A new small-lot housing project is underway at 17719 West Kingsbury Street in Granada Hills, where developer Kingsbury Enterprises LLC aims to replace a 1940s single-family home with a row of eight modern homes. The site lies just southwest of the intersection of Chatsworth Street and White Oak Avenue, in an inner-suburban block now targeted for incremental densification.
Planning records show the project will deliver eight detached, three-story homes, each offering two bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a ground-level two-car garage. The application, filed with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, cites state statute SB 684. It streamlines approval for small-lot subdivisions to pursue a more efficient residential format rather than traditional single-family zoning constraints.
Architect Pagana’s submitted elevations depict a unified building front with clean horizontal bands, flush balconies, and a material palette of warm and neutral tones. Ground-level garages are recessed behind landscaped entries, while the upper floors present a simplified yet refined façade rhythm that aligns with the existing residential street scale.
The site falls within the Granada Hills-Knollwood Community Plan area, where the City is increasingly permitting modest-scale infill to take advantage of under-used lots in low-density neighborhoods. By using SB 684, the subdivision model reduces project approvals to a ministerial process, enabling swifter turnaround and fewer entitlements than conventional multi-unit redevelopments.
The proposal extends recent infill trends in the surrounding stretch, just a few blocks west of Chatsworth Street & Encino Avenue, where new housing has replaced older low-rise commercial uses. With eight refreshed homes, the Kingsbury Street project illustrates how infill can be subtle, neighborhood-scaled, and policy-enabled while still contributing to the housing supply.
Should approvals proceed smoothly, construction at 17719 W. Kingsbury Street would mark one of the first SB-684-enabled small-lot schemes in north Los Angeles, advancing the neighborhood’s transition into a diversified residential corridor.
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While it’s great that LA is getting some row houses, its charmless lowest common denominator designs like this that make them unwelcome. 5 windows per unit? No porches? The urban poor of the 19th century had better than this.