A property owners is tweaking his plans for an infill apartment complex near Metro's North Hollywood Station, according to an application submitted earlier this month by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.

Back in 2022, Michel Welter was seeking entitlements from the City of Los Angeles to build a new six-story building featuring 30 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments on a property at 5552 N. Fulcher Avenue. That project would have employed Transit Oriented Communities incentives to permit a larger building than allowed by zoning rules, reserving four of the new apartments as affordable housing at the extremely low-income level in exchange for the incentives.

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A revised plan, which now incorporates an adjoining parcel at 5550 N. Fulcher Avenue, nearly doubles the size of the proposed development. Plans call for the construction of a taller seven-story edifice featuring 56 apartments above parking for 48 vehicles.

Minarc has been retained to redesign the larger version of the project.

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The larger project also comes with a slightly larger affordable set-aside - six apartments are now to be reserved for extremely low-income households.

The project site sits a short walk north of North Hollywood Station's massive park-and-ride facility, where Trammell Crow Company planning a more than $1-billion housing, office, and retail complex dubbed District NoHo project. Smaller developments have recently been pitched for sites to the north fronting Burbank Boulevard.

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