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  • Lavish Funding for a Lavish Bait and Switch Real Estate Scam: LA’s Transit Oriented Communities Guidelines

    is anathema. Monitoring would quickly document that the claims are false and would therefore expose the scams. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18425-lavish-funding-for-a-lavish-bait-and-switch-real-estate-scam-la-s-transit-oriented-communities-guidelines

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Six Big Lies to Keep the Latest Real Estate Bubble Inflated

    them debunked, let me know. The bigger the lies come, the harder they fall, despite the current real estate bubble. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning controversies for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18380-six-big-lies-to-keep-the-latest-real-estate-bubble-inflated

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Crude vs Cool: A Shared Disrespect for the Law

    its criminogenic densification. In his recent CityWatch article, “Solving an LA Housing Mystery … One Clue at a Time,” Dick Platkin explained many of the mechanisms the Garcetti Administration uses to decimate LA. Since Mr. Platkin is a planner by...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18353-crude-vs-cool-a-shared-disrespect-for-the-law

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Richard Lee Abrams
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • How Sleazy is LA’s Planning Process? More Than You Imagine!

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-With the mainstream news media attracting eyeballs through endless stories about Jeffrey Epstein, Roger Ailes, R. Kelley, and other lowlifes, it is getting harder to be outraged. Nevertheless, the recent LA Times lobbying corruption...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/18342-how-sleazy-is-la-s-planning-process-more-than-you-imagine

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: IMPORTANT READS
    • Language: *

  • Senate Bill 330: Yet Another Costly Statewide Upzoning Bill

    and is active on land use issues in her neighborhood council. Please send any comments to [email protected]. Dick Platkin assisted in the editing of this article.) -cw

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18323-senate-bill-330-yet-another-costly-statewide-upzoning-bill

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Hydee Feldstein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Solving an LA Housing Mystery … One Clue at a Time

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-For Angelenos who are true believers in the supposed “law of supply and demand,” LA’s worsening housing crisis remains a mystery. According to them, soaring rents, declining home ownership, and out-of-control homelessness, have a...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18297-solving-an-la-housing-mystery-one-clue-at-a-time

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Your Call, Angelenos: A Bottom-Up or Top-Down Community Plan

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The Los Angeles City Charter, Sections 554-558,and the State of California’s planning laws require all cities and counties to have a General Plan. According to LA’s Charter, a vast array of municipal actions must be consistent with...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18255-your-call-angelenos-a-bottom-up-or-top-down-community-plan

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • A Public Boondoggle with Nine Lives: The Death-Defying Purple Line Extension “Transit Neighborhood Plan”

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Just when you think a stake has been driven through the heart of another Los Angeles real estate scam, LA City Planning is resurrecting its Purple Line Extension “transit neighborhood plan” (TNP). They are trying, once more, to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18215-a-public-boondoggle-with-nine-lives-the-death-defying-purple-line-extension-transit-neighborhood-plan

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Low Hanging Fruit to Combat the Climate Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The climate crisis has arrived in California, and it is a preview of worse things to come. In the modern industrial era, dating back about 150 years, fossil fuels have raised global temperatures by 1.5 degrees Celsius. As a result,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18162-la-s-low-hanging-fruit-to-combat-the-climate-crisis

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Why so Many DWP Power Outages in Los Angeles? Hint: Real Estate Speculation has Consequences

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Lots of explanations in my mid-city Beverly Grove neighborhood for so many LADWP power outages, but most of them overlook the obvious. First, real estate speculation has consequences, including failing infrastructure and public...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18122-why-so-many-dwp-power-outages-in-los-angeles-hint-real-estate-speculation-has-consequences

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Building Boom: Who Really Benefits?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-No, your eyes aren’t lying. Los Angeles is experiencing a building boom, mostly high-rise luxury hotels and apartments in a few select neighborhoods. Some are already open, others are under construction, and the rest are either...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18076-la-s-building-boom-who-really-benefits

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Sometimes Connecting the Dots in Los Angeles is Just Too Hard

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Most kids learn how to connect the dots in pre-school, but this skill has faded away for leading members of LA’s urban growth machine, especially the Los Angeles Times and City Hall officials. For reasons not difficult to figure...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18051-sometimes-connecting-the-dots-in-los-angeles-is-just-too-hard

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Not-Very-Green New Deal(s) to Address the Climate Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-City officials have offered Angelenos two, or possibly three, local versions of the Congressional Green New Deal. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s dubbed the latest version of his executive climate change document, Sustainability pLAn 2019,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/18016-la-s-not-very-green-new-deal-s-to-address-the-climate-crisis

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s City Hall Running out of Excuses: Other Cities Prove Things Can be Done Right

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Los Angeles was dealt a bad hand in 1978, when California voters adopted Proposition 13. It was dealt another bad hand when the Reagan and Clinton administrations drastically cut urban funding, especially HUD public housing programs...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17941-la-s-city-hall-running-out-of-excuses-other-cities-prove-things-can-be-done-right

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s 50-Year Break-Up with Comprehensive Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Few Angelenos know that Los Angeles has a detailed General (Comprehensive) Plan, including the city’s on-and-off 50-year-old break up with comprehensive planning. Despite its unplanned appearance, Los Angeles is subject to extensive...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17902-la-s-50-year-break-up-with-comprehensive-planning

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Los Angeles: Home of a Well-Oiled Homelessness Machine

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Even though LA City officials were taken aback by the city’s recent 16 percent increase in homelessness, they shouldn’t be. If they candidly looked at the many planning ordinances they adopted, they would realize they are largely...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17843-los-angeles-home-of-a-well-oiled-homelessness-machine

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The NY Times Like the LA Times: Cheerleaders for VooDoo Economics Housing Schemes

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-CityWatch has recently published several articles explaining how and why Los Angeles Times’ reporting on the state’s housing crisis is so consistently wrong. But, there is no reason to give this paper a hometown advantage since the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17801-the-ny-times-like-the-la-times-cheerleaders-for-voodoo-economics-housing-schemes

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • FACT CHECK: On Sen. Nancy Skinner’s SB 330, Dick Platkin’s Article Was Right on Every Point

    BACKTALK-This article focuses on the language of SB 330 itself to show why Dick Platkin’s article on SB 330 as published here in CityWatch was correct, and the response by Senator Skinner’s office as published here in CityWatch is misleading and not an...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17783-fact-check-on-sen-nancy-skinner-s-sb-330-dick-platkin-s-article-was-right-on-every-point

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Hydee Feldstein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • More Evidence the LAT “Just Doesn’t Get It” When It Comes to Hidden Real Estate Scams

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Fellow CityWatch columnist Casey Maddren exposed the failure of the Los Angeles Times to adequately cover highly controversial housing legislation, specifically Senate Bill 50, in Sacramento. His article, SB 50: The LA Times Just...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17781-more-evidence-the-lat-just-doesn-t-get-it-when-it-comes-to-hidden-real-estate-scams

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • CA Senator Skinner to LA Planner Platkin: On State Bill 330 You Got It Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

    TALKBACK--Unfortunately, this op-ed published on CityWatchLA.com is riddled with false claims about SB 330 by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. (Senator Skinner: Photo above.) Here is a rundown of nine of them: False claim #1: “Senate Bill 330...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17757-ca-senator-skinner-to-la-planner-platkin-on-state-bill-330-you-got-it-wrong-wrong-wrong

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Robert Gammon
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
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