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Builder to City Hall: See You in Court

LOS ANGELES-Developer G.H. Palmer Associates says it will file a lawsuit over the City Council's decision to reject the company's plan to build 300 units of sorely needed housing Downtown.

By David W. Myers | Updated on June 26, 2001

LOS ANGELES-A local development company intends to sue the city for rejecting its plan to build a 300-unit apartment complex Downtown, claiming that its project should be exempt from an ordinance that requires new multifamily complexes to include set-asides for low-income renters.

The City Council last week unanimously rejected LA-based G.H. Palmer Associates’ plans to build the Visconti at Third and Bixel streets, noting that the developer had not reserved at least 15% of the units for low-income renters. The company wants to instead charge market rate for all of the units, and has refused to pay a fee to a special low-income housing trust that would provide it with an exemption to the low-income ordinance.

The 10-year-old ordinance was passed at a time when more than 6 million sf of commercial space had been proposed for the western fringe of Downtown, sparking fears that most of the area’s old but affordable housing units would be demolished. Though none of the offices were ever built because recession soon set in, the ordinance was never removed from the city’s books.

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