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  • 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: *

  • LA Running Woefully Behind on Updated General Plan … and is Paying a Price

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-According to California State law, the Los Angeles City Charter, the Los Angeles Municipal Code, professional city planning practice, and common sense, Los Angeles must have a current, comprehensive General Plan. Minimally, the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14810-la-running-woefully-behind-on-updated-general-plan-and-is-paying-a-price

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

  • How Big Real Estate is Pushing Back Against LA’s ‘Golden Era’ of Good Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-According to legend, Mark Twain coined the expression, "Lies, damned lies, and statistics," to describe statistics that researchers use to support weak arguments. While there are many ways that both qualitative and quantitative data...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14756-how-big-real-estate-is-pushing-back-against-la-s-golden-era-of-good-planning

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

  • Pushing Back Against City Hall Cheaters

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-City Planning has developed a host of ways to assist real estate developers building for the high end of the real estate market. Their helping hand, though, is based on cheating, and it also hides behind several totally spurious...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14718-pushing-back-against-city-hall-cheaters

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

  • The “Build More Market Housing” Quack Miracle Cure for Los Angeles

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Los Angeles is heading toward a perfect storm of gentrification, well-camouflaged behind spurious claims of boosting transit ridership and addressing LA’s housing crisis through zoning and environmental deregulation. This perfect...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14670-the-build-more-market-housing-quack-miracle-cure-for-los-angeles

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

  • LA’s Purple Line Planning Appears to Favor the Developers, Ignore the Riders

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If a public agency is going to spend $8 billion dollars on many miles of new subway, it makes sense to prepare station area plans that boost ridership. Yet, in Los Angeles the Purple Line Extension, pictured above, is falling...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14633-la-s-purple-line-planning-appears-to-favor-the-developers-ignore-the-riders

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

  • Time is Running Out On 2017, Time for Accountability in Los Angeles

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Several times a year my wife and I bike from the Miracle Mile area to Venice Beach. Moving through Los Angeles on a bicycle reveals much more that than barely seeing a blurred cityscape from an enclosed, faster-moving car. These...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14611-time-is-running-out-on-2017-time-for-accountability-in-los-angeles

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

  • Words Flying Fast and Furious Over the Future of CBS Studios … Will Caruso Grow the Grove?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING: Since recent newspaper reports broke about the likely sale of CBS studios, located at the intersection of Beverly and Fairfax since 1950, words have been flying fast and furiously about the future of this site. Real estate blogs,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14588-words-flying-fast-and-furious-over-the-future-of-cbs-studios-will-caruso-grow-the-grove

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

  • City Hall Putting Its Thumb on the Land Use Scale

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In the fanciful world of high school and college “civics” and political science classes, government is portrayed as a neutral force blindly balancing many competing interest groups. While a few gullible students might fall for this...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14531-city-hall-putting-its-thumb-on-the-land-use-scale

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

  • Telltale Signs You Might be Hobnobbing with a Gentrifier

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-At the height of the previous anti-Russian cold war, roughhewn anti-Communists, like J. Edgar Hoover, wrote long forgotten tracts, like his masterpiece, Masters of Deceit. He told “real Americans” about telltale signs that...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14494-telltale-signs-you-might-be-hobnobbing-with-a-gentrifier

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

  • Pulling Back the Curtain on LA’s Gentrification Movement

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-On Saturday, December 2, City Watch readers are invited to attend the Resist Gentrification Action Summit. The conference, sponsored by Housing is a Human Right.org, takes place at Audubon Junior High School, 4120-11th Avenue, Los...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14452-pulling-back-the-curtain-on-la-s-gentrification-movement

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

  • Los Angeles: The War on Transit

    were moving as many vehicles in as large a space as possible. This was supported in a recent CityWatch article where Dick Platkin gives the astonishing statement: “For example, 40 percent of the land area in Los Angeles is dedicated to congested...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14433-los-angeles-the-war-on-transit

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Hetz
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Dropping the Ball on Climate Change – It is a Big Club

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--For those who care about the planet’s future, it has not been a good week. There are no shortages of public officials who have dropped the ball, despite their power and bully pulpit to do good. (Graphic above: Maps of planet earth...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14411-dropping-the-ball-on-climate-change-it-is-a-big-club

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

  • Still More City Hall Real Estate Schemes and Scams

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Question: Is the dizzy array of new zoning ordinances welling up at LA’s City Hall really intended to address LA’s twin crises of affordable housing and traffic congestion? Answer: No. Crocodile tears for traffic congestion, the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14375-still-more-city-hall-real-estate-schemes-and-scams

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

  • The Great LA City Council Salmon Run: ‘Proposed’ Planning Dept Ordinances Leap From 22 to 27 in 60 Days!

    leave the real explanation of all the ways the Council actually approves development to CityWatch contributors like Dick Platkin whose recent column you can find here. A final note on the P&P Ordinance: at last Saturday’s LANCC meeting, it was explained...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14357-the-great-la-city-council-salmon-run-proposed-planning-dept-ordinances-leap-from-22-to-27-in-60-days

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

  • Los Angeles: Are Cars a Gateway ‘Drug’ to Poor Planning and Incompetent Governing?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It is easy to understand how street and prescription drugs became a gateway to opioid addiction, which now kills 64,000 people per year in the United States. But, it is much harder to understand how that great technological wonder...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/14337-los-angeles-are-cars-a-gateway-drug-to-poor-planning-and-incompetent-governing

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