McMansions march on Echo Park
It's too late to stop them. McMansions are popping up all over Echo Park and Elysian Heights, despite the slow real estate market. After digging out a hillside, three giant houses are now being built on Parmer Avenue (top photo).
Meanwhile, neighbors on Cerro Gordo are on McMansion Watch after they learned that three lots on their street between Lake Shore and Alvarado have been purchased for development. Two of the hillside lots are empty, but one contains one of the few remaining cottages/cabins (second pic) that once dominated the hills of Elysian Heights.
If you want to see what kind of homes will rise on these lots, you only have walk about 2 blocks east on Cerro Gordo and take a peek at the Echo Park's original McMansion, (bottom pic) that was built in the 1980s. The same owner of this place built a similar structure on Avon Street last year .Houses this big and out of scale with existing homes are currently allowed
under the city's current zoning laws. Is this the future we want for Echo Park?
posted by Echo Park Historical Society at 2:07 PM
1 Comments:
There recently was a very good article in the L.A. Weekly about how the City officials have been slowly and silently changing the zoning laws in L.A. to allow "growth", without allowing any input from the residents. Did that article stir up something and are steps being taken to hold the city responsible?
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