{"id":313755,"date":"2026-05-13T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313755\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:49:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-im-not-a-nimby-but-new-apartment-buildings-pose-serious-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313755\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: I\u2019m not a NIMBY, but new apartment buildings pose serious concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I am not a NIMBY. I agree that we need more affordable housing in L.A. Deputy managing editor Shelby Grad says he doesn\u2019t know how he would feel if the city proposed building the apartment he described on his block today (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/newsletter\/2026-05-07\/i-was-nimby-then-my-mother-got-sick-i-needed-my-neighbors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI was a NIMBY. Then my mother got sick and I needed my neighbors,\u201d<\/a> May 7).<\/p>\n<p>Well, I can tell him how he might feel.<\/p>\n<p>A five-story apartment building with no parking is slated to go up just a few feet behind my family\u2019s house. Our issue has nothing to do with who might end up living there \u2014 it\u2019s the sheer size of the building and the fact that we will have hundreds of additional cars now jockeying for already limited parking space on our street. It is unquestionably affecting our \u201cquality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Grad does not mention is the fact that many of the apartments currently being proposed and built in L.A. are not three stories, as is the building he uses as an example in his piece; they are up to 11 stories tall. In my part of L.A., there\u2019s room for developments of this size on major corridors, which would make sense \u2014 but the current laws allow developers to put them immediately adjacent to single-family homes.<\/p>\n<p>As for the ultimately positive experience Grad and his sick mother had with his apartment-dwelling neighbors: an immediate family member living in my home is dealing with a serious, incurable medical diagnosis and its daily consequences. We at least took comfort in knowing that we had made a home that gave us peace and privacy in which we planned to live for the rest of our lives. We no longer have that comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy Wilding, Studio City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I am not a NIMBY. I agree that we need more affordable housing in L.A.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[30472,2072,9614,131370,48,52,51,1838,1637,47,50,49,131371,6316,16280,131367,28539,131369,131368,59150,3044],"class_list":["post-313755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-comfort","tag-editor","tag-fact","tag-l-a-deputy","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-life","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-major-corridor","tag-mother","tag-neighbor","tag-new-apartment-building","tag-nimby","tag-serious-concern","tag-sheer-size","tag-single-family-home","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}