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  • What Ever Happened to the Blue-Ribbon ‘Los Angeles 2000 – City of the Future’ Report?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Once upon a time, in world far, far away, Los Angeles called itself the city of the future. In 1985 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley assembled a blue-ribbon panel drawn from the city’s elites to chart the future of Los Angeles....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17753-what-ever-happened-to-the-blue-ribbon-los-angeles-2000-city-of-the-future-report

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

  • California Senate Bill 330 is the Evil Twin of Tabled SB 50.  The Difference is It’s Still Under Consideration.

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING: Unlike Senator Scott Wiener’s and California YIMBY’s SB 50, which could not withstand a torrent of public opposition, other supply-side housing bills have managed to survive. The worst are SB 330 and AB 1279, whose multiple...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17739-california-senate-bill-330-is-the-evil-twin-of-tabled-sb-50-the-difference-is-it-s-still-under-consideration

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

  • Debate Over SB 50 Inspires Bigger Fight Over California’s Real Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING: The intense debate over Senate Bill 50 really turns on a more important, but poorly articulated debate about California’s real housing crisis. These are the basic four questions to which I will offer some answers, none of which...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17679-debate-over-sb-50-inspires-bigger-fight-over-california-s-real-housing-crisis

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

  • David Ryu Hits a Triple: Exposes Multiple Flaws in the Purple Line Transit Neighborhood Plan

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It’s rare that I use my CityWatch column to praise a City Hall official for doing the right thing. But, Councilmember David Ryu and his staff deserve compliments for their clear and critical letter to the Director of Planning, Vince...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17631-david-ryu-hits-a-triple-exposes-multiple-flaws-in-the-purple-line-transit-neighborhood-plan

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

  • Wall Street on Steroids in Your Backyard: The Full Story on Changes to SB 50

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Senate Bill 50, Scott Wiener's proposed “More Housing” bill, is barreling through the California State Senate in Sacramento. The legislation is complex, even though its essence is clear. If adopted, it would accelerate the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17584-wall-street-on-steroids-in-your-backyard-the-full-story-on-changes-to-sb-50

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

  • Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles will get Worse

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Traffic congestion in car-oriented Los Angeles is notoriously bad, and due to many separate decisions by City Hall, METRO, and the California State legislature, it will get worse. The reason is that by prioritizing real estate...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17537-traffic-congestion-in-los-angeles-will-get-worse

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

  • So Little Time, So Many Tall Tales - To Increase the Profits of Real Estate Investors

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Time to debunk the five tall tales crammed into the two short sentences below to lobby for Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50, legislation whose not-so-well-hidden-agenda is to boost profits from commercial and residential real estate....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17498-so-little-time-so-many-tall-tales-to-increase-the-profits-of-real-estate-investors

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

  • ‘Round Up the Usual Suspects!’ Who will Benefit? Who will be Hurt If SB 50 Passes?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The who-benefits list is the same list as those who sing the praises of Scott Wiener’s proposed Senate Bill 50 as a masterful solution to California’s chronic crises of housing, transit, and climate change. Owners of commercial, R3,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17452-round-up-the-usual-suspects-who-will-benefit-who-will-be-hurt-if-sb-50-passes

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

  • If You Think SB 50 will be Bad, Think Again: It will Actually be Much Worse

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-By now most CityWatch readers are familiar with SB 50, California State Senator Scott Wiener’s reboot of last year’s SB 827, a bill that died in committee. But many people do not yet know that despite a slick PR campaign, SB 50 is...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17404-if-you-think-sb-50-will-be-bad-think-again-it-will-actually-be-much-worse

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

  • Will LA Finally Establish a City Department and Plan to address Climate Change?  Maybe.

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Last week the City Council’s Energy, Climate Change and Environmental Justice Committee (ECCEJ) moved forward in establishing a Los Angeles Climate Emergency Mobilization Department. The Committee responded to a detailed proposal...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17357-will-la-finally-establish-a-city-department-and-plan-to-address-climate-change-maybe

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

  • How City Hall Lying Contributes to Plummeting Trust in Government: An LA Case Study

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-As someone who worked for public agencies most of his career, it is disheartening – but not surprising -- to see data on the growing public distrust of government. While fully understandable, distrust is getting worse for both...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17311-how-city-hall-liars-contributes-to-plummeting-trust-in-government-an-la-case-study

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

  • Finally, Happy News from City Hall: Council Motions Oppose Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In 2018, Los Angeles, like most California cities, formally opposed SB 827, the YIMBY California/Senator Scott Wiener bill to upzone (i.e., unplanned unappealable increases in the height, size, and density of privately-owned...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17278-finally-happy-news-from-city-hall-council-motions-oppose-scott-wiener-s-senate-bill-50

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

  • CA Senator Wiener’s Resurrection Program Falling Flat

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The first efforts to prime the media pumps for a giant real estate giveaway program, California Senator Scott Wiener’s proposed Senate Bill 50, also dubbed the Son of SB 827 or SB 827 2.0, are out of the gate. So far, the arguments...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17170-ca-senator-wiener-s-resurrection-program-falling-flat

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

  • METRO’s Left Hand Knoweth not what its Right Hand Doeth

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Curbed LA reported this week that METRO’s transit ridership has continued to decline. METRO not only has long-term declining bus ridership, but also declining rail ridership. These trends are not good, but METRO’s assessment of this...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17055-metro-s-left-hand-knoweth-not-what-its-right-hand-doeth

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

  • Why ‘There’s Just No Money’ Claims are So Unconvincing

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-“So, here we are, on a rainy day, in the richest country in the world, in the richest state in the country, in a state as blue as it can be, and in a city rife with millionaires, where teachers have to go on strike to get the basics...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17019-why-there-s-just-no-money-claims-are-so-unconvincing

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

  • City Hall Corruption Investigations: Where There’s smoke, There’s fire

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The current FBI investigations of City Hall corruption are over due. Hopefully, the FBI will now reach past the low hanging fruit of sweetheart pay-to-play deals to uncover hard facts and produce indictments of higher levels of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16973-city-hall-corruption-investigations-where-there-s-smoke-there-s-fire

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

  • LA City Hall’s Version of the Green New Deal Tainted by Corruption Accusations

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Like clockwork, each week brings forth another alarming scientific study reporting that global warming and climate disruption is accelerating. These studies include the ominous November 2018 National Climate Assessment, issued by 13...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16929-la-city-hall-s-version-of-the-green-new-deal-tainted-by-corruption-accusations

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

  • Curious Facts about Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in Los Angeles Uncovered by CSUN Planning Students

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-During the Fall Semester I taught a course for 4th year city planning students at California State University-Northridge (CSUN). Their research revealed more details about the proposed Purple Line “transit neighborhood plan” than...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16890-curious-facts-about-transit-oriented-development-tod-in-los-angeles-uncovered-by-csun-planning-students

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

  • How to Create a Housing Crisis in 12 Easy Steps

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-You don’t need to be a lobbyist for the real estate industry to realize that the entire country, especially Los Angeles, is in the midst of a housing crisis. We can see it for what it is, without using this crisis as a pretext for...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16845-how-to-create-a-housing-crisis-in-12-easy-steps

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

  • The Blinding Light of Real Estate Super-Profits Hits LA, Too

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-I never cease to be amazed how the lure of super-profits blinds the eyes of short-term real estate investors, elected officials and city staffers who enable them, and cheerleaders who lobby for them. With their minds numbed by the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16783-the-blinding-light-of-real-estate-super-profits-hits-la-too

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