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  • Mayor Offers LA’s Planning Director Job to the Boy Next Door

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--The simultaneous announcements from the Mayor’s Office that the current Director of City Planning, Michael LoGrande, has resigned, and his successor will be – pending confirmation -- Vince Bertoni, currently Pasadena’s Planning...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/10290-mayor-offers-la-s-planning-director-job-to-the-boy-next-door

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: IMPORTANT READS
    • Language: *

  • Stories from the Front Lines: Los Angeles Planning Disputes Old and New

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Old planning disputes are still with us: For those with memories going back to the 1980s or curiosity about that decade, the planning disputes now widespread in Los Angeles are an echo of what already took place three decades ago....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10204-stories-from-the-front-lines-los-angeles-planning-disputes-old-and-new

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

  • Quality of Life vs. Mansionization: The Real Issue

    Side of the Mansionization Debate” (24 Dec 2015), Tarlow attacks former city planner and anti-mansionization activist Dick Platkin by saying that the proposed amendments to the city’s Baseline Mansionization Ordinance (BMO) “will do nothing to enhance...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10175-quality-of-life-vs-mansionization-the-real-issue

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Robert Eisele
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Are We Witnessing Another Real Estate Bubble in Los Angeles?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you are following debates over growth and density in Los Angeles, I strongly recommend you watch the new film, The Big Short. Without giving away too much of the plot, it is about several financial analysts who saw through the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10159-are-we-witnessing-another-real-estate-bubble-in-los-angeles

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

  • The Other Side of the Mansionization Debate

    COUNTERPOINT--I have been trying very hard not to weigh in on Dick Platkin's latest “Mansionization Crusade” to limit our ability to build a modern home in Los Angeles. I spent 7-plus years defending my neighborhood against his misguided mission to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/10157-the-other-side-of-the-mansionization-debate

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Charles Tarlow
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Mansionization at a Crossroads: If You Think Your House is a Home … Speak Up Now

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Reform has finally started on LA’s fatally failed Baseline Mansionization Ordinance and Baseline Hillside Ordinance (BMO/BHO). The Planning Department has recently published its draft amendments and has already held four public...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/10117-mansionization-at-a-crossroads-if-you-think-your-house-is-a-home-speak-up-now

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

  • Endless Bad Zoning Decisions in LA and Beyond - Why Paris Climate Change Talks are Bound to Fail

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Some local stories on the sabotaging of the California Environmental Quality Act and the Complete Streets Act help explain how millions of small land use decisions in Los Angeles, the entire country, and for that matter the entire...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/10079-endless-bad-zoning-decisions-in-la-and-beyond-why-paris-climate-change-talks-are-bound-to-fail

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

  • The More You Look at it, the More it Stinks

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you live in or have barreled through the Fairfax area during the past two years, you have undoubtedly seen an aircraft carrier masquerading as a house at the confusing intersection of Crescent Heights, Colgate, and Edinburgh. As...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/10050-the-more-you-look-at-it-the-more-it-stinks

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

  • Action Alert! Angelenos Must Vote for the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you follow social media, like CityWatch or the mainstream media, like the LA Times, then you have probably heard of the recently proposed Neighborhood Integrity Initiative. If not, expect to hear a great deal about it, both pro...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/10015-action-alert-angelenos-must-vote-for-the-neighborhood-integrity-initiative

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

  • Why Not Make Every Street in Los Angeles a Great Street?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--At a recent meeting of LA’s Neighborhood Council Congress my eyes glazed over at the session on Mayor Garcetti’s Great Streets initiative. I had assumed that its first streets were prototypes. They were to be a catalyst for a...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9979-why-not-make-every-street-in-los-angeles-a-great-street

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

  • Mobility Plan 2035: A Road to Hell Paved with Good Intentions

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In general, the public pays little attention to the City of LA’s legally required General Plan, including its mandatory and optional Elements. But the required Circulation Element, called the Mobility Plan or MP 2035, is different,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9932-mobility-plan-2035-a-road-to-hell-paved-with-good-intentions

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

  • You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet! Shutting Down the Mansionization of LA’s Neighborhoods is Gonna be a Wild Ride

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If you get vertigo trying to understand how the City of Los Angeles deals with mansionization, in particular how so many ordinances could be so totally useless in stopping McMansions, you are not suffering from an inner-ear...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9906-you-ain-t-seen-nothing-yet-shutting-down-the-mansionization-of-la-s-neighborhoods-is-gonna-be-a-wild-ride

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

  • The Mayor’s Affordable Housing Plan: Short on Production, Long on Implementation

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Hizzoner, Eric Garcetti, made minor headlines several days ago when he proposed new linkage fees on real estate projects in order to fund affordable housing. When the details are eventually fleshed out, and if the program is...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9868-the-mayor-s-affordable-housing-plan-short-on-production-long-on-implementation

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

  • Here’s the Real Problem with Public Employees

    of decline, even if they are not yet able to bring employees in the private and non-profit sectors up to their level. (Dick Platkin is a former LA city planner who writes on planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the Board of the Beverly Wilshire...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9831-here-s-the-real-problem-with-public-employees

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

  • Los Angeles: Neighborhood Groups Can Make Affordable Housing Happen … Here’s How

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In addition to hundreds of blocks clubs, homeowner associations (HOAs), tenant unions, and neighborhood groups, the current Los Angeles City Charter established Neighborhood Councils. Despite their connection to city government,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9803-los-angeles-neighborhood-groups-can-make-affordable-housing-happen-here-s-how

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

  • Why Angelenos are Angry at City Hall: ‘No One There is Listening to Us’

    loud and clear -- at City Hall. Once heard, our goal is to take this city back, even if it is one loophole at a time. (Dick Platkin and George Abrahams are members of United Neighborhoods for LA. You can reach them via email at [email protected] or on...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9750-why-angelenos-are-angry-at-city-hall-no-one-there-is-listening-to-us

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin & George Abrahams
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • Suffering In the Shadow of a Glass McMansion

    VOICES-The recent article by Shelley Wagers and Dick Platkin on mansionization struck a chord with me in light of the battle I am currently fighting. Most of the issues the article highlighted are mirrored in my own situation, with the added issue of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9725-suffering-in-the-shadow-of-a-glass-mcmansion

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Venice-Marina Resident
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *

  • LA Builds a Billion Dollar Subway … Then What?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you want a sense of how much Los Angeles has changed in the past 30 years, you could hardly do better than compare current subway and related land use planning in the traffic-clogged Miracle Mile/Fairfax area of Los Angeles, to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9619-la-builds-a-billion-dollar-subway-then-what

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

  • Well-intentioned or Phony … Plans for Developing Transit Oriented Communities Need Some Sorting Out

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-What are TODs …TADs... and TOCs? New city planning acronyms appear even faster than the inflated claims of real estate speculators that if zoning and environmental laws were only lifted, they could solve serious socio-economic...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9582-well-intentioned-or-phony-plans-for-developing-transit-oriented-communities-needs-some-sorting-out

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

  • Action Alert! Amend the Citywide Mansionization Ordinance

    and in good time. ● More info on efforts to stop mansionization in Los Angeles: Facebook Web (Shelley Wagers and Dick Platkin live in Beverly Grove and on board members of the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association. They have been campaigning against...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/9564-action-alert-amend-the-citywide-mansionization-ordinance

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Shelley Wagers and Dick Platkin
    • Category: ARCHIVE
    • Language: *
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