CONDO PROJECT SHORTENED HEIGHT LIMITS EXCEEDED IN UNINCORPORATED AREA.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer MONTROSE - A condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. project has been cut down to size - literally - after Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officials took the rare step of requiring the developer to remove part of the third floor. Neighbors of the 14-unit project, at 2435 Florencita Ave AVE Avenue AVE Average AVE Alta Velocidad Espanola (train between Madrid and Seville) AVE Alta Velocidad Española (Spanish: High Speed Train) AVE Audio Video Entertainment AVE Advertising Value Equivalent ., complain that the building is a poor fit for their street of single-family homes and duplexes. But the project, which is in an unincorporated area In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality. To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, i.e., a city or town with its own government. of Los Angeles County, was more imposing before county officials ordered the developer to cut 7 feet from an end unit so it would comply with the height code of 35 feet. ``It's very unusual for the county to make a property owner remove a unit that way,'' said Sussy Nemer, senior deputy to county Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San . The building is built on a slope and the developer misunderstood mis·un·der·stood v. Past tense and past participle of misunderstand. adj. 1. Incorrectly understood or interpreted. 2. how the height of his project would be measured, thinking it was in compliance with code, Nemer said. The developer was allowed to keep the rest of his third floor intact because it meets the height requirements. Vartanian Enterprises Inc., which is building the project, declined to comment. Before the project was built, there were seven small rental cottages on the site, residents said. Some neighbors think the project is still too big. ``This thing almost looks like you just dragged an ocean liner ocean liner Large merchant ship that visits designated ports on a regular schedule, carrying whatever cargo and passengers are available on the date of sailing. The first liners were operated in the North Atlantic, notably by Samuel Cunard of Britain, beginning in 1840. in the middle of the neighborhood,'' said neighbor Douglas Cooke, 42. Members of the Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. Town Council and the preservation group Crescenta Valley Heritage have also voiced concern about the project. ``It's gotten pretty famous,'' said Mike Lawler, a member of Crescenta Valley Heritage and a technical artist by trade. ``Generally you can mention the Florencita project in Crescenta Valley and most people know what you're talking about.'' The residential area where the project is located is zoned at a higher density than it has been built to. It has been zoned at that density for decades, but some residents worry that development is happening too fast. ``Housing is at a premium and so there's a big pressure on areas like Crescenta Valley to go multi-family,'' said Lawler, 48, of La Crescenta. ``And we're trying to not stop it, but at least slow it down and make it good for the community.'' Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Los Angeles County officials ordered the developer of a 14-unit project at 2435 Florencita Ave., above, to cut 7 feet from an end unit so it would comply with the height code of 35 feet on the street of single- family homes and duplexes, below. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer |
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