190-Unit Affordable Tower Permit Issued in the San Fernando Valley

The Department of Building and Safety has issued a $18.5 million permit for a 190-unit, 100% affordable apartment building at 7004 N. Baird Ave., in the Valley’s Reseda-West Van Nuys planning area.

Why it matters

The project is a working example of how far California’s density and affordable-housing incentive stack can push a single site. The permit cites LAMC 12.22-A,25, the city’s density bonus ordinance, combined with AB 2345, the 2022 state law that raised the maximum density bonus and incentive count for 100% affordable projects. Together they let the builder put up a 6-story, 190-unit building, 188 of them low-income and one extremely low-income, over a single story of parking, on a site that would not support that density under standard zoning. For builders in the San Fernando Valley, this is a usable comp for how much a 100% affordable filing can extract from the combined density bonus and AB 2345 incentives in Council District 4.

The numbers

The building totals 118,808 square feet across six stories: five stories of Type III-A apartment construction over one story of Type I-A parking. LADBS issued the permit Oct. 21, 2026, with a declared construction valuation of $18.5 million, or roughly $97,400 per unit, a figure that reflects the applicant’s declared project value rather than total development cost. The filing requires a Cal/OSHA permit before construction begins, standard for a project of this size. The site falls in the city’s South Valley planning area, specifically the Reseda-West Van Nuys community plan.

What’s next

With the permit issued, the project can proceed to plan check and construction scheduling; LADBS records do not yet show a certificate of occupancy or construction start date. It adds to a run of large affordable filings the Valley has drawn this fall, alongside the 275-unit Reseda Boulevard project issued earlier this month. Los Angeles developers using the same density bonus and AB 2345 stack should watch how quickly this one clears plan check against its 118,808-square-foot scope.