Approved by the City Council just before Kevin Faulconer and five councilmembers left office, Complete Communities allows developers to build apartments with unlimited density and height if they agree to set aside more affordable homes than required.
is building 54 studio apartments. He likens each unit's design to a Swiss Army knife, with built-in tables and beds that fold up into the walls.
Sites zoned for single-family homes are not eligible for Complete Communities, no matter how close they are to public transit.Nakhshab said his project, which includes no off-street parking, would open up Mission Hills to more young professionals who don't want the expense of car ownership and can't afford the pricey single-family homes that dominate the neighborhood.
Unlimited height may conjure images of skyscrapers, but most of the projects are eight stories or fewer. Taller projects trigger expensive building code requirements that would likely make most of them infeasible. Complete Communities also mandates a more cumbersome approval process for buildings above 95 feet.
"I have to build super-high-end luxury just to recover my initial basis into the properties," Nakhshab said."That doesn’t add value to our community. It doesn’t activate our community."Soheil Nakhshab stands in front of the construction site of his 54-unit apartment building in Mission Hills, April 14, 2022.
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