25
Wed, Jun

Assuming platkin is required, the following 552 results were found.

  • California! Eye-Balling the Lesser Evil Up Close: No Climate Change Advantage with Dems in Charge

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Three things predictably happen in years divisible by four. 1) If you were born on February 29, you celebrate your real birthday. 2) We watch the spectacle of the summer Olympics. 3) We are endlessly subjected to lesser-evil...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11579-california-eye-balling-the-lesser-evil-up-close-no-climate-change-advantage-with-dems-in-charge

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

  • City Hall’s Great Conundrum: Getting Developers to Build Affordable Housing … Like Getting Blood from a Stone

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-We have all heard the expression “getting blood from a stone.” That is the conundrum facing City Hall’s efforts to solve LA’s housing crisis through private investment. It isn’t really working, and the City’s half-hearted efforts...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11544-city-hall-s-great-conundrum-getting-developers-to-build-affordable-housing-like-getting-blood-from-a-stone

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

  • Lies and Mansionizers: Spinning Some Wild Yarns about LA’s Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Sometimes it is necessary to be as frank as possible to communicate a point, and this is such a time. It is hard to find anything like a legislative threat to someone’s business model to bring out his or her inner-scoundrel. In this...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11499-lies-and-mansionizers-spinning-some-wild-yarns-about-la-s-housing-crisis

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

  • One More ‘Last Stand’ against Mansionization in Los Angeles!

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The City Planning Commission hearing on amendments to the two citywide mansionization ordinances – the Baseline Mansionization Ordinance (BMO) and the Baseline Hillside Ordinance (BHO) -- took place on Thursday, July 14, 2016. To...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11462-one-more-last-stand-against-mansionization-in-los-angeles

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

  • Are LA’s Community Plan Updates Ready for “Unexpected” Bumps in the Road?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In their forced march to promote large, speculative real estate projects, LA’s elected and appointed officials have committed themselves to update LA’s 35 community plans over the next decade. Their public argument is quite simple;...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11412-are-la-s-community-plan-updates-ready-for-unexpected-bumps-in-the-road

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

  • Lessons from Beverly Grove’s Successful Fight against McMansions

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-On July 14, 2016, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission will consider proposed amendments to the Baseline and Hillside Mansionization Ordinances. As explained in previous City Watch articles, a unanimously adopted City Council...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11379-lessons-from-beverly-grove-s-successful-fight-against-mcmansions

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

  • Editor’s Memo: LA’s Homeless Moment

    page … in Today’s CityWatch. ●● Metro’s Purple Line has hit a bump in the philosophical road and our planning voice Dick Platkin tries to get everybody back on track. Joel Kotkin says California has its own religion of state and Rhea Suh helps us bid...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch/11352-editor-s-memo-la-s-homeless-moment

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

  • Metro’s Purple Line Meets a Fork in the Road

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--LA City Planning will soon be forced to make a clear choice regarding the Purple Line Subway Extension. In particular, City Planning is sponsoring two community meetings, on June 29 and 30, to undertake station area planning for...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11346-metro-s-purple-line-meets-a-fork-in-the-road

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

  • Historical Footnote for the Governor and the Mayor’s Amazing Money Machine

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--We don’t know how future historians will assess the political careers of Governor Jerry Brown, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and LA Councilmember Gil Cedillo, but they should at least receive a footnote for their contribution to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11297-historical-footnote-for-the-governor-and-the-mayor-s-amazing-money-machine

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

  • 10 Important Steps for Launching LA’s General Plan Into the 21st Century

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-As a former Los Angeles City Planner who was part of the team that prepared the General Plan Framework element, I offer an alternative work program with ten basic steps to properly update LA’s General Plan. If followed, it would...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11248-10-important-steps-for-launching-la-s-general-plan-into-the-21st-century

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

  • A Tip from a City Hall Vet: Pay Attention to What’s Not Being Said

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In last week’s CityWatch column I speculated that City Hall’s sudden, slipshod effort to again update the Hollywood Community Plan, is intended to promote three hidden agendas: Create a template for the subsequent updates of LA’s...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11222-a-tip-from-a-city-hall-vet-pay-attention-to-what-s-not-being-said

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

  • Who’s In Charge at LA’s City Planning, the Queen of Hearts?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Queen of Hearts: Now... are you ready for your sentence? Alice: Sentence? But there has to be a verdict first... Queen of Hearts: Sentence first! Verdict afterwards. Alice: But that just isn't the way... Queen of Hearts: [shouting]...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11183-who-s-in-charge-at-la-s-city-planning-the-queen-of-hearts

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

  • Update! Mansionization in Los Angeles: Bad News and Good News

    No More McMansions in LA Facebook page, and send an email to [email protected] to receive periodic updates. (Dick Platkin is a former LA City Planner who reports on planning issues for CityWatch. He is also on the Board of the Beverly Wilshire...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11142-update-mansionization-in-los-angeles-bad-news-and-good-news

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

  • Misguided Overdevelopment Measure Tries to Fix Housing by Letting LA City Council Break the Rules

    of neighborhood character. A key endorser of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, former Los Angeles city planner Dick Platkin, says the amount money changing hands at Los Angeles City Hall will explode if voters approve BBLA. “In effect, the exact...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11113-misguided-overdevelopment-measure-tries-to-fix-housing-by-letting-la-city-council-break-the-rules

    • Type: Article
    • Author: John Schwada
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Mayor and The ‘Dishonest’ Mistake

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-We all mistakes, mostly honest ones, because we are in a hurry, lack information or just figure out problems poorly. But prominent public officials cannot be let off the hook so easily. After all, they have their immediate staff...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10961-la-s-mayor-and-the-dishonest-mistake

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

  • Editor’s Memo: California Matters … for a Change

    Integrity Initiative campaign director Jill Stewart says the Council’s ideas are ‘half-baked’. Former City Planner Dick Platkin dissects the City’s plan and provides clarifications for us ordinary folks. Jill and Dick … in Today’s CityWatch … … and much...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch/10922-editor-s-memo-california-matters-for-a-change

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

  • Translating Mayor Garcetti’s Latest Press Release on City Planning into Understandable English

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-We live in a city where the Mayor’s ambitions are as high as the luxury high-rise buildings he promotes as his program to address LA’s affordable housing crisis, including homelessness. These ambitions and high-rise buildings are...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10920-translating-mayor-garcetti-s-latest-press-release-on-city-planning-into-understandable-english

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

  • The Importance of Drought Tolerant Gardens in LA … and What You Can Do about It

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Sometimes it is important to step back from the weighty city planning and environmental issues confronting Los Angeles to focus on the small, personal steps we can take to make LA a more attractive and sustainable city. This is why...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10823-the-importance-of-drought-tolerant-gardens-in-la-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

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

  • A Tale of Two Universes: Real Estate Speculation in LA

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Based on a debate I participated in over the Neighborhood Integrity Ordinance, it is clearer to me than ever before that Angelenos live in two parallel universes when it comes to their take of the frenzied waves of real estate...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10768-a-tale-of-two-universes-real-estate-speculation-in-la

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

  • City Planning in LA: Dubious Magical Thinking Meets ‘Business-as-Usual’

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-What exactly do we mean by “business-as-usual” when it comes to city planning in Los Angeles? After all, LA has a long history of recurrent lawsuits, external government mandates and voter initiatives that periodically push back...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10727-city-planning-in-la-dubious-magical-thinking-meets-business-as-usual

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
Results 461 - 480 of 552

Get The News In Your Email Inbox Mondays & Thursdays

LA DWP #3
LA DWP #2
LA DWP #1
#SB-1
Home - HHR Rent is too High - SB-2
#SB-2