City Clears 49 Affordable Apartments With No Parking in North Hollywood

The four-story building on Hazelhurst Place, a block off Lankershim, would hold 32 one-bedrooms and 17 two-bedrooms.

Forty-nine apartments, every one of them affordable, and not one parking space. That's what a narrow lot a block west of Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood is now cleared to hold.

The city issued the building permit for 6144 N. Hazelhurst Place on Sept. 25, L.A. Department of Building and Safety records on the city's open-data portal show. The Building and Safety record lists a four-story building of 26,292 square feet at a valuation of $3.8 million. The same record splits its 49 units into 32 one-bedrooms and 17 two-bedrooms.

The permit breaks the units down in its own shorthand: 38 marked LI, for low-income households, 10 marked MI, for moderate-income ones, and one for a manager. It calls the whole thing "100% affordable." Parking gets two words: "no parking."

For that stretch of Hazelhurst, the record spells out the scale. It lists the building at 51.5 feet, on a lot zoned [Q]R3-1 inside the NoHo Neighborhood Council's area, Council District 2 and the North Hollywood-Valley Village community plan.

The project gets there through AHIP, the Affordable Housing Incentive Program. It's one of three density-bonus routes in the Citywide Housing Incentive Program, and City Planning says it offers both state-required and local incentives to developments that are 80% to 100% affordable. The permit says this one leans on what it calls on-menu and off-menu incentives.

That choice has a long tail. Under the city's Resident Protections Ordinance, affordable units built in exchange for those incentives carry 99-year affordability covenants, with limited exceptions, according to City Planning.

The permit record doesn't name a developer or a building name. The Real Deal, citing Urbanize Los Angeles, reported in June 2025 that the applicant is an affiliate of Los Angeles-based Avenue Homes and that the firm Open Office designed the building. The Real Deal also placed the lot behind a Comfort Inn & Suites near Lankershim.

The project sought Executive Directive 1, the city's fast track for 100% affordable buildings, The Real Deal reported.

Plans went to Building and Safety on April 8, 2025. The permit came nearly a year and a half later.

An issued permit still isn't a building. Plans change, permits can lapse, and the record gives no start date for construction.

What it does give is the next step, typed in capital letters at the end of the permit's description: get a Cal/OSHA permit or clearance before construction begins.

Source: data.lacity.org, retrieved October 8, 2026. Other sources: City of Los Angeles, therealdeal.com.