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  • LA’s City Hall Dems have Become the Party of Big Real Estate … It’s Crocodile Tears for the Rest of Us

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Here’s an election curiosity: Why did the big real estate companies dedicated to keeping pay-to-play for Los Angeles City Council spot-zoning in motion, hire Parke Skelton’s and Michael Shiplock’s Pasadena-based SG&A campaign firm?...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12693-la-s-city-hall-dems-have-become-the-party-of-big-real-estate-it-s-crocodile-tears-for-the-rest-of-us

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

  • Why LA Needs a Strong Planning Process and Measure S is Essential

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-My support for Measure S did not just drop off a turnip truck. It is based on my long career as a city planner. This includes positions in two large urban planning departments, a private planning firm, a small non-profit, and a...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12668-why-la-needs-a-strong-planning-process-and-measure-s-is-essential

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

  • City Hall has Ignored the Law and Failed to Update the City’s General Plan for Years … Why Should We Trust Them Now?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Whether LA voters adopt or reject Measure S, the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, on March 7, the Planning Department will eventually update LA’s General Plan, including the city’s Community Plans. This process has already begun,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12649-city-hall-has-ignored-the-law-and-failed-to-update-the-city-s-general-plan-for-years-why-should-we-trust-them-now

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

  • Major LA Homes Association Endorses Measure S … Here’s Why

    on a daily basis. We attempt to debunk them as quickly as we can. But, if you think we have missed one, send an email to [email protected], and I will get back to you directly or through this CityWatch LA column. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/component/content/article/12619-major-la-homes-association-endorses-measure-s-here-s-why?catid=360

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Language: *

  • Memo to Mayor Garcetti about Measure S: Please Don’t Give Away the Store

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Mr. Mayor, other than reelection, you have a tough assignment, and it is much more than finding unusual photo ops. You are the mayor of the second largest city in the United States, and one of our planet’s creative capitals. Los...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12569-memo-to-mayor-garcetti-about-measure-s-please-don-t-give-away-the-store

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

  • Which way for LA? Planned transit and density through Measure S or the unplanned jumble that Measure S opponents hope to maintain.

    will sink in among those who sensed but could not quite identify the deceptive arguments from the anti-S groups. (Dick Platkin regularly reports on planning issues for CityWatch. Please send any comments or corrections to [email protected].)

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12520-which-way-for-la-planned-transit-and-density-through-measure-s-or-the-unplanned-jumble-that-measure-s-opponents-hope-to-maintain

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

  • Millennial Myths about Market Magic (when it comes to Measure S)

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In writing and speaking about Measure S, the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, I have recently encountered an emotionally charged argument that Measure S is a ruse by old geezers (baby boomers like myself) living in single-family...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12507-millennial-myths-about-market-magic-when-it-comes-to-measure-s

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

  • A Guywitness Account of the Women’s March in DTLA

    or the expected military conflicts either in the works or to be blundered into by the new administration. (Dick Platkin is former LA City planner who recently taught courses on sustainable city planning at USC and CSUN. He is also a former union...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12480-a-guywitness-account-of-the-women-s-march-in-dtla

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

  • Editor’s Memo: Lies, Liars and ‘Alternative Facts’

    CityWatch writers weigh in. Beth Cone Kramer was there and reports on the thrill of being a part of LA ‘sister’ March. Dick Platkin provides a ‘guywitness’ report. Kenneth Alpern says ‘the next march should be targeting LA’s City Hall’ and Brady...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch/12479-editor-s-memo-lies-liars-and-alternative-facts

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ken Draper
    • Category: WORLD WATCH
    • Language: *

  • Big Real Estate’s Big Bamboozle to Beat Back Measure S on March 7

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In an increasingly desperate tactic to stop Measure S, Big Real Estate -- a handful of large real estate companies -- is opting for the Big Bamboozle. They are pulling out all the stops to defeat the Neighborhood Integrity...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12462-big-real-estate-s-big-bamboozle-to-beat-back-measure-s-on-march-7

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

  • City Hall’s Magic Elixir: Ban Soft Corruption, Update Our Community Plans

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-We could surely address growing social and economic inequality in Los Angeles if each call to update the Community Plans was matched with a nice raise for all those who live and work in the City of Angels. But, please don’t hold...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12426-city-hall-s-magic-elixir-ban-soft-corruption-update-our-community-plans

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

  • City Hall Flashback: They’ve Always Lied about Affordable Housing!

    vaguely embarrassed as they toed the party line over any and all protests. In late July of 2016, CityWatch contributor Dick Platkin wrote a very telling article, “Getting Developers to Build Affordable Housing...Like Getting Blood From a Stone.” There...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12387-city-hall-flashback-they-ve-always-lied-about-affordable-housing

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Butka
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • ‘No Cars’ at One of LA’s Most Congested Intersections? No Way!

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Several weeks ago in “Can the Cheap Perfume of "Approve with Conditions" Mask the Stink of Bad Planning?” I explained how the real purpose of lengthy “conditions of approval” for large, controversial real estate projects like 333 S....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12374-no-cars-at-one-of-la-s-most-congested-intersections-no-way

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

  • A Must for LA in 2017: More Hard-Hitting Investigative Reporting

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-2016 is nearly over, and that means that 2017 offers immense opportunities for CityWatch writers and readers, including yours truly, to answer important questions. These are some of the stories that I am following and hope to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12362-a-must-for-la-in-2017-more-hard-hitting-investigative-reporting

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

  • Can the Cheap Perfume of “Approve-with-Conditions” Mask the Stink of Bad Planning?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In previous CityWatch articles I have spelled out the many long-term and harmful consequences of bad planning. Yet, in Los Angeles truly bad city planning just keeps rolling along, in particular, repeated cases of City Hall...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12341-can-the-cheap-perfume-of-approve-with-conditions-mask-the-stink-of-bad-planning

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

  • Putting the Brakes on Mansionization in LA: No Rest for the Weary

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It should not be so hard, really, to finally stop the mansionization of Los Angeles neighborhoods. On paper it should be a snap for the four precedents I describe below. Yet, time after time, whenever City Hall decision makers close...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12293-putting-the-brakes-on-mansionization-in-la-no-rest-for-the-weary

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

  • Smearing the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative: Big Real Estate is No ‘Grassroots Organization’

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The opposition to the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative pawns itself off as a grass roots coalition, but it is, in fact, an astroturf organization funded by four major Big Real Estate players. These large enterprises have a global...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics/12274-smearing-the-neighborhood-integrity-initiative-big-real-estate-is-no-grassroots-organization

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS
    • Language: *

  • When It Comes to Climate Change: Think Globally, Act Locally

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-By now we have all read news articles that President-elect Donald Trump is a climate change denier, and that his administration will turn back the meager progress made by the Obama Administration’s on climate issues. Meager. This...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12211-when-it-comes-to-climate-change-think-globally-act-locally

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

  • Angelinos Pay a Steep Price for Bad City Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Cities, like Los Angeles, have no shortage of politically inspired schemes to sandbag good city planning, especially the successful updating of their General Plan. They can: Understaff and sideline the units responsible for...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12179-angelinos-pay-a-steep-price-for-bad-city-planning

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

  • Planning Consultants Say the Darndest Things

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Kids say the Darndest Things is long gone from television, but based on the rib-tickling comments from the planning and environmental consultants who Caruso Affiliated hired to support its high-rise luxury apartment project at 333...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12149-planning-consultants-say-the-darndest-things

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