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  • 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: *

  • Ball is Now in the Court of LA’s New Director of Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Vince Bertoni, the new Director of Planning, has only been on the job a few weeks, but the ball is already in his court. No one predicted that the Mayor would have told his processor, Michael LoGrande, to clear off his desk, and the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10683-ball-is-now-in-the-court-of-la-s-new-director-of-planning

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

  • The Battle of the Ballot Measures Will Change Your Quality of Life

    minds, to use as many factual resources as possible to educate themselves about zoning. There is a lot at stake. Richard Platkin, who was a City Planner in the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for twenty years, and is currently Adjunct Instructor...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10672-the-battle-of-the-ballot-measures-will-change-your-quality-of-life

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tim Deegan
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Neighborhood Integrity Initiative Won’t Block Affordable Housing – Critics Should Back up their Claims!

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you are concerned about planning issues in Los Angeles, then you have undoubtedly heard about the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, and perhaps a counter-initiative, the Build Better LA Initiative. Affordable housing: You have...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10653-neighborhood-integrity-initiative-won-t-block-affordable-housing-critics-should-back-up-their-claims

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

  • The Devil’s in the Details – LA Speculators Can Still Scam the System in the Build a Better LA Initiative

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In Los Angeles real estate speculators have refined their tool box of scams to either block or contain local neighborhoods when they push back against projects that are out-of-character, out-of-scale, exceed the capacity of local...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10605-the-devil-s-in-the-details-la-speculators-can-still-scam-the-system-in-the-build-a-better-la-iniative

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

  • Why We Hate McMansions: Counting the Reasons

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-A brief note: Opponents of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative have repeatedly claimed that it would block the construction of new affordable housing. In CityWatch I have twice asked readers to send me any addresses where that has...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10565-why-we-hate-mcmansions-counting-the-reasons

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

  • Progress or NIMBYism in Sunland Tujunga? I Say Let’s Make a Deal

    that is too much to hope for…. So back to NIMBY... the anachronistic term for "Not in My Back Yard." My colleague Dick Platkin, an expert on city planning or the lack thereof, thinks "NIMBYism is an epithet used by real estate speculators to disparage...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10461-progress-or-nimbyism-in-sunland-tujunga-i-say-let-s-make-a-deal-2

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Denyse Selesnick
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • How to Smoke Out Flacks for Luxury High-Rise Projects Who Masquerade as Friends of the Down-and-Out

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In the dystopian movie about Los Angeles, “Blade Runner,” the lead character, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), was an expert at sleuthing out Replicants. They are androids so human that only an expert can detect them with 20 to 30...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10455-how-to-smoke-out-flacks-for-luxury-high-rise-projects-who-masquerade-as-friends-of-the-down-and-out

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

  • Phony Sustainability Arguments Used to justify High-Rise, Luxury Buildings

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--When investors decide to plunk their own money -- or more likely someone else’s money – into high-rise buildings, usually with luxury apartments or condos, their motivation is to turn a handsome profit. Despite their public...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10428-phony-sustainability-arguments-used-to-justify-high-rise-luxury-buildings

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

  • Why We Need to Carefully Monitor Infrastructure in Los Angeles

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Concerns over LA’s mounting infrastructure problems are everywhere. Is it structures that will fail in El Nino floods? Coastal facilities that cannot withstand the rising seas caused by climate change? Sidewalk repairs that will...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10413-why-we-need-to-carefully-monitor-infrastructure-in-los-angeles

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