How AI is Solving the Zoning Mess That Took LA 12 Years to Only Half-Fix
In 2013, I was starting my graduate studies at UCLA, and the City of Los Angeles launched one of the most ambitious urban planning initiatives in modern history - re:code LA. The goal was clear and desperately needed. Los Angeles was operating on a bloated, Frankensteined zoning code originally written in 1946. It had thousands of pages of overlays, conditions, and contradictory amendments. It was a bureaucratic nightmare that choked housing production and confused everyone but the most expensive land-use lawyers. The promise of re:code LA was a complete, citywide rewrite. A modern, simplified code for the 21st century. Everyone…
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