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  • Scott Wiener, Pied Piper for the New Urban Renewal

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The old Urban Renewal. Urban renewal was the grand strategy of the Federal Government in the post-WWII war era to reconstruct large sections of American cities through local agencies, such as California’s Community Redevelopment...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16737-scott-wiener-pied-piper-for-the-new-urban-renewal

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

  • Letter from UN4LA: Why the Purple Line Extension TNP Won’t Work

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Note to CityWatchLA readers: United Neighborhoods for LA (UN4LA) recently sent this letter outlining an alternative to the proposed Purple Line Extension Transit Neighborhood (Up-zoning) Plan to the three-members of the City Council...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16688-letter-from-un4la-why-the-purple-line-extension-tnp-won-t-work

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

  • I.F. Stone: “All Governments Lie.”

    Platkin on Planning: According to acclaimed investigative journalist, I.F. Stone, all governments lie. Now, looking back on his dogged reporting, it would be great if we could ask him one key question: “How do they lie?” We know that some lies are...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16659-i-f-stone-all-governments-lie

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

  • LA City Hall’s 1-2 Punch Against its Own Residents

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-You may think you live in a community or neighborhood, and you would not be wrong. But, if you log on to typical real estate websites, such as Niche, it is hard to find information about local communities. At best, you learn about...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16568-la-city-hall-s-1-2-punch-against-its-own-residents

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

  • Two Los Angeles Nominees for the Revived Dubious Achievement Awards

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Every year I used to look forward to Esquire’s Dubious Achievement awards, and since the magazine has revived these awards, I have two nominees. The first is METRO, for its design and construction of the Purple Line Extension...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16536-two-los-angeles-nominees-for-the-revived-dubious-achievement-awards

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

  • LA’s Parallel Universes are on a Collision Course

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING - The universe that Angelinos live in. If you live, work, or visit Los Angeles, you have undoubtedly witnessed the following, and can add other categories of your own: The rents are too damn high. A combination of weak rent control,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16481-la-s-parallel-universes-are-on-a-collision-course

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

  • Why Local Residents Turn Blue Over the Purple Line Up-zoning Scheme?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-LA’s Council District 5 requested that a large group of its constituents – representing the neighborhood councils, resident associations, HPOZ boards, homeowner associations, and neighborhood associations impacted by and opposed to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16424-why-local-residents-turn-blue-over-the-purple-line-up-zoning-scheme

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

  • Two Words Explain LA’s Woes “Beyond Build-out!”

    claiming that homes prices will only increase due to the huge number of people clamoring to live in Los Angeles. As Dick Platkin showed in a prior CityWatch article, the claim is blatantly false. People are not coming here; they are fleeing. A city that...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16401-two-words-explain-la-s-woes-beyond-build-out

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

  • Five Myths Accelerating LA’s Race to the Bottom

    EIGHT MOST READ - Platkin on Planning: LA may be another city in decline, but at least we know what awaits us when we near the bottom: Rampant homelessness. Highly polluted air, complemented by water shortages. Wild fires, heat waves, droughts, sea...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16371-five-myths-accelerating-la-s-race-to-the-bottom

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

  • Why are WIMBYS in the Public’s Crosshairs? 

    Platkin on Planning: WIMBY stands for “Wall Street in My Backyard.” In Los Angeles journalist Jill Stewart and former Los Angeles LA County Supervisor and City Councilmember, Zev Yaroslavsky, have popularized this term. In a word, WIMBYs are the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16333-why-are-wimbys-in-the-public-s-crosshairs

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

  • Troubling Purple Line Questions Just Keep Piling Up … No Answers from the City 

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-For each unanswered question about this real estate scheme, two more are piling up. To finally get some answers to both, I am posting this CityWatch column as an open letter to City Hall officials who should know the back story. To:...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16287-troubling-purple-line-questions-just-keep-piling-up-no-answers-from-the-city

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

  • A Miserable Walk Down Fairfax Avenue

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Take a good look at the photo above and you’ll see: No shade trees. No bicycle lanes. No street furniture. Narrow sidewalks. Garish roof signs. Equipment blocking the sidewalk. In other words: Not quite ready to become a Transit...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16226-a-miserable-walk-down-fairfax-avenue

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

  • Hidden Messages from LA’s Beat-up Sidewalks

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Los Angeles’s sidewalks are far more than broken-down, unsafe concrete slabs long ignored and now overdue for major repairs. They also reveal a city government that is failing its residents in many different ways, all bared...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16188-hidden-messages-from-la-s-beat-up-sidewalks

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

  • At City Hall Who Makes Land Use Decisions Can Be Deceiving

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In Los Angeles land use decisions appear to be the province of City Hall’s well-trained zoning specialists. But appearances can be deceiving because elected officials guide this process at every step. For example, the City...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16148-at-city-hall-who-makes-land-use-decisions-can-be-deceiving

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

  • Panaceas - Real and Phony - for the City of the Angels

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-According to the State of California’s latest climate studies, LA’s recent heat waves are not the new normal. Rather, they are just a small step toward much more dangerous levels of climate change that include sea level rise, crop...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16114-panaceas-real-and-phony-for-the-city-of-the-angels

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

  • Scooters will Never Solve the First-Last Mile Barrier to Mass Transit

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Fans of Bird and Lime electric scooters in the Los Angeles are already boosting them as a solution to a major barrier to increased mass transit ridership: the lack of first-last mile public improvements. These are the vast array of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16081-scooters-will-never-solve-the-first-last-mile-barrier-to-mass-transit

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

  • Ferreting Out Another City Hall Real Estate Scam, One Question at a Time

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In recent weeks I have written a series of columns exposing another quickly unfolding City Hall real estate scam, the Purple Line Extension “Transit Neighborhood Plan,” or TNP for short. It masquerades as a worthwhile program to add...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16025-ferreting-out-another-city-hall-real-estate-scam-one-question-at-a-time

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

  • City Hall Rolling Out the Big Bamboozle for the Purple Line Subway Extension

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING- Mayor Quimby shows us how City Hall collusion works. According to the usual experts, the Wilshire Community Plan area is “zoned-out.” Therefore, the height, mass, and density of many existing parcels should be increased to ensure...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15971-city-hall-rolling-out-the-big-bamboozle-for-the-purple-line-subway-extension

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

  • Another City Hall Deception Put on the Fast Track

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The “Purple Line Transit Neighborhood Plan” is nothing more than a deceptively misnamed specific plan, so please allow me a deep planning dive into this latest City Hall sting operation. I have worked on many such specific plans as...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15946-another-city-hall-deception-put-on-the-fast-track

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

  • 20 Tell-Tale Signs: The Purple Line Neighborhood Transit Plan is a Real Estate Scam

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-On Thursday, July 26, 2018, the Department of City Planning unveiled a secretive and still skimpy Purple Line Extension Transit Neighborhood Plan (TNP). If adopted, the TNP would minimally up-zone and up-plan large sections of the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15925-20-tell-tale-signs-the-purple-line-neighborhood-transit-plan-is-a-real-estate-scam

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