"The six-story project on what's known as "Lot T" is the first to take advantage of the city's new program to build affordable housing on public parking lots. The city's Housing Element, a state-mandated roadmap for housing production, proposes building housing on six lots that would collectively yield about 290 units. For of these are in the downtown area, while two others are near California Avenue, according to the document."
"Not everyone, however, is enamored by this strategy. Land use attorney David Lanferman, who had previously represented downtown developer Charles "Chop" Keenan in a successful lawsuit over parking fees, criticized the proposal to convert parking lots to housing sites before the Housing Element was adopted in August 2024. Once the city agreed to work with Alta Housing on the Lot T project, Lanferman filed a lawsuit against the city in a bid to stop the project."
Alta Housing filed a formal application to construct a six-story, 72-apartment affordable-housing complex on a downtown parking lot near Lytton Avenue and Kipling Street known as Lot T. The project is the first under the city's program to build affordable housing on public parking lots; the Housing Element proposes six lots yielding about 290 units, four in the downtown area and two near California Avenue. University Avenue downtown is described as well served by transit and city infrastructure and lacking known environmental constraints. Land use attorney David Lanferman, representing Downtown Vibrancy, filed a lawsuit alleging that downtown parking funded by assessments cannot legally be converted to other uses.
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