Some tenants advocates say taking away residents’ parking spaces harms senior citizens and people with disabilities who rely on their cars to navigate the city.
As the ADU boom hits Los Angeles, more and more landlords are turning their tenants’ parking spaces and garages into accessory dwelling units. Some tenants advocates say taking away residents’ parking spaces harms senior citizens and people with disabilities who rely on their cars to navigate the city, and may violate lease agreements.
The L.A. Times reports:
L.A. city planning officials said that they are “sympathetic to tenants” who may lose parking but that the city must approve permits for the ADUs, since it “cannot override state law.”
Low-income residents of a rent-stabilized apartment building filed a lawsuit when the owners decided to convert 20 parking spaces into nine ADUs. The tenants are pushing for the city to disallow ADU development on parking spaces that are in use and included in lease agreements.
Read the full story: L.A. landlords are taking parking spaces from renters to build ADUs: ‘It’s my freedom’
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