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  • 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: *

  • Another Chance to Contain Mansionization in LA: We Cannot Make the Same Mistakes Again

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING- The last time Los Angeles tackled mansionization, speculators called the shots. Now amendments to the citywide mansionization ordinances are about to go before the City Council’s PLUM (Planning & Land Use Management) Committee,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12125-another-chance-to-contain-mansionization-in-la-we-cannot-make-the-same-mistakes-again

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

  • Another Billionaire Break at City Hall: LA Planning Commission OKs Caruso’s 20-Story Luxury Skyscraper

    in the residential and commercial area. “We don’t want that to happen,” Sherman told the planning commissioners. Dick Platkin, a member of the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association and a supporter of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, said his group...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12124-another-billionaire-break-at-city-hall-la-planning-commission-oks-caruso-s-20-story-luxury-skyscraper

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Patrick Range McDonald
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Jaw, Jaw, Jaw about Los Angeles Initiative JJJ

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In response to a recent email for my take on Los Angeles Initiative JJJ, I explained why I continue to oppose it. (For those overwhelmed by this election’s ballot, JJJ calls for a small percentage affordable units in market...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12077-jaw-jaw-jaw-about-los-angeles-initiative-jjj

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

  • Real Planning in Los Angeles: Nothing more than a rickety ‘Development Process’

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Los Angeles may have an aging, out-of-date General Plan, but it, surprisingly, does have a planning process. It might not be the one taught to professional city planners in graduate school, and it might not be the one required by...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12038-real-planning-in-los-angeles-nothing-more-than-a-rickety-development-process

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

  • Municipal Deregulation = Inequality! Here’s How.

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Deregulation, the elimination of governmental review of private investments, many of them speculative, has benefited a small percentage of high stakes investors, while inflicting tremendous social costs on the rest of the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11996-municipal-deregulation-inequality-here-s-how

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

  • Don’t Hold Your Breath for an Urban New Deal from a Clinton (or Trump) Administration

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you think a Hillary Clinton administration, even with another Great Recession and the Democrats in control of Congress, will result in an Urban New Deal, don’t hold your breath. It is not going to happen. This is why. Part of the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/11955-don-t-hold-your-breath-for-an-urban-new-deal-from-a-clinton-or-trump-administration

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