Thousands of apartments may come to Santa Monica, other wealthy cities under little-known law
LA TimesScott Walter, president and chief executive of WS Communities, stands at the site that’s slated for the developer’s biggest proposed project: a 2,000-unit apartment complex with 400 low-income homes along Nebraska Avenue in Santa Monica. Walter, left, wants to build 4,500 apartments across 14 buildings, including a 15-story high-rise with 2,000 units that would be Santa Monica’s tallest outside its downtown. “It demonstrates how broken the system is in California, that people are so desperate to find an alternate pathway.” Walter’s 4,500 apartments would be spread across 14 buildings, including a 15-story high-rise with 2,000 units that would be the tallest in Santa Monica outside the city’s downtown. “We just didn’t want to wait.” For the last 50 years, housing politics have frequently set the agenda in Santa Monica, a city of 92,000 with an iconic pier and Ferris wheel. Leonora Camner, a Santa Monica resident and executive director of pro-growth organization Abundant Housing LA, said she would have preferred that the city had initially submitted a housing plan that passed state muster.
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