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May 5, 2014

"Clashing Expectations of Los Angeles Living"

An LA Times piece related to something I posted previously: "Another one bites the dust".
Neighbors pushing for stricter rules fear that outsized, out-of-character buildings will drag down their home values. Edri and others maintain that bigger homes boost prices for their neighbors.
The tensions also reflect clashing expectations of Los Angeles living.

For decades there was "kind of a consensus about what a Southern California house should look like" — low, rambling and open to the landscape, cultural historian D.J. Waldie said. That philosophy, along with requirements imposed by builders, gave rise to uniform neighborhoods lined with homes of similar sizes and styles, Waldie said.

But in a growing city with scant undeveloped land and changing tastes, some Angelenos see things differently. They look at older neighborhoods and think, "'this is where the good life is lived,'" Waldie said. "'But I don't want to live in a 1,300-square-foot house.'"
 
 
 
Posted by Patrick Prescott at 5/05/2014 10:06:00 PM
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Labels: Architecture, Houses, Los Angeles, Neighborhoods, Ugly Houses

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