Monday, September 22, 2025

EXPLORING RESILIENCY

AND SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN


Neal Payton, FAIA, FCNU, leads the Los Angeles-based west coast office of Torti Gallas + Partners, an urban and architectural design firm.

Payton said disaster rebuilding is an opportunity to create a pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use environment that can be served by transit.

This would better serve the 30 percent of people who do not drive.

“While land-ownership patterns and infrastructure tend to be fixed, zoning itself is mutable.

Because of the small increment of property ownership characterizing both Palisades Village and Altadena, rezoning would allow for a delightfully more robust mix of uses and a finer grain of development than might be found in large lot efforts that are more the norm in redevelopment,” he said.

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