1101 to 1157 Long Beach Boulevard, Land Acquisition, Permanent Affordable Housing; Land Bank Pilot Program Site #1
Summary
SCH Number
2025120258
Public Agency
Los Angeles County
Document Title
1101 to 1157 Long Beach Boulevard, Land Acquisition, Permanent Affordable Housing; Land Bank Pilot Program Site #1
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
12/8/2025
Document Description
On November 12, 2025, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (Board), approved and authorized the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or her designee, to execute a Purchase sale Agreement (PSA) for the 28,568-square-foot (0.65-acre) property located at 1101 to 1157 Long Beach Boulevard in the Downtown area of the City of Long Beach and to establish and approve an affordable housing project as discussed below. The Metro A-Line (formerly Blue line) light rail runs along Long Beach Boulevard adjacent to the site with a stop 150 feet to the north). The purchase is part of the CEO-HI (CEO-Homeless Initiative) Land Bank Pilot Program. The Board established the Pilot Program on June 14, 2022, to create new opportunities for affordable housing in areas experiencing and set to experience rapid gentrification and displacement. The project would include an approximately 90-foot-tall affordable housing development with up to 160 units, up to 5:1FAR and parking in accordance with code; the project could also include 2,800 square feet of community-serving commercial space and an approximately 3,000-square-foot community room and/or amenity space primarily to serve project residents. The property would include minor landscaping and low-level security lighting. The site is currently an unpaved graded vacant lot. (The site was previously occupied by a variety of residential and commercial uses through about 2020.) Subsurface parking is not anticipated. The proposed building foundation design and construction method have not been identified but could include localized foundation piles extending to some depth. However, the quantity of earth that would be disturbed is anticipated to be relatively minor. Construction is anticipated to take about 24 months. The project site is a City of Long Beach Housing Element site and thus with more than 20% of the units to be affordable to lower income households the development of housing would be by-right project in the City of Long Beach(Government Code Section 65583.2(i)).
Contact Information
Name
Helena Dedic
Agency Name
CEO RED
Job Title
Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Long Beach
Counties
Los Angeles
Regions
Citywide, Countywide, Southern California
Cross Streets
Long Beach Blvd. / E 12th St
Zip
90813-3222
Parcel #
7273-007-048
State Highways
710
Railways
Metro A Line Light Rail Stations
Schools
Oropeza Elementary School, George Washington Middle School
Waterways
Los Angeles River
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Emergency Project
Type, Section or Code
Sec. 21080(b)(4); 15269(b)(c)
Reasons for Exemption
Homelessness in the City and County of Los Angeles experienced a large increase from 2016 to 2023, with 2024 remaining similar to 2023 and 2025 seeing a small (4%) countywide decrease. According to the 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, the County of Los Angeles had at the time of the count (January 2023) approximately 75,518 people experiencing homelessness countywide, including approximately 46,260 in the City of Los Angeles. In 2025 the overall homeless count was 72,308 countywide and 43,699 in the City of Los Angeles; countywide unsheltered homelessness decreased from 2024 by 9.5% while sheltered homelessness increased 8.5% (City of Los Angeles unsheltered homelessness decreased 7.9% and sheltered homelessness increased 4.7%). The County of Los Angeles represents approximately 25 percent of the State of California’s population, but over 40 percent of the state’s unhoused population. The City of Los Angeles represents 9.6 percent of the State of California’s population, but nearly 25 percent of the state’s unhoused population. On December 12, 2022, the City of Los Angeles declared a state of emergency on homelessness and activated the city’s Emergency Operations Center. On January 10, 2023, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to proclaim a local emergency for homelessness in the County of Los Angeles. Previously, on April 17, 2018, Mayor Eric Garcetti declared a shelter crisis to provide emergency housing for the unsheltered homeless people in the City of Los Angeles. On October 30, 2018, the LA County Board of Supervisors declared a shelter crisis to address homelessness in unincorporated LA County. This affordable housing project would provide permanent affordable housing that would address the homelessness emergency by providing for people to avoid or move from temporary shelters. Thus, the project would be eligible for the CEQA emergency project exemption.
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Consistency with Community Plan (Section 21083.3 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15183)
Reasons for Exemption
The project would be consistent with the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) land use designation in the Land Use Element and with zoning: the site is in the Downtown Planned Development Zone (PD-30) that provides flexible zoning; residential use is permitted; 150-foot height limit; 5:1 FAR with no setbacks required; 20% of the lot to be common outdoor open space; minimum street wall of six stories on 75% of the public street frontage but with variation in height as well as other design requirements. There are no environmental impacts peculiar to the project or parcel. Impacts would be less than identified in the Land Use Element and Downton Plan EIRs. The project does not include mitigation measures from these EIRs as the project would not result in significant impacts.
County Clerk
Los Angeles
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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