FLORENCE-SALT LAKE TRANSIT ORIENTED COMMUNITY MASTERPLAN
The Florence/Salt Lake Station sits along the Florence Avenue arterial and within a predominantly residential neighborhood, composed primarily of single-family residences. It is adjacent to Salt Lake Park with recreational facilities situated in the City of Huntington Park. There are limited amounts of retail and/or industrial uses on Florence Avenue. It will be important to enhance connectivity within the station area neighborhoods to support both ridership as well as the improvement in the quality of life that the transit line can bring. Simultaneously it will also be important that measures are in place to protect residents who are at risk of displacement and that potential economic opportunities that are opened by the transit line can be fully accessible to all.
The creation of TOD Mixed-use Overlay Zones that permits higher density mixed-use for the cities of Bell, Cudahy, and Huntington Park are critical to build on the market for potential development and will specifically incentivize the development of residential mixed-use at transit-supportive densities. There is an opportunity for the Florence/Salt Lake Station to further enhance its surrounding neighborhood by transitioning existing automotive and other uses to neighborhood-serving uses.
Typology
Masterplan, Urban Design, Transit-Oriented, Mixed-Use
Location
Los Angeles County, California
Year
2017-2019
Status
Completed
Size
125 Acres
Client
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Collaborators
Patricia Smith Landscape Architect, HR&A Advisors, Inc, Arellano Associates
Design Team
Farooq Ameen, Ashwini Dhamankar, Sijin Sun, Saswati Das, Caglar Gokbulut, Sameer Ameen, Jim Leggitt