Proposal for 30-Unit Building Withdrawn

Arcadia Management LLC of Long Beach, a real estate and property development company that looks to construct a housing development on a vacant lot in the West End, pulled its application to the Zoning Board of Appeals two days before the hearing Thursday. 

Arcadia was seeking an off-street parking variance to build a 30-unit multiple dwelling at 158 New York Ave., between West Beech and West Penn streets, but pull the application as residents circulated flyers that oppose the development, expressing concerns about its height and density and contending that it will increase traffic and negatively impact parking in the area, according to the Long Beach Herald. 

Denis Kelly, an attorney representing a group of California Street residents opposed to the project, believes that media attention on the proposal and residents who planned to attend the hearing and speak out against it prompted Arcadia to withdraw their application. Kelly added:

“You’re putting 30 units there — a mini high-rise in the middle of our island. I don’t how you put a building of this height there, it’s so out of character with the neighborhood that it’s shocking.”

The Herald reported that Arcadia did not return a request for comment last week.

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