The city of Santa Monica has released a plan to discourage the demolition of existing homes in single-family neighborhoods.

Santa Monica’s four single-family neighborhoods — Sunset Park, North of Montana, North of Wilshire and a small part of Pico — have seen an influx of new houses that are typically double or triple the size of existing homes. Officials have spent more than a year considering how to incentivize developers to renovate or expand homes rather than replacing them.

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