New rules will have to be approved by L.A. City Council members by February as the city faces a mandate to plan for more than 450,000 new homes by 2029. Map shows areas of the city zoned for ...

Los Angeles now faces a housing crisis but is still zoned for the last century, in a way that aimed to keep the city low-rise, spread out and car-based. In a Housing Development Toolkit published by ...

And in a major setback, the city council voted in December to preserve single-family zoning, which bans new apartments in nearly three-quarters of Los Angeles. (Never mind that a city-commissioned ...

"There's a county plan and there's a city plan, and those two plans are competing, and they are adversely affecting us," said Ladera Heights Civic Association President Desobry Bowens.