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  • 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: *

  • City Planning Imitates the Queen of Hearts to “Update” the Wilshire Community Plan

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you live, work, shop in, visit, or care about the Beverly-Fairfax, Miracle Mile/Museum Row, Restaurant Row, LaBrea Corridor, and Pico/San Vicente neighborhoods, City Planning may soon reveal it secretive plans to completely make...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15879-city-planning-imitates-the-queen-of-hearts-to-update-the-wilshire-community-plan

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

  • What Sacrifices are You Willing to Make In These ‘Hard Times?’

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In Los Angeles, like other large U.S. cities, residents and visitors are forced to make many sacrifices, most justified by public officials’ claims that local budgets are tight. They tell us we are living in hard times that force...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15844-what-sacrifices-are-you-willing-to-make-in-these-hard-times

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

  • LA Needs Transit Oriented Districts, Not Transit Oriented Development

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-As an officer in a neighborhood association, USC adjunct who taught courses of sustainable city planning, and a CityWatchLA columnist, I remain skeptical about market-driven transit oriented development (TOD). This is because in Los...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15797-la-needs-transit-oriented-districts-not-transit-oriented-development

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

  • Will Private Greed or Public Need Prevail When City Hall Reviews This Luxury High-Rise Apartment Building?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In cities like Los Angeles, where private greed, not human need and adopted plans, control the real estate development process, we are no longer surprised when new luxury apartment towers spring up next to homeless encampments....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15586-will-private-greed-or-public-need-prevail-when-city-hall-reviews-this-luxury-high-rise-apartment-building

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

  • The Old Distraction Trick: How NOT Deal with LA’s Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The City Council’s latest stopgap measure to deal with the most extreme aspect of the housing crisis, rampant homelessness and the emergence of homeless encampments throughout Los Angeles, has set neighbors against each other. This...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15537-the-old-distraction-trick-how-not-deal-with-la-s-housing-crisis

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

  • Los Angeles Desperately Needs a Design Makeover

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Despite a few charming corridors, like Los Feliz, Larchmont Village, and Abbot Kinney Boulevard, most of Los Angeles is a site for sore eyes. To not mince words: it is just plain ugly. Most of LA is visually polluted with minimalls,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15498-los-angeles-desperately-needs-a-design-makeover

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

  • LA: Will City Hall Finally Get Serious about Accelerating Climate Change?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Finally, some potentially good news. The Los Angeles City Council has taken a long over due baby step to create a new City department, whose mission will be adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Considering that our new...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15418-la-will-city-hall-finally-get-serious-about-accelerating-climate-change

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

  • Garbage In, Garbage Out When It Comes to Most Analyses of the Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-From the cloistered offices of academia, to the closed-door meetings at City Hall, from the talking heads of the mainstream media, to the astroturf organizations fronting for real estate speculators, we have been offered a...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15371-garbage-in-garbage-out-when-it-comes-to-most-analyses-of-the-housing-crisis

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

  • LA’s Politicians and Academics: Shills for Real Estate Speculators

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The urban growth machine, including its enablers in public office and academia, dish out endless cover stories to camouflage their hidden agenda of priming the pumps of real estate speculation. When one of their self-serving...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15164-la-s-politicians-and-academics-shills-for-real-estate-speculators

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

  • Downtown LA and the Strange and Mysterious Vacancy Rates

    difference between an apartment and a hotel room, while the homeless population continues to grow. (Casey Maddren and Dick Platkin wrote this article. They are both members of United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles (UN4LA). Email: [email protected]) Prepped...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15071-downtown-la-and-the-strange-and-mysterious-vacancy-rates

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

  • Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel to Support Scott Wiener’s Anti CEQA Bill

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It is a major achievement to politically unite Angelenos across all demographic categories: the rich, poor, and those in between; those who live in the Valley, East LA, South LA, and Westside; all major racial and ethnic groups; and...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15054-scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-to-support-scott-wiener-s-anti-ceqa-bill

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

  • To Understand City Hall Politics, You Need to Understand LA’s Current Building Boom

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The column hopefully begins to examine the connections between City Hall and real estate investments pouring into Los Angeles. While this story gets to the foundation of municipal politics, the mainstream news media either ignores...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/15011-to-understand-city-hall-politics-you-need-to-understand-la-s-current-building-boom

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

  • Real Estate Tycoons Beckon, Eric Garcetti Caves … Again

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-According to the San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti conditionally supports Senator Scott Wiener’s proposed Senate Bill 827, which has been amply pilloried – for good reasons – at CityWatchLA. The mayor’s one...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14982-real-estate-tycoons-beckon-erick-garcetti-caves-again

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

  • Scott Wiener’s Deregulation Bill: Dead in the Water

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-As a frequent critic of Senator Scott Wiener’s free market, trickle-down, deregulatory approach to city planning in my CityWatchLA columns, I welcomed a recent Streetsblog LA article, “Senate Bill 827, Equity, and the Need for...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14957-scott-wiener-s-deregulation-bill-dead-in-the-water

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

  • Senator Wiener’s Sacramento Real Estate Bill is Even Worse than You Imagined

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Last week I heard from a number of readers about my recent CityWatch column critical of California Senate Bill 827. They told me that Scott Wiener’s proposed legislation would inflict far more damage on Los Angeles than imposing...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14901-senator-wiener-s-sacramento-real-estate-bill-is-even-worse-than-you-imagined

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

  • The More You Stir it, the More It Stinks: New Planning Legislation from Sacramento

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-“The more you stir it, the more it stinks” usually refers to Rover, but it is time to give this crude expression a battlefield promotion. It should also apply to proposed planning legislation from Sacramento, in particular Senator...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14863-the-more-you-stir-it-the-more-it-stinks-new-planning-legislation-from-sacramento

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