 areas....and who have been paying proportionate taxes over the years.

Why would you remove R1?? That is just going to create more traffic and overdevelopment

Please use R1 as R1 to Keep Culver City as small town atmosphere. Property owner’s investment should be honored.

My name is Candice Chang and I live in the Carlson Park neighborhood. My husband and I fell in love with the neighborhood because of the nature of the neighborhood. We enjoy the space, the trees, the parking, the neighbors. We used to live in Palms prior to moving to Culver City. We had a dream of one day being able to afford a home in Culver City and that dream became a reality in 2010. While we were in Palms, there was so much more densely populated areas, very few parking, more crime, and less of the neighborhood feel. It just felt congested. I do not agree with eliminating R1 zones in Culver City. The reality of it is, you will be creating another Palms neighborhood and ruining the beauty of Culver City. I feel that housing can be made along certain corridors near transportation. I disagree with creating "housing projects." R1 zones cannot be sacrificed in order to create more affordable housing. The reality is, if you build 4 units on a R1 lot, those units will not be rented at an affordable price. People will pay $$$ to live in these neighborhoods and thus the dilemma for affordable housing remains. I believe there should be an incentive for property owners to create ADUs and rent them out for section 8 housing. That way, it still preserves the R1 zones and allows for property owners to be the decision makers with regards to whether they rent their property out or not. We need to understand that the lure of living in Culver City lies in the beautiful spacious neighborhoods. There was a huge push against mansionization by residents and therefore the changes in the building codes to limit the sizes of the homes resulted. Now it seems the council is proposing the other extreme of telling homeowners to build more units and building bigger properties on the same lots. I am confused. Please please consider saving our R1 zones. We can build more housing without destroying our R1 zones.

Expediting the (in CA) interminable process of getting a project approved and built will do far more. We already allow ADU's and that helps too. Removing R1 is just a way of "sticking it to the (supposedly-rich homeowner) man" so the Council looks like it's doing something when it's not. Anything built where it's now R-1, besides ADU's, will be fantastically expensive.

I agree with all of this. Well written. A careful look at the evidence of leads to the clear conclusion that upzoning in single family neighborhoods will not increase affordability. The best place to look for this is not academics that make projections on what could ‘possibly’ happen, but the hard evidence of what has actually happened in cities and neighborhoods that have up zoned R1 many years ago. See Ballard, Washington; Newton, Massachusetts; Vancouver, BC, Austin TX, etc. ... more affordable - nope (actually gotten worse)!, more ethnically diverse - nope!, residents overwhelmed and frustrated - yes! Upzoning single family is not the solution to our affordability problems.

Please do not make these sweeping changes to R1 housing

Keep single family homes alive

We need true community collaboration involving the entire community.